You can access the NYC 311 Electric Complaint Snapshot programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "buyerQuery": "buyer-ready records with source evidence",
10    "taskIntent": "buyer-ready-product-run",
11    "sourceMode": "startUrls",
12    "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records",
13    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/erm2-nwe9.json" }],
14    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
15    "maxRequestRetries": 2,
16    "sinceLastRun": False,
17    "deltaMode": True,
18}
19
20# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
21run = client.actor("zentrafoundry/utility-planned-outage-notice-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)
22
23# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
24print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
25for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
26    print(item)
27
28# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

NYC 311 electric complaints — not utility outages API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use NYC 311 Electric Complaint Snapshot API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

NYC 311 Electric Complaint Snapshot API in JavaScript

NYC 311 Electric Complaint Snapshot API through CLI

NYC 311 Electric Complaint Snapshot OpenAPI definition

NYC 311 Electric Complaint Snapshot API

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