Pricing

Rating

Developer

Actor stats

Categories

Share

👁 ParseForge Banner

🚔 Austin Crime Data Scraper

🚀 Export Austin Police Department crime incident reports in seconds. Filter 20+ years of incidents by date, crime type, council district, and family violence flag.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 13 fields per record · Millions of incidents · City of Austin, TX

The Austin Crime Data Scraper queries the official City of Austin Open Data platform (data.austintexas.gov) for Austin Police Department crime incident reports. Every row returns the report number, UCR offense code, category, occurrence and reporting timestamps, location type, council district, sector, and clearance status.

Coverage spans every reportable incident classified under the Uniform Crime Reporting program, across all 10 council districts of Austin, Texas, with daily updates from APD.

📋 What the Austin Crime Data Scraper does

• Queries the Austin Open Data Socrata API for APD crime reports
• Filters by occurrence date range, crime type substring, council district, family violence flag
• Returns every incident with UCR code and category description
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML in one click

💡 Why it matters: APD posts millions of incidents in a single dataset. Pulling a filtered slice via this scraper saves hours of CSV downloads and manual filtering.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

{"maxItems":100,"startDate":"2024-01-01","endDate":"2024-12-31"}

{"maxItems":500,"crimeType":"BURGLARY","councilDistrict":"9"}

⚠️ Good to Know: the source dataset is updated daily by APD. Some recent incidents may be redacted while investigations are open.

📊 Output

{
"incidentReportNumber":"2002923330284",
"crimeType":"FAMILY DISTURBANCE",
"categoryDescription":null,
"ucrCode":"3400",
"occurrenceDate":"01/29/2003 05:30",
"councilDistrict":"6",
"familyViolence":false,
"clearanceStatus":"N"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🆓 Free to start, 10 items preview
• ⚡ Direct Socrata API access, no scraping latency
• 🔍 Powerful date and substring filters
• 📦 CSV, Excel, JSON, XML exports out of the box
• 🤝 Hands-off, no auth or API key required

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open the Austin Crime Data Scraper
3. Enter optional filters and maxItems
4. Click Start
5. Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Insurance underwriting

Score neighborhoods on real incident counts by category and district.

Real estate due diligence

Pull 12 months of crime within a council district before closing.

Civic journalism

Trend analysis on family violence or burglary across years.

Academic research

Longitudinal datasets for criminology coursework.

🔌 Automating Austin Crime Data Scraper

Connect to Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, S3, BigQuery to receive scheduled crime updates.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Academic criminology, GIS, urban planning studies.

Personal

Neighborhood watch dashboards.

Non-profit

Victim advocacy organizations tracking trends.

Experimentation

Build a public crime map.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Copilot about the Austin Crime Data Scraper to draft pipelines.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where does the data come from? A: City of Austin Open Data Portal at data.austintexas.gov.

Q: Is an API key required? A: No.

Q: How often is the source updated? A: Daily by APD.

Q: What date range is covered? A: 2003 to present.

Q: Can I filter by neighborhood? A: Filter by council district and sector. Neighborhoods are derivable from coordinates.

Q: Does it include arrests? A: No. Reports only.

Q: What formats can I export? A: CSV, Excel, JSON, XML.

Q: Are addresses included? A: Census block group only. APD redacts addresses for privacy.

Q: Can I schedule daily runs? A: Yes, via Apify Scheduler.

Q: Is this affiliated with APD? A: No. Independent tool using public open data.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Pipedream, Slack, Discord, Airbyte, Fivetran, GitHub, Google Drive, S3, BigQuery, Snowflake, Webhooks.

🔗 Recommended Actors

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the City of Austin or Austin Police Department. Only publicly available open data is collected.