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🚔 Chicago Crime Data Scraper

🚀 Export Chicago Police Department incident reports with primary type, location, ward, district, arrest flag, and geo-coordinates.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 23 fields per record · 🚔 Chicago PD · 2001-present · Millions of CPD-reported incidents

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parseforge/chicago-crime-data-scraper on Apify. Call:ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/chicago-crime-data-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs:maxItems(integer,default10),primaryType(string),district(string). Full actor spec: fetch build via GEThttps://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~chicago-crime-data-scraper(Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

The Chicago Crime Data Scraper extracts incident records published by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) on the City of Chicago Open Data Portal. Every record includes case number, date, block, IUCR code, primary type, description, location type, arrest flag, beat, district, ward, and lat/lon - exported as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The scraper supports filtering by primary type (THEFT, BATTERY, ROBBERY, etc.) and district. Coverage spans every reported incident from 2001 through the present (millions of records).

📋 What the Chicago Crime Data Scraper does

• Connects to the official Chicago Police Department Crime Data dataset.
• Paginates through every record matching your filters.
• Normalises each record into a flat, analysis-ready row.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML - directly from your Apify dataset.
• Refreshes on demand or on schedule (hourly, daily, weekly).

💡 Why it matters: stop copy-pasting from a portal that paginates 100 records at a time. One click, full dataset, your format.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

Example 1 - Recent robberies

{
"maxItems":500,
"primaryType":"ROBBERY"
}

Example 2 - District 7 incidents

{
"maxItems":1000,
"district":"007"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: free users are capped at 10 records per run as a preview. Upgrade to any paid plan to unlock full exports (up to 1,000,000 records). Data is collected directly from the official public source - no login or API key required.

📊 Output

Sample record (real run output):

{
"title":"ROBBERY",
"url":"https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-Present/ijzp-q8t2",
"id":"JK260213",
"case_number":"JK260213",
"date":"2026-05-17T00:00:00.000",
"block":"064XX S HARVARD AVE",
"iucr":"0320",
"primary_type":"ROBBERY",
"description":"STRONG ARM - NO WEAPON",
"location_description":"STREET",
"arrest":false,
"domestic":false,
"beat":"0722",
"district":"007",
"ward":"6",
"community_area":"68",
"fbi_code":"03",
"year":2026,
"latitude":41.777651774,
"longitude":-87.633371447,
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-25T22:28:32.555Z",
"error":null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit - no credit card required.
2. Open the Chicago Crime Data Scraper page in Apify Store and click Try for free.
3. Configure the input (see Input section above).
4. Click Start - the run will produce a downloadable dataset.
5. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or stream to your destination via integrations.

💼 Business use cases

Lead generation & sales

Compliance & risk

Market research

Operations & automation

🔌 Automating Chicago Crime Data Scraper

• Make - receive new records into a scenario and route them anywhere.
• Zapier - trigger on new dataset rows and push to 6,000+ apps.
• Slack - post fresh records into a channel for the team.
• Airbyte - sync the dataset into your warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres).
• GitHub - store snapshots in a repo for diffing over time.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-append rows to a spreadsheet.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

• Academic studies on Chicago Police Department Crime Data trends, distributions and outliers.

Personal projects

• Hobbyist data viz, dashboards, blog posts and side-projects.

Non-profit

• Open-data journalism, transparency audits, civic-tech tools.

Experimentation

• Train ML models on a clean, structured slice of public data.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Perplexity
• Microsoft Copilot

Paste this README into any of them and ask: "How would I use the Chicago Crime Data Scraper to solve X?"

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is the data accurate?

Yes - the scraper pulls directly from the official Chicago Police Department Crime Data public dataset. Accuracy mirrors the source.

❓ Do I need an API key or login?

No. Everything is public data. Just run the actor.

❓ How fresh is the data?

Each run fetches the latest available records from data.cityofchicago.org at request time.

❓ How many records can I export?

Free users: 10 (preview). Paid users: up to 1,000,000 per run.

❓ Can I export to Excel?

Yes - choose CSV, Excel, JSON or XML on the dataset page.

❓ Can I schedule recurring runs?

Yes - Apify Schedules supports hourly/daily/weekly/cron. Pair with integrations for auto-delivery.

❓ Is this affiliated with Chicago Police Department Crime Data?

No. This is an independent tool that exposes publicly available data via a structured interface.

❓ What happens if the source goes down?

The actor surfaces a clean error record. Re-run when the source is back up.

❓ Can I filter the output?

Yes - the input section above lists every supported filter, exposed as a typed input field.

❓ Can I use it for commercial purposes?

Yes, subject to the source dataset's terms of use. Always review the original publisher's license.

❓ Where can I get help?

Open our contact form - we usually respond within one business day.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make · Zapier · Slack · Airbyte · GitHub · Google Drive · Google Sheets · BigQuery · Snowflake · Redshift · Postgres · MySQL · MongoDB · Kafka · Webhooks · REST API.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Chicago Police Department Crime Data. It only collects publicly available data published by the source. Always review the source's terms of use before commercial deployment.