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🚓 Philadelphia Crime Data Scraper

🚀 Export Philadelphia Police Department crime incidents in seconds. Filter by date, district, and crime type across millions of records.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 12 fields per record · Millions of incidents · City of Philadelphia, PA

The Philadelphia Crime Data Scraper queries the official OpenDataPhilly CARTO endpoint for PPD incident reports. Every row returns the DC key, dispatch timestamp, district, PSA, UCR code, crime description, block-level location, and coordinates.

📋 What the Philadelphia Police Crime Incidents Scraper does

• Queries the official Philadelphia Police Crime Incidents data source
• Filters results with the input options below
• Returns clean, structured records
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML in one click

💡 Why it matters: consolidate a multi-step manual export into one button.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

{"maxItems":50,"startDate":"2024-01-01","endDate":"2024-12-31"}

{"maxItems":100,"district":"12","crimeType":"Theft"}

⚠️ Good to Know: the source data is published and updated by the upstream provider on their own schedule.

📊 Output

{
"dcKey":202501023567,
"dispatchDate":"2025-08-29",
"district":"01",
"textGeneralCode":"Robbery No Firearm",
"latitude":39.917,
"longitude":-75.18
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🆓 Free tier with 10-item preview
• ⚡ Direct API or HTML parsing, no waiting
• 🔍 Filters built in
• 📦 CSV, Excel, JSON, XML exports
• 🤝 No login or key required (uses public data)

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open the Philadelphia Police Crime Incidents Scraper
3. Configure filters and maxItems
4. Click Start
5. Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Market research

Benchmark patterns across geographies and time.

Due diligence

Use authoritative public records as primary evidence.

Compliance and risk

Track regulatory and risk indicators on a schedule.

Reporting and analytics

Feed dashboards and BI pipelines with fresh data.

🔌 Automating Philadelphia Police Crime Incidents Scraper

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

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Academic and policy research.

Personal

Local interest dashboards.

Non-profit

Advocacy and transparency projects.

Experimentation

Public-data visualizations.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where is the data from? A: OpenDataPhilly CARTO endpoint, refreshed daily.

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

Q: What date range? A: Roughly 2006 to present.

Q: Are addresses included? A: Block-level only.

Q: Coordinates? A: Yes, latitude/longitude per incident.

Q: Format? A: CSV, Excel, JSON, XML.

Q: Can I filter by district? A: Yes.

Q: What about arrests? A: Incidents only.

Q: Schedule daily? A: Yes, via Apify Scheduler.

Q: Official? 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.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Philadelphia Police Crime Incidents. Only publicly available data is collected.