Use the Socrata Open Data (SODA) API's SoQL query language, pagination, and app-token authentication to build a reusable client against any city's towed-vehicle or impound open-data endpoint

In-depth guide

Steps

1. Reference dev.socrata.com's API Docs section for the mechanics shared by every Socrata-hosted portal (Chicago, NYC, Seattle, San Francisco, Texas, etc.): API Endpoints, RESTful Verbs, Application Tokens, Authentication, and Response Codes & Headers.
2. Construct queries using SoQL clauses documented under 'SoQL Queries' — $select, $where, $order, $group, $limit, $offset, and $q for full-text search — appended as URL query parameters to any dataset's /resource/{id}.json endpoint.
3. Register an application token per portal (each city's Socrata instance issues its own) and send it via the X-App-Token header, per the Application Tokens doc, to avoid the lower throttling limits applied to anonymous requests.
4. Pick a response format (JSON, GeoJSON, CSV, RDF-XML) per the Data Formats docs depending on whether the consuming code needs tabular or geospatial data.
5. Reuse one of Socrata's official SDKs (e.g. sodapy for Python, soda-js for JavaScript, listed on dev.socrata.com) instead of hand-rolling HTTP calls, since they already implement paging and token handling.