Query New York State DOH's radon test-result datasets programmatically via the Socrata SODA API
domain: health.data.ny.gov (government) · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Identify the specific NY DOH radon dataset you need: 'Radon Test Results By Town: Beginning 1987' (resource id hbu9-xsrx) or 'Basement Radon Tests by County: Greater than 4 pCi/L' (resource id jn5x-3wzy) are both published on health.data.ny.gov.
Query via the SODA API: GET https://health.data.ny.gov/resource/hbu9-xsrx.json?county=Albany to pull town-level results for a county.
Use SoQL $where clauses to filter by year or by test floor location (results are broken out by first-floor vs. basement placement).
For a pre-aggregated county average instead of row-level results, use one of the 'by county map' dataset variants (verify the current resource id on the dataset's own page, since it has been renamed at least once).
Register a free Socrata app token for sustained/production polling to avoid anonymous rate limits.
Known gotchas
Coverage is limited to NY's own contracted charcoal test-kit program — it does not capture every radon test performed in the state, so treat counts as a sample, not a census.
Dataset names/resource ids for the county-map variants have changed over time; resolve the current resource id from the live dataset page before automating against it.
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