Apply consistent SoQL date-range and outcome filters across multiple cities' Socrata-hosted food-inspection datasets

domain: dev.socrata.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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In-depth guide

Socrata SODA API — app tokens, SoQL date filters, and the throttling that bites — the full failure-mode walkthrough related to dev.socrata.com, checked against official docs, with linked verified routes.

Steps

  1. The city/county inspection datasets in this cluster (NYC 43nn-pn8j, Chicago 4ijn-s7e5, SF tvy3-wexg, King County f29f-zza5, Austin ecmv-9xxi) all run on Socrata and share SoQL syntax, but use different field names for the same concept: outcome is grade in NYC, results in Chicago, facility_rating_status in SF, inspection_result in King County, and score-only (no letter grade) in Austin
  2. Filter by date range with $where=inspection_date between '2026-01-01T00:00:00' and '2026-06-30T23:59:59' using SoQL floating_timestamp literals (no timezone suffix)
  3. Register a free account and application token separately on each city's own Socrata domain - a data.cityofnewyork.us token does not work against data.cityofchicago.org - and send it via the X-App-Token header
  4. Without a token, anonymous requests share a low per-IP throttling pool and return HTTP 429 when exceeded; use $limit and $offset to page through large result sets

Known gotchas

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