Query Washington's DCYF licensed child care provider dataset via the data.wa.gov open data API

domain: data.wa.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Locate the 'DCYF Licensed Childcare Center and School Age Program Providers' dataset at data.wa.gov (resource id was8-3ni8)
  2. Note data.wa.gov runs on the Socrata/SODA open-data platform, so the dataset is queryable as JSON via the standard /resource/{id}.json pattern documented at dev.socrata.com
  3. Use SoQL query parameters ($where, $limit, $select, etc.) to filter by county, city, or provider status instead of downloading the full file each time
  4. Register a free Socrata app token for higher rate limits if polling this dataset regularly
  5. Reconcile this dataset against the live findchildcarewa.org search before treating a record as current, since open-data exports refresh on a lag relative to DCYF's operational system

Known gotchas

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