Query a city's Parks & Recreation open dataset via the Socrata SODA API

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Steps

  1. Find the target city's open data portal (many run on Socrata) and locate its Parks/park-amenities dataset
  2. Get that dataset's 4x4 identifier from the portal's Export > API panel (API Access Endpoint)
  3. Call GET https://{portal-domain}/resource/{dataset-id}.json to retrieve records as JSON
  4. Use SoQL query parameters ($select, $where, $order) to filter to relevant amenities or park names
  5. Page through large datasets with $limit and $offset; only legacy SODA 2.0 endpoints cap a page at 50,000 rows — current 2.1/3.0 endpoints have no maximum $limit

Known gotchas

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