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Boston (legacy Socrata, superseded) open data portal

Catalogue of the government's published datasets (permits, 311, crime, budgets, property, GIS layers)

Boston (legacy Socrata, superseded) open data portal is published by Boston (legacy Socrata, superseded) government for Boston, Massachusetts. It has an API (Socrata (SODA)); it updates when it changes. Reuse: free to reuse. Check status: not yet checked.

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PublisherBoston (legacy Socrata, superseded) government
Originalhttps://data.cityofboston.gov/ ↗
PlaceBoston, Massachusetts · city
ShelfPortals
FormatsSocrata
Update rateVaries by dataset
Located byDataset-level; many have address / lat-long / parcel
LicencePer portal terms; most are public domain or open licence - check each dataset
CheckedNot yet checked

Cite this source: Boston (legacy Socrata, superseded) government, “Boston (legacy Socrata, superseded) open data portal”, https://data.cityofboston.gov/. Listed by SOS.city at https://sos.city/source/51.

Use it in your product

# Listed endpoint
curl "https://api.us.socrata.com/api/catalog/v1?domains=data.cityofboston.gov"
Catalogue-level endpoint: lists every dataset on this portal.
# Through SOS.city: this source and its neighbours, with publisher, licence and check status
curl https://api.sos.city/v1/sources/51 -H "Authorization: Bearer sos_…"

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