UK Police Street-Level Crime Data Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

data.police.uk is the UK government's keyless street-level crime API, but a single request downloads an entire month's raw crime file for a point before you can filter it. This Actor queries the public API for up to 5 points and a bounded month range, trims every record to a flat lead-ready row — category, month, street name, coordinates, outcome status, crime id — and stops once your result cap is reached. No API key, no login, no raw-payload cleanup.

What we handle for you

• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408/429/5xx and network errors — up to 5 attempts, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, no raw nested payload, outcome_status and persistent_id normalised to null when empty.
• 🧱 404s handled correctly — a month too recent to be published yet returns zero rows for that pair, not a failed run.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for rows that land in your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• Real-estate risk screening — pull crime density around a shortlist of addresses before you list or buy.
• Insurance underwriting — attach a crime-context signal to a property or postcode.
• Local journalism and research — track category-level crime trends for a neighbourhood over a bounded month range.
• Neighbourhood/relocation apps — surface recent crime categories near a point of interest.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "locations": [
    {
      "lat": 51.5074,
      "lng": -0.1278
    }
  ],
  "category": "all-crime",
  "month_from": "2026-06",
  "month_to": "2026-06",
  "max_results": 500
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

categorymonthstreet_namelatitudelongitudeoutcome_statuspersistent_idcrime_idsearch_latsearch_lng

{
  "category": "anti-social-behaviour",
  "month": "2026-06",
  "street_name": "On or near Bedford Street",
  "latitude": 51.510389,
  "longitude": -0.124157,
  "outcome_status": null,
  "persistent_id": null,
  "crime_id": 136061732,
  "search_lat": 51.5074,
  "search_lng": -0.1278
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Bounded lookup tool: up to 5 points and a 6-month span per run, not an unbounded national or historical mirror.
• The API's ~1-mile search radius is fixed server-side and not configurable.
• The upstream API lags 1-2 months behind the calendar date; very recent months return zero rows for that pair rather than an error.
• No polygon-vertex search and no per-crime-id lookup in v1.