SOS.city public record

Find public-records sources (datasets, portals, registers, reports) by question or keywords. Use `place` to include everything covering a place, from the city up to federal and global sources. Returns the publisher, how to get the data (API endpoint or page), update rate, last update, licence and whether we verified it. Not for finding, profiling or screening people.

Full details of one source by id: publisher, original link, API endpoint, formats, update rate, last update, licence, location detail, check status and notes.

The atlas: world, countries, states, counties and cities, with their ids. Filter by parent id (e.g. 'us' for US states) or kind.

The 15 departments (shelves) every source sits on, with what each covers.

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Records people need that the library doesn't hold yet, or that no agency publishes. Check this before telling a user a record doesn't exist.

The records SOS.city reads from agencies' open data, one row each: building permits, code-enforcement cases, inspections, certificates of occupancy, new business registrations, grants, weather alerts, earthquakes, US wildfires (NIFC) and SCE power shutoffs. Filter by place, kind, ZIP or street address. Each row links to the agency's original. History depends on the plan (Free: 30 days, 100 rows). full_history=true (1 credit) and limit over 100 (1 credit per extra 100 rows, up to 1,000) are paid from the API key's credits; see get_store.

Ask SOS.city to find a public record that isn't in the library. It joins the gap board; give an email to hear back. Never for locating or profiling a person.

The SOS.city data store: what's free, what costs credits (1 credit = 1 cent), credit packs, city data packs, building records and deep searches, and every way to pay (credits with an API key, x402 USDC, or a Stripe link for a person). Shows the caller's credit balance when an API key is sent.

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Starts a one-time purchase and returns a Stripe Checkout link for the person who pays, plus a status_url to poll. product: credits_1k ($10), credits_10k ($79) or city_pack ($29, needs place). The person must agree to the data-use terms (no screening or profiling people): pass agree_data_use=true only after they have.

Every source that covers one place (with publisher, original link, licence and reuse terms) plus a year of records whose sources allow reuse. Costs 2900 credits from the API key's balance. Without credits, use buy (product city_pack) or the REST URL with x402.