Urban Data Integration - Data Provider

This Java library is part of the Urban Data Integration project. It provides functionality to download open urban data sets from the Socrata Discovery API.

Install

Compile the sources and create a runnable jar file using maven. Then copy the jar file as Socrata.jar into a local folder on your machine.

mvn clean install
cp target/Socrata-jar-with-dependencies.jar ~/lib/Socrata.jar

Download Datasets

The easiest way to download all datasets for a Socrata domain is as follows. First, create an empty folder (e.g. ~/data). When you runsocrata download --domain=domain-name` the tab-delimited tsv files for the specified domain will be downloaded in a folder that is named after the current date.

cd ~/data
java -jar ~/lib/Socrata.jar download --domain=data.vermont.gov