SODA Console

The Socrata Open Data API console allows you to experiment with API calls without writing a single line of code. Using our simple syntax, you can experiment with different calls and parameters before building a larger application.

Supported Calls

The SODA Console currently supports the following operations:

• get("Service Path", {"Parameter Name":"Parameter Value", ...}): Performs a GET request and returns the server's response.
• post("Service Path", {"Parameter Name":"Parameter Value", ...}, "Request Body"): Performs a POST request and returns the server's response

Note that for security reasons the console is only designed to work against http://opendata.socrata.com/. If you wish to make requests against other Socrata-powered websites, you'll have to use a tool like cURL.

Example Queries

• Get the author's user profile: get("/users/i7d8-sc4w.json")
• Get metadata for a view: get("/views/n5m4-mism.json")
• Get five rows from the same view: get("/views/n5m4-mism/rows.json", {"max_rows":5})