Socrata was acquired by Tyler Technologies in 2018 and is now the Data and Insights division of Tyler. The platform is still powered by the same software formerly known as Socrata but you will see references to Data & Insights going forward.

The serializationOptions Option

When exporting a dataset, you may want to customize it for your personal needs. We provide a few options for doing this:

Format Option Type Description
CSV separator char The separator character, usually ,, between fields
  bom bool The byte-order marker; exports intended for Microsoft Excel should set this to true
XML preciseTimestamps bool Includes the millisecond specifier to timestamps.

Example:

curl \
  --header 'X-App-Token: your-application-token' \
  --json '{
    "serializationOptions": {
      "separator": "\t",
      "bom": true
    }
  }' \
  https://soda.demo.socrata.com/api/v3/views/4tka-6guv/export.csv