BJS NCVS API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: BJS NCVS API
  description: >-
    The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) API exposes selected NCVS
    datasets via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA). Each dataset is identified
    by a four-character resource code and may be requested as JSON or CSV.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Bureau of Justice Statistics
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/
servers:
  - url: https://api.ojp.gov/bjsdataset/v1
    description: BJS dataset API base URL
tags:
  - name: NCVS
    description: National Crime Victimization Survey datasets.
  - name: SODA
    description: Socrata Open Data API query semantics.
paths:
  /resource/{datasetId}.json:
    get:
      operationId: getNcvsDatasetJson
      summary: Get NCVS dataset as JSON
      description: >-
        Returns rows of an NCVS dataset in JSON. Datasets are identified by
        four-character Socrata resource codes such as gcuy-rt5g.
      tags:
        - NCVS
      parameters:
        - name: datasetId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The four-character Socrata dataset identifier.
          schema:
            type: string
            pattern: "^[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}$"
        - name: $select
          in: query
          description: SoQL select clause; comma-separated list of columns or aggregations.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: $where
          in: query
          description: SoQL where clause filtering rows.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: $order
          in: query
          description: SoQL order clause.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: $group
          in: query
          description: SoQL group clause.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: $limit
          in: query
          description: Maximum rows to return.
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 1000
        - name: $offset
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 0
        - name: $q
          in: query
          description: Full-text search across all string fields.
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Array of dataset rows
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: true
  /resource/{datasetId}.csv:
    get:
      operationId: getNcvsDatasetCsv
      summary: Get NCVS dataset as CSV
      description: Returns rows of an NCVS dataset in CSV format.
      tags:
        - NCVS
      parameters:
        - name: datasetId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            pattern: "^[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}$"
        - name: $select
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: $where
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: $limit
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: CSV-formatted rows
          content:
            text/csv:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  securitySchemes:
    appToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-App-Token
      description: Optional Socrata application token for higher rate limits.