publicsafetyapi-sdk

Python SDK for publicsafetyapi.dev — the developer API for US public safety facility data.

Every police station, fire station, hospital, and EMS location in the United States — sourced from HIFLD (DHS/CISA) and CMS federal datasets — in a single clean REST API.

Installation

pip install publicsafetyapi-sdk

Quick Start

from publicsafetyapi import PublicSafetyAPI

client = PublicSafetyAPI(api_key="psk_live_...")

# Find the 5 nearest fire stations to any US address
stations = client.stations.nearby(
    address="12865 Main St, Apple Valley, CA",
    type="fire",
    radius_miles=10
)
for s in stations:
    print(f"{s.name} — {s.distance_miles:.1f} mi")

# Which police department has jurisdiction over an address?
result = client.jurisdiction(
    address="12865 Main St, Apple Valley, CA",
    type="police"
)
print(result.likely_agencies[0].name)  # "Apple Valley Police Department"

# Look up any facility by ID
hospital = client.stations.get("hospital-hifld-112233")
print(hospital.trauma_level)    # "Level II"
print(hospital.beds)            # 212
print(hospital.cms_ccn)         # "050317"

What's Covered

API Key

Get a free API key (500 calls/month) at publicsafetyapi.dev.

Full SDK

The full SDK implementation ships with v0.2.0 alongside the API launch.
Sign up at publicsafetyapi.dev for early access.

Related

• districtapi-sdk — US school districts
• libraryapi-sdk — US public libraries

License

MIT