{ "openapi": "3.1.0", "info": { "title": "Recorded offences by suburb and offence, Victoria query API", "version": "2026-09-24", "summary": "Filter, page and aggregate Recorded offences by suburb and offence, Victoria from Crime Statistics Agency.", "description": "The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. Every JSON answer carries the version, licence and attribution. CSV and NDJSON answers carry them in response headers. Crime Statistics Agency has not endorsed this site. 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