For curious Texans, journalists, and city staff
Look up Texas.
Texas publishes 6,061 open datasets. TXLookup makes them askable in plain English.
- Finds the dataset
- Writes the query
- Checks + cites
Browse by topic
9 curated datasets →Permits & Housing
Where is Austin building, and where isn't it?
2.3M permits
Restaurant inspections
Which kitchens failed, and is it getting worse.
120K inspections
State spending
Where Texas agency dollars actually go.
$100B+ tracked
311 & code violations
Potholes, noise, dumping. What got reported.
1.5M requests
Roads & traffic
Crash trends across the last two years.
1K+ fatal crashes
Crime reports
What's getting reported, and the outliers.
2M+ incidents
Agent insights
Pulled from public records, written by the agents. Click any card to watch the work.
Join austin 311 public data with code violations by zip for the same period
xwdj-i9he14.6s8,952 tokTop 10 state agencies by total 2024 expenditures
2zpi-yjjs5.1s5,774 tokCode violations by zip in Austin this year
6wtj-zbtb9.6s9,022 tokShow austin crash report data trend over the last 24 months by quarter
y2wy-tgr524.8s13,505 tokTop 5 outliers in active franchise tax permit holders this year
9cir-efmm25.6s10,866 tokShow mixed beverage gross receipts trend over the last 24 months by quarter
naix-289327.8s13,092 tok
Live across Texas
Live signals from public portals.
6,061 datasets · 6 portals · refreshed on load
Corpus
6,061
indexed Texas datasets
Portals
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Austin · Dallas · San Antonio · Houston · TX
Freshness
Live
snapshots pulled on page load
Austin · top inspection zip · 30d
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ecmv-9xxi
Live · just nowDallas · 311 requests · 30d
719
gc4d-8a49
Live · just nowTX · active franchise permits
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9cir-efmm
Live · just nowAustin · 311 requests · 30d
26,130
xwdj-i9he
Live · just nowDallas · police active calls
50
9fxf-t2tr
Live · just nowAustin · open code violations
3,587
6wtj-zbtb
Live · just nowAustin permits · 7-day pulse
+865
Agentic flow
How a question becomes a sourced answer.
router · decomposer
Orchestrator
SoQL · Socrata exec
Data Analyst
verify · grounding
Critic
prose · data viz
Reporter
provenance lock
Citation step
reason: parsing · domain=permits geo=78704 window=2024-Q4
Typical cycle · 7.3s · 0–3 re-plan loops
Use as agent
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MCP server + agent skill. Drops into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor. Bounded queries, citation enforced.
# 1. install in claude code $ claude mcp add txlookup -- python -m mcp.server # 2. ask $ claude > use txlookup: food truck permits 78702 last 6 months # 3. answer with citation → count by month, % change vs prior 6mo → cite: dataset_id · portal_url · age_seconds
8 tools · 5,000-row cap · 30s timeout · backoff on 429 · citation enforced