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Sex Offender API vs CSV Dataset: How to Choose the Right Access Model
If you need sex offender registry data for your product, one of the first questions is usually technical: Should you use an API or receive the dataset as a file? The...
Jun 17, 2026
9 min read
Sex Offenders Per Capita by State: 2026 Data | Nannostomus
Large states usually have more registered offenders in total because they have more people. But does raw count really show sex offender density by state? Not really. In this report,...
Apr 29, 2026
12 min read
Top API for national sex offender registry access
“Best API for sex offender data in the USA” depends on what you’re building. A law-enforcement platform, a regulated screening process, and a consumer-facing safety feature all need different things...
Mar 3, 2026
7 min read
What Information on Sexual Offenders Is Public
Public information on sex offenders is critical for organizations managing safety, trust, and compliance. Sex offender registry data helps teams make wiser decisions—whether it’s screening a visitor, verifying a...
May 25, 2025
7 min read
Why Locating Registered Sex Offenders Matters for Communities
Every 68 seconds, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. Many offenders reoffend, sometimes within the same communities they once targeted. While there are laws that allow you to locate...
Apr 3, 2025
8 min read
Nannostomus registered sex offenders report
Since 2013, we’ve been collecting sexual offenders data across all 50 states and territories in the USA. To handle this task, our team developed a Nannostomus web scraping tool. It...
Apr 1, 2025
12 min read
Using proxies in web scraping
Scraping data from the web sounds simple in theory, but reality often proves more complex. Sending too many requests from a single machine can trigger blocks, and scaling your data...
Oct 29, 2024
4 min read
Real-world uses of web scraping
Every day, you gather information from several websites. You or your team spend hours manually collecting this data. It’s tedious and time-consuming, prone to errors and inconsistencies. The sheer...
Jun 11, 2024
8 min read
sex offender api
Nannostomus Sex Offender API access is provided through the Intsurfing API platform.