Scrape Dutch permits & official notices (omgevingsvergunning, horeca licences) — NL Bekendmakingen

Export Dutch official government notices as clean, structured data: building permits (omgevingsvergunning), horeca and alcohol licences (exploitatievergunning, Alcoholwet), event permits, zoning changes (omgevingsplan), demolition and tree-felling notices — from all 340+ municipalities, the provinces and the national gazette (Gemeenteblad, Provinciaal blad, Staatscourant).

No scraping of HTML pages: the Actor queries the official open-data SRU repository (KOOP, CC0 licence) directly, so it is fast, reliable and legally clean.

What you get

One dataset row per notice: id, date, gemeente (municipality), rubriek (notice type), title, kind (aanvraag / verleend / ingetrokken / overig), adres, postcode, plaats, lat, lon (WGS84, when the municipality publishes coordinates) and url to the official publication. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or push to your own tools.

Use cases

• Lead generation: new building permits for contractors, kitchen/floor/window suppliers, installers and architects; new restaurants, bars and cafés for POS, payment, coffee and drinks suppliers.
• Real estate & zoning: monitor omgevingsplan changes, demolition and new-build permits per area.
• Events: event permits for catering, security and rental companies.
• Research & journalism: track local government decisions across the Netherlands.

How to use (2 minutes)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Fill in the input: municipalities (e.g. Amsterdam, Utrecht; leave empty for the whole country), notice type (omgevingsvergunning, exploitatievergunning, evenementenvergunning or any), optional keywords in the title (e.g. dakkapel OR uitbouw, alcoholwet OR horecabedrijf), days back (1–90) and a maximum number of items.
3. Click Start. Results appear in the dataset within seconds; export or schedule the Actor to run daily/weekly.

Example input

{ "gemeenten": ["Amsterdam"], "rubriek": "exploitatievergunning", "keywords": "", "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 500 }

Example output

{ "id": "gmb-2026-395145", "date": "2026-08-21", "gemeente": "Amsterdam", "rubriek": "exploitatievergunning", "title": "Aanvraag (Nieuw) exploitatievergunning horecabedrijf - Lekstraat 11 in Amsterdam", "kind": "aanvraag", "adres": "", "postcode": "", "plaats": "", "lat": "52.34", "lon": "4.90", "url": "https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/gmb-2026-395145.html" }

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per notice returned ($3 per 1,000). A weekly regional export of 100 notices costs about $0.30. Free Apify plan usage is enough for small weekly exports.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The repository is updated continuously; notices typically appear the same day the municipality publishes them (municipalities publish 2–20 days after an application is received). Why are some addresses empty? Municipalities differ: many publish structured address fields and coordinates, some (e.g. Amsterdam) only put the address in the title. The title always contains the address text. Is this legal? Yes. The source is the official open-data service of the Dutch government under a CC0 licence. The Actor does not extract personal data of applicants beyond what the authority publishes in the notice title and metadata. Can I automate it? Yes — schedule the Actor in Apify, use the API, or connect it to Make/Zapier/Google Sheets via Apify integrations.

Support

Open an issue on the Actor page. Feature requests (extra notice types, enrichment such as venue type for horeca licences) are welcome.

| enrichHoreca | For exploitatievergunning notices: adds venue_name, venue_type, received from the publication (Amsterdam). Charged as one extra notice per enriched item. |