Building Permit Leads: Austin, Chicago, NYC (Open Data)

Fresh issued building permits from official city open-data portals for Austin, Chicago and New York City, in one schema: permit type, work class, work description, address, issue date, contractor company, and job valuation where the city publishes it. Built for contractors and suppliers looking for new projects.

Who it's for

Roofers, solar installers, HVAC, pool, remodel and landscaping companies, building-material suppliers, and anyone selling to contractors or property owners with active projects.

What you get

Field	Description
permitNumber	Permit number
permitType	Permit type
workClass	Work class / filing reason
description	Work description
address	Site address
city	City display name (Austin, Chicago, New York)
zip	ZIP
status	Status
contractorCompany	Contractor company (business name only)
contractorTrade	Contractor trade
cityKey	Preset key
borough	NYC borough (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island); null for other cities
issuedDate	Issue date
valuation	Reported job value
latitude	Lat
longitude	Lng
sourceDataset	Source dataset URL
error	Set only on error rows (bad input, site unavailable). Error rows are billed like results; see README.

Input

• Cities (required): austin-tx, chicago-il, new-york-ny.
• Issued within last N days (default 7).
• Keywords (optional): matched against type, work class and description, e.g. roof, solar, pool, hvac.
• Minimum valuation (optional): only permits with a reported value at or above this (permits without a value are excluded when set).
• Max permits per city (default 500) / Max results (0 = no limit).

Example:

{
  "cities": [
    "austin-tx",
    "chicago-il",
    "new-york-ny"
  ],
  "issuedWithinDays": 7,
  "keywords": [
    "roof",
    "solar"
  ],
  "maxPermitsPerCity": 100
}

Results appear in the Output tab and can be exported as JSON, CSV or Excel or pulled through the Apify API. Schedule the Actor daily or weekly to catch new items.

Field coverage by city

Not every city publishes every field. borough is set only for New York. Austin and New York publish a contractor company; Chicago's dataset does not. Valuation is published by Chicago and New York; in Austin it is often empty.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged for each row written to the dataset. Filters run before rows are saved, so you only pay for matches. A row that reports a bad input or an unavailable source (field error) also counts as one result, so you can see exactly what happened. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Data source

Official Socrata open-data APIs: data.austintexas.gov, data.cityofchicago.org and data.cityofnewyork.us. Fields that identify private individuals (names, phones, emails, license numbers) are dropped. Results are only as fresh as each city's published dataset.

Privacy

The Actor never logs in and never collects personal data of private individuals. You are responsible for using the data in line with the source's terms and the law in your country.

Questions or a missing feature?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.