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🏗️ Municipal Building Permits & Construction Lead Radar

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Extract newly issued building permits from 6 major US cities (Chicago, Austin, NYC, Seattle, SF, LA) via free official SODA APIs. Get roofing, solar, new construction, and demolition leads with contractor details, job valuations, and GPS coordinates.

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from $5.00 / 1,000 permit record extracteds

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Automation Studio

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🎯 Business Value

Roofing companies, solar installers, general contractors, commercial lenders, and real estate wholesalers pay thousands of dollars for access to newly approved building permits. This actor delivers that intelligence automatically from official free government APIs.

Target Use Cases:

🔧 Roofing & Solar Companies — Find homeowners just permitted for roof replacement or solar installation
🏗️ General Contractors — Discover commercial renovations and new construction projects
💰 Commercial Lenders — Identify large-value ($500k+) construction projects needing financing
🏠 Real Estate Wholesalers — Find properties undergoing significant improvement

🌐 Data Sources (100% Free & Legal)

City	Portal	Dataset
Chicago, IL	City of Chicago Open Data	Building Permits (ydr8-5enu)
Austin, TX	Austin Open Data	Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
New York City, NY	NYC Open Data	DOB Job Application Filings (ic3t-wcy2)
Seattle, WA	Seattle Open Data	Building Permits (76t5-zqzr)
San Francisco, CA	SF Open Data	Building Permits (p4e4-a5a7)
Los Angeles, CA	LA Open Data	Building Permits (pi9x-tg5x)

All APIs are zero-authentication, completely free public records under open data laws.

📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
`cities`	array	chicago, austin	Cities to monitor (multi-select)
`permitTypes`	array	[] (all)	Permit type keywords filter (e.g. ROOFING, SOLAR)
`daysBack`	integer	7	How many days back to scan
`maxResults`	integer	200	Max permit records per run
`minJobValue`	integer	0	Minimum job valuation filter ($)
`webhookUrl`	string	—	Discord/Slack webhook for instant alerts

📤 Output Schema

Each permit record contains:

{
  "city": "Chicago, IL",
  "cityKey": "chicago",
  "permitNumber": "101234567",
  "permitType": "PERMIT - RENOVATION",
  "issueDate": "2026-09-10",
  "propertyAddress": "123 N MAIN ST",
  "jobValue": 500000,
  "workDescription": "Commercial renovation of 3-story building...",
  "ownerName": "ABC PROPERTIES LLC",
  "contractorName": "Smith Construction Inc",
  "contractorPhone": "312-555-0100",
  "contractorLicense": "GC-123456",
  "latitude": 41.8827,
  "longitude": -87.6233,
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.cityofchicago.org/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-15T00:00:00Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Cost
Actor start	$0.002
Per permit record	$0.005

Example: 200 permit records = $0.002 + (200 × $0.005) = $1.002 per run

⚡ Golden Rules Compliance

✅ 100% authentic government open data (zero mock/synthetic records)
✅ Pay-Per-Event (PPE) monetization configured
✅ Full schema linking (input, output, dataset schemas)
✅ Professional README with business value and pricing table
✅ Clean, human-readable output fields
✅ Fault-tolerant per-city error handling (one city failure doesn’t crash the run)

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