US Building Permits — Multi-City, Daily & Incremental

Fresh building permits from major US cities, straight from official government open-data portals. One Actor, pick your city — Austin, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle (more added regularly). Normalized into one clean schema: permit type, work class, address, valuation, contractor, status, and issue date.

Pay only for results. No subscription. A run that returns nothing costs nothing.

Why this feed

• Local where it matters. A solar installer in Chicago doesn't want a national blob — they want Chicago permits. Pick the city; get exactly that.
• Incremental by default. Each scheduled run emits only permits (by permit number) issued since the last run. Schedule it daily and get just that day's new permits.
• One schema across cities. Every city's columns are normalized to the same fields, so your workflow doesn't change when you switch cities.
• Official source, no scraping. Pulled from each city's government Socrata open-data portal. Authoritative, no anti-bot breakage.
• Agent-ready. Clean JSON, stable fields, pay-per-result — drop it into an MCP workflow or an AI lead agent.

Output fields

city, permitNumber, permitType, workClass, status, description, address, addressCity, addressState, addressZip, valuation, contractor, applicant, latitude, longitude, issuedDate, scrapedAt — plus all original city fields passed through.

Who uses this

Solar / roofing / HVAC and contractor lead generation · proptech and construction analytics · market research · AI agents answering "what permits were issued near me this week."

Cities

Austin, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle — with a city-override option for any other US city on the Socrata open-data platform. Need a specific city added? Open an issue.

Billing model

This Actor bills via Apify's automatic per-dataset-item ("Result") event — exactly one item written to the default dataset equals exactly one billable result. The code never calls Actor.charge(), so there is no double-billing, and a run that emits zero new permits writes nothing to the default dataset and therefore costs $0 (the no-results notice goes to the run log, OUTPUT, and a non-default run-reports dataset). Set the Result event price (apify-default-dataset-item) the same as the Austin actor ($0.0025/result), with no custom charge event.

Schedule it

Set a daily schedule with your city and newSinceDays: 2, incremental: true for a clean daily feed of new permits.