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US Building Permits Scraper (Accela)

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Get new building permits from any US city or county on Accela Citizen Access: roofing, solar, pool, HVAC, new construction and remodel permits with address, dates, status, valuation and contractor. Daily monitor mode with Telegram, Slack, webhook (n8n/Make) and email alerts.

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from $8.50 / 1,000 building permit record (us)s

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Developer

Argentin Vazdautan

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

17 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Real estate

Lead generation

Business

Cities / counties

agencies

Optional

Accela Citizen Access portals to search, by agency code (the part after aca-prod.accela.com/ in the portal address). Each one uses its usual permit module (Building, Permits or Development) unless you set "Module". Not in the list? Add it under "Other agencies".

Type:string[]

Other agencies (code or portal URL)

customAgencies

Optional

Any other Accela Citizen Access portal: an agency code such as "SPOKANE" or "KERNCO", or the full URL of its search page, e.g. "https://aca-prod.accela.com/TAMPA/Cap/CapHome.aspx?module=Building" or a self-hosted one like "https://accela.fortworthtexas.gov/CitizenAccess/Cap/CapHome.aspx?module=Development". A module in the URL is used for that portal.

Type:array

Module

module

Optional

ACA module to search, as in the portal address (…/CapHome.aspx?module=Building). Empty = each agency's usual permit module (Building for most; Permits or Development for some). Other modules such as Enforcement or Planning also work if the portal offers a public date search.

Type:string

Last N days

lastNDays

Optional

Permits opened (applied/filed) in the last N days, today included. Used when "Opened from" is empty. For a daily monitor keep 3–7 so permits the city enters late are still caught.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:3650

Default:7

Opened from

dateFrom

Optional

Start of the period (record opened/applied date, the date ACA's general search filters on), e.g. 2026-09-01 or "30 days". Overrides "Last N days".

Type:string

Opened until

dateTo

Optional

End of the period (inclusive). Empty = today.

Type:string

Permit types / keywords

permitTypes

Optional

Keep only matching permits. Trade names match the permit's category: roofing (or "roof"), solar, pool, hvac, electrical, plumbing, new-construction (or "new"), addition, remodel, demolition, windows, fence, sign, accessory-structure, mobile-home. Any other word is searched in record type, description and project name (word start, case-insensitive). Empty = all permits.

Type:array

Exclude keywords

excludeKeywords

Optional

Skip permits whose record type, description or project name contains any of these words, e.g. "commercial" or "fence".

Type:array

Statuses

statuses

Optional

Keep only permits whose status contains one of these words, e.g. "Issued" or "Finaled" (case-insensitive). Statuses differ per city; see the "status" field of a first run. Empty = any status.

Type:array

Portal record types (server-side filter)

recordTypes

Optional

Optional: search only these entries of the portal's "Record Type" dropdown (text contains, case-insensitive), e.g. "Roof" or "Residential Solar". Faster on busy portals because the portal filters. If nothing matches, the log lists the portal's record types and all types are searched.

Type:array

Max permits per agency

maxRecordsPerAgency

Optional

Stop after saving this many matching permits per agency (newest first). 0 = no limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:500

Include details (contractor, valuation, parcel)

includeDetails

Optional

Open each permit's detail page to add contractor name, license, phone and address, job valuation, parcel number, applicant company and extra fields. One extra request per permit and one extra "permit details" charge.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include owner and applicant names

includePersonalNames

Optional

With details on, also output the property owner's name and mailing address and the applicant's name when the portal publishes them. Off by default: these are private individuals; check the laws that apply to you (e.g. telemarketing and privacy rules) before using them for outreach.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Monitor name (only new permits)

monitorName

Optional

Turns on monitor mode: the Actor remembers which permits it has seen under this name and each run saves (and alerts about) only new ones. Schedule it daily. The first run only remembers the current permits unless "Report all on first run" is on.

Type:string

Report all on first run

reportAllOnFirstRun

Optional

In monitor mode, save and alert about all matching permits of the period on the first run too (normally the first run is a silent baseline).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Start over

resetState

Optional

Forget everything this monitor has seen and create a new baseline.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Telegram bot token

telegramBotToken

Optional

Token of your Telegram bot (from @BotFather). Alerts are sent in monitor mode.

Type:string

Telegram chat ID

telegramChatId

Optional

Chat, group or channel ID that receives the alerts (the bot must be a member).

Type:string

Slack webhook URL

slackWebhookUrl

Optional

Slack Incoming Webhook URL (https://hooks.slack.com/services/…).

Type:string

Webhook URL (n8n, Make, Zapier)

webhookUrl

Optional

Receives a JSON POST with a summary and the new permits (event "permits.new"), ready for n8n, Make or Zapier.

Type:string

Email to

emailTo

Optional

Email address(es) for alerts, comma-separated. Sent through the apify/send-mail Actor.

Type:string

Email subject

emailSubject

Optional

Custom subject for email alerts. Empty = ": N new building permit(s)".

Type:string

Permits listed per alert

notifyMaxItems

Optional

How many new permits are listed in Telegram, Slack and email messages (the rest is summarised).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100

Default:10

Permits sent to the webhook

webhookMaxItems

Optional

How many new permits are included in the webhook JSON body.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:1000

Default:100

Alert when nothing is new

notifyOnNoChanges

Optional

Also send a message when a monitor run finds no new permits (useful as a heartbeat).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify Proxy is recommended. If a portal refuses datacenter IPs, choose RESIDENTIAL with country US.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

How to read results

exportMode

Optional

"grid" reads the results table page by page (10 rows per request) and gives every permit a direct link. "csv" clicks the portal's "Download results" when available: one request for the whole list, but no per-permit links, so details cannot be fetched. "auto" uses CSV only for pulls above 100 permits without details and outside monitor mode, and falls back to the grid when the export does not work.

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autogridcsv

Days per search

searchWindowDays

Optional

Long periods are searched in windows of this many days, newest first, so a portal's result limits are not hit.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:366

Default:7

Max result pages per search

maxPagesPerAgency

Optional

Safety limit of result pages (10 permits each) read per search window.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:2000

Default:100

Use a real browser when blocked

browserFallback

Optional

If a portal blocks plain HTTP requests, retry with cookies from a real Chrome, then fully inside Chrome.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Always use a real browser

forceBrowser

Optional

Do every request inside Chrome from the start (slower; for portals known to need JavaScript).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Delay between requests (ms)

requestDelayMs

Optional

Pause between requests to one portal, to be polite to city servers.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:20000

Default:700

Retries

maxRetries

Optional

How often a failed request or blocked session is retried (with a new session and IP) before an agency is given up.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:8

Default:3

Save pages when something fails

saveDebugPages

Optional

Store unexpected portal pages in the key-value store (DEBUG-…) so problems can be diagnosed.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Monitor state store

stateStoreName

Optional

Named key-value store that keeps monitor memory between runs.

Type:string

Default:accela-permits-monitor

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