You can access the NYC Building Permit Lead Generator programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("enfex/nyc-building-permit-lead-generator").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

NYC Building Permit Lead Generator API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use NYC Building Permit Lead Generator API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

NYC Building Permit Lead Generator API in JavaScript

NYC Building Permit Lead Generator API through CLI

NYC Building Permit Lead Generator OpenAPI definition

NYC Building Permit Lead Generator API

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NYC DOB Permits & Violations Scraper

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NYC Contractor Permit Leads Scraper

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NYC Building Permits Scraper

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Extract 4.87M+ building permit records from NYC Open Data. Filter by borough, ZIP, job type, date range. Get owner names, addresses, costs, GPS coordinates, and 42 normalized fields. No browser needed — fast, reliable API calls.

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US Building & Construction Permit Leads

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New building & construction permits from public city open-data (NYC + Chicago), normalized to one schema with project cost, contractor, geocode, and recency-based NEW flags. Public data only.

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