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US Building Permits API: Construction Leads from 18 Cities

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US building permits from 18 cities and counties (NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas, Seattle, Austin, Pittsburgh, Orlando…) with project value and contractor. Canada (Calgary, Edmonton), Ireland planning applications, France permis de construire, NSW development applications.

Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 permits

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5.0

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Gaël GERARD

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Changelog

0.0.31 (2026-10-31)

Apify Starter (Bronze) plans now pay 5 % less: $4.75 per 1,000 records. Other plans keep their price.

0.0.30 (2026-10-31)

Store title and description lead with US building permits, and the run files (SUMMARY, COVERAGE, records.csv) have their own tabs in the Storage view. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.27 (2026-10-31)

README: free plan vs paid plans, the Silver and Gold prices, and related Actors. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.26 (2026-10-30)

README: new ready-to-run example "New building permits every week" (New York City with onlyNew); it replaces the France non-residential example (Apify allows 10 public examples per Actor).

0.0.25 (2026-10-30)

New option Only new permits (onlyNew) for weekly new-permit alerts: each run returns and charges only the permits that earlier runs of the same search did not return. Schedule it weekly and add an email, Slack or webhook integration; see "Weekly new-permit alerts" in the README. Same price per row.

0.0.24 (2026-10-29)

Successful runs, including runs that stop at your maxResults, end with a link to leave a review. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.22 (2026-10-29)

New optional filter permitTypes (US, Canada, Ireland): keep only the permit types you name, for example "Building Permit", to leave out the electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits issued for the same project. City portals apply it at the source.
Austin: metrics.master_permit_number groups every permit of one development, and metrics.project_id the permits of one building.
README: dates are the city's calendar day with no time zone; missing values are null and named in quality_warnings. Thanks to the user who reported these points. Same price.

0.0.21 (2026-10-27)

6 more US areas: Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Collin County (Texas), Norfolk (Virginia) and Cambridge (Massachusetts). 18 US cities and counties in total.
Canada: Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg building permits, with declared values in Canadian dollars (metrics.project_value_cad).
Ireland: planning applications from all 31 planning authorities (national database, CC BY 4.0). Filter by authority with councils.
New CSV column project_value_cad. Same price.

0.0.20 (2026-10-26)

The input form now opens on the United States (New York City, last 90 days). README and Store texts present the US permits as construction leads. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.19 (2026-10-25)

Contractor names no longer carry publisher tags such as "MAIN".

0.0.18 (2026-10-25)

Contractor names given as "person, firm" keep the firm only. Declared values of $0 or $1 (placeholders) are now empty.

0.0.17 (2026-10-25)

README: ready-to-run examples for Chicago and Dallas. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.15 (2026-10-25)

New US sources: Dallas, Orlando, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Mesa (Arizona), East Baton Rouge Parish and Montgomery County, Maryland (residential and commercial permits). The US now covers 12 cities and counties.
Contractor names from fields that mix people and firms keep the firm only. A declared project value of 0 is now empty.

0.0.14 (2026-10-24)

Store listing text: planning and development applications are named again. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.13 (2026-10-24)

New: United States building permits from five city open-data portals: New York City (DOB NOW: Build), Chicago, Los Angeles (LADBS), Austin and Seattle (SDCI). Choose country: "US" and a city in sourceIds.
US rows include the declared project value (metrics.project_value_usd) and, where the city publishes it, the contractor's business name (metrics.contractor_business_name), housing units and a link to the permit page (Austin, Seattle).
New zipCodes filter for US cities, and keywords for the US, both applied by the city portal. Up to 5 sources per run. Same price.

0.0.12 (2026-10-23)

README: a picture of real output (housing authorisations in Rhône). No change to the data or the price.

0.0.10 and 0.0.11 (2026-10-23)

Store listing refresh (French permit types in the description) and this changelog. No change to the data or the price.

0.0.9 (2026-10-19)

Requests are sized from maxResults, so large exports no longer stop early. A run that stops at a limit ends as succeeded, with a message that names the limit.
France: the default period is the 90 days up to the end of the published SDES coverage.
NSW and Far North use pages of 1,000 records, and every run stops cleanly before its timeout with the summary and CSV written.
A clear message when your maximum cost per run is reached.
France: applicant company name, SIREN and SIRET, APE code, legal category, postcode and town when the applicant is a legal entity, plus a composed description.
Accents are repaired, the CSV has a byte-order mark and 45 columns, and HTTP requests are tried 3 times.

0.0.6 to 0.0.8 (2026-10-13 to 2026-10-14)

First public versions: French building permits (SDES Sitadel), NSW Planning Portal applications and Far North District building applications in one schema, with source links and licences.

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US Building Permits API: Construction Leads from 18 Cities

Changelog

0.0.31 (2026-10-31)

0.0.30 (2026-10-31)

0.0.27 (2026-10-31)

0.0.26 (2026-10-30)

0.0.25 (2026-10-30)

0.0.24 (2026-10-29)

0.0.22 (2026-10-29)

0.0.21 (2026-10-27)

0.0.20 (2026-10-26)

0.0.19 (2026-10-25)

0.0.18 (2026-10-25)

0.0.17 (2026-10-25)

0.0.15 (2026-10-25)

0.0.14 (2026-10-24)

0.0.13 (2026-10-24)

0.0.12 (2026-10-23)

0.0.10 and 0.0.11 (2026-10-23)

0.0.9 (2026-10-19)

0.0.6 to 0.0.8 (2026-10-13 to 2026-10-14)

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Changelog

0.0.31 (2026-10-31)

0.0.30 (2026-10-31)

0.0.27 (2026-10-31)

0.0.26 (2026-10-30)

0.0.25 (2026-10-30)

0.0.24 (2026-10-29)

0.0.22 (2026-10-29)

0.0.21 (2026-10-27)

0.0.20 (2026-10-26)

0.0.19 (2026-10-25)

0.0.18 (2026-10-25)

0.0.17 (2026-10-25)

0.0.15 (2026-10-25)

0.0.14 (2026-10-24)

0.0.13 (2026-10-24)

0.0.12 (2026-10-23)

0.0.10 and 0.0.11 (2026-10-23)

0.0.9 (2026-10-19)

0.0.6 to 0.0.8 (2026-10-13 to 2026-10-14)