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Building Permit Lead Monitor: Chicago, NYC, Austin

Monitor official building-permit datasets in Chicago, New York City, and Austin. Return new, updated, and removed permit signals with project details, valuation, published contacts, and source links. Send results to HubSpot, Airtable, n8n, or Slack.

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🏗️ Building Permit Lead Monitor: Chicago, NYC, Austin

Turn public permit activity into your next local lead
Monitor selected Chicago, New York City, and Austin permit data. Get source-linked project details and a change feed for the same scope.

🏙️ Choose the market
Work with the supported public datasets for Chicago, New York City, and Austin.

🔔 Catch fresh signals
Separate new, updated, and removed permits from a complete baseline.

🏗️ Qualify the project
Review permit type, address, value, and published parties when available.

🔗 Verify the record
Keep a direct link to the official source for every permit.

Monitor official building-permit datasets for Chicago, New York City, and Austin. Turn selected public permit activity into a current snapshot or source-linked change feed.

🎯 What it does

The Actor reads the declared city datasets and normalizes their public permit records. A full run returns the current selected scope. Changes-only mode returns new, updated, and removed records only after a complete scan.

👥 Who it is for

Construction suppliers and local sales teams watching public project signals.
Roofing, HVAC, solar, and equipment teams qualifying declared-city permit activity.
Analysts building a source-backed local construction dataset.

⚙️ How it works

STEP 1
Select the city
Choose Chicago, New York City, Austin, or a combination.

STEP 2
Focus the signal
Filter by issued date, permit type, or a project keyword.

STEP 3
Monitor the scope
Run a snapshot or schedule that same scope for changes.

🧾 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
Cities	Array	Yes	One or more supported city datasets: Chicago, New York City, or Austin.
Issue date from and to	Date	No	Published issue-date bounds for the selected datasets.
Permit types	Array	No	Source permit-type labels to match.
Description keyword	Text	No	Keyword matched against the public permit description.
Output mode	Choice	No	Full snapshot or changes-only output.
Maximum pages	Number	No	Pages to request per city. A capped scan does not update saved state.
Maximum records returned	Number	No	Maximum rows written across selected cities.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
changeType	String	`SNAPSHOT`, `NEW`, `UPDATED`, or `REMOVED`.
city	String	Source city dataset.
permitId	String	Public permit identifier.
permitType	String	Published permit type when available.
issueDate	Date	Published issue date when available.
address	String	Published project address when available.
sourceUrl	URL	Official source record link.

💡 Good to know

Coverage is limited to Chicago, New York City, and Austin. It is not a nationwide permit database.
Owner, applicant, contractor, valuation, and coordinates are included only when published by the source.
A capped or incomplete scan does not update saved comparison state.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay per result. Empty runs do not create result charges. Begin with one city and a focused date range.

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❓ FAQ

Which cities are supported? Chicago, New York City, and Austin only.

Does it enrich private contact details? No. It returns public fields from the official datasets.

Can I find only new permits? Yes. Use changes-only mode after a complete baseline run.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Reuse the same selected-city scope on an Apify schedule.

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