🏗️ Building Permit Scraper — Construction Leads

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⚡ Use this Actor in n8n — no code

Building no-code workflows in n8n? It works natively! Use the official Apify node to drop this Actor straight onto your canvas.

Setup (30 seconds):

1. In n8n, add the official Apify node to your workflow.
2. Connect your Apify API token in the credentials.
3. Select Run an Actor, and paste this actor's ID: IntelScrape/building-permit-scraper.
4. Fill in the JSON input and run!

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Generate hyper-targeted commercial and residential construction leads by scraping recently issued building permits directly from city and county government databases. Owner + contractor name, phone, email & license across 60+ US cities (any city via auto-discovery). HOT/WARM/COLD lead scoring, new-leads-only incremental mode, dedupe.

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🧭 Built for Roofing & HVAC Companies, B2B Materials Suppliers, Commercial Lenders, and Real Estate Developers.

⭐ Rated 5.0★ by daily power users. If Building Permit Scraper saves you hours of manual prospecting, please take 10 seconds to leave a review — it helps other professionals find it and keeps us adding more cities. Thank you! 🙏

⚖️ Lawful business use only. This Actor only returns information that is already publicly available via government open data portals.

📌 All names, addresses, phone numbers and emails shown in this documentation are fictional examples for illustration only and do not refer to any real person.

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🏗️ Building Permit Scraper — why this one

Extract 1,000 hyper-targeted leads for just $5.00 — scale your outreach effortlessly.

Feature	This Actor	Typical others
Price	$5.00 / 1K	$50-200+/mo subscriptions
Contractor Enrichment	✅	❌
Incremental Mode (Daily runs)	✅	❌
Multi-City Auto-Discovery	✅	Single city only
Lead Scoring (Hot/Warm/Cold)	✅	Unfiltered dumps

Public-records data • lawful B2B use only

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🖼️ What a result looks like

One dataset record per extracted permit lead. (Illustrative example — fictional data.)

Permit Type	Project Value	Contractor	Owner	Address
Commercial New	$2,500,000	Apex Builders LLC (555) 019-2931	Riverfront Holdings	100 Main St, Austin, TX
Residential Roofing	$18,500	Elite Roofers info@eliteroof.com	John Smith	456 Oak Ave, Dallas, TX
HVAC Upgrade	$12,000	CoolBreeze HVAC (555) 812-3391	Mary Johnson	742 Pine Rd, Miami, FL

💡 On the Actor page, results render in this table automatically (the Output tab) and export to CSV / Excel / JSON / API in one click.

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⭐ Why this Permit Scraper

🎯 High-Intent Leads	Reach out exactly when they get the green light. A newly issued permit means money is about to be spent.
🧩 Multi-City Coverage	Automatically searches across hundreds of available US municipal databases simultaneously.
🥇 Advanced Filtering	Filter by Permit Type (e.g., Roofing, Electrical) and Minimum Project Cost to ensure you only get high-value targets.
✅ Contractor Enrichment	Turn on "Skip Trace PRO" integration to automatically look up the contractor's phone, email, and website.
⏱️ Incremental Mode	Run the bot daily. It remembers past runs and only extracts brand new permits filed in the last 24 hours.
💸 Extremely Cheap	$5.00 per 1,000 leads. No monthly SaaS fees, no user seat limits.

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⚡ Quick start

{
  "targetLocation": "Austin, TX",
  "permitType": "Commercial New",
  "minProjectCost": 50000,
  "enrichContractors": true
}

Run it — each matched permit comes back as one highly enriched record. That's it.

✅ What you get per lead

• 🏗️ Permit Details — Permit Number, Status, Issue Date, Description of Work
• 💰 Financials — Estimated Project Value / Cost
• 📍 Job Site — Full property address, Parcel ID
• 👤 Owner Info — Property Owner Name, Mailing Address
• 👷 Contractor Info — Business Name, License Number, Phone, Email (if enriched)
• 🔥 Lead Score — HOT / WARM / COLD based on your criteria

All for one flat price — $5.00 / 1,000 permits.

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🛡️ The 99.9% Uptime Guarantee (Why We Are Superior)

Read the reviews of our competitors. You will see the exact same complaints: "Only supports one city", "Breaks when the city website updates", "Data is weeks old."

Why does that happen? Because cheap competitors build fragile web scrapers that break every time a municipal IT department changes a button on their website.

Building Permit Scraper is different. We connect directly to the underlying open-data APIs and backend civic data pipelines (Tyler Technologies, Accela, Socrata) powering these municipal portals. Our API does not break when a website layout changes. We guarantee 99.9% enterprise uptime.

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💰 How To Make Money With This API (Clear ROI)

If you are paying $5 for 1,000 construction leads, you need to know how to turn that into $10,000+. Here are the top three ways our clients monetize this API:

1. Roofing & HVAC Contractors (High Ticket Sales)

Set the bot to run daily for "Roofing" or "Mechanical" permits in your city. When a homeowner pulls a permit, they have immediate intent. Call or drop a mailer exactly 24 hours after the permit is issued. Winning just one $15,000 roof replacement pays for 3,000,000 API lookups!

2. B2B Materials Suppliers (Lumber, Concrete, Steel)

Filter for "Commercial New Construction" with a Minimum Project Value of $1,000,000. As soon as the permit hits, the contractor is about to buy materials. Use the Contractor Enrichment feature to get the contractor's phone number and have your sales team call them to bid on supplying the project for $50,000+ contracts.

3. Commercial Lenders & Insurance Brokers

Track massive development permits. When a developer pulls a multi-family construction permit, they need builder's risk insurance and construction financing. Use this API to automate your lead generation pipeline and reach out before they even start digging.

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💡 How to Maximize Your Export in Excel

This scraper natively exports a perfectly flattened, optimized CSV. To get the most out of your data in seconds:

1. Filter by Project Value: Open the CSV and sort the estimated_cost column from largest to smallest to prioritize your outreach on the whales.
2. Highlight Hot Leads: Select the leadScore column, go to Conditional Formatting -> Highlight Cells Rules -> Equal To... and type HOT. Choose the Red fill to instantly highlight your best prospects for the day.

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