🏗️ Building Permit Scraper — 1,000+ US Cities

Find building permits in any US city by type. Search for roofing, solar, HVAC, demolition, new construction, and more — across 1,000+ cities. No API keys. No coding.

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🚀 How to use

1. Pick a city — Type any US city name (e.g., Dallas, Chicago, Miami)

2. Pick a permit type — Choose from the dropdown:

• New Construction
• Renovation / Remodel
• Demolition
• Roofing
• Solar / Photovoltaic
• Electrical
• Plumbing
• HVAC / Mechanical
• Fire Protection
• Addition / ADU
• Commercial
• Sign

3. Click Start — Results are ready in 30–90 seconds.

4. Export — Download as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

That's it. Leave "City" empty to search all 1,000+ cities nationwide.

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💡 Real examples

I want to find...	City	Permit type	Min cost
Solar installs in Austin	Austin	Solar / Photovoltaic
New buildings over $1M in NYC	New York	New Construction	1000000
Demolition permits in Detroit	Detroit	Demolition
All roofing jobs in Miami	Miami	Roofing
Big renovation projects nationwide	(leave empty)	Renovation / Remodel	500000
Everything in my city	Phoenix	All Types

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📊 What you get

Every permit record includes:

Field	Example
City & State	Chicago, IL
Permit Number	100987654
Address	1234 W Michigan Ave
Permit Type	NEW_CONSTRUCTION
Estimated Value	$2,500,000
Contractor Name	Turner Construction
Issue Date	2026-03-15
ZIP Code	60601
GPS Coordinates	41.8827, -87.6233
Development Score	🔥 HIGH (70/100)

The Development Score ranks each permit from 0–100 based on project type and value. High scores = major construction activity.

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🎯 Who is this for?

• Roofing, HVAC, and solar companies — Find permits in your service area to generate leads
• General contractors — See what's being built and who's building it
• Real estate investors — Spot hot neighborhoods before prices adjust
• Insurance agents — Find new construction and renovation projects that need coverage
• Sales teams — Every permit = a property owner who needs services

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⚡ Why this actor?

	This actor	Competitor A	Competitor B
Cities covered	1,000+	248	6
Permit type dropdown	✅	❌	❌
Auto-discovers new cities	✅	❌	❌
Development score	✅	❌	❌

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📅 Automate it

Set up a Schedule to run this actor daily or weekly. Go to Schedules in the sidebar → create a new schedule → point it to this actor. Fresh permits delivered to your dataset automatically.

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🔒 Data Source & Target Coverage

This Engine dynamically crawls massive proprietary networks far beyond typical Web Scrapers. It pulls localized data utilizing a Multi-Vendor Routing Architecture, ensuring the highest possible municipal hit-rate natively.

Systems Covered Natively:

• Socrata Hubs: Fast, primary open-data portals for massive municipalities (e.g. Chicago, NYC, Dallas).
• Esri ArcGIS Open Data: Intercepts proprietary spatial FeatureServers and pulls JSON payloads directly from ArcGIS Maps (e.g. Raleigh, Honolulu).
• Tyler Technologies (EnerGov): Penetrates heavily fortified WAFs to extract live dynamic enterprise tables blindly.
• Accela Civic Platform: Reconstructs back-end citizen building permit registries autonomously.

Coverage Confidence: Major metropolitan hubs and the top 100 U.S. Cities are guaranteed robust returns. Smaller suburbs or rural townships operating entirely via paper or localized PDFs will return empty. For mass execution, activate the National Scan (2,500 Cities) switch to autonomously sweep all 50 U.S. states and instantly extract all 4 vendor datasets identically. All results are sanitized and mapped into unified schema formats, no matter the source architecture!

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💬 Need help?

Open an Issue on this actor page — we respond within 24 hours.