Building Permits Scraper - Contractor & Construction Leads

Building Permits Scraper – Contractor & Construction Leads from US City Permit Data

Search official building permit records from 44 US city and county open-data portals, including New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and Dallas. Filter by keyword (roof, solar, HVAC, pool, demolition), permit type and issue date to find homeowners and contractors with active projects. Each record includes the permit number, type, status, dates, address, work description and, where the city publishes them, project value, contractor, owner and coordinates. $0.002 per permit.

Why use this actor?

• One schema across cities. Every city's columns are mapped to the same fields, so a multi-city export lines up.
• Keyword search. roof, solar, HVAC, ADU or pool searches every text field the city publishes.
• Natural city names. Type New York, Los Angeles or Austin, TX. Short keys like nyc and la work too.
• Other cities. If a city isn't on the list, the actor looks for a Socrata building-permit dataset for it automatically.
• Pay per permit. A 10-permit test costs about 2 cents.

Who uses it

Use case	What you do with permits
Roofing, solar, HVAC & pool contractors	Find homeowners who just pulled a related permit, or competitors' jobs in your area.
Building-supply & equipment sales	Reach contractors with active projects.
Home-services lead gen	Feed fresh project addresses into outreach and ad audiences.
Real estate & investors	Track renovation and new-construction activity by neighborhood.
Insurance & underwriting	Check permitted work on a property.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter a City (for example Chicago) and a Keyword (for example solar).
3. Optionally set Date From (for example 2026-10-01) for recent permits only.
4. Press Start, then export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

Copy to your AI assistant

Use the Apify actor pink_comic/building-permits-construction-leads to get the 50 most recent roofing permits in Chicago issued since 2026-10-01, and list address, work description and contractor.

Input examples

Recent solar permits in Los Angeles:

{ "city": "Los Angeles", "keyword": "solar", "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "maxResults": 100 }

New-building permits in Austin:

{ "city": "Austin, TX", "keyword": "", "permitType": "new", "maxResults": 200 }

Dates accept YYYY-MM-DD, and common formats like 10/01/2026 are converted automatically.

Supported cities and counties

Austin, Baton Rouge, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Cincinnati, Collin County (TX), Corona, Dallas, Fort Worth, Honolulu, Howard County (MD), Kansas City, Los Angeles, Marin County, Mesa, Montgomery County (MD), Nashville, New Jersey (statewide), New Orleans, New York City, Norfolk, Pierce County (WA), Prince George's County (MD), Raleigh, Rockford, San Francisco, Seattle, Somerville, Sonoma County and Williamson County (TX).

Results are newest first wherever the city publishes an issue date (New York City and Seattle publish none, so their results come in the source's own order). Every listed source was checked on November 11, 2026, and almost all publish permits within days. Boston, Raleigh, Nashville, Fort Worth, Kansas City, New Orleans and Somerville now read each city's current official feed. Raleigh and Nashville include the contractor's name.

A few sources lag or have quirks:

Source	Latest permit available (checked Nov 11, 2026)	Note
Honolulu	June 30, 2025	The city's dataset ends there
Sonoma County	May 2025	The county's dataset ends there
Howard County (MD)	November 2025
Williamson County (TX)	July 2026
Fort Worth, Somerville	Current	issueDate is the application/filing date
Dallas, Rockford	Current	Dates are published as text. Date filters work, and default runs return this year's permits, but results aren't strictly sorted by date

Cities whose public feeds stopped updating years ago were removed: Auburn, Fort Collins, Framingham, Frederick, Gainesville, Hartford, New Castle County, Parker, Providence, Redmond, Richmond, San Diego County and Santa Rosa. Asking for one of them returns a clear message, no results and no charge.

If a city has no usable open-data permit feed, the run ends with a clear message and no charge.

What data you get

Field	Example
permitNumber	2026-138599 EP
permitType	EP
status	Active
issueDate / expirationDate	2026-11-10 / 2027-05-09
address, city, state	1805 GOLDEN SUNRISE LN, Austin, TX
workDescription	Installation of 15.8 kW DC roof-mount solar PV system
estimatedCost	Project value, where published
contractor / owner	Where the city publishes them
latitude / longitude	30.4198 / -97.6311

Pricing

Event	Price
Run start	$0.0001
Each permit	$0.002

1,000 permits cost about $2.

Integrations

• API: use the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients.
• No-code: Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets and webhooks. For example, push each morning's new permits into your CRM.
• AI agents (MCP): connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to https://mcp.apify.com and call this actor as a tool.
• Schedules: run daily with dateFrom set to yesterday to get only new permits.

FAQ

Does every record include the contractor's name and phone? No. It depends on the city. NYC, Chicago and several others publish contractor names. Los Angeles' current feed doesn't. For California contractor phone, bond and insurance, use our CSLB License Lookup.

My city isn't listed. Try it anyway. The actor searches Socrata for a matching permit dataset. If it can't find one, you aren't charged, and you can open an issue to request the city.

How is this different from paid permit databases? This is the cities' own public data at a per-record price, without a subscription. Coverage is limited to cities with open-data feeds.

Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab. Requests for new cities are welcome.