# Calgary Business Licence Monitor: Status Change Alerts (`plym-actor-factory/ca-calgary-getbusid-portfolio-status-monitor`) Actor

Watch named City of Calgary business licences (getbusid) in official data.calgary.ca open data. Get an alert when a licence appears, drops off or changes status, e.g. Licensed to Pending Renewal. Pay per event.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/plym-actor-factory/ca-calgary-getbusid-portfolio-status-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Daniel Witney](https://apify.com/plym-actor-factory) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Automation, AI
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## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 calgary getbusid status event delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Calgary getbusid Portfolio Status Monitor

Watch a **named book** of City of Calgary business licence `getbusid` values and emit portfolio status events from the official [Calgary Open Data Business Licenses](https://data.calgary.ca/Business-and-Economic-Activity/Calgary-Business-Licenses/vdjc-pybd) Socrata dataset.

### What you get

Billable events (PPE `calgary-getbusid-status-event-delivered` @ $0.02):

- `APPEARED` / `DROPPED` — licence enters or leaves the published Calgary BL extract
- `STATUS_CHANGED` — Licensed / Renewal Licensed / Pending Renewal / Renewal Invoiced / Move in Progress / Close in Progress / …
- Attribute changes (optional `attributes` signal group): licence type, tradename, address, expiration, community

Non-billable `RUN_STATUS` rows: `FIXTURE_HEALTH`, `MONITOR_IDLE`, `CATCHUP_COMPLETE`, `HEALTH_OK`.

### What this is not

- Not a citywide Calgary business-licence dump billed per row
- Not a DE POL twin (#73), WA DOH twin (#72), NYC DCWP twin (#71), TX TABC twin (#70), or IL IDFPR twin (#35)
- Not a lead-gen scraper / building-permit twin

### Input

Provide `getbusids` (aliases: `businessIds`, `licenses`). Use `sourceMode: "live"` for production watches; `fixture` + `emitFixtureDemoEvents` for demo CATCHUP.

### Source honesty

Official Socrata `https://data.calgary.ca/resource/vdjc-pybd.json` only. Watchlist SoQL `getbusid in(...)`. Cadence = honest City of Calgary Open Data republish (`rowsUpdatedAt` / `Last-Modified`). Rare `getbusid` collisions (~11/23k) are collapsed preferring Licensed/Renewal Licensed then latest expiration.

# Actor input Schema

## `getbusids` (type: `array`):

City of Calgary business licence getbusid values to monitor against official Socrata vdjc-pybd. Exact match after normalize (digits only). Invalid entries skipped with no charge. Not a citywide dump — only IDs on the book are evaluated.

## `businessIds` (type: `array`):

Alias of getbusids.

## `licenses` (type: `array`):

Alias of getbusids.

## `signalGroups` (type: `array`):

directory = APPEARED/DROPPED; status = STATUS_CHANGED; attributes = licence type / tradename / address / expiration / community changes.

## `maxRunSeconds` (type: `integer`):

Hard run budget in seconds.

## `maxEvents` (type: `integer`):

Max billable change events to deliver this run.

## `resumeFromCheckpoint` (type: `boolean`):

Resume entity baselines and seen event UIDs from the actor key-value store.

## `sourceMode` (type: `string`):

fixture = offline fixtures (FIXTURE_HEALTH / demo). live = official data.calgary.ca Socrata.

## `emitFixtureDemoEvents` (type: `boolean`):

When sourceMode=fixture, emit CATCHUP APPEARED/DROPPED/STATUS_CHANGED demo events (charges in cloud).

## `asOfHint` (type: `string`):

Optional as-of date hint (YYYY-MM-DD) for live runs.

## `maxTotalChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Optional Apify platform max total charge USD for this run.

## `socrataUrl` (type: `string`):

Override official Calgary Business Licenses Socrata resource URL (default data.calgary.ca/resource/vdjc-pybd.json).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "getbusids": [
    "926048",
    "12602611",
    "14043442",
    "16579856"
  ],
  "signalGroups": [
    "directory",
    "status"
  ],
  "maxRunSeconds": 180,
  "maxEvents": 500,
  "resumeFromCheckpoint": true,
  "sourceMode": "fixture",
  "emitFixtureDemoEvents": false,
  "socrataUrl": "https://data.calgary.ca/resource/vdjc-pybd.json"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `OUTPUT` (type: `string`):

JSON summary: delivered, charged, runStatus, checkpoint, stats, Calgary getbusid coverage limits

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("plym-actor-factory/ca-calgary-getbusid-portfolio-status-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("plym-actor-factory/ca-calgary-getbusid-portfolio-status-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call plym-actor-factory/ca-calgary-getbusid-portfolio-status-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,plym-actor-factory/ca-calgary-getbusid-portfolio-status-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/e8rAi7Db1AIBIu0ae/builds/2tpHtgkM8J8nwGIyt/openapi.json