US Building Permits Scraper: New Permit & Contractor Leads
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$3.00 / 1,000 results
Search and monitor new building permits in NYC, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and more from official city open-data portals, no API key. Filter by keyword, work type (roofing, solar...), ZIP and cost. Flat JSON with address, cost, contractor, owner. 'Only new' mode for alerts.
Which city building-permit datasets to search. Each one is the city's official open-data feed.
[ "nyc", "chicago", "la", "sf", "seattle", "austin"]Full-text match on the permit record (description, type, address, contractor, owner). Examples: 'solar', 'roof', 'swimming pool', 'tesla', 'restaurant'.
Only keep permits in these automatically detected categories. Leave empty for all. Great for roofers, solar installers, electricians and HVAC companies.
[]Only permits at these 5-digit ZIP codes. Chicago and Mesa don't publish a permit ZIP, so they return nothing when this is set. Leave empty for all.
[]Skip permits with an unknown or lower estimated cost. 0 = no minimum.
Permits issued in the last N days. Ignored if a start date is set.
Earliest issue date, YYYY-MM-DD. Overrides 'Issued within last N days'.
Remember which permits were already returned and output only newly issued ones. Ideal with a daily Schedule + email/Slack/webhook integration.
Separate memory for 'only new' mode. Defaults to a key derived from your filters.
Not needed. Anonymous access is enough for alerts. A free app token from the city's data portal raises rate limits for very large pulls.
Stop after this many permits per city.