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US Building Permits - Contractor Leads with Delta Mode

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Call the contractor the week the permit is issued. Permits from 17 US city registers via official open-data APIs: contractor, license and phone, job value, GPS, trade and a lead score. New York and Mesa: is the license still active? Delta mode charges only new permits.

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Carlos Escanez

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Categories

Lead generation

Real estate

Business

Cities

cities

Optional

Leave empty for all seventeen. Each city comes from its own official open-data API, so it never breaks because a website changed its layout. Only Orlando, Austin, Mesa and the New York legacy register publish the contractor's phone; the others give the business name, and some the licence number.

Type:string[]

Other cities (Socrata auto-discovery)

discover

Optional

Any other US city with a Socrata open-data portal, by name ("Fort Worth, TX") or by portal domain ("data.lacity.org"). The run searches the Socrata catalog for that city's building-permit dataset, recognises its columns by name and reads it like the seventeen verified cities. Rows from these cities carry discovered: true, and the run summary lists the dataset it picked and which columns it recognised. Not measured like the seventeen: contractor and phone come only when the city publishes them under a recognisable column name, and a dataset with no recognisable issue date is refused rather than guessed. With this set and "Cities" empty, only the discovered cities run.

Type:array

Trades

trades

Optional

Keep only permits for these trades, classified from the permit type and description. Leave empty for all.

Type:string[]

Stage

stage

Optional

Issued permits (default), permit applications, or completed work. An application not yet issued is a job starting in 4 to 10 weeks: the earliest lead there is. A completed permit is a finished job: the house is being lived in again, which is the lead for furniture, home insurance, alarms, cleaning and solar. Applications: Orlando, New Orleans, New York (electrical, elevator, BIS), Cincinnati, Seattle, Somerville, Everett, Mesa and Marin County. Completions: Austin, Orlando, New Orleans, Seattle, Cincinnati, Mesa, New York electrical and Delaware wells (the other cities publish no completion date and return nothing in this stage). In delta mode, use a different store name per stage.

Type:string

Default:issued

Options:

issuedappliedcompleted

Applications: only those not issued yet

onlyPending

Optional

In the applications stage, drop applications that already got their permit (those show up in the issued stage). Filtered-out rows cost nothing.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Issued in the last N days

lastNDays

Optional

Permits issued (or, in the applications stage, applied for) in this many days before today. Ignored when "Issued from" is set, and in delta mode once a first run has stored its watermark.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:3650

Default:7

Issued from (YYYY-MM-DD)

dateFrom

Optional

Optional exact start date, overrides "last N days".

Type:string

Issued to (YYYY-MM-DD)

dateTo

Optional

Optional exact end date, inclusive.

Type:string

Only permits with a contractor name

onlyWithContractor

Optional

Drop permits pulled by the owner or with no contractor on file. Filtered-out rows cost nothing.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Only permits pulled with a license that is not active

onlyLicenseIssues

Optional

New York City and Mesa only, the two places where the permit carries the contractor license number and the license register is public. Keeps the permits whose license the register shows as expired, on hold, inactive or not in the register (New York), or not in the active list (Mesa). Other cities are skipped. Every New York and Mesa permit carries licenseStatus anyway.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Minimum job value (USD)

minValuation

Optional

Keep permits with a declared job value at or above this. 0 keeps everything, including permits with no value declared.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Keyword in description

keyword

Optional

Case-insensitive match on the permit description, type or work class, e.g. "re-roof" or "generator".

Type:string

Delta mode: only permits not delivered before

onlyNew

Optional

Remembers what each run delivered (per city, in a key-value store on your account) and next time returns only new permits. Schedule the actor daily and you get a clean feed of fresh leads, paying only for the new ones. Keep the filters below stable while a feed runs: a permit skipped by a filter is not remembered, so widening the filters later will not bring back permits older than the feed's current position. To change filters, use a new store name or tick "Reset delta state".

Type:boolean

Default:false

Delta state store name

stateStoreName

Optional

Name of the key-value store that keeps the delta watermark. Use different names to run independent feeds (one per client, one per trade).

Type:string

Default:us-permits-seen

Reset delta state

resetState

Optional

Forget what was delivered before and start the feed again from "last N days".

Type:boolean

Default:false

Fill in missing GPS and ZIP from the US Census geocoder

geocodeMissing

Optional

Some cities publish the address without coordinates (Orlando, New Orleans) or without a ZIP (Chicago). When on, those rows are sent to the free US Census batch geocoder and come back with latitude, longitude and ZIP where the address matches (about 55% on Orlando, measured). Adds a few seconds per thousand rows. Rows that do not match are delivered as the city publishes them.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Contractor phone, website and reviews from Google Maps ($)

enrichWithGoogleMaps

Optional

Looks each contractor up on Google Maps (one search per contractor, not per permit) and adds googlePhone, googleWebsite, googleRating, googleReviewCount, googleCategory, googleAddress and googleMapsUrl. When the permit has no phone, contractorPhone is filled from Google Maps and contractorPhoneSource says so. Only a result whose name matches the contractor is used (googleNameMatch: exact or close). Charged per contractor found, as the enrich_contractor event; searches that find nothing cost nothing.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max contractors to look up on Google Maps

enrichMaxContractors

Optional

Cap on Google Maps searches per run, across all cities. Contractors without a phone in the permit go first.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:2000

Default:200

Contractor email from their website ($)

enrichEmailFromWebsite

Optional

Reads the contractor's website found on Google Maps (home page and the usual contact pages) and delivers the email it finds, with the page it was found on (emailFoundOn). Needs the Google Maps enrichment on. Charged per email found, as the email_found event; a website with no email costs nothing.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Neighbourhood income and home value by ZIP (free)

enrichWithCensus

Optional

Adds to every row the Census ACS 5-year figures for its ZIP code: median household income (zipMedianHouseholdIncome), median home value (zipMedianHomeValue), owner-occupied share (zipOwnerOccupiedShare) and population (zipPopulation). One request per run, no extra charge. Needs a free Census API key (censusApiKey below, or the Actor's CENSUS_API_KEY).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Census API key

censusApiKey

Optional

Free key from api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html. Only needed with the Census enrichment on; leave empty to use the key configured on the Actor.

Type:string | null

Max results

maxResults

Optional

Stop after this many permits across all cities. 0 = no limit. The prefilled 100 makes a first test run cost cents; clear it for a full pull.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Socrata app token (optional)

socrataAppToken

Optional

Free token from any Socrata portal. Without it the run shares the public rate limit; with it you get your own. Only needed for very large pulls.

Type:string

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