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Permit Status Tracker — Track Building Permits Across Cities

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👁 Permit Status Tracker — Track Building Permits Across Cities

Permit Status Tracker — Track Building Permits Across Cities

Stop refreshing city portals. Track your building permits by number across major US cities — daily status rows, change flags, official data. No logins. Pay per check.

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from $5.00 / 1,000 results

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👁 Salim

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What it does

Give it a list of permit numbers with their cities. Each run returns one row per permit with the current status, whether it changed since last time, and key details like address, permit type, and issue date. Schedule it daily and get an alert when anything moves.

First run: every permit gets first_check: true and previous_status: null — this is your baseline.
Second run: each permit gets first_check: false, status_changed: false (if nothing moved), and previous_status filled from the prior run.
changesOnly: true: only emits rows where the status actually changed. A run with no changes costs $0.

Cities

Key	City	Status
`austin`	Austin, TX	✅ Live
`sf`	San Francisco, CA	✅ Live
`chicago`	Chicago, IL	Coming soon
`nyc`	New York, NY	Coming soon
`los_angeles`	Los Angeles, CA	Coming soon
`seattle`	Seattle, WA	Coming soon

Coverage expands by request — open an issue.

Input

{
"permits":[
{"city":"austin","permitNumber":"2024-123456"},
{"city":"sf","permitNumber":"202401234567"}
],
"changesOnly":false
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
`permits`	array	required	Each item: `{city, permitNumber}`. City must match a key from the table above.
`changesOnly`	boolean	`false`	Only emit rows where status changed. Runs with no changes cost $0.
`resetState`	boolean	`false`	Wipe all tracked state and re-baseline on next run.
`appToken`	string	—	Optional Socrata app token for higher rate limits.

Output fields

Field	Description
`permit_number`	Permit number as provided
`city`	City label (e.g., "Austin, TX")
`city_key`	City key (e.g., "austin")
`found`	`false` if the permit wasn't found in the dataset
`status`	Current permit status
`previous_status`	Status from the prior run (`null` on first check)
`status_changed`	`true` if status differs from last run
`first_check`	`true` on the very first run for this permit
`address`	Permit site address
`permit_type`	Permit type / work class
`issued_date`	Issue date (ISO string)
`zip`	ZIP code
`latitude` / `longitude`	Coordinates
`description`	Work description
`checked_at`	ISO timestamp of this run

Sample output

permit_number	city	status	previous_status	status_changed	first_check	address
2026-070339 PP	Austin, TX	Active	null	false	true	9305 BREEZE HILL DR
201806293452	San Francisco, CA	expired	null	false	true	930 Sutter St
2026-070339 PP	Austin, TX	Active	Active	false	false	9305 BREEZE HILL DR

Billing

$5.00 per 1,000 results ($0.005 per status row) — billed via Apify's automatic per-dataset-item event. No double-billing. A changesOnly run that emits zero rows costs $0.

Schedule it

Set a daily schedule with your permit list and changesOnly: true for a zero-cost daily watch that only charges you when a status actually changes.

Data sources

Austin: Issued Construction Permits — Austin Open Data
San Francisco: Building Permits — DataSF / DBI (updated nightly)

URL: https://apify.com/curative_blanket/permit-status-tracker