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Building permit data

A permit list across six cities normally means six portals, different field names and different permit categories. DataScoop puts issued records from New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco and Seattle on one schema so you can filter by city, category, area, cost and date before downloading.

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Six municipal permit feeds, one filterable schema. Source dates and city coverage remain visible.

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Source Chicago ▾
Category New construction ▾
Minimum cost $1,000,000 ▾
building-permits.csv
Sources: NYC Open Data, City of Chicago, City of Los Angeles, City of Austin. Preview 25 rows free; buy this filtered export or use Pro for every matching row.

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cURLJavaScriptPythonMCP (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)
# Every new-construction permit in Chicago over $1m, as CSV
curl "https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-building-permits/query?\
  source=Chicago&category=New%20construction&minCost=1000000&format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ds_your_key"
// # Every new-construction permit in Chicago over $1m, as CSV
const res = await fetch("https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-building-permits/query?source=Chicago&category=New%20construction&minCost=1000000", {
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer ds_your_key" }
});
const { rows, total, attribution } = await res.json();
# # Every new-construction permit in Chicago over $1m, as CSV
import requests
r = requests.get("https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-building-permits/query",
                 params={"source":"Chicago","category":"New construction","minCost":"1000000"},
                 headers={"Authorization": "Bearer ds_your_key"})
rows = r.json()["rows"]
# Claude Code (one line; other clients on /agents)
claude mcp add --transport http datascoop https://datascoop.io/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ds_your_key"

# Your agent then calls
query_dataset({ dataset: "us-building-permits", filters: {"source":"Chicago","category":"New construction","minCost":"1000000"} })

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permit numbercategorypermit typework descriptionstatusareaaddressZIPissued onestimated costcontractor businesslatitudelongitude
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Public permit records published by NYC Open Data, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco and Seattle, reused under each portal's open-data terms. Permit and business-level fields only; owner and applicant people are never included. DataScoop is independent and not affiliated with any of these agencies. How we build and refresh this dataset →

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