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Building permit data

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Every building permit issued in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin, in one place. Pick a city, a category (new construction, alteration, demolition and more) and a minimum cost, and have the list in your spreadsheet in a minute, or pull it straight into your code or your AI agent.

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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. Full results with a free key.

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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 (Department of Buildings), the City of Chicago Data Portal, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Austin, 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.

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