Construction companies, roofing contractors, and building material suppliers all want the same thing: a list of property owners who just pulled a building permit. That's a person about to spend money on construction. Building permit data is public record, published by cities via open data portals. The problem is there are hundreds of portals, each with different APIs, schemas, and update frequencies. I built an actor that normalizes building permit data from 47 US cities into a single schema. How It Works The Building Permits Search actor queries Socrata open data portals across 47 cities. You specify the city, permit type, and date range -- it returns structured permit records. Python Example from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient ( " YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN " ) run = client . actor ( " pink_comic/building-permits-construction-leads " ).…