Building Permits Scraper · Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia building permit data, straight from OpenDataPhilly (Carto)

Every building permit Philadelphia publishes — pulled from the official OpenDataPhilly (Carto) Carto SQL API, normalized to one clean schema, delivered as JSON, CSV, or Excel. Filter by trade, project value, and date. Philadelphia L&I publishes contractor names and OPA owner names; coordinates are computed from PostGIS geometry.

What Philadelphia publishes on each permit

• ✓ Permit number, type, status, date
• ✓ Street address + coordinates
• ✓ Work description
• — Project valuation
• ✓ Contractor name
• — Contractor phone
• ✓ Owner name

Who uses Philadelphia permit leads

Roofing, solar, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing contractors prospecting active projects; remodelers and GCs tracking competitors; building-product suppliers; real-estate investors and analysts watching Philadelphia construction activity.

FAQ

Where does Philadelphia permit data come from?

Directly from OpenDataPhilly (Carto) (Carto SQL), the official government open-data source. No HTML scraping, no anti-bot games — the data is published by the government for public reuse.

How do I get new Philadelphia permits every day?

Schedule the actor daily on Apify with only-new-results mode on. It remembers the newest permit it has seen and returns only newer ones — a self-updating lead feed to Google Sheets, webhook, or CRM.

Can I filter to my trade?

Yes — built-in filters for roofing, solar, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and remodel, plus minimum project value and custom keywords.

How much does it cost?

$0.03 per permit returned. No subscription, no minimum. A daily feed of 50 new permits costs $1.50/day.

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