agentutility(7)$ man building-permits
/building-permits
NAME
building-permits — searches building permits across six us cities for real-estate due diligence: nyc (dob), san francisco, chicago, los angeles, seattle, an…
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/building-permits
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Searches building permits across six US cities for real-estate due diligence: NYC (DOB), San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin. Each city's open-data Socrata feed is normalized to a common permit shape (permit_id, type, status, description, address, zip, filed/issued/expiration dates, applicant, work category), with filters for address substring, permit status, permit type, and recency window. A real-estate, construction, and code-compliance primitive. Use it as a construction permit search, DOB permit fetch, city open-data permits API, or property permit history lookup.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| city | string | City code: 'nyc' | 'sf' | 'chicago' | 'la' | 'seattle' | 'austin'. Each maps to an official city open-data portal. | required |
| address | string | Street / address substring to match (case-insensitive). E.g. 'broadway', '123 main st'. | optional |
| status | string | Permit status filter, e.g. 'ISSUED', 'FILED', 'IN PROCESS'. Values vary by city. | optional |
| permit_type | string | Permit type filter, e.g. 'EW' (equipment work) or 'NB' (new building) for NYC. Values vary by city. | optional |
| days | number | Restrict to permits filed in the last N days. | optional |
| limit | number | Max records to return. 1-100. Default 20. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| city | string | City slug requested or matched (nyc, sf, chicago, la, seattle, austin). |
| city_name | string | Human-readable city name for the permits returned. |
| dataset | string | Source open-data dataset identifier the permits were pulled from. |
| source_portal | string | URL of the city's open-data portal that hosts the underlying permit dataset. |
| total | number | Count of permit records returned after filters applied. |
| permits | array | Array of normalized permit records with id, type, status, description, address, dates, and cost. |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/building-permits \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster> # Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... # Then call the building-permits tool from your MCP-aware agent.
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- real-estatepermitsconstructionopen-databuildingnycsfchicagolaseattleaustindue-diligenceproperty
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- locale
- price
- $0.03 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in locale
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| building-permits-api | Searches city building permits, checking property permit history, work type, filed and issued dates, applicant, status, and address matches. | $0.03 |
| construction-permit-search | Searches construction permits and property permit history for real-estate, construction, due-diligence, and code-compliance agents. | $0.03 |
| address-geocode | Converts a free-form address, postal code, place name, or POI into latitude/longitude. | $0.02 |
| airport-delays | Reports live US airport delays, ground stops, and closures from the FAA National Airspace System Status feed. | $0.02 |
| bin-lookup | Looks up a credit card BIN: the first 6-8 digits resolve to issuer, country, brand, and card type via binlist.net. | $0.02 |
| bin-lookup-api | Looks up card BINs, resolving the first 6-8 card digits to scheme, issuer, country, card type, prepaid/debit/credit signal, and payment-r… | $0.02 |
| card-bin-lookup | Resolves the first 6-8 digits of a card number to issuer bank, country, brand (Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover/JCB/UnionPay), and card type… | $0.02 |
| geocode | Geocodes addresses and place names to coordinates; exact short alias for address-geocode so agents searching for 'geocode' can discover t… | $0.02 |
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