PermitReporter

Search US permit sources

Search free PermitReporter reviewed guides and coverage guidance. Returns guide IDs and canonical URLs. Use the paid search_permits tool for collected permit records.

Fetch a US permit source

Fetch a guide:ID for free, or a permit:ID for 0.005 USDC via x402. Permit records retain source, record date, collection timestamp and coverage limits.

Search collected US building permits

Costs 0.005 USDC via x402; empty results are unbilled. Search privacy-minimized collected building-permit records by public text, US county, city, PermitReporter trade classification or record-date range. Coverage spans 34 states and the District of Columbia; name a county bare for Georgia ('Cobb') or state-qualified elsewhere ('Los Angeles, CA'). Returns no raw payloads or party arrays. An empty result means no matching record was collected, not that no permit exists.

Get a source-linked US permit record

Retrieve one privacy-minimized collected building-permit record by PermitReporter record ID, including its canonical citation, official source link and collection timestamp. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402; a missing record is unbilled.

Check US county permit coverage

Return the current source route, issuer, cadence, lag, through-date, collected record count, sources and statistical floor for one covered US county. Call this before interpreting a missing county result.

Find US contractor opportunity signals

Return recent, source-linked collected permits classified by trade and project scope for contractor research within the last days ending today (default 30). Costs 0.01 USDC via x402; empty results are unbilled. Classifications are editorial signals, not official fields or guaranteed work.

Get the current US permit-data snapshot

Return current PermitReporter counts, route-status boundaries, record-date range and latest collection timestamp without returning personal data. Pass `state` with a two-letter code to get that one jurisdiction's collected coverage, including an explicit answer for states where nothing has been collected yet.

Create an authorized PermitReporter email watch

Create a pending email watch only after the user reviews the exact email, search query and optional county, explicitly authorizes this request and confirmation email, and accepts https://permitreporter.com/terms and https://permitreporter.com/privacy. This additive action stores the email and search for alerts; it does not file a permit or prove coverage. The address must confirm before alerts begin. Reuse submission_id for safe retries.