Shovels API v2
Commercial REST API for searching permits and address-level property permit histories across covered U.S. jurisdictions, including normalized permit status/type and canonical-tag recency rollups.
Questions this answers
2 · best fit firstStanding address-level permit-history search supplies normalized permit type and status for general permitted work.
Shovels searches address-level permit histories and returns permit type, status, and canonical tags including roofing; last_date_by_tag supplies the latest roofing permit start date. It identifies roof-permit recency but does not document permit completion date, source index-through date, or query timestamp, and a tag rollup is not a complete permit chronology by itself.
Fields it delivers
3 fieldsShovels documents permit coverage across thousands of U.S. jurisdictions and most of the U.S. population; this is a selective national service footprint, not every locality.
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