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Montgomery County, MD Permits (data.montgomerycountymd.gov)

Building permits issued by the Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Permitting Services (DPS), from the county's open data portal data.montgomerycountymd.gov (Socrata), updated daily: residential building permits since 2000 (dataset m88u-pqki, about 187,000), commercial building permits since 2000 (i26v-w6bd, about 42,000), and fence, sign and historic area work permits. Search one dataset by site address, ZIP, community, permit type, use or work type, description text, status, issue or application date and Socrata update time (to poll for new and changed permits), newest first or by valuation; read one permit by number with every published column. Records follow the shared permits shape with address, coordinates, valuation and building area; DPS publishes no parcel, unit or contractor columns. Public Domain.

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Montgomery County, MD Permits (data.montgomerycountymd.gov)
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1Request
stringRequired

DPS permit number, digits only (1151082, 403621).

string

Dataset to look in (a record's kind). Optional: without it the program asks residential, commercial, fence, sign and historic_area_work in that order, one small request each, and stops at the first that has the number.

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Codefollows the fields above
const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "data-montgomerycountymd-gov",
    capability: "building-permits/get_permit",
    options: {
      permit_number: "403621",
    },
  },
});
2Response example

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{
  "address": "7420 CEDAR AVE",
  "applied_date": "2005-11-14",
  "city": "TAKOMA PARK",
  "completed_date": null,
  "contractors": [],
  "dataset": {
    "id": "m88u-pqki",
    "name": "Residential Permit",
    "portal": "data.montgomerycountymd.gov",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-26T04:17:31Z",
    "url": "https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/d/m88u-pqki"
  },
  "description": null,
  "expires_date": null,
  "housing_units": null,
  "issued_date": "2005-11-14",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "county": "Montgomery County",
    "name": "Montgomery County",
    "state": "MD"
  },
  "kind": "residential",
  "latitude": 38.980994,
  "license": {
    "attribution": "Montgomery County, MD, Department of Permitting Services",
    "name": "Public Domain",
    "url": "https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/d/m88u-pqki"
  },
  "longitude": -77.01197,
  "observed_at_ms": 1793145170719,
  "parcel_id": null,
  "permit_class": "SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING",
  "permit_number": "403621",
  "permit_type": "BUILDING RESIDENTIAL PERMIT",
  "raw": {
    ":updated_at": "2023-05-26T17:54:42.179Z",
    "addeddate": "2005-11-14T08:11:28.000",
    "applicationtype": "BUILDING RESIDENTIAL PERMIT",
    "buildingarea": "140",
    "city": "TAKOMA PARK",
    "declaredvaluation": "2200",
    "issueddate": "2005-11-14T10:11:00.000",
    "location": {
      "human_address": "{\"address\": \"7420 CEDAR AVE\", \"city\": \"TAKOMA PARK\", \"state\": \"MD\", \"zip\": \"20912\"}",
      "latitude": "38.980994",
      "longitude": "-77.01197"
    },
    "permitno": "403621",
    "state": "MD",
    "status": "Issued",
    "stname": "CEDAR",
    "stno": "7420",
    "suffix": "AVE",
    "usecode": "SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING",
    "worktype": "RESTORE AND / OR REPAIR",
    "zip": "20912"
  },
  "source_url": "https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/resource/m88u-pqki.json?permitno=403621",
  "square_feet": 140,
  "state": "MD",
  "status": "Issued",
  "updated_at": "2023-05-26T17:54:42.179Z",
  "valuation_usd": 2200,
  "work_class": "RESTORE AND / OR REPAIR",
  "zip": "20912"
}

Permit data: Montgomery County, MD, Department of Permitting Services, data.montgomerycountymd.gov (Public Domain). (https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/d/m88u-pqki)

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