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Public data sources, as clean JSON
owlabee publishes 18 Actors on Apify Store that read public data sources (permit portals, federal APIs, court feeds, license registries, DNS, sitemaps, storefronts, podcast feeds, Bluesky and job boards) or convert documents, and return normalized JSON. These guides explain each source, what you get from it, and how to run it with curl, from an AI agent, or from Zapier, Make and n8n without code.
- 18Actors on Apify Store
- 28guides to the sources
- Per resultbilled to your own Apify account
- MCPevery Actor works as an agent tool
Guides
Every Actor is pay per result, billed to your own Apify account; see each Store page for current pricing.
Permits and property
- Building Permits API: 61 US Open-Data Portals as JSONGet building permits from 61 US city, county and state open-data portals as one JSON schema: permit type, status, dates, cost, address and contractor where published.Read the guide →
- Accela Citizen Access and EnerGov Permit Data as JSONRead building permits from Accela Citizen Access and Tyler EnerGov Citizen Self Service portals in 31 US cities and counties: type, status, dates, valuation, contractor.Read the guide →
Government and public records
- Grants.gov API: Federal Grant Opportunities as JSONSearch federal grant opportunities on the official Grants.gov API by keyword and get normalized JSON with new and updated flags, details and recent USAspending awards.Read the guide →
- SAM.gov Contract Opportunities API Feed by KeywordPull federal contract notices from the SAM.gov Get Opportunities API by keyword, NAICS code, set-aside and state, with points of contact and new-notice flags.Read the guide →
- OSHA Inspections by Company: DOL Data API LookupLook up OSHA inspections, violations and penalties by company name, inspection number, state or ZIP through the DOL Data API, with a name-match confidence per record.Read the guide →
- EPA ECHO Enforcement Cases by Company or FacilityFind EPA and state enforcement cases in EPA ECHO by company name, FRS facility id, state or ZIP: law, status, dates, penalties and outcome, as normalized JSON. No API key.Read the guide →
- Product Recalls API: FDA, NHTSA and CPSC in One FeedUS product recalls from openFDA (drugs, devices, food), NHTSA (vehicles) and CPSC (consumer products) in one normalized JSON record, with a new-recalls-only mode.Read the guide →
- PACER RSS Feeds: Monitor New Federal Court FilingsRead the free public PACER RSS feeds of federal district, bankruptcy, appellate and national courts as JSON and filter filings by party, case number, entry type or chapter.Read the guide →
- PACER RSS Feeds by Court: All 203 Federal Courts ListedWhich federal courts publish a PACER RSS feed and what each carries: code, name, status and entry types for 203 district, bankruptcy, appellate and national courts.Read the guide →
- Patent Case Alerts: D. Del., E.D. Tex. and W.D. Tex. DocketsWatch new civil cases in the District of Delaware and the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas from their PACER RSS feeds, and find patent dockets in the RECAP archive.Read the guide →
- New Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 Filings from PACER RSS FeedsGet new Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions from the public PACER RSS feeds of Delaware, S.D.N.Y. and Texas bankruptcy courts, filtered by chapter.Read the guide →
- S.D.N.Y. Securities and Class Action Complaint AlertsFollow new civil complaints in the Southern District of New York from its PACER RSS feed and find securities and class-action dockets with keywords and the RECAP archive.Read the guide →
- Professional License Lookup: TDLR, DBPR, DORA, WA DOH, NPILook up professional licenses by name or number in Texas TDLR, Florida DBPR, Colorado DORA, Washington DOH and the NPI Registry: status, expiration, discipline flag.Read the guide →
Web and domains
- Bulk SPF, DMARC and DKIM Checker for Domain ListsCheck SPF, DMARC, DKIM, MTA-STS and BIMI for a list of domains and get a 0-100 email security score per domain, plus RDAP WHOIS, DNS, TLS expiry and HTTP headers.Read the guide →
- Sitemap Monitor: Track New, Removed and Changed PagesMonitor a website through its sitemaps: new, removed and updated pages, content changes with word-level diff previews, and a severity per change. No browser needed.Read the guide →
- Shopify Price Tracker: Catalog and Changes as JSONExport any public Shopify store's catalog from products.json, every variant with price, compare-at price, availability and SKU, or track price and stock changes.Read the guide →
- Bluesky Monitor: Posts, Hashtags and Followers as JSONSearch Bluesky posts by keyword or hashtag and read profiles, author feeds and follower lists from the public AT Protocol API as flat JSON, with a new-since-last-run mode.Read the guide →
- Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby Jobs API and Hiring SignalsGet open jobs from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Workable boards as normalized JSON, or new, removed and changed roles per company between runs.Read the guide →
Documents and media
- PDF to Markdown for RAG: Headings, Tables, Chunks and OCRConvert PDF, DOCX, HTML and text URLs to clean Markdown with headings, GFM tables and page markers, plus heading-aware chunks for embedding and OCR for scanned pages.Read the guide →
- PDF to JSON with Your Own Schema: Invoices, Forms, QuotesExtract PDF, DOCX and HTML documents into JSON that matches a JSON Schema you define, with per-field confidence and missing fields. Rules mode or Claude.Read the guide →
- Podcast Summarizer: Chapters and Quotes from TranscriptsSummarize podcast episodes from RSS feeds or Apple Podcasts links: abstract, key topics, timestamped chapters, quotes, guests and action items from published transcripts.Read the guide →
- Podcast RSS Feed Scraper: Episodes and Transcripts as JSONTurn podcast RSS feeds, Apple Podcasts links or show names into show and episode JSON: dates, durations, audio URLs, chapters and Podcasting 2.0 transcripts.Read the guide →
No-code automations: Zapier, Make and n8n
- Get New PACER Docket Entries in Slack with ZapierPost new federal court filings that name your company or clients to a Slack channel: a scheduled Apify task reads the public PACER RSS feeds and Zapier's Apify app sends each new entry to Slack.Read the guide →
- New Grants.gov Opportunities to Google Sheets with ZapierAdd every new Grants.gov opportunity that matches your keywords to a Google Sheet, with agency, dates and link: a scheduled Apify task searches the official Grants.gov API and Zapier writes the rows.Read the guide →
- Building Permits to Google Sheets with MakeSend new roofing, solar or any other building permits from US city open-data portals to a Google Sheet every day with Make (formerly Integromat) and Apify's official Make app.Read the guide →
- Competitor Shopify Price Changes to Slack with MakeGet a Slack message when a competitor's Shopify store changes a price, drops a product or restocks: a daily Apify task compares the public catalog and a Make scenario posts the changes.Read the guide →
- FDA, NHTSA and CPSC Product Recalls to Email with n8nE-mail yourself every new FDA, NHTSA or CPSC recall each morning with n8n and Apify's official n8n node: one workflow, a JSON input, and only recalls you have not seen before.Read the guide →
- Website Change Alerts in Slack with n8nPost new, removed and changed pages of any website to Slack with n8n: a scheduled Apify task watches the site's sitemaps and the Apify trigger node starts the workflow when a run finishes.Read the guide →
Free data and comparisons
Weekly snapshots made with our own Actors, free to read and download as JSON (all free data), and dated, sourced comparisons of the ways to get each kind of public data (all comparisons).
Free data, refreshed weekly
- This week's product recalls: FDA, NHTSA, CPSC, Canada, UK and EUThe newest product recalls and safety alerts from ten government feeds, grouped by agency and hazard, updated weekly. Free, with a JSON download.See the data →
- New federal grant and bid opportunities this weekGrants.gov opportunities posted this week plus new city, county and state solicitations from open-data bid datasets, updated weekly, with a JSON download.See the data →
- New building permits by city this weekBuilding permits issued this week in ten US cities: permit type, status, valuation and street, updated weekly from official open data, with a JSON download.See the data →
Comparisons
- Building permit data APIs comparedCity open-data portals, Shovels, ATTOM and Apify Actors for building permit data: coverage, freshness and published prices, checked November 2026.Read the comparison →
- PACER docket alert options comparedPACER itself, court RSS feeds, CourtListener docket alerts, PacerMonitor and Apify Actors for new federal court filing alerts: coverage, published prices and limits.Read the comparison →
- Product recall data sources comparedopenFDA, NHTSA, CPSC, USDA FSIS, Health Canada, UK and EU Safety Gate recall data, and Apify Actors that combine them: access, limits and licences.Read the comparison →
- Grants.gov API vs alternativesThe Grants.gov search2 API, Simpler.Grants.gov API, the Grants.gov XML extract, SAM.gov, USAspending, Instrumentl and Apify Actors for finding grant opportunities.Read the comparison →
All Actors
Permits and property
- Building Permits Scraper — Roofing & Construction LeadsBuilding permits from 61 US city, county and state open-data portals: type, status, dates, cost, address, contractor.Examples on GitHub
- Accela Citizen Access & EnerGov Permit Scraper (Any City)Permits from Accela Citizen Access and Tyler EnerGov portals in 31 cities and counties, in the same schema as the open-data scraper.Examples on GitHub
Government and public records
- Grants.gov API & SAM.gov Scraper — Federal Grants FeedGrants.gov grant opportunities and SAM.gov contract notices by keyword, plus optional USAspending awards and six state and local bid datasets.Examples on GitHub
- Grant Matching & RFP Bid/No-Bid Scorer (AI) — Grants.govGrants.gov, SAM.gov and USAspending opportunities ranked by fit to your organization, with reasons and disqualifiers.Examples on GitHub
- PACER RSS Docket Monitor — New Federal Court FilingsNew docket entries from the public PACER RSS feeds of federal district, bankruptcy, appellate and national courts, filtered by party, case or entry type.Examples on GitHub
- OSHA Inspections by Company + EPA Enforcement ReportOSHA inspections, violations and penalties (DOL Data API) and EPA ECHO enforcement cases by company, facility, state or ZIP.Examples on GitHub
- Product Recall Feed — FDA, NHTSA & CPSC Recalls APIFDA drug, device and food recalls, NHTSA vehicle recalls and CPSC consumer product recalls in one normalized record.Examples on GitHub
- License Verification API — TDLR, DBPR, DORA, WA DOH, NPIProfessional license records by name or number from Texas TDLR, Florida DBPR, Colorado DORA, Washington DOH and the NPI Registry.Examples on GitHub
Web and domains
- SPF, DMARC & DKIM Checker — Bulk Domain WHOIS, DNS & SSLOne record per domain: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, MTA-STS and BIMI with a 0-100 email security score, RDAP WHOIS, DNS, TLS and HTTP headers.Examples on GitHub
- Website Change Monitor — Sitemap Monitor & Page DiffPages discovered through a site's sitemaps, and new, removed, updated and content-changed pages between runs with diff previews.Examples on GitHub
- Shopify Catalog Monitor & Price Tracker — Products ScraperEvery product or variant of a public Shopify store from products.json, or price, stock and new or removed product changes.Examples on GitHub
- Bluesky Monitor & Scraper — Posts, Keywords, FollowersBluesky posts by keyword or hashtag, profiles, author feeds and follower lists from the public AT Protocol API.Examples on GitHub
- Hiring Signals & ATS Jobs Scraper — Greenhouse, Lever, AshbyOpen roles from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Workable job boards, or new, removed and changed roles per company.Examples on GitHub
Documents and media
- Podcast RSS Scraper — Episodes, Transcripts & Apple PodcastsShow and episode records from podcast RSS feeds, Apple Podcasts links or search terms, with Podcasting 2.0 transcripts.Examples on GitHub
- Podcast Episode Summarizer (AI) — Transcript to SummaryPer-episode abstract, key topics, chapters, quotes, guests and action items from Podcasting 2.0 transcripts or show notes.Examples on GitHub
- PDF to Markdown for RAG — DOCX, OCR & ChunksClean Markdown from PDF, DOCX, HTML and text URLs, with optional heading-aware RAG chunks and OCR for scanned pages.Examples on GitHub
- PDF & Document to JSON Extractor (AI) — Invoices, FormsOne JSON object per PDF, DOCX or HTML document that matches the JSON Schema you supply, with per-field confidence.Examples on GitHub
- AI Drone Roof Inspection Report — Findings & Repair ScopePer-photo roof defect findings, per-building condition grade and repair scope, a Markdown report and a contact sheet.Examples on GitHub
How running an Actor works
- Create an Apify account and copy your API token from Console → Settings → API & Integrations.
- Send the Actor's input as JSON to
https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/owlabee~<actor>/run-sync-get-dataset-itemswithAuthorization: Bearer <token>, or use the Python and Node.js clients. - Or connect an AI agent to
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=owlabee/<actor>, Apify's hosted MCP server. - Or, without code, run it from Zapier, Make or n8n with Apify's official app on each platform. The no-code automation guides walk through a recipe on each.
Each guide has a ready-to-run input. More examples, one folder per Actor, are on GitHub.