No Reliable Tool for Extracting Data from Government Permit Portals
Contractors, developers, and researchers repeatedly need structured data from government permit portals that lack APIs or export features. Manual extraction is slow and error-prone. Multiple teams are independently hiring Python developers to build one-off scrapers for the same class of sites.
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