canibuild API

Name: canibuild API API
Brand: canibuild API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentData EnrichmentAddress ValidationapiKey3 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Look up building permits and zoning rules for a property address, and submit permit requests for new construction projects. Useful for site feasibility checks and pre-construction due diligence.

Quickstart

Get started with canibuild API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"check building permits and zoning for a property address"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with canibuild API API.

Search existing building permits filed for a given address or project type

Submit a new building permit request with project metadata

Retrieve zoning classification and restrictions for a specific address

Surface pre-construction feasibility data inside design and quoting tools

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Start building with canibuild API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for canibuild API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for canibuild API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The canibuild API provides building permit and zoning information for property addresses, allowing applications to check what can be built on a parcel before drafting plans. It exposes endpoints for searching existing permits, lodging permit requests, and looking up zoning rules tied to an address. Builders, real estate platforms, and design tools use it to surface feasibility data without manually scraping municipal records.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use canibuild API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Pre-Construction Feasibility Check

Before a builder quotes a job, they need to know whether the proposed structure is allowed on the parcel. The canibuild API returns zoning classification and existing permit history for a supplied address, so a quoting tool can flag projects that will hit zoning blockers early. This shortens the back-and-forth with councils and avoids quoting work that cannot proceed.

Call GET /zoning with address=123 Main St and return the zoning classification along with any existing permits from GET /permits for that address.

Permit Submission Workflow

Construction admin tools can lodge permit requests directly through POST /permits with the project address and project type. This removes the manual portal entry step from a workflow and gives the team an audit trail of submission attempts and their statuses. Integration is suitable for builder back-office tools that already capture project data.

POST /permits with address and projectType=garage to lodge a new permit request and return the response payload.

Real Estate Listing Enrichment

Real estate platforms can call the zoning endpoint to display what a buyer is allowed to build on a listed property. Listings show zoning classification and any active permit history, helping buyers evaluate development potential before making an offer. This data appears alongside the standard listing fields on the property page.

For each listing address, call GET /zoning and GET /permits and attach the returned zoning class and permit count to the listing record.

AI Agent Construction Assistant

An agent advising on home improvement projects calls canibuild via Jentic to verify zoning and permit status before recommending a contractor or quoting timeline. The agent uses Jentic to discover the right operation by intent, loads the schema, and executes the call without managing canibuild credentials directly.

Search Jentic for 'check building permits at an address', load the searchPermits operation schema, and execute it for a user-supplied address.

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for canibuild api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/permits

Search building permits

POST

/permits

Request a building permit

GET

/zoning

Get zoning information for an address

GET

/permits

Search building permits

POST

/permits

Request a building permit

GET

/zoning

Get zoning information for an address

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The canibuild API key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped access via Jentic's MAXsystem instead of seeing the raw Authorization header value, so the key never enters the agent's prompt context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g., 'check zoning for an address') and Jentic returns the matching canibuild operation with its input schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing docs.

Time to first call

Direct canibuild integration: half a day for auth setup and response handling. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Canva Connect API

Design and document creation alongside permit and zoning lookups

Choose Canva when the task is producing visual project documents; canibuild handles the permit and zoning data layer.

Complementary

Canny API

Capture customer feedback for tools that surface canibuild data

Use Canny to log feature requests from users of a permit-checking product; canibuild supplies the zoning data itself.

Alternative

CaptureIQ

Document capture and extraction for permit paperwork instead of structured permit lookups

Choose CaptureIQ when you only have scanned permit documents and need to extract fields; choose canibuild when you need a structured address-based lookup.

FAQs

Specific to using canibuild API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for canibuild API?

canibuild does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call canibuild API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the canibuild API use?

The canibuild API uses an API key passed in the Authorization header. Through Jentic, the key is stored in the encrypted vault and the agent receives a scoped token, so the raw key never enters the agent's prompt context.

Can I look up zoning rules for a specific address with the canibuild API?

Yes. Call GET /zoning with the address as a query parameter and the response returns the zoning classification tied to that address.

How do I submit a building permit request through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'request a building permit', load the requestPermit operation, then execute POST /permits with address and projectType in the request body.

What are the rate limits for the canibuild API?

The OpenAPI spec does not publish explicit rate limits. Treat as a low-volume third-party endpoint and implement client-side backoff on 429 responses; check canibuild's portal for current quotas.

Does the canibuild API cover regions outside the listed addresses?

Coverage depends on which municipal records canibuild has indexed. The /permits and /zoning endpoints accept any address string but return data only where canibuild has source records, so verify coverage for your target region before depending on it.