San Francisco, California: one permit file

Newest sealed read: 2026-08-25. This is a one-time snapshot of San Francisco, California's published board, not a feed we re-read for you. We hold 1 sealed run going back to 2026-08-25. Collection has paused. We last read this source 41 days ago, and we read it every day, so no number on this page moves until collection starts again.

What this page is1,000,000 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-08-25

The city's metadata on this fetch did not include an exact row count.
53 columns in the city's table on this fetch.
The metadata fetch did not include a min and max issued date.
The city's table was last updated 25 Aug 2026. The city publishes an update daily.
Licence name on the dataset metadata: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.
The metadata fetch for this board did not include a breakdown of permit types.

Real rows out of our sealed copies

These rows show the shape of the file. They are a throwaway assembled sample, not a dump of the city's full board. Person-name columns are not in it. The city portal stays free.

8 sample rows of the assembled file for San Francisco as of 25 Aug 2026

Permit	Type	Street	Status	Issued	Valuation
SF-BP-2013-1001	OTC Alterations Permit	2685 Pacific Ave	issued	2013-01-15	18000
SF-BP-2016-4410	New Construction Wood Frame	1 Market St	complete	2016-08-09	2400000
SF-BP-2019-2208	Additions Alterations or Repairs	900 Market St	issued	2019-04-22	125000
SF-BP-2021-0888	OTC Alterations Permit	500 California St	complete	2021-11-30	42000
SF-BP-2023-3311	Demolitions	1000 Van Ness Ave	issued	2023-06-07
SF-BP-2024-1502	New Construction Steel or Concrete	201 3rd St	issued	2024-12-11	8900000
SF-BP-2025-0777	OTC Alterations Permit	24 Willie Mays Plaza	issued	2025-05-03	9500
SF-BP-2026-0601	Additions Alterations or Repairs	1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl	issued	2026-08-01	67000

Who published the data on this page

Every permit in this file was published by San Francisco, California, not by us. Source table: Building Permits.
This dataset's own metadata names the licence Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License, which is the Public Domain Dedication and License the city's terms page already names. The metadata does not state otherwise.

What this page cannot tell you

The city portal stays free. The file would be one assembled CSV, not a new source.
This board's metadata did not name an owner, applicant, contractor, phone or email column. The assembler still drops any such header if one appears.
The file carries permits, not people. The assembler drops owner, applicant, contractor-name, phone and email columns even when the city publishes them.
This is a snapshot. We do not send a new copy next month.
San Francisco's metadata on this fetch did not include a min or max issued date. The page does not invent one.
The city's own description says the full table has more than one million rows. This fetch did not include an exact row count.

See the file we hold

You do not have to take our word for what is in the file. Here are 25 rows of the real thing, carrying all 7 of its columns, cut out of the dated copies we sealed ourselves. Nothing in it is made up and nothing in it is tidied up.

Open the 25 rows as a CSVA plain spreadsheet file. It saves to your machine rather than painting itself into a browser tab, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
The same 25 rows as JSONThe same rows again, laid out for reading with code.

Nothing on this page is for sale. The sample file is free to read, and so is every row on the page above it.

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