The only Irish construction-data API - in your stack.
No other Irish construction-leads source gives you the data programmatically. Planning applications, commencement notices, strategic-infrastructure and energy projects, company firmographics and market intelligence behind one REST endpoint - 214,543 records across all 31 authorities, updated weekly. Query it, bulk-export it, or have matching leads pushed to you every hour.
Data Processing Addendum · SLA · Status · Security
REST over HTTPS · Bearer auth · cursor-paginated exports · OpenAPI spec.
Access levels
Three levels, one API
Access is set by the scope on your key, not by the plan on your account. Every level speaks the same endpoints and the same response shapes, so moving up is a new key, not a new integration.
Commonwealth
commonwealthBuilding something on the public record, or trying the API before you commit.
- Rate
- 600 requests / hour
- Bulk & keyed reads
- 1,000 rows a day
- The public, PII-free planning record across all 31 authorities
- Same endpoints, same shapes, same OpenAPI spec as every level above
- Attribution required; no redistribution
Enterprise API
ent_apiA commercial team pulling leads into a CRM, a warehouse or an internal tool.
- Rate
- 5,000 requests / hour
- Bulk & keyed reads
- 5,000 rows a day
- The enriched dataset: named applicant, firmographics, Company 360 profiles
- Bulk export as CSV or JSONL, and signed webhooks pushing new matches hourly
- Licensed for your own organisation's use
Enterprise Feed
ent_feed · customA utility, authority or consultancy putting the dataset on a map, or redistributing it.
- Rate
- 20,000 / hour
- Bulk & keyed reads
- Uncapped
- Two GeoJSON layers QGIS and ArcGIS Pro read natively, planning and infrastructure
- No daily row budget, on export or on keyed paging
- Redistribution rights, a published SLA and DPA, and a fixed term with named seats
- A Custom plan lifts the rate to 120,000 an hour for a bespoke integration
A Max subscription does not reach the feed scopes on its own: those come with an agreement, because they carry redistribution rights and a service level. Once one is signed we record the licence against your organisation and you create the key yourself, in your own browser. We never see it and cannot re-send it. See the Enterprise page for what the agreement covers, or pricing for the plans below it.
The only Irish construction dataset you can wire straight into your stack, your CRM, your tools.
What you can pull
The dataset on tap - what no one else offers
Leads - search & filter
GET /v1/leads with full querying: text, vertical, authority, readiness, min_value, min_units, has_contact. Keyset-paginated.
GIS feed - GeoJSON
GET /v1/feeds/leads.geojson: the pipeline as a layer for QGIS or ArcGIS Pro, filtered by bounding box, authority or date, with a stable integer feature id so a refresh tells an update from an insert. Feed licence.
Bulk export
Stream a filtered slice as JSONL for ETL & pandas, or pull it as a one-shot CSV. Cursor-paginated, with a daily row budget on standard keys and no cap on a Feed licence. Max. Pro can download its filtered list as CSV from the app, with the applicant and company columns blank.
Lead detail - company 360
GET /v1/leads/{id}: project, zoning & appeals, area comparables, suppliers, the appointed main contractor, plus the registered company and its CRO filing history.
Market intelligence
GET /v1/intel/analytics: yield estimates, a repeat-sale price index, emerging zones and material-cost trends - all PII-free.
Webhooks
Push delivery of new leads matching your saved filters - HMAC-signed, no polling. lead.new events, delivered hourly.
Infrastructure & energy
GET /v1/infrastructure for the strategic-infrastructure pipeline (data centres, wind, solar, battery, grid), GET /v1/feeds/infrastructure.geojson for the same pipeline as a GIS layer carrying the applicant and, on 55% of projects, the connection voltage, and GET /v1/infrastructure/renewables for every renewable case lodged with An Coimisiun Pleanala since January 2025, with technology, consenting route and the RED III fast lane flagged.
Usage ledger
GET /v1/account/usage returns what each of your keys did - requests, errors and a breakdown by route - so you can attribute spend and spot a runaway job. Revoked keys keep their history. A permanent per-key daily count backs it, so consumption can be evidenced over a whole licence term, not just the recent window the detailed ledger holds.
OpenAPI spec
Every endpoint, parameter and response schema in a machine-readable openapi.json - generate clients, browse Swagger or ReDoc.
Quickstart
Authenticated in one header
Create a free key on any plan, then send it as a Bearer token on any read endpoint. Every response carries X-RateLimit-* headers so you can back off cleanly.
# Authenticate any read endpoint with your Bearer key.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer pl_live_…" \
"https://planningleads.ie/api/v1/leads?readiness=commencing&vertical=solar&min_units=20"Bulk-export the dataset
import pandas as pd, requests
# Stream the whole filtered dataset as JSONL straight into a DataFrame.
url = "https://planningleads.ie/api/v1/export/applications.jsonl"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer pl_live_…"}
params = {"readiness": "commencing", "min_units": 20}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params, stream=True)
df = pd.read_json(resp.raw, lines=True)
print(df[["planning_authority", "est_value", "lead_readiness"]].head())Individual (homeowner) names are masked at every tier - there is no bulk export of homeowner PII. The named organisation behind a row is a Max field, so a Pro export carries those two columns blank rather than dropping them.
Add it to your GIS
# Add the live pipeline to QGIS or ArcGIS Pro as a layer.
# QGIS: Layer > Add Layer > Add Vector Layer, Protocol HTTP(S), and this URL,
# with Authentication set to a Bearer token.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer pl_live_…" \
"https://planningleads.ie/api/v1/feeds/leads.geojson?page_size=5000&updated_since=2026-09-01"
# Filter the layer the way you would any other: by bounding box, by authority,
# or by date so a scheduled refresh pulls only what changed.
# ?bbox=-6.30,53.33,-6.25,53.36
# ?authority=Dublin%20City%20Council
# ?since=2026-09-01 # first seen
# ?updated_since=2026-09-01 # changed since
# The strategic pipeline is a second layer: every project An Coimisiun Pleanala
# consents directly, with capacity in MW, connection voltage and auction round.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer pl_live_…" \
"https://planningleads.ie/api/v1/feeds/infrastructure.geojson?vertical=battery_storage&min_mw=50"Every feature is a point with its full record attached and a link back to its public page. Needs a Feed licence key.
Webhooks
New matching leads, pushed to you - no polling
Register a webhook and we POST leads that match your saved filters the moment they appear. Each request is HMAC-SHA256 signed with an X-PL-Signature header - recompute it over the raw body and compare timing-safe. The docs carry copy-paste Python and Node verification snippets.
lead.newBuilt for
Wire it into the tools you already run
QS & estimating tools
Pull commencing schemes by unit count and estimated value, with material-cost trends to feed pricing models and BoQs.
Proptech & CRMs
Sync filtered leads and company 360 records straight into your pipeline; get new matches pushed over webhooks as they file.
Investors & analysts
Query the repeat-sale index, yield estimates and emerging zones across 790k PPR sales to back development and acquisition calls.
Estate agents
Track planning and commencements in your patch, surface the developer behind each site, and reach out before it lists.
Utilities, grid & energy consultants
Where connection demand is forming: grid-scale battery storage told apart from domestic, substation and line consents, the renewable cases in the RED III fast lane, RESS auction winners flagged on the applications they name, and the CRU connection rule surfaced on data-centre schemes.
PII-safe by design
Organisation-level data only - individual (homeowner) names are masked. Built around Ireland's open-data licence and GDPR.
Rate-limited & paginated
Standard X-RateLimit-* headers (Reset is epoch seconds) and cursor-paginated exports keep large pulls stable and predictable.
Published terms
A Data Processing Addendum, an SLA with a 99.5% availability target and a 90-day deprecation notice, and a live status page - all published, not on request.
Start building.
Get a free commonwealth key on any plan. Max adds the enriched fields, bulk export and webhooks. The GIS feeds and uncapped bulk need a Feed licence, which comes with an Enterprise agreement.