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Frontera Signal Permits Weekly
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Frontera Signal Permits Weekly is a paid API for AI agents from fronterasignal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).
Returns weekly building permit counts and values by city for Hidalgo and Cameron counties in South Texas, filterable by ISO week range.
Price / call$0.05
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Use when you need building-permit activity for Rio Grande Valley cities (McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr, Mission, Weslaco, Brownsville, Harlingen and others) by ISO week and permit class, to judge local construction demand before a lending, supply or market-entry decision. DARK means the city did not publish that week.
Output
A JSON object containing an array of rows, each representing permit activity for a specific city-week combination, including permit class, count, USD value, data freshness indicators (as_of, age_days, stale, backfill), county, and source metadata. Also includes query echo, total rows returned, series name, publisher, schema version, and a data disclaimer.
Example use cases
Tracking new commercial permits in McAllen
“Can you pull the Frontera Signal permit data for McAllen from 2026-W30 through 2026-W39 so I can see how commercial project registrations have been trending this quarter?”
Rio Grande Valley real estate market research
“I'm researching the construction pipeline in Hidalgo and Cameron counties — can you get me the weekly permit counts for residential projects from 2026-W01 through 2026-W20?”
Monitoring recent permit activity for a developer report
“Get me the latest available week of building permit data across all cities in Hidalgo and Cameron counties from Frontera Signal so I can include it in this week's developer briefing.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://fronterasignal.com/api/v1/series/permits-weekly?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need granular, city-level building permit data specifically for Hidalgo County or Cameron County in South Texas on a weekly basis. It is especially useful for construction market intelligence, real estate pipeline analysis, or border-region economic research. Prefer this over generic permit databases when you need structured, fresh, machine-readable data with staleness indicators for this specific geography.
Side effects
- Invalid ISO week format (e.g. '2026-39' instead of '2026-W39') may return a 400 or empty result
- Requesting future weeks returns no rows
- Stale flag set to true when data has not been refreshed within 14 days for weekly cadence
- Null count or value_usd fields indicate data was not reported for that city-week
- Payment failure (402) if x402 micropayment header is missing or insufficient
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"rows": [
{
"city": "McAllen",
"as_of": "2026-09-25",
"count": 3,
"stale": false,
"county": "Hidalgo",
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"status": "reported",
"cadence": "weekly",
"week_id": "2026-W39",
"age_days": 8,
"backfill": false,
"value_usd": null,
"permit_class": "commercial_projects_registered_state"
}
],
"query": {
"to": "2026-W39",
"from": "2026-W39"
},
"title": "Permits by city-week",
"fields": [
"week_id"
],
"series": "permits-weekly",
"cadence": "weekly",
"returned": 15,
"publisher": "Frontera Signal",
"disclaimer": "Every value carries as_of, age_days, cadence and stale (weekly measures go stale after 14 days, monthly measures after …",
"latest_week": "2026-W39",
"schema_version": "2.0"
}
}Tags
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