Accela is a San Ramon, California govtech company whose cloud Civic Platform runs permitting, planning, licensing, code enforcement, inspections, asset management and citizen service requests for state and local government agencies worldwide. Its public developer surface is the Accela Construct API (V4) — a 417-operation REST API served from apis.accela.com and documented as fifteen Swagger 2.0 documents on the Accela Developer Portal, covering records, inspections, contacts and professionals, addresses/parcels/owners, assets and assessments, documents, payments and shopping carts, reports, search, citizens, CivicID and platform settings. Access is OAuth 2.0 against auth.accela.com with agency- and environment-scoped tokens, and every request is bound to a specific government tenant through the x-accela-agency and x-accela-environment headers.
Accela publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Construct API (V4) and Authentication API (OAuth 2.0). Tagged areas include GovTech, Government, Permitting, Licensing, and Code Enforcement.
Accela’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, changelog, and 27 more developer resources.
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The public REST API to the Accela Civic Platform. 417 operations across fifteen published Swagger 2.0 documents cover transactional records, inspections and checklists, contacts...
The Construct authorization server. Three operations — POST /oauth2/authorize (authorization code), POST /oauth2/token (authorization code, implicit and password-credential gran...
CivicData.com is Accela's free open-data platform for government agencies, described on its own site as "a free open data platform built by Accela" and "Built on open source usi...
aid: accela
name: Accela
description: Accela is a San Ramon, California govtech company whose cloud Civic Platform runs permitting, planning, licensing,
code enforcement, inspections, asset management and citizen service requests for state and local government agencies worldwide.
Its public developer surface is the Accela Construct API (V4) — a 417-operation REST API served from apis.accela.com and
documented as fifteen Swagger 2.0 documents on the Accela Developer Portal, covering records, inspections, contacts and
professionals, addresses/parcels/owners, assets and assessments, documents, payments and shopping carts, reports, search,
citizens, CivicID and platform settings. Access is OAuth 2.0 against auth.accela.com with agency- and environment-scoped
tokens, and every request is bound to a specific government tenant through the x-accela-agency and x-accela-environment
headers.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/accela/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.accela.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/AccelaLogo-website.webp
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-06'
modified: '2026-09-06'
position: Producing
tags:
- GovTech
- Government
- Permitting
- Licensing
- Code Enforcement
- Inspections
- Asset Management
- Citizen Engagement
- Land Management
- Civic Platform
- Public Sector
- SaaS
tags_raw:
- govtech
- government
- permitting
- licensing
- code-enforcement
- inspections
- asset-management
- citizen-engagement
- land-management
- civic-platform
- public-sector
- saas
apis:
- name: Accela Construct API (V4)
description: The public REST API to the Accela Civic Platform. 417 operations across fifteen published Swagger 2.0 documents
cover transactional records, inspections and checklists, contacts and licensed professionals, addresses/parcels/owners,
assets and condition assessments, documents, fees/payments/shopping carts, invoices and trust accounts, reports, global
search, Citizen Access user management, CivicID, agencies and platform settings. Requests are scoped to a government tenant
with x-accela-agency and x-accela-environment; responses use a uniform {status, code, message, more, traceId} envelope
with offset/limit pagination and a fields= partial-response parameter. Base host is https://apis.accela.com; every operation
path already carries the /v4 version prefix, matching host + basePath in the published specs.
humanURL: https://developer.accela.com/docs/api_reference/api-index.html
baseURL: https://apis.accela.com
tags:
- GovTech
- Government
- Permitting
- Licensing
- Inspections
- Asset Management
- Land Management
- Citizen Engagement
tags_raw:
- govtech
- government
- permitting
- licensing
- inspections
- asset-management
- land-management
- citizen-engagement
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/api_reference/api-index.html
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-records-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-inspections-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-settings-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-contacts-professionals-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-assets-assessments-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-citizens-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-addresses-parcels-owners-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-search-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-miscellaneous-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-payments-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-documents-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-civicid-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-agencies-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-reports-openapi.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/accela-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/accela-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/accela-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/accela-records-overlay.yaml
- name: Accela Authentication API (OAuth 2.0)
description: The Construct authorization server. Three operations — POST /oauth2/authorize (authorization code), POST /oauth2/token
(authorization code, implicit and password-credential grants) and GET /oauth2/tokeninfo — issue and validate agency- and
citizen-app access tokens bound to an agency, an environment and a set of Construct permission scopes.
humanURL: https://developer.accela.com/docs/api_reference/api-auth.html
baseURL: https://auth.accela.com
tags:
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Government
tags_raw:
- authentication
- oauth
- government
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accela-authentication-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/construct-apiAuth.html
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/accela-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/accela-scopes.yml
- name: CivicData Open Data API (CKAN) — END OF LIFE
description: 'CivicData.com is Accela''s free open-data platform for government agencies, described on its own site as "a
free open data platform built by Accela" and "Built on open source using CKAN". It exposes a live CKAN 2.9.9 Action API
— package_list, package_search, status_show, datastore and the spatial extensions — publishing agency datasets such as
building permits, inspections, food-facility records and air-quality permits. IT IS BEING SWITCHED OFF: the site states
CivicData reached end of life on 30 June 2026 and will be removed after 31 December 2026. Recorded here because it is
a real, callable, first-party API today and because CKAN is a named standard in the government regulatory regime — but
do not build on it.'
humanURL: https://www.civicdata.com/
baseURL: https://www.civicdata.com/api/3
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Government
- Public Sector
tags_raw:
- open-data
- ckan
- government
- public-sector
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.civicdata.com/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/accela-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/accela-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.accela.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://developer.accela.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/api_reference/api-index.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/construct-gettingStarted.html
- type: Support
url: https://www.accela.com/services/technical-support/
- type: HelpCenter
url: https://success.accela.com/s/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.accela.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://www.accela.com/blog/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/Accela-Inc
- type: SignUp
url: https://developer.accela.com/Register/Register
- type: Login
url: https://developer.accela.com/Login
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.accela.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.accela.com/privacy-policy/
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://developer.accela.com/docs/construct_api_v4_rel_notes.html
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/accela-changelog.yml
- type: Compliance
url: https://www.accela.com/civic-platform/security/
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/accela-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/accela-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/accela-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/accela-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/accela-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/accela-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/accela-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/accela-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/accela-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/accela-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/accela-packages.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/accela-sandbox.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/accela-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/accela-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Components
url: components/accela-components.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-06'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 55
pass: local-v3
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