For Hire Vehicles (FHV) - Active — NYC Open Data

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset of all TLC licensed for-hire vehicles in good standing is updated daily between 4–7 PM. Check the “Last Update Date” to confirm it shows today’s or yesterday’s date. If it’s older, find the latest data here: Active Vehicles TLC authorized For-Hire vehicles that are active. This list is accurate to the date and time represented in the Last Date Updated and Last Time Updated fields. This Actor returns it as one flat JSON row per record, with 23 declared fields — typed, named and documented in the dataset schema, so a spreadsheet or an agent can use it without guessing.

What you get

Field	Type	Meaning
wheelchair_accessible	string	Wheelchair Accessible
veh	string	VEH
last_date_updated	string	Last Date Updated
last_time_updated	string	Last Time Updated
base_telephone_number	string	Base Telephone Number
order_date	string	Order Date
vehicle_license_number	number	Vehicle License Number
permit_license_number	string	Permit License Number
website	string	Website
expiration_date	string	Expiration Date
base_type	string	Base Type
base_address	string	Base Address
name	string	Name
active	string	Active
license_type	string	License Type
dmv_license_plate_number	string	DMV License Plate Number
vehicle_year	number	Vehicle Year
base_number	string	Base Number
vehicle_vin_number	string	Vehicle VIN Number
base_name	string	Base Name

The output schema lists all 23 fields; the table above is the first twenty.

Every row also carries sourceRowId, sourceUpdatedAt and scrapedAt, so a pipeline can tell one record from another and know exactly when it was read.

{
  "wheelchair_accessible": "PILOT",
  "veh": "HYB",
  "last_date_updated": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000",
  "last_time_updated": "14:00",
  "base_telephone_number": "(718) 472-9800",
  "order_date": "text",
  "vehicle_license_number": 6032728,
  "permit_license_number": "AA005"
}

Inputs

Field	What it does
Filter (SoQL)	Applied at the source, so a narrow question fetches a narrow page instead of downloading everything.
Order	Empty keeps the publisher's own order; set a column to sort, for example amount DESC.
Maximum rows	Hard cap. The source is paged 1,000 rows at a time.
Time budget	Stops cleanly and reports how far it got.
Pause between pages	Keeps the run inside the publisher's rate limits.

Limitations

• This is one dataset, from one publisher. It is the For Hire Vehicles (FHV) - Active dataset as Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) publishes it — not a national or cross-city equivalent, and not a merge with other sources.
• The publisher can change it. Columns are added, renamed and retired upstream; the field list here is the schema the Actor was generated from. A renamed column arrives as a new field only after the Actor is updated.
• Fields are typed from live records. A column that was empty in the sample is declared as text; a value that does not fit the declared type comes back null rather than being coerced into a wrong number.
• Records are what the publisher publishes. No geocoding, no de-duplication across datasets, no enrichment.
• Freshness is the publisher's. The data was last changed upstream on 2026-10-24. Where the publisher supplies a row timestamp it appears as sourceUpdatedAt; scrapedAt records when this Actor read the row.

Why this is different

• For Hire Vehicles (FHV) - Active — NYC Open Data declares all 23 of its output fields in the dataset schema, each with a type, a description and an example.
• The Actor reads the For Hire Vehicles (FHV) - Active dataset directly from NYC Open Data; no key, login or account is needed.
• Filters run at the source with SoQL, so a narrow request returns a narrow page rather than a full download.
• Every row is flat JSON: nested location objects become latitude and longitude, and no field holds a nested object.
• The row id is stable, so the same request de-duplicates instead of returning the same record twice.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. NYC Open Data publishes this dataset openly.

How fresh is it? The Actor reads the dataset live. scrapedAt records when each row was read, and sourceUpdatedAt carries the publisher's own row timestamp where it supplies one.

Can I filter by date or status? Yes — use the Filter field with SoQL, for example status = 'Active'.

What happens if my filter is wrong? The run stops with the portal's own message and the hint to check SoQL, rather than returning an empty dataset that looks like "no data".

Is this the whole dataset? Up to your row cap, paged 1,000 at a time. Raise the cap to read more.

What is sourceRowId? The publisher's own row id when it supplies one, otherwise a stable hash of the row. Either way it is what makes de-duplication and joins possible.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0005 per row. Each stored dataset row is billed, including any diagnostic row returned instead of results.

An Actor-start event is also charged at $0.0001 per GB of allocated memory (minimum one event), even if no rows are returned. At 1 GB or less, 1,000 result rows cost $0.5001 before any applicable Store discount.

Data source

NYC Open Data — For Hire Vehicles (FHV) - Active, published by Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). Public data under the portal's open-data terms.