Street Hail Livery (SHL) Drivers - Active — NYC Open Data

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset of all TLC licensed street hail livery (SHL) drivers 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: Drivers List NYC TLC Licensed Street Hail Livery drivers that are currently active and in good standing and able to drive. This Actor returns it as one flat JSON row per record, with 7 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
license_number	number	License Number
last_update_time	string	Last Time Updated
name	string	Name
expiration_date	string	Expiration Date
status_code	number	Status Code
status_description	string	Status Description
last_update_date	string	Last Date Updated

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

{
  "license_number": 5515246,
  "last_update_time": "14:00",
  "name": "ELBAZ,ADIL",
  "expiration_date": "2029-01-25T00:00:00.000",
  "status_code": 1,
  "status_description": "SHL UNRESTRICTED",
  "last_update_date": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000"
}

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 Street Hail Livery (SHL) Drivers - 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

• Street Hail Livery (SHL) Drivers - Active — NYC Open Data declares all 7 of its output fields in the dataset schema, each with a type, a description and an example.
• The Actor reads the Street Hail Livery (SHL) Drivers - 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. A run that matches nothing is not charged for rows.

Data source

NYC Open Data — Street Hail Livery (SHL) Drivers - Active, published by Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). Public data under the portal's open-data terms.