# Liquor License Scraper – New CA, NY & TX Bar Leads, $4/1k (`appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed`) Actor

Extract newly issued liquor licenses and new applications from California ABC, New York SLA and Texas TABC. Get business name, owner, premises address, license type and number, status and issue date. $0.004 per license.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [GM Labs](https://apify.com/appetizing_horsefly) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 licenses

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Liquor License Scraper – New Licenses & Applications from CA ABC, NY SLA, TX TABC

### What is Liquor License Scraper?

Liquor License Scraper pulls **newly issued liquor licenses and pending new license applications** from the official alcohol regulators of California (ABC), New York (SLA) and Texas (TABC) and returns them in one normalized dataset. Pending applications show up weeks before a bar, restaurant or liquor store opens. Built for **beverage distributors, POS and restaurant-tech vendors, insurers, food-service suppliers and agencies**.

### What data can I extract?

`state`, `recordType` (issued / application), `licenseNumber`, `licenseType`, `status`, `businessName`, `ownerName`, `address`, `city`, `zip`, `issueDate`, `expirationDate`, `mailingAddress` and `escrow` (CA), and `sourceUrl`.

### How much does it cost to scrape liquor licenses?

Pay per result: **$0.004 per license** ($4 per 1,000), no monthly rental and no start fee. The 20-record prefilled run costs about $0.08, well inside Apify's free monthly credit.

### Why use it

- **Catch openings early:** pending applications appear weeks before a venue opens.
- **One schema for three states:** CA, NY and TX use the same normalized fields.
- **"New since" date filter:** schedule daily or weekly runs and pull only new records.
- **Filters:** city, county and license type (for example `47` / `Eating Place` in CA, or `Restaurant` in NY).
- **Includes escrow and mailing address (CA):** useful for reaching owners during a license transfer.

### Sources

| State | Issued licenses | New applications |
|---|---|---|
| **California ABC** | Daily Report of Issued Licenses | Daily Report of New Applications |
| **New York SLA** | Current Active Licenses (data.ny.gov), filtered by original issue date | Current Pending Licenses (data.ny.gov), filtered by received date |
| **Texas TABC** | TABC License Information (data.texas.gov), filtered by original issue date | Pending Original New License Applications (data.texas.gov) |

### Try it free in 1 click

The input form is **prefilled with a small, working example**. Press **Start** without changing anything: the run returns 20 recent liquor licenses and applications from CA, NY and TX. Our test run of exactly this input finished in about 6 seconds with 20 results. At $0.004 per license that is about $0.08, which fits inside the free monthly credit of Apify's free plan. Then swap in your own values.

Prefilled input:

```json
{
  "states": [
    "CA",
    "NY",
    "TX"
  ],
  "recordTypes": [
    "issued",
    "application"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}
```

### Sample output

Real rows from the prefilled run on 2026-10-14 (5 of 20 results shown; long fields trimmed). Download the full dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

| state | recordType | licenseNumber | businessName | city | status | issueDate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | issued | 683563 | THE DISTRICT THEATER LLC | GILROY | Issued-Temp. | 2026-10-13 |
| CA | issued | 683564 | THE DAILY SPOT LLC | VALLEJO | Issued-Temp. | 2026-10-13 |
| NY | issued | 0002-26-157596 | USA Wine Imports, Inc. | Manhasset | Active | 2026-10-13 |
| NY | issued | 0032-26-357571 | High Road Wine Company LLC | Naples | Active | 2026-10-13 |
| TX | application | 200210754 | MS Joint Venture LLC | Austin | Received | – |

### Input

| Field | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| `states` | `CA`, `NY`, `TX` | all |
| `recordTypes` | `issued`, `application` | both |
| `sinceDate` | Records dated on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD) | last 14 days |
| `cityContains`, `countyContains`, `licenseTypeContains` | Optional filters | – |
| `maxResults` | 0 = unlimited | 100 |

### Example output

```json
{
  "state": "CA",
  "recordType": "issued",
  "licenseNumber": "683026",
  "licenseType": "30",
  "status": "Issued-Temp.",
  "businessName": "DEPOT LEGACY GROUP LLC",
  "ownerName": "DEPOT LEGACY GROUP LLC",
  "address": "241 1ST ST W",
  "city": "SONOMA",
  "zip": "95476",
  "issueDate": "2026-09-29",
  "expirationDate": "2027-01-26",
  "mailingAddress": "14 COMMERCIAL BLVD, STE 121, NOVATO, CA, 94949",
  "escrow": "CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ESCROW 1748 MAIN ST ESCALON, CA 95320-1927",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.abc.ca.gov/licensing/license-lookup/single-license/?RPTTYPE=12&LICENSE=683026"
}
```

### Typical volume

For 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-09: CA had 344 issued licenses and 259 applications, NY had 1,197 and 168, and TX had 349 and 373.

### Notes

- California reports are published each business day, and the Actor fetches them day by day.
- New York's "issued" records are active licenses whose original issue date falls in your window. Renewals are excluded.
- These are public records as published by each agency.

**Keywords:** liquor license scraper, new liquor licenses, ABC license list, California ABC daily report, NY SLA licenses, TABC license data, new restaurant leads, bar openings, alcohol distributor leads, beverage sales prospecting.

### Use it as an MCP tool (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, any AI agent)

This Actor works as a tool in the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com), so an AI agent can call it directly and you pay per result, the same as a normal run. Add this server URL to any MCP client:

```
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed
```

Sign in with your Apify account (or pass your Apify API token as a Bearer header). The agent reads the input fields above from the Actor's input schema. Example request to the agent: "List new liquor license applications in Los Angeles County from the past week."

# Actor input Schema

## `states` (type: `array`):

Licensing agencies to pull.

## `recordTypes` (type: `array`):

Newly issued licenses and/or new pending applications.

## `sinceDate` (type: `string`):

Issue/application date on or after. Empty = last 14 days. CA is fetched day-by-day (max ~190 business days).

## `cityContains` (type: `string`):

Optional text to match in the premises city, for example "Austin". Case-insensitive. Leave empty for all cities.

## `countyContains` (type: `string`):

Optional filter (NY, TX).

## `licenseTypeContains` (type: `string`):

Code or description, e.g. 47, 'Eating Place', 'Restaurant', MB.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of license records to return across all states. 0 means no limit. You are charged per record returned. Default 100 keeps a first try cheap; set 0 for no cap.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [
    "CA",
    "NY",
    "TX"
  ],
  "recordTypes": [
    "issued",
    "application"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results in the default dataset

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "states": [
        "CA",
        "NY",
        "TX"
    ],
    "recordTypes": [
        "issued",
        "application"
    ],
    "maxResults": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "states": [
        "CA",
        "NY",
        "TX",
    ],
    "recordTypes": [
        "issued",
        "application",
    ],
    "maxResults": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "states": [
    "CA",
    "NY",
    "TX"
  ],
  "recordTypes": [
    "issued",
    "application"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}' |
apify call appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,appetizing_horsefly/liquor-license-feed"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gcJNclURDK1CF43O6/builds/qlz3Da4gBBPffz3zb/openapi.json