Florida DBPR License Records Scraper — Contractor & Professional License Data

Extract official Florida professional license records — general contractors, roofers, plumbers, electricians, home inspectors, mold assessors, cosmetologists, barbers, veterinarians, architects, and more — straight from the Florida DBPR's public records data. Filter by license type, county, city, status, and expiration date and download clean JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Because this Actor reads the state's official public extract files (not a fragile search form), it is fast, complete, and does not miss records: a statewide pull of every active certified general contractor takes about a minute.

What data do you get?

One result per license record:

Field	Example
licenseNumber	CGC058548
licenseType / licenseTypeName	CGC / Certified General Contractor
licenseeName	AALDERINK, JAMES
dbaName	Qualified business / DBA name
addressLine1..3, city, state, zip	Mailing address of record
countyCode / countyName	60 / Palm Beach
primaryStatus / secondaryStatus	Current / Active
originalLicenseDate	1980-01-03
statusEffectiveDate	2010-09-29
expirationDate	2028-08-31
notes	e.g. CE Exempt

Supported professions

• Construction contractors (CILB) — general (CGC), building (CBC), residential (CRC), roofing (CCC), plumbing (CFC), HVAC (CAC), mechanical (CMC), pool (CPC), underground utility (CUC), all registered (RG/RB/RR/...) and specialty types
• Electrical contractors (ECLB) — EC / ER / ES
• Home inspectors (HI)
• Mold-related services — assessors & remediators
• Cosmetology — cosmetologists, salons, specialists
• Barbers & barbershops
• Veterinary medicine
• Architecture & interior design

Use cases

• Lead generation — build county-level lists of active contractors for insurance, building materials, SaaS, CE courses, or financial products. Combine with expiresBefore to target licensees whose renewal is coming up.
• License verification at scale — verify that subcontractors, vendors, or marketplace signups hold a current, active Florida license.
• Market sizing & analytics — count active roofers per county, track new licensees, analyze contractor density.
• Compliance & risk — flag partners whose license is expiring, inactive, suspended, or on probation.
• Recruiting — source licensed professionals by trade and region.

How to use it

{
    "profession": "construction",
    "licenseTypes": ["CGC"],
    "counties": ["Palm Beach"],
    "status": "current-active",
    "expiresBefore": "2026-12-31",
    "maxResults": 5000
}

Leave licenseTypes, counties, and cities empty for statewide, all-type pulls. maxResults caps the run — you are only charged for records actually returned.

Pricing

Pay per result: one charge per license record extracted.

Suggested store pricing (set in the Apify Console → Publication → Monetization):

• license-record event: $0.002 per record ($2.00 per 1,000 records)

Rationale: comparable state-license actors (California CSLB, Texas TDLR) charge in the $1–5/1,000 range, and one qualified contractor lead resells for dollars. A 1,000-lead county list costs the customer $2 versus hours of manual DBPR searching.

Data source & freshness

Records come from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation's free public-records extract files (myfloridalicense.com), which DBPR refreshes on a daily/weekly cadence. This is public information published by the State of Florida under its public-records obligations. Excluded from DBPR extracts: null & void, delinquent, and involuntarily inactive records.

Note on fairness: phone numbers and emails are not included because DBPR does not publish them in these files; any actor claiming otherwise is scraping a different, slower source or fabricating data.

FAQ

How current is the data? DBPR regenerates most extract files daily or weekly. Schedule the Actor weekly to keep your lists fresh.

Can I get all ~500,000 cosmetology licenses? Yes — set maxResults high and let it stream. Runs are memory-safe because the file is processed as a stream.

A profession you need is missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — adding another DBPR board is usually a same-week change.