Florida DBPR License Records Scraper — Contractor & Professional License Data

Get every active Florida contractor (or roofer, plumber, electrician, home inspector, cosmetologist…) in a county as a clean spreadsheet — with license status and expiration date — in about a minute. Or point it at a list of licenses you already care about and get an alert the day one of them lapses.

Data comes straight from the Florida DBPR's official public-records extract files. No login, no API key, no HTML scraping, no captchas.

See real records for 5 cents before you commit

Set maxResults to 25 and run it once. You are charged $0.002 per license record — so a 25-record look costs $0.05, and a run that matches nothing costs only Apify's fraction-of-a-cent start event. Look at the output, confirm it is the shape you need, then raise the cap.

What one record actually looks like

Real output from a live run, trimmed to the fields most people check first:

{
    "licenseNumber": "EC0000382",
    "licenseTypeName": "Certified Electrical Contractor",
    "licenseeName": "BENNETT, BRADY J",
    "dbaName": "BRADY BENNETT & ASSOCIATES INC",
    "city": "JACKSONVILLE",
    "countyName": "Duval",
    "primaryStatus": "Current",
    "secondaryStatus": "Active",
    "expirationDate": "2028-08-31"
}

Every record carries the full field set below, in JSON, CSV, or Excel.

What a real job costs

Pricing is $2.00 per 1,000 license records ($0.002 each), charged only on records actually returned. Note: this rises to $4.00 per 1,000 on 26 August 2026. Runs before that date bill at the current rate:

What you pull	Records	Cost
A look at the output before buying	25	$0.05
A single trade in one county	1,000	$2.00
A capped county-wide contractor list	5,000	$10.00 maximum

maxResults is a hard ceiling, so a run can never cost more than maxResults × $0.002. If your filters only match 800 licenses, you pay $1.60 — not the cap.

Set-and-forget license monitoring (the part most people miss)

Run the Actor in monitor mode on an Apify Schedule and it stops being a one-off extractor and becomes a compliance watchdog. Each run compares the fresh DBPR extract against the baseline saved by the previous run and returns only what changed:

changeType	Meaning
status-changed	Primary/secondary status flipped — e.g. Current → Suspended, Active → Inactive
renewed	Expiration date moved forward (license was renewed)
expiring-soon	License entered your expiringWithinDays window (alerted once per expiration date; includes daysUntilExpiration)
new-license	A license newly matches your filters (new licensee in a county/trade) or newly appears on your watch list
removed-from-extract	License vanished from the DBPR file — DBPR drops null & void, delinquent, and involuntarily inactive licenses, so a disappearance is usually exactly the event you're watching for

Every change record contains the full license record plus changeType, changes (before/after values), and detectedAt.

Because you pay per record returned, a quiet run costs almost nothing — zero per-record charges, just roughly a cent of compute to scan the extract. You only pay real money when something actually changed. Monitoring 500 subcontractors on a weekly schedule costs a few cents a month in weeks where nothing happens.

Monitor either an explicit watch list:

{
    "mode": "monitor",
    "profession": "construction",
    "licenseNumbers": ["CGC058548", "CCC1330911", "CFC1425030"],
    "alertOnStatusChange": true,
    "expiringWithinDays": 90
}

(an explicit licenseNumbers list overrides the other filters, so a watched license keeps being tracked even after it stops being Current + Active)

…or a filter set — e.g. "every certified general contractor in Palm Beach County":

{
    "mode": "monitor",
    "profession": "construction",
    "licenseTypes": ["CGC"],
    "counties": ["Palm Beach"],
    "status": "current-active",
    "expiringWithinDays": 60
}

How to set it up on a Schedule (2 minutes)

1. Configure the input above in the Actor's Input tab and run it once. The first run saves a baseline (and reports any licenses already inside your expiringWithinDays window) — from then on, only changes.
2. Go to Schedules in the Apify Console → Create new → pick a cadence (daily or weekly matches DBPR's refresh cycle) → Add Actor → select this Actor — the schedule copies your saved input.
3. Optional: add an integration on the Actor — email, Slack, or a webhook — so a non-empty dataset pings you. Point it at runs of this Actor and check the dataset item count.

Baselines are stored in the fl-dbpr-license-monitor key-value store in your account. Run several independent monitors side by side by giving each Schedule its own monitorStateKey (e.g. "subs-watchlist", "palmbeach-cgc"). Use one baseline per profession. To reset a monitor, delete its record from that store (or pick a new monitorStateKey).

Full field list

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.

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.

Because the Actor reads the state's official extract files rather than driving a search form, it is fast and does not miss records — and there is no scraping layer to break when DBPR redesigns a page.

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.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.002 per license record ($2.00 per 1,000), rising to $0.004 ($4.00 per 1,000) on 26 August 2026. You are charged per record actually returned, plus Apify's small platform events: a fraction-of-a-cent Actor start event and $0.00001 per dataset item — about 0.5% on top of the per-record price. No subscription; a run that finds nothing costs only the fraction-of-a-cent start event.

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. For pulls this large, check the maximum-charge setting on the run so the platform does not stop it early.

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.