New Jersey DOR Business Name Search Scraper

Search the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services' free public Business Name Search. Look up registered businesses by name, keywords, or exact entity ID, and check whether a candidate business name is available for a new filing. HTTP-only via the public njportal.com/DOR/BusinessNameSearch search — no login required.

Data Source & Usage Notes

• Free, public, no login. njportal.com/DOR/BusinessNameSearch is New Jersey's own free business search; no account, API key, or paywall stands between a user and this data. The site uses a standard per-request anti-forgery token (cookie + hidden form field), not a CAPTCHA.
• Scope: name-matching and availability, not full entity records. New Jersey's free Business Name Search returns business name, entity ID, entity/filing type, city, and incorporation date. It does not expose officers, registered agents, or a full operating-status (active/inactive/dissolved) field on this free search — that data requires the state's paid Business Entity Status Report / Certificate of Standing products, which are out of scope for a free, no-login actor. See "What's NOT included" below.
• Not affiliated with the State of New Jersey. This is an independent third-party tool using the source's own public, no-login search forms.

What this actor does

• Four modes:
  • byName — registered-business search, name contains-match
  • byKeyword — registered-business search, up to 5 keywords (all must appear in the name, in any order)
  • byEntityId — registered-business search, exact 10-digit entity ID
  • availability — checks whether a candidate name (without a business designator like LLC/Inc/Corp) conflicts with an already-registered name, and returns the conflicting/similar names on file
• Entity/filing type on every registered-business record — both the short code (e.g. LLC) and the full description (e.g. Domestic Limited Liability Company)
• Client-side filters — narrow byName/byKeyword results by entity-type substring or exact city
• Empty fields are omitted

What's NOT included (and why)

• Operating status (active/inactive/dissolved). Confirmed against the live results table: the free registered-business search returns Business Name / Entity ID / City / Type / Incorporated Date only — there is no status column. New Jersey's official status product ("Business Entity Status Report") is a separate, paid document.
• Officers, registered agent, or filing history. Not exposed by any public, no-login endpoint on this site.
• More than ~50 similar-name matches on an unavailable name. The Availability search's own conflict list is capped at 50 by the source itself ("This list includes only first 50 matches found").

Output per record

Registered-business modes (byName, byKeyword, byEntityId)

• businessName — as filed
• entityId — 10-digit New Jersey entity ID
• city — on file, when present
• entityTypeAbbr — short code, e.g. LLC, DP, FLC
• entityTypeFull — full description, e.g. Domestic Limited Liability Company
• incorporatedDate — YYYY-MM-DD
• sourceUrl
• recordType: "business", scrapedAt

availability mode

• queriedName — the candidate name checked
• isAvailable — true/false
• message — the source's own explanation text
• similarBusinesses — array of conflicting/similar registered names on file (only present when isAvailable is false)
• sourceUrl
• recordType: "availability", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	byName	byName / byKeyword / byEntityId / availability
businessName	string	Amazon	Contains-match on business name (mode=byName); candidate name WITHOUT a designator (mode=availability)
keywords	array	["Amazon"]	1-5 keywords, all must match (mode=byKeyword)
entityIds	array	–	Exact 10-digit entity IDs to look up (mode=byEntityId)
entityTypeContains	string	–	Case-insensitive substring filter on the full entity type (mode=byName, byKeyword)
cityFilter	string	–	Exact (case-insensitive) city match (mode=byName, byKeyword)
maxItems	int	25	Hard cap (1–200)
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO proxy	Apify proxy config; always datacenter (AUTO), never residential

Example: search by business name

{
  "mode": "byName",
  "businessName": "Amazon",
  "entityTypeContains": "Limited Liability",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: check name availability

{
  "mode": "availability",
  "businessName": "My Brand New Startup Idea"
}

Example: search by keywords

{
  "mode": "byKeyword",
  "keywords": ["Amazon", "LLC"]
}

Example: lookup by exact entity ID(s)

{
  "mode": "byEntityId",
  "entityIds": ["0450567823"]
}

Use cases

• New-business name clearance — check whether a candidate name is available before filing
• Vendor/customer due diligence — confirm a business's entity ID, type, and incorporation date
• Lead generation — build lists of New Jersey-registered businesses by name or keyword
• Company registry enrichment — bulk-append New Jersey entity data to an existing business dataset
• Legal & compliance research — verify exact entity type (e.g. LLC vs. corporation) for a known entity ID

FAQ

Is this an official State of New Jersey product? No. This is an independent tool that uses the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services' own free, public, no-login business search.

Why does availability mode reject names with LLC/Inc/Corp in them? That's the source's own validation rule — confirmed live. The availability check is meant to validate the base name before you choose a designator/entity type in the state's online filing system.

Can I get a business's officers or registered agent? No — New Jersey's free search does not expose that data; see "What's NOT included" above.

Why is there no status (active/inactive) field? New Jersey's free registered-business search doesn't return one — see "What's NOT included" above.