Oregon Secretary of State Business Search Scraper

Search Oregon's official business registry — every active business entity registered with the Oregon Secretary of State Corporation Division. Look up a business by name, exact registry number, entity type, or city, and get entity type, formation date, registered agent, and business/mailing addresses. HTTP-only via Oregon's own public Open Data JSON API. No auth, no proxy, no cookies.

What this actor does

• Four modes: search (by business name), byRegistryNumber (exact lookup), byEntityType (browse by legal structure), byCity (browse by principal-office city)
• 21 entity types covered: LLCs, corporations, nonprofits, partnerships, cooperatives, assumed business names, and more
• Filters: entity type, city, jurisdiction of formation, registration-date range — combinable across every mode
• Registered agent details: name and full mailing address for every entity
• Empty fields are omitted — every record only contains fields Oregon actually published for that business

Output per business entity

• registryNumber — the business's unique Oregon registry number
• businessName — registered legal/assumed name
• entityType — legal structure (e.g. DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY)
• status — always ACTIVE (only active businesses are indexed by this source)
• jurisdiction — state/country of formation (OR for domestic entities, the home state for foreign entities)
• formationDate — date the business was first registered (YYYY-MM-DD)
• businessAddress, businessCity, businessState, businessZip — principal place of business
• mailingAddress — mailing address on file (when different from the business address)
• registeredAgentName, registeredAgentAddress — the entity's registered agent
• registeredAgentRegistryNumber — the agent's own Oregon registry number, when the agent is itself a registered business (e.g. a commercial registered-agent service)
• authorizedRepresentativeName — for foreign (out-of-state) entities that list one
• officialLookupUrl — Oregon's own canonical per-business deep link into the SOS's interactive registry lookup application, keyed to this exact registry number
• recordType: "entity", sourceUrl, scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byRegistryNumber / byEntityType / byCity
businessName	string	nike	Business name to search for (mode=search)
matchMode	string	contains	contains / beginsWith / exact name matching (mode=search)
registryNumber	string	–	Exact Oregon registry number (mode=byRegistryNumber)
entityType	string	–	Filter/browse by legal structure (mode=byEntityType or filter)
city	string	–	Filter/browse by principal-office city (mode=byCity or filter)
jurisdiction	string	–	Filter by state/country of formation (e.g. OR, CA, DE)
registryDateFrom	string	–	Only businesses registered on/after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
registryDateTo	string	–	Only businesses registered on/before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
maxItems	int	25	Hard cap on emitted records (1–500)

Example: search by business name

{
  "mode": "search",
  "businessName": "nike",
  "matchMode": "contains",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: exact lookup by registry number

{
  "mode": "byRegistryNumber",
  "registryNumber": "8739914"
}

Example: browse all cooperatives registered since 2024

{
  "mode": "byEntityType",
  "entityType": "COOPERATIVE",
  "registryDateFrom": "2024-01-01",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: find Delaware-formed corporations registered as foreign entities in Oregon

{
  "mode": "byEntityType",
  "entityType": "FOREIGN BUSINESS CORPORATION",
  "jurisdiction": "DE",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: browse businesses in a specific city

{
  "mode": "byCity",
  "city": "Bend",
  "entityType": "DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Use cases

• Sales & lead generation — build prospect lists of newly registered Oregon businesses by city or entity type
• Compliance & due diligence — verify a counterparty's Oregon registry status, registered agent, and formation date
• Registered-agent research — find which businesses share a given registered agent
• Market research — track new business formation trends by city, entity type, or date range
• Legal & filing services — cross-reference client entity data against the official registry

FAQ

What is the data source? This actor reads Oregon's official Open Data Portal (data.oregon.gov), specifically the Secretary of State Corporation Division's "Active Businesses - ALL" dataset. This is the same data the SOS's own business-search page links to for bulk/programmatic lookups, published and maintained directly by the State of Oregon.

Why does every record show status: "ACTIVE"? The upstream dataset only publishes currently active businesses. Dissolved, revoked, or withdrawn entities are not included, so every record returned is, by definition, active as of the last data refresh.

How fresh is the data? Oregon's Open Data Portal refreshes this dataset on an ongoing basis as filings are processed — typically within days of a new registration.

Why do some entities have no mailingAddress or authorizedRepresentativeName? Not every business files every address type. Domestic entities rarely have an authorizedRepresentativeName (that field applies mainly to foreign/out-of-state entities), and a mailing address is only shown when the business filed one separately from its principal address.

What does jurisdiction filter on? The entity's state/country of formation, as published in Oregon's own registry (e.g. OR for domestic entities, CA/DE/WA etc. for foreign entities formed elsewhere and registered to do business in Oregon). It's a case-insensitive exact match against Oregon's own jurisdiction code and combines with mode, entityType, city, and the date-range filters.

What counts as a match for matchMode? contains matches the business name anywhere in the string, beginsWith matches only from the start, and exact requires the full name to match exactly (case-insensitive in all three cases).

What is officialLookupUrl? It's the exact per-business deep link Oregon's own dataset publishes for the record, pointing at the SOS's interactive egov.sos.state.or.us lookup application. Note that host has been intermittently unreachable (see "Data Source" below) — the URL is still included as the authoritative reference/citation for the record even when the page itself can't be loaded directly.

Is this affiliated with the Oregon Secretary of State? No. This is an independent, third-party actor that reads Oregon's public Open Data API. It is not operated by or affiliated with the State of Oregon.

Can I look up historical/inactive businesses? Not with this actor — the upstream open-data source only publishes active registrations.

Data Source

Decision: Oregon's official Open Data Portal, not the interactive egov.sos.state.or.us search form.

At build time, the interactive business-search application at egov.sos.state.or.us was found to be unreachable — connection attempts on port 443 timed out consistently across multiple independent networks and multiple retries, while the host's own domain (sos.oregon.gov) and its official Open Data Portal (data.oregon.gov) responded normally. Rather than replace Oregon with a different state, this actor uses Oregon's own official redistribution channel for the exact same registry data: the Secretary of State Corporation Division's "Active Businesses - ALL" dataset on data.oregon.gov, which is linked directly from sos.oregon.gov's own "Search Active Business Registration Records" page as the recommended way to search/export active-business records. This is Oregon's own government data, not a third-party mirror, and it returns the identical underlying records (name, registry number, entity type, formation date, registered agent, addresses) that the interactive form would show.