## Cosmetology & Salon License Leads โ Scrape US State Registries
**$4.00 / 1 000 results** ยท pay only for results ยท no credit card to try
_We run the gauntlet so your lead list lands clean._ ๐
Pull licensed cosmetology, barber, salon, and nail records from official US state open-data registries in one run. Four states, hundreds of thousands of licensed operators and salon establishments, one structured dataset โ salon name, owner/licensee name, license number, type, status, and city, ready to pipe into your CRM or outreach tool.
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### ๐ฏ What this scrapes
Every US state licenses cosmetologists, barbers, nail techs, estheticians, and the salons they work in โ and four of those states publish their registries as machine-readable open-data APIs: New York, Connecticut, Colorado, and Texas. This Actor queries each selected state's official Socrata SODA endpoint, narrows it to the beauty-industry credentials, paginates through every record, normalises the columns into a single consistent schema, and delivers one clean dataset row per license.
Each state buries cosmetology licenses inside a giant multi-profession registry, applies its own column names, and returns data in a different shape. We handle every bit of that per-state plumbing for you โ you get uniform output no matter which states you pick.
### ๐ฅ What we handle for you
- ๐ก๏ธ **Browser fingerprint rotation** โ `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so state API gateways see a genuine browser, not a Python script.
- ๐ **Residential proxy rotation** via Apify Proxy โ fresh session and exit IP on every block or rate-limit response.
- ๐ **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 503` โ up to 5 attempts per page.
- ๐ฏ **Server-side beauty-credential filtering** โ each state's registry holds dozens of professions; we filter to cosmetology / barber / salon / nail credentials at the source, so you never wade through (or pay for) dentists and electricians.
- ๐งฑ **Per-state active-only filtering** โ NY, CT, and CO support status filters; we apply them automatically when `activeOnly` is enabled, so you get live licenses without post-processing.
- ๐ง **Clean, typed dataset rows** โ Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
- ๐ฐ **Pay-Per-Event pricing** โ you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge (beyond the small warm-up fee).
### ๐ก Use cases
- **Salon software (booking / POS) sales** โ pull every licensed salon establishment in New York with name and address, then enrich with email via Clay or Apollo for a targeted outreach sequence. These owner-operated shops are exactly the ones ZoomInfo misses.
- **Beauty-product wholesalers & distributors** โ build state-level prospect lists of salons, barbershops, and nail studios in minutes instead of buying stale lists.
- **Salon & beauty-professional insurance** โ commercial insurers targeting cosmetologists and shop owners need addressable prospect lists at scale.
- **Payment processors & lenders** โ owner-operated salons are a classic underwriting target; license status and type help you pre-qualify.
- **Market research** โ compare beauty-industry supply across states, credential mix (cosmetologist vs. barber vs. nail tech), or salon density by city.
- **Staffing & recruiting** โ find newly licensed individual operators by state for placement into salons and chains.
### โ๏ธ How to use it
1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Select one or more states in the **States to scrape** field.
3. Toggle **Active licenses only** โ enabled by default; disabling it returns expired and inactive licenses too.
4. Set **Max results** to cap the run size. Each state holds tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of records; start small.
5. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset in real time.
6. Export from **Storage โ Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel โ or pull via the Apify API into your pipeline.
### ๐ฅ Input
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `states` | `array` | no | `["NY"]` | One or more state codes: `NY`, `CT`, `CO`, `TX`. |
| `activeOnly` | `boolean` | no | `true` | Filter to active/licensed records. Applied on the server for NY, CT, CO; ignored for TX (no status column). |
| `maxResults` | `integer` | no | `100` | Maximum total records across all selected states. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | `{"useApifyProxy": false}` | Proxy settings. Optional for low-volume runs against these open-data APIs. |
#### Example input
```json
{
"states": ["NY", "TX"],
"activeOnly": true,
"maxResults": 500,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": false
}
}
````
### ๐ค Output
Every row is one cosmetology / barber / salon license record. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console.
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `state` | `string` | Two-letter state code โ e.g. `NY`, `TX`. |
| `business_name` | `string \| null` | Salon / shop / establishment business name (present for business licenses; for individual licenses it may carry the operator's trade name). |
| `licensee_name` | `string \| null` | Individual licensee / license holder / owner name. |
| `license_number` | `string \| null` | State-issued license or credential number. |
| `license_type` | `string \| null` | Credential category โ e.g. `Full Service Establishment`, `Hairdresser/Cosmetician`, `Barber`. |
| `status` | `string \| null` | License status โ e.g. `Active`, `Expired`. Null for TX. |
| `address` | `string \| null` | Street address (NY and CT; null for CO and TX). |
| `city` | `string \| null` | City (NY, CT, CO; null for TX). |
| `county` | `string \| null` | County (TX; null for NY, CT, CO). |
| `zip` | `string \| null` | ZIP / postal code (NY, CT, CO; null for TX). |
| `phone` | `string \| null` | Contact phone number (where the dataset publishes it). |
| `source_url` | `string` | Socrata API endpoint this record came from. |
| `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of when this row was recorded. |
#### Example output
```json
{
"state": "NY",
"business_name": "ETTA SALON",
"licensee_name": "Grunau Rachel",
"license_number": "AEB-18-01243",
"license_type": "DOSAEBUSINESS",
"status": "Active",
"address": "555 Gates Ave",
"city": "Brooklyn",
"county": null,
"zip": "11221",
"phone": null,
"source_url": "https://data.ny.gov/resource/y3u4-jbgh.json",
"scraped_at": "2026-06-07T09:00:00+00:00"
}
```
### ๐ฐ Pricing
Pay-Per-Event โ you pay only when these events fire:
| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.005 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result` | $0.004 | Per license record pushed to the dataset |
Example: 1 000 results at the rates above โ **$4.00**. No subscription, no minimum โ Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit, so your first run costs nothing.
### ๐ง Limitations
- **Four states only.** NY, CT, CO, and TX are currently supported. Other states publish their boards' registries behind HTML form portals or PDFs; adding each requires custom integration work (and is on the roadmap).
- **Field coverage varies by state.** NY and CT include street address; CO gives city + ZIP but no street; TX gives county but no street/city/ZIP. We surface `null` rather than fabricate.
- **Status filtering varies by state.** The TX dataset doesn't expose a status column, so `activeOnly` has no effect there โ all matching records are returned.
- **Email is not in these registries.** None of the four state datasets publish operator email. Enrich the `business_name` / `licensee_name` + location output through a tool like Clay or Apollo after export.
- **Data freshness depends on the state.** Each portal refreshes on its own schedule โ typically daily to weekly. The `scraped_at` field tells you when we fetched; the underlying source may lag actual license changes.
### โ FAQ
**Is there a national cosmetology license database I can query?**
No unified federal registry exists. Cosmetology and barber licensing is administered state by state. This Actor consolidates four of the most accessible state registries into one output schema.
**Can I get just salons / establishments, not individual stylists?**
For NY, the dataset is salon and barber *businesses* only โ every row is an establishment. For TX, the registry includes both establishment license types (Full Service, Mini, Mobile, Manicurist, etc.) and individual operators; filter by `license_type` after export. CT and CO are predominantly individual licensees.
**How do I build a salon owner email list?**
These state registries don't publish email. Use this Actor to get the salon/owner name plus location, then enrich through Clay, Apollo, or a similar tool after export.
**Why are some fields null?**
Not every state publishes every field. TX has no street/city/ZIP; CO has no street address; only NY and CT carry status-bearing addresses. We return `null` rather than guess. The `source_url` field tells you which registry each record came from.
**How many records are in each state?**
Approximate matched counts at time of writing: NY ~32 000 salon/barber businesses, CT ~80 000 beauty credentials, CO ~135 000 cosmetology/barber/manicurist licenses, TX ~430 000 cosmetology/barber records. Counts change as licenses are issued and expire.
**Can I schedule this to run weekly?**
Yes โ use **Apify Schedules** to trigger a run on a cadence. The `scraped_at` field and the `license_number` make deduplication straightforward for delta workflows.
**Does this scrape anything I shouldn't be using?**
All data comes from official state government open-data portals published for public access. No login, no scraping private pages, no personal data beyond what the state publishes in the licensing registry.
### ๐ฌ Your feedback
Spotted a bug, need a new state added, or want a field we're not capturing? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab in the Apify Console โ we read every report and ship fixes weekly.
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# Actor input Schema
## `states` (type: `array`):
US state codes to scrape. Each maps to that state's official Socrata cosmetology / barber / salon licensing registry. Supported: NY, CT, CO, TX.
## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):
When enabled, applies a status filter to return only currently active/licensed records. Supported for NY, CT, and CO; the TX dataset does not expose a status column, so all TX records are returned.
## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):
Maximum total number of license records to return across all selected states.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Apify Proxy settings. These are plain open-data JSON APIs; proxy is optional for low-volume runs.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"states": [
"NY"
],
"activeOnly": true,
"maxResults": 100,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": false
}
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):
All dataset items as JSON.
## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):
Same data exported to CSV.
## `datasetView` (type: `string`):
Open the run dataset in the Console.
# 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 '