New Contractor Licenses: WA & NY Contractor Leads

Every newly licensed contractor in Washington and New York, from the official state lists, updated daily:

• Washington: contractor licenses of the Department of Labor & Industries (construction, electrical, plumbing, elevator), with the business, phone, address, specialties, principal and UBI number;
• New York: the contractor registry of the Department of Labor (every contractor that works on public works), with the business, phone, address, and flags for MWBE ownership, debarment and outstanding wage assessments.

No account, no API key, no proxies: the data comes from data.wa.gov and data.ny.gov, the open data portals of both states.

Who uses it

• Suppliers and distributors (lumber, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, tools, equipment rental): new contractors setting up shop.
• Contractor insurance, bonding, financing, software and accounting: a new license is the moment they buy.
• General contractors and public-works bidders: new subcontractors with their license and compliance flags.

What you get

One record per license:

Field	Example
source, jurisdiction	washington, Washington
licenseNumber, licenseType, specialties	APEXPPB745PA, CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR, ["GENERAL"]
businessName, dbaName, businessType, principals	APEX PREMIER BUILDERS LLC, Limited Liability Company, ["GILLIHAN, JASON DANIEL"]
phone, street, city, state, zip	360-965-5463, 16957 158TH PL SE, MONROE, WA, 98272
issuedDate, expirationDate, status	2026-10-01, 2028-10-01, ACTIVE
businessId	Washington UBI number
mwbeOwned, debarred, outstandingWageAssessments	New York: minority or women-owned business, debarment and wage flags
verifyUrl, sourceUrl, retrievedAt	Washington L&I verification page, the dataset, when it was read
change	With Only new: new or updated

Input

New contractors in both states this week:

{
  "sources": ["washington", "new-york"],
  "issuedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 50
}

New electrical contractors in Washington this month:

{
  "sources": ["washington"],
  "issuedWithinDays": 30,
  "keywords": ["ELECTRICAL"]
}

New contractors around Seattle (ZIP codes 980) with a phone:

{
  "sources": ["washington"],
  "issuedWithinDays": 14,
  "zipCodes": ["980"],
  "onlyWithPhone": true
}

Field	What it does
sources	washington, new-york. Empty = both.
issuedWithinDays	Licenses issued in the last N days (30 by default).
keywords	Words in the license type, specialties or business name (ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, ROOFING...).
cities, zipCodes	Business address; ZIP codes take 5 digits or the first 3.
onlyWithPhone, includeInactive	Only licenses with a phone; also licenses that are not active.
maxResults	Licenses saved, newest first (1,000 by default).
onlyNew + memoryName	For daily runs: only licenses earlier runs of the same search did not save, or whose status, phone or address changed. The memory lives in a key-value store named us-contractor-licenses-state.
appToken	Free Socrata app token, optional.

How much it costs

Pay per event: only for the licenses saved. Measured on 2026-10-02: Washington issued 947 contractor licenses in September 2026; a week of both states is about 400 licenses (164 in Washington and 235 in New York), all with a phone, read in a few seconds.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client can run this Actor as a tool: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=digital_influx/us-contractor-licenses as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account. It is also one of the tools of US & UK Public Records MCP (digital_influx/public-records-mcp), by the same author, made for agents.

Good to know

• The New York registry is for public work: every contractor and subcontractor on a public work project must register; it is not a trade license, and it is renewed every two years, so new certificates include renewals of existing businesses.
• Keywords match the license type, specialties and business name, so a construction contractor called "XYZ Electrical" appears under ELECTRICAL.
• Phones are the business phones the states publish. Follow the TCPA and state rules for calls and texts.
• Requests: one a second per portal, as their robots.txt asks.

Sources and attribution

• Washington: Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, "L&I Contractor License Data - General", data.wa.gov (dataset m8qx-ubtq), Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.
• New York: New York State Department of Labor, "Contractor Registry Certificate", data.ny.gov (dataset i4jv-zkey), under the OPEN-NY Terms of Use.

Neither state endorses this Actor or the uses of its results.