Contractor License Search and New License Leads (CA, TX, WA, OR, VA)

Search, verify, and monitor contractor licenses across California, Texas, Washington, Oregon and Virginia in one run. Every record comes from the state licensing board's own official open data or bulk download, and every state returns the same normalized fields. Turn on the New licenses monitor to get a weekly feed of newly licensed contractors, ready for Clay, HubSpot, Salesforce or any CRM.

Price: $3 per 1,000 license records, $10 per 1,000 new-license leads, plus $0.005 per run. You only pay for results you get.

What this contractor license scraper does

• Contractor license lookup and verification: check a license number or business name and get status, expiration date, trade and address.
• Bulk contractor lists by trade: export every licensed roofer, electrician, plumber, HVAC contractor or general contractor in one or more states.
• New contractor license leads: schedule the monitor weekly and receive only licenses that are new since the last run.
• One schema for five states: no more stitching together five different state formats.

Use cases

GTM and lead generation

Sell roofing materials, field-service software, payroll, trucks or insurance? Brand-new contractors are buying everything for the first time. Run the monitor every Monday with tradeKeywords: ["roofing"] and push each new license straight into Clay for enrichment and outreach. Every new license is a fresh, timely lead.

Insurance, surety and bonding

Find contractors whose licenses expire soon or whose bond or workers' comp status changed (California and Oregon include bond and insurance carrier data). Reach them before renewal.

Vetting and compliance

Marketplaces, general contractors, property managers and lenders can confirm a contractor's license is active and in the right trade before hiring, paying or approving them.

Market sizing and territory planning

Count licensed contractors per trade, county or ZIP code to size a market or plan sales territories.

Supported states and sources

State	Official source	Records	Issue date	Status
California	CSLB Public Data Portal, License Master list	~245,000 current or renewable licenses	Yes	Yes (CLEAR, suspensions)
Texas	TDLR All Licenses on data.texas.gov (contractor license types only)	A/C, electrical, sign, appliance, elevator, well drilling contractors	No	Derived from expiration date
Washington	L&I Contractor License Data on data.wa.gov	~161,000	Yes (effective date)	Yes
Oregon	CCB Active Licenses on data.oregon.gov	~57,000 active	Yes (original registration)	Active only
Virginia	DPOR Class A, B and C contractor regulant lists	~50,000	Yes (certification date)	Current only

This Actor never touches captcha-protected search pages. It reads the bulk files and open-data APIs that each state publishes for public use, and it respects each site's crawl rules.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	lookup or newLicenses	Lookup returns all matches. New licenses monitor returns only licenses not seen in earlier runs.
states	array	Any of CA, TX, WA, OR, VA.
tradeKeywords	array	Matches license type, class code or trade, for example roofing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, C39.
name	string	Business, licensee or DBA name contains this text.
licenseNumber	string	Verify one license number.
status	string	any, active, inactive, expired, suspended.
issuedAfter	date	Only licenses issued on or after this date.
maxResults	integer	Total cap across all states.
maxResultsPerState	integer	Cap per state.
monitorId	string	Separate memory for each scheduled monitor.

Output fields

Field	Description
state	Two-letter state code
licenseNumber	License number as issued by the state
businessName	Business or company name
licenseeName	Person: owner, qualifier, principal or responsible managing individual
dbaName	Doing-business-as name, when provided
licenseType	License type or classification in plain English
licenseTypeCode	The state's code, for example C39, CCC, RGC
trades	List of trades or specialties
status	Status exactly as reported by the state
statusCategory	Normalized: active, inactive, expired, suspended, other
issueDate	Original issue date (YYYY-MM-DD)
expirationDate	Expiration date (YYYY-MM-DD)
address	street, street2, city, state, zip, county
phone	Phone, when the state publishes it (CA, TX, WA, OR)
email	Email, when the state publishes it (VA)
bond, insurance	Bond and insurance carrier details (CA, OR)
isNewLicense, firstSeenAt	Set in monitor mode
sourceName, sourceUrl	Where the record came from
scrapedAt	When the record was collected

Sample output

{
  "state": "OR",
  "licenseNumber": "261748",
  "businessName": "JT ELITE CONSTRUCTION LLC",
  "licenseeName": "JACOB TORRES AYALA",
  "licenseType": "Residential General Contractor",
  "licenseTypeCode": "RGC",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "statusCategory": "active",
  "issueDate": "2026-05-14",
  "expirationDate": "2028-05-14",
  "address": { "street": "2742 26TH AVE", "city": "FOREST GROVE", "state": "OR", "zip": "97116", "county": "Washington" },
  "phone": "(971) 732-6113",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.oregon.gov/resource/g77e-6bhs.json?license_number=261748"
}

Examples

Every new licensed roofer in California and Washington issued since September 1

{ "mode": "lookup", "states": ["CA", "WA"], "tradeKeywords": ["roofing"], "issuedAfter": "2026-09-16", "status": "active" }

Weekly new electrical and HVAC contractor leads in all five states (schedule it weekly)

{ "mode": "newLicenses", "states": ["CA", "TX", "WA", "OR", "VA"], "tradeKeywords": ["electrical", "hvac", "air conditioning"], "monitorId": "electrical-hvac" }

Verify one contractor license

{ "states": ["CA"], "licenseNumber": "1000013" }

How the new licenses monitor works

The first run sets a baseline and returns licenses issued in the last 7 days (or since issuedAfter). Each later run returns only licenses that were not in the previous run, so a weekly schedule gives you a clean weekly lead list with no duplicates. Texas does not publish issue dates, so Texas returns nothing on the first monitor run and only truly new licenses after that. Use a different monitorId for each saved search.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.005 per run start
• $0.003 per license record in lookup mode ($3 per 1,000)
• $0.01 per new-license lead in monitor mode ($10 per 1,000)

Set a maximum charge on your run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

Is this data legal to use? Yes. All data comes from public records that each state publishes as bulk downloads or open data. You are responsible for following marketing laws such as CAN-SPAM and TCPA when you contact people.

How fresh is the data? Washington updates daily, Oregon and California about daily, Virginia every 5 business days, Texas on the state's regular schedule. Each run downloads the latest files.

Why are some fields empty? States publish different fields. For example, only Virginia publishes email and only California and Oregon publish bond and insurance details. Missing values are null, never guessed.

Does it include expired or revoked licenses? California includes current and expired-but-renewable licenses. Oregon and Virginia publish current licenses only. Washington and Texas include inactive and expired records, which you can filter with status.

Why is Texas limited to some trades? Texas has no statewide general contractor or roofing license. Texas licenses A/C, electrical, sign, appliance, elevator and well drilling contractors through TDLR, and those are included. Plumbing is licensed by a separate board.

Can I use it with Clay, Zapier, Make or an AI agent? Yes. Use the Apify integrations, the API, or the Apify MCP server.

Which states are next? More states with official open data are coming. Tell us which states you need in the Issues tab.