US Liquor License Leads — New & Changed Filings

Know the moment a bar, restaurant, or store gets (or applies for) a liquor license. This Actor pulls new, renewed, and changed U.S. liquor-license filings straight from official state open-data portals, normalizes every state into one clean schema, and flags exactly what changed — so you get high-intent "a business is opening" leads the day they happen.

A new liquor license means someone is about to spend on point-of-sale, payments, insurance, equipment, signage, staffing, and supply. This is the list of who, where, and when — fresh.

Live coverage: 6 states — NY, TX, IL (Chicago), CO, MO, CT. (FL and more on request.) 100% public government data — no logins, no gray areas.

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Who uses this

• POS & payments / merchant-services (ISOs): reach a new venue before they sign with an incumbent.
• Business insurance & bonding: new licensees need coverage immediately.
• Beverage distributors & equipment sellers: territory prospecting on real, dated signals.
• Staffing, payroll, cleaning, signage, marketing agencies: a new bar is about to hire and buy.
• Researchers & analysts: track alcohol-market openings, closings, and license churn over time.

What's in every record

Field	Example
business_name / dba_trade_name	JB Liquor Foote Ave, Inc / JB Liquor
license_number	0524-26-46372
license_type_normalized	on_premise · off_premise · wholesale · manufacturer · retail_other
status_normalized	active · pending · expired · inactive
change_type	NEW · RENEWAL · STATUS_CHANGE · TRANSFER
filing_date / issue_date / expiration_date	2026-06-17
address · city · county · state · zip	766 Foote Ave, Jamestown, NY
lat / lng	geocoded where the state provides it
first_seen_date	the day this filing first appeared in our feed
source / source_url	provenance for every row

Delivered as a dataset you can export to JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the Apify API into your CRM/warehouse.

Example output

{
  "business_name": "The Spot Social Hour Inc",
  "dba_trade_name": "The Spot Social Hour",
  "license_number": "2574556",
  "license_type_normalized": "on_premise",
  "status_normalized": "active",
  "change_type": "NEW",
  "filing_date": "2026-04-16",
  "city": "Chicago",
  "county": "Cook",
  "state": "IL",
  "first_seen_date": "2026-06-18",
  "source": "il-chicago"
}

The premium signal: new-filing detection

Most "license data" is a stale full dump. The value here is what changed. The Actor remembers prior runs and tags each record:

• NEW — first time we've ever seen this license/application (your hottest lead).
• RENEWAL — an existing license was just renewed.
• STATUS_CHANGE — pending → active, active → expired, etc.

Run it weekly and you get a clean "what's new this week" list, not the whole haystack.

Inputs

Input	What it does
States	Which states to include — NY, TX, IL, CO, MO, CT.
Change types	Keep only NEW, RENEWAL, STATUS_CHANGE, TRANSFER — or all.
Max records per source	Cap the volume (and your cost) per run.

Leave everything default to pull all six states; narrow states to your territory, and set change_types: ["NEW"] for a pure fresh-leads feed.

Pricing

Pay per result — you only pay for the records you receive: $0.004 per delivered, verified record. Filter to change_types: ["NEW"] and that's under half a cent per fresh, high-intent lead.

No subscription, no minimums. A weekly NEW-only pull for one state is typically a few dollars.

Data sources & legality

100% public state open-data APIs and official extracts, intended for reuse:

• NY — Liquor Authority active licenses (data.ny.gov)
• TX — TABC license info + pending new applications (data.texas.gov)
• IL — City of Chicago business licenses, liquor & amusement (data.cityofchicago.org)
• CO — Liquor Enforcement active + recently-approved licenses (data.colorado.gov)
• MO — Division of Alcohol & Tobacco Control active licenses (data.mo.gov)
• CT — Dept. of Consumer Protection liquor permits (data.ct.gov)

This is public business-registry data (not personal data). The Actor only touches public endpoints, never logged-in or ToS-gated sources, and rate-limits politely.

FAQ

How fresh is it? As fresh as the state portals — the NEW/RENEWAL flags are computed against your last run, so you always see deltas.

Which states? Six live now: NY, TX, IL (Chicago), CO, MO, CT. Want FL, PA, CA, or your state next? Request it — adding states is the roadmap.

Is this AI-generated? The dataset is real government data; an automated pipeline normalizes and de-duplicates it. No fabricated rows, ever.

Can I get only brand-new licenses? Yes — set change_types to ["NEW"].

How do I automate it? Schedule the Actor in Apify and push results to a webhook, Google Sheet, or your CRM via the Apify API/integrations.

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