UCC Lien Search — New York, Florida, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon

Search UCC financing statements and tax liens in five state registries from one input: by debtor name (bulk list or CSV / Google Sheet), by secured party (which filings did this lender record?), or by filing number. One row per filing with the filing number, type, filing and lapse dates, status, every debtor and secured party with addresses, collateral text where the state publishes it, the UCC-3 amendment / continuation / termination history and a link to the official source. A monitor mode keeps a seen-state and reports only filings that are new since the last run.

No login, no state account, no API key. Pay per record: $0.005 per run + the per-record price shown on this page. Nothing is charged when a search matches nothing.

Who uses it

• Lenders, equipment lessors, factoring companies — pre-lending due diligence: who already holds a security interest in a prospect's assets, and is a blanket lien in place? Run the borrower list before you file your own UCC-1.
• Credit and risk teams — portfolio monitoring: schedule the debtor list daily in monitor mode and get only new filings and status changes, pushed to Slack / your API through the webhook.
• MCA, equipment-finance and SBA sales teams — lead generation: filings recorded by a competing lender (secured-party search in CO, CT, OR) show who just financed equipment or receivables.
• KYB / onboarding and fraud teams — enrich a business record with its lien picture across the states it operates in, including IRS and state tax liens where the registry publishes them (NY, CO, CT).
• Law firms, title and search companies — replace manual look-ups on five different portals with one JSON feed.
• AI agents — the input is a plain schema and every row carries a sourceUrl; call it through the Apify MCP server to screen a debtor in one tool call.

State coverage (verified 2026-10-21)

State	Source	Debtor search	Secured-party search	Filing-number lookup	Extended record (parties, collateral, history)	Freshness / scope
NY	NY Department of State UCC e-filing portal (ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov)	organization or individual; starts-with / contains-all-words / exact	no (portal has no secured-party index)	yes	all debtors and secured parties with addresses, lien type (UCC / federal tax lien), full filing history (UCC-1, UCC-3 amendments, continuations, terminations)	current same-day; UCC liens and federal tax liens statewide
FL	floridaucc.com public search API	organization or individual; the registry's alphabetical proximity list filtered to your prefix, or exact	no (API has no secured-party index)	no (the API only addresses filings by an internal row number)	all debtors and secured parties with addresses, document type, file and expiration dates, status Filed / Lapsed	~5-day processing lag. Lapsed filings come from the lapsed index as name + address + status only (no detail record exists for them). Collateral lives in the filing image, not published
CO	Colorado Secretary of State UCC open data (data.colorado.gov: filings, debtors, secured parties, collateral)	organization or individual; starts-with / contains / exact	yes	yes (document or master document number)	all debtors and secured parties with addresses, collateral description text, every amendment under the same master document as filingHistory	refreshed daily (max filing date seen 2026-10-20); UCC, IRS, hospital, statutory and EFS liens back to 1966
CT	Connecticut Secretary of the State UCC lien filings open data (data.ct.gov)	organization or individual; starts-with / contains / exact	yes	yes (UCC or lien filing number)	one published row per filing: debtor and secured party with addresses, filing type (ORIG FIN STMT, AMENDMENT, RELEASE, VESSEL LIEN, JUDGMENT LIEN...), lien class (OFS, IRS, MUNICIPAL, LABOR...)	refreshed daily (max accept date 2026-10-20); 850k rows, status Active / Released / Terminated
OR	Oregon Secretary of State "UCC filings entered last month" open data (data.oregon.gov)	organization or individual; starts-with / contains / exact	yes	yes	all parties on the filing with addresses, lien type (UCC / EFS / IRS), filing type, link to the filing image	rolling one-month window only (refreshed monthly) — a feed of recent activity, not a historical search. Omit OR unless you want recent filings

Collateral text is published only by Colorado. Florida, New York, Connecticut and Oregon keep collateral in the filing image; collateral is null there, never guessed.

States checked and not covered

State	Why
CA (bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov)	Imperva / Incapsula challenge on the page and the JSON API
MI (ucc.michigan.gov)	Cloudflare "Just a moment" challenge from cloud IPs (403)
NC (sosnc.gov), MT (biz.sosmt.gov), OH (ucc.ohiosos.gov)	Cloudflare challenge / "Security Check" / 403 "Website Maintenance"
VA (cis.scc.virginia.gov), WA	Server-verified reCAPTCHA on the search
IL, PA, MN, GA	Unreachable from the test networks, login- or fee-gated searches
TX (SOSDirect), DE	Paid subscriber searches only
AR, NM, NE, WI, IA	Free portals exist (single-page apps); their JSON search APIs are not integrated yet

We never bypass CAPTCHAs, logins or paywalls.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
states	array	["NY","FL","CO","CT"]	Any of NY, FL, CO, CT, OR
debtorNames	array of strings	—	Organization names (or last names when debtorType is individual), min 3 characters (2 for last names)
securedPartyNames	array of strings	—	Lender / lessor names; CO, CT, OR (NY and FL log a skip)
filingNumbers	array of strings	—	NY, CO, CT, OR
listUrl	string	—	Public CSV or Google Sheet ("anyone with the link"); first column is added to debtorNames
matchMode	startsWith | contains | exact	startsWith	NY maps contains to its "contains all words in order" logic; FL supports prefix and exact
status	all | active | lapsed | terminated	all	active = not lapsed and not terminated; terminated covers terminated / released / withdrawn / purged
filingDateFrom, filingDateTo	YYYY-MM-DD (or MM/DD/YYYY)	—	Registry-side filter for NY, CO, CT, OR; applied to the fetched file date for FL
includeDetails	boolean	true	Extended record: all parties with addresses, collateral (CO), filing history. Charged as the extended-record event in NY, FL and CO
debtorType, firstName	string	organization, —	Individual debtor searches: last name in debtorNames, optional first name
lienType	all | ucc | federalTax	all	New York only
maxItems	integer	10	Total cap; split evenly across the selected states unless maxItemsPerState is set
maxItemsPerState	integer	0	Per-state cap (0 = even split)
monitor	boolean	false	Monitor mode, see below
monitorId, lookbackDays, maxNewPerWatch, firstRunMode, webhookUrl		default, 30, 5, emitAll, —	Monitor mode settings
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify UNBLOCKER	Only New York needs a proxy (Cloudflare gate). The chosen group is tried first; the other Apify group (RESIDENTIAL / UNBLOCKER) is rotated in automatically

Legacy single-value inputs of the New York version keep working: searchType, debtorName, filingNumber, searchLogic, lienStatus, fetchDetails.

An empty input {} runs a sample search for "APPLE" across NY, FL, CO and CT.

Examples

Pre-lending check of three borrowers in the states they operate in:

{
  "debtorNames": ["ACME MANUFACTURING", "NORTHSTAR FREIGHT LLC", "RIVERBEND MEDICAL GROUP"],
  "states": ["NY", "FL", "CT"],
  "status": "active",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 300
}

Lender activity — every filing recorded by a competitor in the last 90 days (collateral text included in CO):

{
  "securedPartyNames": ["DE LAGE LANDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES"],
  "states": ["CO", "CT", "OR"],
  "filingDateFrom": "2026-07-23",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Bulk list from a Google Sheet, list-level rows only (no extended-record charge):

{
  "listUrl": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AbC.../edit#gid=0",
  "states": ["NY", "FL", "CO", "CT"],
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItemsPerState": 25,
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Filing-number lookup:

{ "filingNumbers": ["0005416633", "20222052293"], "states": ["CT", "CO"] }

Individual debtor:

{ "debtorNames": ["SMITH"], "firstName": "JOHN", "debtorType": "individual", "states": ["CO", "CT"], "maxItems": 20 }

Monitor mode

Set monitor: true, keep the same monitorId and schedule the run (daily is typical). The actor stores the filings it has seen in a key-value store named ucc-monitor-<hash of monitorId> and emits only:

• changeType: "new_filing" — a filing against a watched debtor (or by a watched secured party) that was not in the seen-state and is dated inside lookbackDays;
• changeType: "status_change" — a known filing whose status changed (NY Active → Inactive, FL Filed → Lapsed, CT Active → Released / Terminated, CO Active → Terminated / Lapsed).

Older unseen filings are recorded silently so they never surface later. firstRunMode: "baseline" records everything on the first run and emits nothing, so the next run reports only what is new. maxNewPerWatch caps the changes per name and state per run; the rest stay unseen and come out on the next run. With webhookUrl set, a JSON summary {monitorId, runAt, states, newFilings, statusChanges, pushed, filings[first 50]} is POSTed after each run (Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n, your API). The seen-state is capped at 50,000 filings per monitor.

{
  "monitor": true,
  "monitorId": "portfolio-a",
  "debtorNames": ["VERIZON", "CARNIVAL CORPORATION"],
  "states": ["NY", "FL", "CO", "CT"],
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "firstRunMode": "baseline",
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/...",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Users of the former UCC Lien Monitor actor: the same inputs work here with monitor: true added.

Output

One row per filing. Row from a real run (New York, extended record):

{
  "state": "NY",
  "filingNumber": "091335",
  "filingType": "UCC Lien",
  "lienType": "UCC Lien",
  "filingDate": "2001-05-10",
  "lapseDate": "2006-05-10",
  "status": "Inactive",
  "debtorName": "VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC",
  "debtorAddress": "184-04 MERRICK BLVD, JAMAICA, NY, 11413 - 0000, USA",
  "debtorType": "Organization",
  "debtors": [
    { "name": "VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC", "orgId": null, "orgType": null, "jurisdiction": null, "address": "184-04 MERRICK BLVD, JAMAICA, NY, 11413 - 0000, USA", "type": "Organization" }
  ],
  "securedParties": [
    { "name": "CITICORP VENDOR FINANCE, INC.", "address": "7165 SW FIR LOOP, SUITE 204, TIGARD, OR, 97223 - 0000, USA", "type": "Organization" }
  ],
  "collateral": null,
  "originalFilingNumber": null,
  "filingHistory": [
    { "number": "091335", "type": "UCC-1", "action": "Initial Financing Statement", "status": null, "date": "2001-05-10" }
  ],
  "imageAvailable": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov/OnlineUCCSearch/OnlineLienInformation?lienId=1201420&source=1201420",
  "matchedQuery": "debtor:VERIZON",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T16:23:44.401Z",
  "lienNumber": "091335",
  "serialNumber": null,
  "lienSubtype": null,
  "lienId": "1201420",
  "detailUrl": "https://ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov/OnlineUCCSearch/OnlineLienInformation?lienId=1201420&source=1201420"
}

Colorado row (collateral text and master-document history):

{
  "state": "CO",
  "filingNumber": "20222017096",
  "filingType": "UCC financing statement",
  "lienType": "ucc",
  "filingDate": "2022-02-17",
  "lapseDate": "2027-02-17",
  "status": "Active",
  "debtorName": "APPLE",
  "debtorAddress": "ONE APPLE PARK WAY, CUPERTINO, CA, [9501",
  "securedParties": [ { "name": "ANNETTE MCKENNA TRUST", "address": "658 BRINDLE DRIVE, CLARKDALE, AZ, [86324-3358]", "type": "Organization" } ],
  "collateral": "UNKNOWN THIS IS NOT A LIEN. THIS IS ACTUAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE. This is the entry of the DEBTORS into the Commercial Registry ...",
  "originalFilingNumber": "20222017096",
  "filingHistory": [ { "number": "20222017096", "type": "UCC financing statement", "action": "Initial Filing", "status": null, "date": "2022-02-17" } ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/wffy-3uut.json?masterdocumentid=20222017096"
}

Field	Meaning
state	Two-letter state the record came from
filingNumber	The registry's filing / document number (CO: master document number; NY: lien number)
filingType	Registry label: UCC Lien, Federal Tax Lien / N/A (NY), UCC1 (FL), UCC financing statement, Federal tax lien (CO), ORIG FIN STMT, AMENDMENT (CT), ORIGINAL, AMENDMENT (OR)
lienType	Lien class where separate from the filing type: NY UCC Lien / Federal Tax Lien; CO ucc, lien_irs, lien_hosp, efs, ...; CT OFS, IRS, MUNICIPAL, VESSEL, ...; OR UCC, EFS, IRS
filingDate, lapseDate	ISO dates; lapseDate null where not published (CO rows without a lapse date, FL lapsed-index rows)
status	Registry status: NY Active / Inactive; FL Filed / Lapsed; CT Active / Released / Terminated (Lapsed when the lapse date passed); CO / OR derived: Terminated (termination flag), Lapsed (lapse date passed), else Active
debtorName, debtorAddress, debtorType	The debtor that matched your query (first debtor for secured-party and filing-number searches)
debtors[]	Every debtor on the filing: name, address, type, plus orgId, orgType, jurisdiction where NY publishes them
securedParties[]	Every secured party: name, address, type
collateral	Collateral description text (Colorado only)
originalFilingNumber	The initial financing statement an amendment belongs to (CT, CO, OR, FL)
filingHistory[]	UCC-3 chain: number, type, action, status, date (NY, CO)
imageAvailable	FL: whether a filing image exists
sourceUrl	Official source of the row (NY lien page, FL API record, CO / CT / OR open-data row or OR filing image)
matchedQuery	debtor:NAME, securedParty:NAME or filingNumber:N
lienNumber, serialNumber, lienSubtype, lienId, detailUrl	Legacy New York field names, kept for existing integrations
matchedWatch, changeType, previousStatus, firstSeenAt, monitorId	Monitor mode only

Fields a registry does not publish are null. The run's OUTPUT key-value record holds a summary: rows per state, queries skipped, extended records, errors.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• Actor start: $0.005 per run.
• Lien record: the per-record price shown on this page, charged for each row written. 1,000 rows cost 1,000 × that price plus the start fee.
• Extended record ($0.04 per filing, from the date the event appears on this page): charged in addition to the record price for each NY, FL or CO row delivered with includeDetails: true (all parties with addresses, collateral, filing history). CT and OR rows are published as complete flat records and never incur it. Set includeDetails: false for list-level rows at the record price only.
• Apify proxy traffic for New York is billed by Apify at the chosen group's rate; the NY search page is about 100 KB per session.

A search that matches nothing writes nothing and costs only the start fee.

Good to know

• Match rules differ by registry. Florida's index is alphabetical, so contains falls back to a prefix search there. Colorado's secured-party and debtor rows are stored per document; the actor merges all documents under one master document, so one Colorado row can list many debtor name variants and a long filingHistory.
• New York needs a proxy. The DOS portal sits behind a Cloudflare challenge that blocks datacenter IPs and scores other exits per request. The actor opens a session on one exit, keeps its cookies and reuses it for every search, page and detail request; on a challenge it rotates to a new exit, alternating the UNBLOCKER and RESIDENTIAL groups (up to 16 attempts). If no exit passes, the NY query is logged as an error and the other states still deliver.
• Florida lapsed filings come from the lapsed index with name, address and status only; the API has no detail record for them, so dates and parties are null and they are never counted as "new" in monitor mode.
• Oregon is a one-month feed, not an archive: use it for monitoring recent activity.
• The results are the public index as published by each state and are not a certified UCC search. For a certified search order a UCC-11 from the state filing office.
• Individual-debtor searches return public-record filings against persons; use them in line with the state's terms and your legal basis.

Integrations

• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fortuitous_pirate~ucc-lien-search-ny/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=... with the input JSON returns the rows directly (runs under 5 minutes); otherwise start a run and read its dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
• Clients: apify-client for Python and JavaScript; client.actor("fortuitous_pirate/ucc-lien-search-ny").call(run_input={...}).
• Schedules + webhooks: schedule a monitor-mode run daily; use the built-in webhookUrl or an Apify webhook on ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED to push results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.
• MCP: add the actor to your Apify MCP server and let an agent screen debtors across all five states in one call.