New York UCC Lien Search

Searches the New York Department of State UCC index (the new ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov portal that replaced the old appext20.dos.ny.gov system on March 9, 2026) and returns one record per lien: debtor name and address, filing and lapse dates, status, lien type, every debtor and secured party on the filing, and the full filing history (UCC-1 initial statements, UCC-3 amendments, continuations, assignments, terminations, and federal tax lien notices and releases).

Covers statewide UCC liens and federal tax liens filed with the NY Secretary of State. No login, no fee, no browser: plain HTTP requests against the official public search.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
searchType	debtorName | filingNumber	debtorName
debtorType	organization | individual	organization	Debtor-name searches only
debtorName	string	APPLE	Organization name (min 3 chars) or an individual's last name (min 2 chars)
firstName	string	""	Optional first name for individual searches
filingNumber	string	""	Required when searchType is filingNumber, e.g. 082375
searchLogic	startsWith | standard | exact | containsAllWords	startsWith	Name-matching mode of the NY portal
lienType	all | ucc | federalTax	all
lienStatus	all | active | released | withdrawn | purged | lapsed	all
filingDateFrom / filingDateTo	MM/DD/YYYY	""	Passed through to the portal's filing-date filter
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Adds lienType, all debtors, securedParties and filingHistory (one extra request per lien)
maxItems	integer	10	The portal pages 10 liens at a time
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify residential, US	The portal sits behind a Cloudflare challenge that blocks datacenter IPs; keep residential

Running with an empty input {} searches organizations starting with "APPLE" and returns 10 liens with details.

Output

{
  "lienNumber": "082375",
  "serialNumber": "0",
  "lienType": "Federal Tax Lien",
  "lienSubtype": "N/A",
  "debtorName": "APPLE BUCKLE & ACCESSORY INC",
  "debtorAddress": "347 W 36TH ST 9 FL, NEW YORK, NY, 10018 - 6406, USA",
  "debtorType": "Organization",
  "filingDate": "1982-05-25",
  "lapseDate": "2099-01-01",
  "status": "Active",
  "lienId": "4068341",
  "detailUrl": "https://ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov/OnlineUCCSearch/OnlineLienInformation?lienId=4068341&source=4068341",
  "debtors": [
    { "name": "BLUE RIBBON MEATS INC", "orgId": null, "orgType": null, "jurisdiction": null, "address": "NA, 0", "type": "Organization" },
    { "name": "APPLE BUCKLE & ACCESSORY INC", "orgId": null, "orgType": null, "jurisdiction": null, "address": "347 W 36TH ST 9 FL, NEW YORK, NY, 10018 - 6406, USA", "type": "Organization" }
  ],
  "securedParties": [
    { "name": "Internal Revenue Service", "address": "1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, USA", "type": "Organization" }
  ],
  "filingHistory": [
    { "number": "082375", "type": "Notice of Federal Tax Lien", "action": "Notice of Federal Tax Lien", "status": null, "date": "1982-05-25" },
    { "number": "086719", "type": "Notice of Release", "action": "Notice of Release", "status": null, "date": "1990-04-26" },
    { "number": "082375", "type": "Notice of Federal Tax Lien", "action": "Notice of Federal Tax Lien", "status": null, "date": "1999-04-26" }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T16:28:25.915Z"
}

Dates are normalized to YYYY-MM-DD. A lapseDate of 2099-01-01 is the portal's sentinel for filings that do not lapse (federal tax liens). debtorName / debtorAddress are the debtor shown on the search results row; debtors[] lists every debtor on the filing. Rows come back oldest filing first, as the portal orders them.

Not available: the new NY system does not publish collateral descriptions or filing images in the search index, so there is no collateralDescription field. Certified searches (UCC-11) remain a paid mail-in service from DOS.

How it works and what can break

• Search, paging and detail are three form POSTs on one server session. The actor opens a sticky residential proxy session, retries on a fresh exit whenever Cloudflare challenges it (up to 8 times), and then reuses that session for every request.
• The portal shows a Cloudflare Turnstile widget, but as of September 2026 the server does not validate the token. If New York turns on server-side Turnstile validation, the detail pages would stop loading; the list search would likely keep working with fetchDetails: false.
• Failed requests are logged and skipped. The actor never writes error rows to the dataset, so you only pay for lien records.

Pricing

Pay per event: a small start fee plus a per-lien-record fee. Zero results cost only the start fee.