New York Business Entity Search — NY DOS Corporation Registry 🗽

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🎉 Search New York's active corporation registry by name or DOS id — legal name, entity type, incorporation date, county, jurisdiction of formation and the service-of-process address. No key, no login. Built for New York counterparty checks, legal research, and anyone who needs the entity behind a Manhattan address.

🔍 What is this Actor — and when should you use it?

The New York Department of State maintains the register of active corporations. This Actor searches it by company name or DOS id and returns one clean row per entity: legal name, DOS id, entity type, date of incorporation, county, jurisdiction of formation, and the party designated to receive legal process.

Use it when you need: to verify a New York counterparty; the DOS id for a filing; the service-of-process address for a legal notice; or a list of entities incorporated in a specific county.

Use something else when: the company is registered in another state — use the Texas or Connecticut Actor. All three share this schema, so their outputs concatenate into one US table.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Already on the Apify MCP server? Ask for this Actor by name: foxlabs/usa-newyork-company-data.

Your agent can pay for its own runs. This Actor is pay-per-event with agentic payments, so an agent can discover it, run it and settle the bill over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire — no Apify account or API token of its own. Billing is the same either way: per delivered company row.

Otherwise paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

Run the Apify actor foxlabs/usa-newyork-company-data with
{"queries":["Etsy","Peloton Interactive"],"maxResultsPerQuery":10}
and give me their DOS ids, entity types and counties.

📋 Overview

Source	New York Department of State — Active Corporations
Coverage	Corporations active on the New York register
Auth needed	None. No API key, no login, no proxy required
Row	One New York entity
Measured run	13 rows in 14.4 s for 3 queries (2026-09-20, build 0.1.8)
Pricing	$0.004 per delivered row — $4 per 1,000

✨ Features

• 🔎 Name or DOS id in the same field
• 🏛️ Entity type — domestic vs foreign corporation, LLC and the rest
• 🗺️ County and jurisdiction of formation on every row
• ⚖️ Service-of-process designation — who receives legal notice, with address where published
• 📅 Initial DOS filing date on every row
• ⚡ Key-free — no login, no proxy, no API key

🎬 Quick Start

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~usa-newyork-company-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["Etsy","Peloton Interactive","Datadog"],"maxResultsPerQuery":10}'

🚀 Getting Started (3 steps)

1. Put names or DOS ids into queries. Both work in the same field.
2. Set the breadth. maxResultsPerQuery caps matches per query.
3. Run it. Rows arrive in the dataset; export to CSV/JSON/Excel or read them over the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	["Etsy","Peloton Interactive","Datadog"]	Entity names or DOS ids
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	10	Cap on entities returned per query
maxConcurrency	integer	4	Parallel requests
requestDelayMs	integer	0	Optional pause between requests
includeRaw	boolean	false	Attach the untouched source record to each row
proxyConfiguration	object	proxy off	The open-data portal answers direct requests

Example — verify one entity exactly:

{ "queries": ["4738435"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 1 }

Example — every entity behind a brand:

{ "queries": ["Etsy"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 50 }

📤 Output

One row per entity. Fill rates from the measured run (13 rows, 3 queries, 2026-09-20):

Field	Type	Fill	Description
companyName	string	100%	Current entity name
registrationNumber	string	100%	DOS id
status	string	100%	Register standing
legalForm	string	100%	Entity type (e.g. FOREIGN BUSINESS CORPORATION)
incorporatedOn	string	100%	Initial DOS filing date
county	string	100%	County of record
jurisdiction	string	100%	Jurisdiction of formation
processName	string	100%	Party designated to receive service of process
address / city / postalCode / state	string	100%	Address of record
countryName	string	100%	Always United States
registeredAgent	string	46%	Registered agent, where the entity has designated one
registeredAgentAddress	string	46%	That agent's address
sourceUrl	string	100%	NY DOS entity page
country / registry / query / scrapedAt	string	100%	Provenance fields

registeredAgent sits at 46% for a substantive reason: New York corporations are not required to appoint a registered agent — many designate only the Secretary of State for service of process, which is what processName and the address fields carry. Columns the register does not publish (tax number, raw status code, dissolution date, industry, headcount, capital, website, e-mail, phone, officers) were removed rather than shipped permanently empty.

A real row from the default run:

{
  "companyName": "PELOTON INTERACTIVE, INC.",
  "registrationNumber": "4738435",
  "status": "active",
  "legalForm": "FOREIGN BUSINESS CORPORATION",
  "incorporatedOn": "2015-04-07",
  "address": "CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY, 80 STATE STREET, ALBANY, NY, 12207",
  "city": "ALBANY",
  "postalCode": "12207"
}

💼 Use cases

• Counterparty verification — confirm a New York entity exists and its exact legal name
• Legal research — the service-of-process designation and address for a notice
• Corporate structure — domestic vs foreign status and jurisdiction of formation
• Territory lists — entities by county
• Entity resolution — map trading names to DOS ids across a messy vendor list

🔗 Integration

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/usa-newyork-company-data').call({
  queries: ['Peloton Interactive'], maxResultsPerQuery: 10,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("foxlabs/usa-newyork-company-data").call(
    run_input={"queries": ["Peloton Interactive"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 10}
)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

No-code: Make, n8n and Zapier reach this Actor through the Apify app — schedule it and push entity checks into a CRM or a sheet.

📊 Pricing

Pay-per-event: company-record — $0.004 per delivered row ($4 per 1,000). Compute and traffic are included; you pay for rows, not run time. Rows without a company name are not charged.

View current pricing.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a NY DOS account or key? No. The register is published as open data; no key, login or proxy.

Can I search by DOS id? Yes — put the id in queries.

Why is registeredAgent missing on half the rows? New York does not require one. Many corporations designate only the Secretary of State for service of process; processName and the address fields carry that designation on every row.

Is the address the company's office? Often it is the service-of-process address — frequently a corporate services provider in Albany, as in the Peloton row above — not the operating headquarters.

Does it include LLCs? The register covers active corporations and related entity types; legalForm tells you what each row is.

Which other states do you cover? Texas and Connecticut, on the same schema.

🐛 Troubleshooting

A run takes longer than the other state Actors. New York's portal is slower to answer; the measured run took 14 s for three queries. That is the source, not a fault.

A common name returns many entities. Narrow with the DOS id, or filter the output by county.

The address is not where the company operates. Expected — see the FAQ above; it is usually the service-of-process address.

⚠️ Trademark

The New York Department of State is a state agency. This Actor is an independent tool, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the State of New York, and reads only publicly published register data.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape this data?

New York publishes its corporation register as open data so the public can identify and serve legal entities. The rows this Actor returns are company records — business information. The service-of-process designation sometimes names an individual acting in a corporate capacity, exactly as the state publishes it. You remain responsible for how you use the output.

🤝 Support & contact

Questions, a field you need, or a bug: info@foxlabs.com.tr — or open an issue on the Actor's Apify page.

Changelog

0.1.8

• Removed permanently-empty columns (tax number, raw status code, dissolution date, industry, industry code, headcount, capital, website, e-mail, phone, officers) — the register does not carry them. Row went from 31 columns to 20, with zero permanently-empty columns left.

0.1

• New York DOS active-corporation search by name or DOS id.
• Pay-per-event billing on delivered rows (company-record).