FINRA Broker-Dealer & Investment Advisor Scraper — Keyless Financial-Firm Leads, Pay Per Result

📊 Example output (real run)

A real record from a live run — clean structured data, exported as CSV / JSON / Excel or via API.

Pull registered broker-dealer and investment-advisor firms straight from FINRA BrokerCheck — the official regulator source for every US securities firm. Search by keyword, filter to active firms, and get clean structured records with CRD number, SEC registration, address, phone, branch count, and disclosure flags.

Keyless. No signup. No sales call. Pay per result. Perfect for fintech sales, RegTech, compliance tooling, and financial-services B2B outreach — no seat license, no credit plan, no gated pages.

Where this fits: this is primary-source regulatory sales intent — a data shape the seat-based lead DBs (Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha) don't sell per-call. Every firm here is a regulated, verifiable entity with a CRD number you can cross-reference, not a scraped guess.

What you get

Every record returned by a live run (fields verified against real output):

Field	Description
firm_name	Registered firm name
crd_number	FINRA Central Registration Depository number
sec_bd_number	SEC broker-dealer registration number
sec_ia_number	SEC investment-advisor registration number
is_broker_dealer	Registered as a broker-dealer (bool)
is_investment_advisor	Registered as an investment advisor (bool)
bd_status / ia_status / overall_status	Registration status (e.g. ACTIVE)
branch_count	Number of registered branch offices
has_disclosures	Whether the firm has regulatory disclosures (bool)
other_names	DBAs and alternate names
street / city / state / zip / country	Firm address
phone	Firm phone number
profile_url	Direct link to the BrokerCheck firm summary
search_query	The keyword that surfaced the firm

Inputs

Input	Type	Default	Notes
queries	array	["securities","capital","wealth","asset management"]	Search keywords
maxResults	integer	500	Cap on firms returned
activeOnly	boolean	true	Return only actively registered firms
stateFilter	string	—	Optional US state filter

Example output

{
  "firm_name": "VF SECURITIES",
  "crd_number": "315194",
  "sec_bd_number": "8-70745",
  "is_broker_dealer": true,
  "is_investment_advisor": false,
  "overall_status": "ACTIVE",
  "branch_count": 2,
  "has_disclosures": false,
  "other_names": ["VESTED", "VF SECURITIES, INC", "VESTED FINANCE"],
  "city": "EL SEGUNDO",
  "state": "CA",
  "zip": "90245",
  "phone": "303-217-0143",
  "profile_url": "https://brokercheck.finra.org/firm/summary/315194"
}

Example use cases

• Fintech & RegTech sales — build targeted lists of active broker-dealers and RIAs by keyword and state.
• Compliance & due diligence — resolve a firm to its CRD/SEC numbers and check disclosure flags before onboarding a partner.
• Market mapping — size a competitive landscape of registered financial firms in a niche.
• Data enrichment — append CRD number, registration status, and branch footprint to an existing prospect list.

Why this over the incumbents

	This actor	Apollo / ZoomInfo / Lusha
Access	Keyless, no signup	Seat license + credit caps
Pricing	Pay per result, no minimum	$49-99+/seat/mo
Source	Official FINRA BrokerCheck (regulator)	Aggregated / scraped web
Agent-native	Yes — callable from AI agents	No
Compliance signal	CRD + SEC numbers + disclosures	Not included

Output formats

Export to CSV, JSON, or Excel, or stream through the Apify API into your CRM, compliance pipeline, or data warehouse. Agent-native and callable over MCP + x402 through the GoCreative gateway.

Tips

• Keep activeOnly=true (default) to drop de-registered firms from outreach lists.
• Add narrow, high-intent keywords to queries (e.g. "crypto", "municipal", "private wealth") to target a specific segment.
• Pair with the GoCreative Keyless Sanctions Screening API to pre-screen each firm's principals against OFAC before you engage.