# Delaware Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads (`groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses`) Actor

Scrape active Delaware state business licenses from the Division of Revenue via the official data.delaware.gov API: business and trade name, license category, validity dates and address. Filter newly issued licenses by year, city, ZIP and category for B2B lead generation. Export CSV, Excel, JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses.md
- **Developed by:** [John](https://apify.com/groundplanes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 business licenses

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

The **Delaware business licenses scraper** gives you one row per active Delaware business license for **Delaware**, straight from the **Delaware Division of Revenue** via the official data.delaware.gov API. No login or coding needed: run it in your browser, on a schedule, or through the Apify API, and export results as **JSON, CSV or Excel**.

Get newly licensed Delaware businesses as a ready-to-use lead list. The data comes from the **Delaware Division of Revenue** through the official open-data API ([data.delaware.gov dataset 5zy2-grhr](https://data.delaware.gov/d/5zy2-grhr)). The state republishes the dataset **daily**.

### What you get

Each row is **one license plus one trade name**. A license registered under several trade names (DBAs) appears once per trade name with the same `licenseNumber`. Turn on `dedupeLicenses` to get one row per license. Each row includes the legal and trade name, license category (contractor, retailer, professional services and so on), the year first issued, validity dates, address and coordinates. Rows are sorted newest license first, with a stable tiebreak, so large runs never skip or repeat rows.

#### Sample output

```json
{
  "licenseNumber": "2026952108",
  "businessName": "SOLEX LLC",
  "tradeName": "ZION HVAC",
  "category": "RESIDENT CONTRACTOR",
  "licenseYear": 2026,
  "validFrom": "2026-02-09",
  "validTo": "2026-12-31",
  "address": "165 LIBORIO DR",
  "city": "MIDDLETOWN",
  "state": "DE",
  "zip": "19709",
  "country": "UNITED STATES",
  "latitude": 39.45396,
  "longitude": -75.7308,
  "source": "Delaware Division of Revenue via data.delaware.gov"
}
```

The same license also appears with trade name `ZION SHEET METAL`, which is one row per trade name.

### Use cases

- **B2B sales:** reach brand-new businesses that need accounting, insurance, banking, payroll, signage, websites or POS systems.
- **Contractor lead lists:** filter with `categoryContains: CONTRACTOR`.
- **Market research:** track new-business formation by city or ZIP.

### How to scrape Delaware business licenses

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**) on this page. A free Apify account is enough.
2. Leave the prefilled input to get a quick sample, or set the filters described below.
3. Set **maxItems** to cap how many rows (and how much) a run returns.
4. Click **Start** and wait a few seconds to a minute.
5. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect them to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| newSinceYear | Year first issued, or later. Leave empty to use the current year automatically. Use 1900 for all active licenses. |
| issuedSinceDate | Optional real date, YYYY-MM-DD. Invalid dates fail fast with a clear message. |
| delawareOnly | Default true. This drops about 3,000 out-of-state licensees. |
| cities / zipCodes | Location filters |
| categoryContains | e.g. `CONTRACTOR` |
| excludeTradeNameOnly | Drop DBA-only registrants |
| dedupeLicenses | One row per license number instead of one per trade name |
| maxItems | Default 200 |

### Pricing (pay per event)

$5 per 1,000 rows ($0.005 each), plus Apify's minimal $0.00005 start fee. **Example:** 200 leads cost about $1.00. If a run hits your max charge limit, it stops cleanly and reports how many rows it delivered.

### Data caveats

Data is provided **as published by the State of Delaware**. Some source records have implausible dates (for example a `validFrom` of 2092-07-11). These are passed through unchanged. `licenseYear` is derived from the first four digits of the license number, not from a separate state field.

### License and disclaimer

The source dataset is **Public Domain** (data.delaware.gov). Only public business records are included, with no personal contact data. This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the State of Delaware. It covers state business *licenses*, not the Delaware corporations registry.

### FAQ

#### How much does it cost to scrape Delaware business licenses?

You pay $0.005 per result ($5 per 1,000) plus a $0.00005 start fee, and nothing else. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, which covers about 1,000 results. See **Pricing** above for a worked example.

#### Is it legal to scrape Delaware business licenses?

This Actor reads public records from the **Delaware Division of Revenue** via the official data.delaware.gov API, using only public endpoints (no login, no CAPTCHA bypass, no private accounts). See the source/license section above for the dataset's terms. You are responsible for how you use the data; this is not legal advice.

#### How fresh is the data?

Each run reads the source live, so you get whatever the agency has published at that moment. How often the agency updates, and any known lag, is described in the data caveats/notes section above.

#### Can I use it via API, on a schedule, or with Google Sheets?

Yes. Every Apify Actor has a REST API and client libraries for Python and JavaScript. You can schedule daily or weekly runs, and send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n, webhooks, or an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

#### I need another city, county or field. Can you add it?

Open an issue on the **Issues** tab with the city or data source you need. We build new public-records scrapers regularly.

### More public-records scrapers by Groundplanes

Same clean output, pay-per-result pricing and official public data sources:

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- [Boulder CO Restaurant Inspections Scraper — 2013–2026 Snapshot](https://apify.com/groundplanes/boulder-county-restaurant-inspections)
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#### Code violations & distressed property leads

- [Pittsburgh Code Violations Scraper — Distressed Property Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/pittsburgh-code-violations)
- [Orlando FL Code Enforcement Scraper — Code Violation Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/orlando-code-enforcement-cases)
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#### Business licenses & new business leads

- [Norfolk VA Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/norfolk-va-business-licenses)
- [Berkeley CA Business Licenses Scraper — Local B2B Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/berkeley-ca-business-licenses)
- [New Orleans Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads](https://apify.com/groundplanes/nola-occupational-business-licenses)

# Actor input Schema

## `newSinceYear` (type: `integer`):

License numbers start with the year first issued. Leave empty to use the current year automatically, so new businesses only. Set 1900 for all active licenses.

## `issuedSinceDate` (type: `string`):

Optional, YYYY-MM-DD. Must be a real date. Keeps licenses whose current validity period starts on or after this date. Combine with newSinceYear for the latest registrations.

## `delawareOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only businesses with a Delaware address. Turning this on drops about 3,000 out-of-state licensees.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

e.g. WILMINGTON, DOVER, NEWARK. Case-insensitive. Empty = all.

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

5-digit ZIPs. Empty = all.

## `categoryContains` (type: `array`):

License category text, e.g. CONTRACTOR, RETAILER, PROFESSIONAL, CONSULTANT. Empty = all.

## `excludeTradeNameOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Drop 'TRADE NAME ONLY REGISTRANT' entries.

## `dedupeLicenses` (type: `boolean`):

By default each row is one license plus one trade name, so a license with several DBAs appears several times. Turn on to keep only the first row per license number.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum rows to return (newest first).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "delawareOnly": true,
  "excludeTradeNameOnly": false,
  "dedupeLicenses": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 200
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 200 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 200
}' |
apify call groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,groundplanes/delaware-business-licenses"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Tc02XpN6ttAVW4mlo/builds/7MMU2eP0lHaZNPe78/openapi.json