New Orleans Business Licenses Scraper — New Business Leads

The New Orleans business licenses scraper gives you one row per occupational business license for New Orleans, Louisiana, straight from the City of New Orleans via the official data.nola.gov open-data 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 started and active City of New Orleans (Orleans Parish) businesses as a ready-to-use lead list: business name, owner, business type, license number, start date (including planned openings), address, ZIP, phone (opt-in, when the city publishes it), mailing address and coordinates. Data comes from the official open-data API (data.nola.gov dataset hjcd-grvu, "Occupational Business Licenses"). The dataset is refreshed daily (last refresh at build time: 2026-10-16); the newest real start date at build time was 2026-10-15.

What you get

Each row is one occupational business license as published by the City of New Orleans (businesses that completed licensing; temporary licenses are not included by the city). Rows are sorted newest business start date first with a stable :id tiebreak, so large runs never skip or repeat rows. About 10 license numbers are published twice (only ~2 are exact copies; the rest list different mailing addresses). By default (dedupeLicenses) you get one row per license number, and allMailingAddresses keeps every distinct mailing address, so nothing is lost.

Sample output (real run, includePhone: true)

{
  "businessName": "CREAM DADDY, LLC",
  "ownerName": "CREAM DADDY, LLC",
  "businessType": "Specialty Food Stores, All Other",
  "licenseNumber": "106028620",
  "startDate": "2026-10-15",
  "address": "2230 URSULINES AVE",
  "suite": null,
  "city": "NEW ORLEANS",
  "state": "LA",
  "zip": "70119",
  "zipFull": "70119-3530",
  "phone": "(720) 633-4348",
  "phoneE164": "+17206334348",
  "phoneExtension": null,
  "startsInFuture": false,
  "mailingAddress": "2230 URSULINES AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119-3530",
  "allMailingAddresses": [
    "2230 URSULINES AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119-3530"
  ],
  "latitude": 29.970622106225715,
  "longitude": -90.07571664619175,
  "source": "City of New Orleans via data.nola.gov"
}

Missing coordinates are null (about 24% of rows; the city publishes them as 0). With includePhone off (default), phone, phoneE164 and phoneExtension are left out.

Use cases

• B2B sales: reach brand-new New Orleans businesses that need insurance, accounting, payroll, banking, signage, websites or POS.
• Restaurant and bar suppliers: typeContains: ["Restaurant", "Drinking Places"].
• Contractor and trade lists: typeContains: ["Contractor"].
• Market research: new-business formation by type and ZIP.

How to scrape New Orleans 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
openedSince	Optional real date, YYYY-MM-DD. Invalid dates fail fast with a clear message. Empty = all ~38,000 licenses
typeContains	Business type text, e.g. Restaurant, Contractor, Salon, Home Based
nameContains	Matches business name or owner
zipCodes	5-digit ZIPs, e.g. 70112
excludeSpecialEventVendors	Default false. On drops ~8,300 special-event vendor licenses (~22%); the ~69 rows with no business type are kept
excludeFutureStartDates	Default false: the ~12 licenses with a start date after today are included and flagged startsInFuture: true. Most are planned openings in the next weeks (fresh leads); dates in 2027 or later may be typos. On = drop them
dedupeLicenses	Default true. One row per license number; every distinct mailing address of a duplicated license is kept in allMailingAddresses
includePhone	Default false. On adds phone (as published; null if the city field holds an email), phoneE164 (US/Canada (NANP) number normalized to +1XXXXXXXXXX with any extension removed; null for invalid or placeholder numbers such as 999-999-9999, 555-5555 or 000-0000) and phoneExtension (digits after x / ext / extension). See Phone numbers and calling rules below
maxItems	Default 200

Pricing (pay per event)

$3 per 1,000 rows ($0.003 each) plus Apify's minimal $0.00005 start fee. Example: 200 leads = 200 × $0.003 + $0.00005 ≈ $0.60; every license started in 2026 so far (~1,800) ≈ $5.40. Price is the same with or without includePhone. 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 City of New Orleans. Start dates are the date the business reported, not the license issue date; a few are far in the past (e.g. 1900). Future dates are included and flagged with startsInFuture; most are planned openings, but 2027+ dates may be typos. phone (opt-in) is the business phone the city publishes as open data (present on ~83% of rows); nothing is added from other sources, and no emails are included. Owners are often companies; owner names are public license records.

Phone numbers and calling rules

Phone numbers are off by default and only returned when you set includePhone: true. The city publishes this dataset as open data, but no license field is set on it. Many numbers belong to sole proprietors and home-based businesses (about 17,000 phone rows look like individual owners, ~1,100 are home-based), so many are personal cell phones. You are responsible for complying with the law when you contact anyone:

• TCPA: autodialed or prerecorded calls, and marketing texts, to cell phones require the recipient's prior express consent (prior express written consent for telemarketing).
• National Do Not Call Registry: sole-proprietor residential and cell lines are not exempt; scrub numbers against the registry before telemarketing.
• Louisiana Do Not Call: telephone solicitors must register with the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LA PSC) and honor the Louisiana DNC list. This is not legal advice.

License and disclaimer

Source: City of New Orleans Open Data (data.nola.gov, public records). This actor uses only the official public open-data API and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of New Orleans.

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape New Orleans business licenses?

You pay $0.003 per result ($3 per 1,000) plus a $0.00005 start fee, and nothing else. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, which covers about 1,600 results. See Pricing above for a worked example.

Is it legal to scrape New Orleans business licenses?

This Actor reads public records from the City of New Orleans via the official data.nola.gov open-data 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. If you plan to call or text businesses, read Phone numbers and calling rules above first.

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.

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