Contractor License Lookup: Verify WA, OR and TX Licenses

Contractor License Verifier checks contractor licenses in Washington, Oregon and Texas in one run. Give it a license number or a business name (partial matches work) and get back one flat row per license: status, license type, classification, issue and expiry dates, bond company and amount, insurance company and amount, location and a link to the licensing board. It reads the official state open-data portals (Washington L&I, Oregon CCB, Texas TDLR), so there is no login, browser or form scraping.

Input

{
  "queries": ["roofing"],
  "states": ["WA", "OR", "TX"],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25
}

• queries: license numbers or business names. Each entry is matched (partial, case-insensitive) against license number and business name (Texas also matches owner name).
• states: any of WA, OR, TX (default all three).
• activeOnly: skip expired, cancelled or suspended licenses (default false).
• maxResultsPerQuery: upper limit of rows per query per state, 1 to 500 (default 10).

Output

One row per license. Real example row from the Oregon dataset:

{
  "state": "OR",
  "licensingBoard": "Oregon Construction Contractors Board",
  "licenseNumber": "261776",
  "businessName": "MORI COMMERCIAL ROOFING SOLUTIONS LLC",
  "licenseType": "CGC2",
  "classification": "Commercial General Contractor Level 2",
  "status": "Active",
  "issueDate": "2026-05-21",
  "expiryDate": "2028-05-21",
  "bondCompany": "WESTERN SURETY COMPANY",
  "bondAmount": 25000,
  "bondExpiryDate": "2028-05-21",
  "insuranceCompany": "CRUM & FORSTER SPECIALTY INS CO",
  "insuranceAmount": 1000000,
  "insuranceExpiryDate": "2027-03-30",
  "city": "PORTLAND",
  "zip": "97239",
  "county": "Multnomah",
  "query": "roofing",
  "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/ccb/Pages/search.aspx",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

Search phrases this actor is built for:

• "Verify contractor license in Washington, Oregon or Texas": put your shortlist of names in queries and compare all three states at once.
• "Check contractor license status by number or business name": read status and expiryDate; add activeOnly to drop lapsed licenses.
• "Contractor license lookup with bond and insurance expiry": read bondAmount, bondExpiryDate, insuranceAmount and insuranceExpiryDate for Washington and Oregon.

Typical users are general contractors and property managers vetting subcontractors, surety and insurance teams re-checking at renewal, and directories that re-verify listings. It also works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

Pay per result: each license record returned is one billable result, listed at $0.002 per record ($2 per 1,000). No subscription. Set a maximum charge on the run for a hard ceiling.

Limits

• Only Washington, Oregon and Texas are supported. For new California licenses see the CA new contractor licenses actor by the same publisher.
• Texas does not publish bond or insurance data in its open dataset, so those fields are null for Texas rows.
• The Oregon dataset contains only active licenses. The Texas status is derived from the expiry date.
• Freshness follows each state's open-data refresh. Confirm critical decisions with the licensing board using the url column; this is not legal advice.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Washington L&I (data.wa.gov), Oregon CCB (data.oregon.gov) and Texas TDLR (data.texas.gov) open data.

Why are Texas bond fields empty? Texas does not publish them in its open dataset.

Can I search by license number? Yes. License numbers and business names go in the same queries list.