Florida Contractor License Lookup & Verify (DBPR)

Verify a Florida contractor licence by number or business name. Status, classifications, expiration and qualifier from the DBPR extract, as normalized JSON.

Look up by licence number, or search by business name. Every record comes back in the same normalized shape, so Florida results parse identically to any other state's.

Before you run it

The DBPR extract carries no status column, so status here is derived from the expiration date. A Florida licence that has been suspended or revoked but has not yet run out will read ACTIVE. Treat it as "not expired" rather than "in good standing", and confirm against DBPR directly when the difference matters.

What DBPR publishes

• Licence status, derived from the expiration date
• Classifications (certified and registered building, roofing, mechanical and the rest)
• Issue and expiration dates
• Qualifier name
• Business address

What it does not

– A status column of its own – Surety bond – Workers' compensation – General liability insurance – Disciplinary actions

A field the source does not publish comes back null, and every record carries a data_completeness map saying which fields DBPR supplies at all — so a null you can act on is never confused with one you cannot.

Input

{
  "licenseNumbers": ["CBC026112"],
  "names": ["GREG MINOR CONSTRUCTION"],
  "limit": 25
}

Give licence numbers, names, or both. A name search pages until the register says there are no more matches.

Output

One dataset row per licence, carrying the query that found it:

{
  "query": "CBC026112",
  "query_type": "license_number",
  "state": "FL",
  "license_number": "CBC026112",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "status_raw": "Active",
  "business_name": "GREG MINOR CONSTRUCTION",
  "classifications": [{ "code": "B", "description": "GENERAL BUILDING" }],
  "expiration_date": "2027-02-28",
  "source_url": "https://…",
  "data_as_of": "2026-08-04T00:00:00Z"
}

data_as_of is the age of the underlying register extract — not when this run happened. Use it before concluding the API disagrees with the board.

Billing

Pay per licence record delivered. A query that matches nothing costs nothing.

Other states

This actor covers Florida. The same data for the other states, and one API call that spans all of them, is at swanum.com — also on RapidAPI.

Data source

Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), the official Florida register. This actor adds no data of its own: it normalizes what the board publishes and says plainly where the board is silent.