# Florida Contractor Licenses - DBPR Construction Register (`j0401/fl-dbpr-contractors`) Actor

Florida DBPR construction contractor license register (262k rows, public record): search by name, county, city, license class or status, look up one license number, and screen suspensions and probations. Decodes the state's own county and class codes; includes qualified business organizations.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/j0401/fl-dbpr-contractors.md
- **Developed by:** [Wenhao Yang](https://apify.com/j0401) (community)
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## Pricing

from $0.03 / 1,000 florida construction contractor license records

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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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Florida Contractor Licenses - DBPR Construction Register (Board 06)

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) publishes its **entire current construction-industry licensee file** as a public record under Chapter 119, Florida Statutes - every certified and registered contractor, plus the qualified business organizations behind them - refreshed **weekly**. This actor turns that register into a **charged-per-record lookup and screening tool**.

**Built for:** contractor due diligence - verifying that a contractor actually holds a current Florida license, screening suspended and probationary licenses, corporate / qualifying-individual research, construction-industry onboarding and compliance checks, and statewide market sizing.

### What it covers

**262,166 rows** (current register, weekly refresh):

| Occupation | What it is | Rows |
|---|---|---|
| `Qualified Business Organization` | a business qualified through a qualifying individual (no license number of its own) | 128,037 |
| `Certified General Contractor` | CGC | 35,541 |
| `Financial Responsible Officer` | FRO | 19,363 |
| `Certified Building Contractor` | CBC | 17,790 |
| `Certified Air Conditioning Contractor` | CAC | 11,473 |
| `Certified Roofing Contractor` | CCC | 10,312 |

plus certified mechanical, pool/spa, residential, sheet metal, utility & excavation, solar, specialty and pollutant-storage contractors, the **registered** (RA / RB / RC / RF / RG / RM / RP / RR / RS / RU / RX) tier, tank contractors, course providers and CILB courses. **Roughly half the file - 128,037 rows - is qualified business organizations**, which carry no license number of their own; the other **134,129 rows hold a license number**.

Every row carries the licensee / business name, the **doing-business-as** name, the license number, **occupation**, **class code**, mailing address, city, state, ZIP, **decoded county**, **primary status** (current / suspended / probation), **secondary status** (active / inactive), and original-licensure, effective and expiration dates. Dates come through as clean ISO (`YYYY-MM-DD`).

> **The register ships as raw codes** - Florida's file has no header row, stores the county as a number (not a name), and the license status as a letter. This actor decodes all of it: `23` -> `Miami-Dade`, `C` -> `Current`, `S` -> `Suspended`, and a class code like `GLZ` -> `Glass & Glazing Specialty`. Out-of-state licensees are resolved to their home state (`744` -> `Texas`).

### Typical questions

- "Is this contractor's license **current** in Florida - and is it **suspended or on probation**?"
- "Show every **certified general contractor in Lee County**."
- "Which **businesses are qualified** under this qualifying individual?"
- "Look up license **CBC006261**."
- "Find contractors carrying a **specialty class** - glass & glazing, irrigation, marine, pool."
- "How are licensed contractors **distributed across Florida's 67 counties**?"

### Inputs

| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| `licenseNumber` | exact license number -> that contractor's row(s), e.g. `CBC006261` (case / leading zeros ignored) |
| `name` | licensee or DBA name substring, case-insensitive |
| `occupation` | occupation code (CGC, CBC, CAC, SCC, QB, FRO ) |
| `classCode` | class within the occupation (`A` / `B` / `C`, or a specialty code) |
| `county` / `countyCode` | county by decoded name, or by DBPR numeric code |
| `city` / `state` / `zipCode` | location filters (out-of-state licensees carry their home state) |
| `status` | C = Current, S = Suspended, P = Probation |
| `secondaryStatus` | A = Active, I = Inactive |
| `licensedOnly` | true = only license-holding rows; false = only qualified business organizations |
| `aggregate` / `groupBy` | one summary row per group with a count - occupation / county / status / class |
| `maxResults` | cap records (default 200) |

**Default run = a tiny aggregate** (occupation mix) - fast and safe for the daily auto-test, never a surprise full dump. For records, add a `name` / `county` / `occupation` filter or a `licenseNumber`.

### Example inputs

**Look up one license number** - a bare number returns that contractor's row(s).

```json
{ "licenseNumber": "CBC006261" }
```

**Certified general contractors in Lee County** -

```json
{ "occupation": "CGC", "county": "Lee", "maxResults": 10 }
```

**Screen suspended licenses** - `status=S` returns every currently suspended license.

```json
{ "status": "S", "maxResults": 10 }
```

**The occupation mix** - one summary row per occupation, across the register.

```json
{ "aggregate": true, "groupBy": "occupation", "maxResults": 10 }
```

### Low cost

**From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold** - billed only for the rows you use, and each record is metered individually.

Florida's register is a **46 MB, headerless flat file** with no query server behind it - there is no way to ask the state for "just Lee County general contractors". Rather than make every lookup pay for a full-register download, the register is **mirrored weekly**, and each run queries the mirror in a single pass. That mirror is what lets a 262,166-row register behave like a live lookup at per-record pricing. Every pull is integrity-checked against the register's known shape (total count, occupation floors, the closed occupation vocabulary, key-column coverage), so a degraded or schema-changed source **fails loudly** instead of returning bad rows.

### Example output

**`licenseNumber=CBC006261`** - a certified building contractor:

```json
{
 "platform": "fl-dbpr",
 "source": "fl-dbpr-construction",
 "state": "FL",
 "licenseNumber": "CBC006261",
 "licenseSequence": "0006261",
 "occupationCode": "CBC",
 "occupation": "Certified Building Contractor",
 "licenseeName": "ERGLE, GERALD K",
 "dbaName": "",
 "classCode": "",
 "classDescription": "",
 "address1": "3631 SE 12TH PLACE",
 "address2": "",
 "address3": "",
 "city": "OCALA",
 "state": "FL",
 "zipCode": "34471",
 "countyCode": "52",
 "county": "Marion",
 "primaryStatus": "C",
 "primaryStatusMeaning": "Current",
 "secondaryStatus": "I",
 "secondaryStatusMeaning": "Inactive",
 "originalLicensureDate": "",
 "effectiveDate": "2026-08-11",
 "expirationDate": "2028-08-31",
 "refreshed": "2026-10-07",
 "mode": "record",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": ""
}
```

**`aggregate=true`, `groupBy=occupation`** - the register's occupation mix:

```
Qualified Business Organization            128,037
Certified General Contractor                35,541
Financial Responsible Officer              19,363
Certified Building Contractor               17,790
Certified Air Conditioning Contractor       11,473
```

### Source

- [DBPR Licensee Download Files](https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/sto/file_download/) - the official weekly public extract this actor reads.
- License data is DBPR's own published register; it reflects the state's record as of the weekly refresh.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

lookup = one license number's row(s). aggregate = one row per group. Leave blank to auto-route: a bare licenseNumber -> lookup, otherwise search (or aggregate when aggregate=true).

## `licenseNumber` (type: `string`):

Exact Florida DBPR license number, e.g. "CBC006261" or "CGCA10859". Case and leading zeros are ignored, so "cbc6261" and "CBC006261" both match.

## `name` (type: `string`):

Licensee or doing-business-as name, substring, case-insensitive. E.g. "PERINI" or "POOL SERVICE".

## `occupation` (type: `string`):

Occupation code. C\* = certified, R\* = registered. CGC = certified general contractor; CBC = certified building; CAC = certified air conditioning; SCC = certified specialty; QB = qualified business organization (a business qualified through a qualifying individual); FRO = financial responsible officer. Blank = all.

## `classCode` (type: `string`):

Class code within the occupation, e.g. "A" / "B" / "C" for air conditioning and pool contractors, or a specialty code ("GLZ" glass & glazing, "CKC" gypsum drywall, "IS" irrigation). Exact match.

## `county` (type: `string`):

County name, substring, case-insensitive (e.g. "Lee", "Miami-Dade"). Covers the 67 Florida counties plus out-of-state licensees (matched by their home state name).

## `countyCode` (type: `string`):

DBPR numeric county code, e.g. "23" (Miami-Dade), "16" (Broward), "60" (Palm Beach). Exact match. Leave blank to use the county name instead.

## `city` (type: `string`):

City name, substring, case-insensitive (e.g. "MIAMI").

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter mailing state, exact match (e.g. "FL"). Out-of-state licensees carry their home state.

## `zipCode` (type: `string`):

Mailing ZIP prefix, digits only (e.g. "339" for Fort Myers).

## `status` (type: `string`):

C = Current, S = Suspended, P = Probation. Blank = all. Use "S" to screen suspended licenses.

## `secondaryStatus` (type: `string`):

A = Active, I = Inactive. Blank = all (includes records with no secondary status, mostly qualified-business rows).

## `licensedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

true = only rows that hold a license number; false = only qualified business organizations (rows with no license number); leave unset for both. Roughly half the file is qualified-business rows.

## `aggregate` (type: `boolean`):

When on, returns one summary record per group (with a count) instead of individual license rows.

## `groupBy` (type: `string`):

occupation -> the license-type mix; county -> geographic distribution; primaryStatus -> current / suspended / probation; classCode -> specialty class spread.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Cap the number of records pushed (0 = a reasonable ceiling of 200).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "aggregate": false,
  "groupBy": "occupation",
  "maxResults": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `recordsUrl` (type: `string`):

Florida DBPR construction contractor license records - as JSON

## `datasetUrl` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runUrl` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("j0401/fl-dbpr-contractors").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("j0401/fl-dbpr-contractors").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 '{}' |
apify call j0401/fl-dbpr-contractors --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,j0401/fl-dbpr-contractors"
        }
    }
}
```

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/w2Iey5P1fB9TC4cPD/builds/7kAjxepxovwtFrz9I/openapi.json