# Oregon Business Registry - Entities, Agents & Addresses (`j0401/or-business-registry`) Actor

Oregon Secretary of State business registry (public open data, 565,827 entities across 1.58M role records): every registered business with its entity type, principal place of business, mailing address, registered agent and authorized representative, and organizing jurisdiction.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/j0401/or-business-registry.md
- **Developed by:** [Wenhao Yang](https://apify.com/j0401) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.06 / 1,000 oregon business registry 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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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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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

## Oregon Business Registry - Entities, Agents & Addresses

Every business registered in Oregon appears in the Secretary of State's registry, along with the parties behind it and the addresses on record. This actor turns that registry into a **charged-per-record search, filter and aggregate tool**: find a business by name, pull every role on one registry number, search by registered agent, or aggregate the register.

**Built for:** KYC and business verification, registered-agent and service-of-process research, entity-type and jurisdiction analysis, address and owner research, and anyone who needs **the state's own business register** without paging the Secretary of State's search one name at a time.

### What it covers

**565,827 registered entities** across **1,577,810 role records** - the state's business register, carrying:

- the **entity type** - 21 exact values, led by `DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY` (**894,925**), `ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME` (**233,948**), `DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION` (**138,299**), nonprofit corporations, foreign entities, professional corporations, partnerships, cooperatives and business trusts
- the **party for each role** - a natural person (first / middle / last / suffix) or an organization, whichever the state recorded (`notOfRecordEntity` carries the organization on the 161 rows where the party named is *not* the record entity itself, such as a mailing address held by an outside firm)
- the **full address** per role - street, address continued, city, state (67 values), ZIP
- the **organizing jurisdiction** - 117 values
- the **registry date**, and a link to the Secretary of State's own name-search record for the business

### The fine print that matters

**A registry number is not a business record - it is a stack of roles.** This table stores one row per **party role**, so a business appears several times: `PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS` (**560,800**), `REGISTERED AGENT` (**450,601**), `MAILING ADDRESS` (**448,925**) and `AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE` (**117,484**). That is **2.79 rows per entity**, so reporting 1.58M as the business count would overstate by nearly three times - the entity count is **565,827**. Every record names its `role`, and `role` is a filter, so one registry number returns all of a business's roles together.

**This registry has no status column.** There is no Active, Inactive or Dissolved field anywhere in it, so this actor cannot tell you whether a business is still in good standing - only what is on record. That is a limitation of the source, not of the actor, and nothing here implies a currency the data does not carry.

**An assumed business name is an entity type in its own right.** `ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME` rows (233,948) are DBA registrations, and `entityOfRecordNumber` links one back to the underlying entity - but it is populated on only **155,819** of 1,577,810 rows, because it applies to that one role. Blank is the norm here, not a defect. Each record flags `isAssumedBusinessName` so the two are easy to separate.

Name fields are **substring-matched**, so `personName=SMITH` also returns `GOLDSMITH` - useful when you want it, and worth knowing when you do not.

### Typical questions

- "**Every role on record** for one business" - principal place of business, mailing address, agent and representative in one call.
- "Which businesses has a given **registered agent** filed for?"
- "**Cooperatives** registered in Oregon."
- "Businesses by **entity type** or **organizing jurisdiction**."
- "Businesses **registered in a date window**."
- "Aggregate the register by **entity type**, **role**, **state** or **jurisdiction**."

### Inputs

| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| `mode` | `rows` (default) / `aggregate` |
| `businessName` | business name substring |
| `registryNumber` | exact registry number - returns every role for that business |
| `entityType` | 21 exact types (LLC, corporation, nonprofit, assumed business name ) |
| `role` | principal place of business / registered agent / mailing address / authorized representative |
| `personName` | agent or representative name, matched on person parts or the organization |
| `city` / `state` | address on the role |
| `jurisdiction` | organizing jurisdiction |
| `registeredFrom` / `registeredTo` | registry-date window |
| `groupBy` | aggregate over entity type / role / state / jurisdiction |
| `maxResults` | cap records (default 50) |

**Default run = the 50 most recent role records** - fast for the daily auto-test. For a targeted query add a filter; for a broad view use `aggregate`.

### Low cost

**From $0.00006 per record** Pay-per-event: you are charged per record delivered, and nothing for the query. Cost scales with what you pull, not with the size of the register, and each record is metered individually - a full business profile costs a fraction of a cent.

# Actor input Schema

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

rows = role records matching your filters (default). aggregate = one count row per group (see groupBy).

## `businessName` (type: `string`):

Registered business name substring, e.g. 'BREWING'. Blank = any.

## `registryNumber` (type: `string`):

Exact registry number, e.g. '299818'. A business has one row per party role, so a registry number returns several records (principal place of business, mailing address, registered agent, authorized representative).

## `entityType` (type: `string`):

The entity's type. DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (894,925) dominates, then ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME (233,948) and DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION (138,299). Blank = any.

## `role` (type: `string`):

Which role record to return. PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS (560,800), REGISTERED AGENT (450,601), MAILING ADDRESS (448,925), AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE (117,484). Blank = all roles.

## `personName` (type: `string`):

Name substring matched against the agent or representative's first / last name, or the organization named on the role. Combine with role=REGISTERED AGENT to search by agent. Blank = any.

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

City substring on the role's address. Filter only - the city column is not an aggregate dimension. Blank = any.

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

Two-letter state on the role's address. Blank = any.

## `jurisdiction` (type: `string`):

Jurisdiction the entity is organized under, an exact 2-3 letter code (117 values), e.g. 'OR' for Oregon-domiciled (1.29M rows). Blank = any.

## `registeredFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest registry date, YYYY-MM-DD. Blank = any. The registry reaches back to 1850.

## `registeredTo` (type: `string`):

Latest registry date, YYYY-MM-DD. Blank = any.

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

Which dimension to aggregate over.

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

Cap the number of records pushed in rows mode (0 = up to ~10k per run; each record is metered individually, so there is no per-run charge cap). Aggregate mode returns every group.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "rows",
  "businessName": "",
  "registryNumber": "",
  "entityType": "",
  "role": "",
  "personName": "",
  "city": "",
  "state": "",
  "jurisdiction": "",
  "registeredFrom": "",
  "registeredTo": "",
  "groupBy": "entityType",
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Oregon business registry records or aggregates - 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/or-business-registry").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/or-business-registry").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/or-business-registry --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/ssqR9lgQFkku60o6d/builds/EarJvLfEhKV4TEpSM/openapi.json