New Contractor License Feed + Verification - FL & TX (DBPR, TDLR)

Know the moment a new contractor gets licensed in Florida or Texas — electricians, HVAC contractors, roofers, plumbers, general building contractors and more — and verify license numbers in bulk against the freshest official data.

Built entirely on official state bulk data (Florida DBPR license extracts and the Texas TDLR dataset on the official Texas Open Data Portal). No scraping, no fragile page automation — which means this feed doesn't break when a website changes.

Who uses this

• Suppliers, distributors, insurers, and SaaS vendors: newly licensed contractors are brand-new businesses actively buying tools, materials, insurance, software, and services. Reach them in their first weeks, before your competitors know they exist.
• Compliance and marketplace teams: batch-verify that contractor license numbers are current before onboarding or paying them.
• Lead-gen agencies: a scheduled, deduplicated feed of new trade businesses by state, trade and location.

Two modes

1. New-license feed (delta)

Run it on a schedule (daily or weekly). Each run compares the current official data against the previous run and emits only what changed:

• new_license — a license number that wasn't there before
• status_changed — status or expiry changed (Florida)

The first delta run builds the baseline and emits nothing — that's by design, there is nothing to compare against yet. Events flow from the second run onward.

(Want to see output on your very first run? The actor's default input runs verification mode with a sample license, so a run with no changes returns a real result straight away — then switch to delta for the feed.)

{
  "eventType": "new_license",
  "state": "FL",
  "licenseNumber": "CBC123456",
  "businessName": "SUNSHINE BUILD GROUP LLC",
  "rawLicenseType": "CBC",
  "normalizedTrade": "general_building",
  "status": "C",
  "issueDate": "06/28/2026",
  "expiryDate": "08/31/2028",
  "city": "TAMPA",
  "zip": "33602"
}

Filter by state, normalised trade, county (TX) or city (FL). Optionally POST each run's events to your webhook for Zapier/Make/n8n pipelines.

2. Batch verification

Give it a list of license numbers; get back each one's current status from the freshest official file — licensed or not found — in one run. No per-lookup page automation, so verifying 1,000 numbers is as reliable as verifying one.

Coverage

State	Source	Trades
Florida	DBPR construction-industry license extract (updated weekly by the state)	General building, residential, roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical*, pool, solar, mechanical, underground utility, specialty
Texas	TDLR licenses via the official Texas Open Data Portal	Electrical (all tiers), HVAC, appliance installation, water well, elevator, sign electricians

*Florida electrical contractors are licensed by a separate board; coverage here follows the DBPR construction file. Ask via Issues if you need another board or state — the roadmap is driven by requests.

What this actor never collects

Official license records can include personal home addresses and owner details. This actor emits business-identity fields only: business/licensee name as officially registered, license numbers, types, statuses, dates, city/county/zip. No street addresses, no phone numbers, no emails.

Pricing

Pay per event: a small actor-start fee, then per new-license event, per status-change event, or per license verified. A weekly schedule tracking a single trade in one state typically costs a few dollars a month. No subscription.

Notes

• "Not found" in verify mode means the number isn't in the current official extract for the states and license types in scope — always check the scope before treating a contractor as unlicensed.
• Texas data includes active licenses only, so Texas emits new_license events (no status changes).
• Found a problem or need another state? Open an issue — replies are fast, usually same day.