Florida Sunbiz Business Extractor

Search the Florida business registry and pull complete company records into a spreadsheet. This Sunbiz scraper looks up Florida corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships and non-profits by business name, officer name, registered agent name, FEI/EIN number or document number, then returns the filing details, addresses, officers and document history for every match.

The Florida Division of Corporations publishes all of this, one record at a time, behind a search form. Copying it by hand is the slow part. Give the actor a list of names or numbers and you get structured JSON, CSV or Excel back.

What it collects

For every business record:

• Business name, entity type and document number
• FEI/EIN number, date filed, state of formation
• Registration status, last event, event date filed and effective date
• Principal address and mailing address, plus the date each was last changed
• Registered agent name and address, with name and address change dates
• Officers, directors, managers, authorized persons or general partners, each with title and address
• Annual report years and the date each report was filed
• Filed document history with direct PDF links
• Cross reference name, when the record has one
• The registry URL for the record

Rejected filings and trademark records use different label sets. Anything the actor does not have a dedicated field for lands in filingInformation, so nothing gets dropped.

Fields the registry leaves blank are omitted from the output rather than returned as empty strings or nulls. A record with no cross reference name simply has no crossReferenceName key.

Search modes

Search by	What you enter	Typical use
Business name	WALMART, PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS	Company research, lead lists, name availability checks
Officer or registered agent name	SMITH JOHN	Finding every company a person is tied to
FEI/EIN number	71-0415188	Matching a federal tax ID to a Florida registration
Document number	849374, L02000009779	Direct lookup when you already have the number

A name search on Sunbiz returns an alphabetical window around your term rather than an exact match, which is why a raw search for "WALMART" also shows you whatever sits next to it in the alphabet. The nameMatchMode setting handles that. Leave it on "Starts with" and you get the businesses whose names actually begin with your term, with punctuation and spacing ignored, so WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. still matches WALMART. Switch to "Exact" for a single company, or "Any" to keep the full window.

Input

{
  "searchType": "entityName",
  "searchTerms": ["WALMART", "PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS"],
  "nameMatchMode": "startsWith",
  "statusFilter": "active",
  "includeEntityDetails": true,
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "includeAnnualReports": true,
  "includeFilingHistory": true,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchType	string	entityName	entityName, officerOrAgentName, feiEinNumber or documentNumber
searchTerms	array	required	One search per value
nameMatchMode	string	startsWith	startsWith, exact or any. FEI/EIN searches always require an exact number
statusFilter	string	all	all, active or inactive
includeEntityDetails	boolean	true	Off gives a fast name, number and status list without opening each record
includeOfficers	boolean	true	Officers, managers, authorized persons, general partners
includeAnnualReports	boolean	true	Annual report years and filing dates
includeFilingHistory	boolean	true	Filed documents with PDF links
maxItems	integer	20	Record cap for the whole run, max 1000
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30	Per request timeout

Pagination follows your limit. Each result page holds 20 rows, so maxItems: 20 is a single page and maxItems: 200 keeps paging until it has 200 records or the registry stops returning matches. There is no page count to set.

Output

One dataset item per business record. Blank fields are left out, so the exact key set varies by record:

{
  "searchTerm": "WALMART INC",
  "searchType": "entityName",
  "entityName": "WALMART INC.",
  "entityType": "Foreign Profit Corporation",
  "documentNumber": "849374",
  "feiEinNumber": "71-0415188",
  "dateFiled": "06/08/1981",
  "stateOfFormation": "DE",
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "lastEvent": "AMENDMENT",
  "eventDateFiled": "08/21/2023",
  "eventEffectiveDate": "NONE",
  "principalAddress": "1 Customer Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716",
  "principalAddressLines": ["1 Customer Dr", "Bentonville, AR 72716"],
  "principalAddressChanged": "04/13/2026",
  "mailingAddress": "1 Customer Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716",
  "mailingAddressLines": ["1 Customer Dr", "Bentonville, AR 72716"],
  "mailingAddressChanged": "04/13/2026",
  "registeredAgentName": "C T CORPORATION SYSTEM",
  "registeredAgentAddress": "1200 SOUTH PINE ISLAND ROAD, PLANTATION, FL 33324",
  "registeredAgentAddressLines": ["1200 SOUTH PINE ISLAND ROAD", "PLANTATION, FL 33324"],
  "registeredAgentNameChanged": "03/02/2017",
  "registeredAgentAddressChanged": "03/02/2017",
  "officersHeading": "Officer/Director Detail",
  "officers": [
    {
      "officerTitle": "President/CEO",
      "officerName": "Furner, John",
      "officerAddress": "1 Customer Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716",
      "officerAddressLines": ["1 Customer Dr", "Bentonville, AR 72716"]
    }
  ],
  "annualReports": [
    { "reportYear": "2026", "filedDate": "04/13/2026" }
  ],
  "filedDocuments": [
    {
      "documentDate": "04/13/2026",
      "documentLabel": "ANNUAL REPORT",
      "pdfUrl": "https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=forp-849374-01c0b9a5-f1e0-498f-82e8-db668c4beffc&transactionId=849374-9155080a-3201-4791-abd1-ad754255246a&formatType=PDF"
    }
  ],
  "detailUrl": "https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=WALMART%208493741&aggregateId=forp-849374-01c0b9a5-f1e0-498f-82e8-db668c4beffc&searchTerm=WALMART&listNameOrder=WALMART%208493741",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-10T12:00:00+00:00"
}

crossReferenceName shows up on records that carry a prior or related name, which in practice means foreign entities registered under a different home-state name and rejected filings. Most records do not have one, so most records will not have the key.

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Apify console, or pull it through the API.

What people use it for

Lead lists, mostly. Filter Florida registrations by status and filing date and you have a prospect file with mailing addresses and named officers already attached.

The other common one is verification. Before signing a contract, check that the counterparty is an active registrant and that the person signing actually appears on the record.

Officer search is the underrated mode. Search one name, get every company that person is tied to, and the shape of a corporate network falls out of it. Title companies and law firms use the same trick on registered agents.

Notes

• Every field mirrors what the registry publishes. If a section is blank on Sunbiz, it comes back empty here.
• Section names shift by entity type. A corporation lists an Officer/Director Detail block, an LLC lists Authorized Person(s) Detail, and a limited partnership lists General Partner Detail. All three land in officers, and officersHeading tells you which one it was.
• A failed lookup writes a row carrying searchTerm and error instead of stopping the run.
• Officer and registered agent details are public record published by the state. Use the data in line with the Florida Division of Corporations terms and any privacy law that applies to you.