NY UCC Lien Search — New York DOS Filing & Debtor Records

Search New York State UCC financing statements and Federal Tax Liens straight from the official NY Department of State index — the same records a paid "official" UCC search is built on — and get clean, structured JSON: filing number, filing and lapse dates, status, debtor name and address, secured party, and full filing history.

New York moved its UCC search off the old appext20.dos.ny.gov system (now dead — the previously listed NY UCC actor on Apify is flagged deprecated for exactly that reason). This actor targets the current NY DOS portal (ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov) and is actively maintained: it is the rebuilt, working replacement.

Who this is for

• Lenders & credit teams — check whether a borrower's assets are already encumbered before extending credit (equipment finance, factoring, MCA, ABL).
• KYC / onboarding & due-diligence — surface existing liens and IRS tax liens against a counterparty in seconds instead of a manual portal session per name.
• Legal & UCC filing services — monitor filings, verify lapse dates, pull filing history for continuations and terminations.
• Data & lead-gen teams — find businesses with active secured lenders (e.g. everyone financed by a given lender, via the secured-party filter).

What you get

Every record is normalized — ISO dates, explicit nulls, stable field names:

{
  "lienNumber": "028823",
  "filingNumber": "028823",
  "serialNumber": "160252039",
  "lienSubtype": null,
  "debtorName": "ABC SEAMLESS OF CNY INC",
  "debtorAddress": "212 1/2 E 1ST ST, E SYRACUSE, NY, 13057 - 2908, USA",
  "debtorType": "Organization",
  "filingDate": "1986-01-24",
  "lapseDate": "2099-01-01",
  "status": "Active",
  "lienId": 3944017,
  "source": "ny-dos-ucc",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ucc-efiling.dos.ny.gov/",
  "searchType": "debtorOrganization",
  "query": "ABC",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-07-22T17:00:00.000Z"
}

With includeDetails: true each record is enriched from the lien's detail page:

{
  "lienType": "Federal Tax Lien",
  "debtors": [
    { "name": "A B C PAINTING", "address": "2440 SEDGWICK AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10468 - 0000, USA", "type": "Organization", "organizationId": null, "organizationType": null, "organizationJurisdiction": null }
  ],
  "securedParties": [
    { "name": "Internal Revenue Service", "address": "1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, USA", "type": "Organization" }
  ],
  "filingHistory": [
    { "filingNumber": "312731", "filingType": "Notice of Federal Tax Lien", "filingAction": "Notice of Federal Tax Lien", "filingStatus": null, "dateFiled": "1988-12-13" }
  ]
}

Search options

Input	What it does
searchType	debtorOrganization, debtorIndividual, or filingNumber
debtorName / lastName+firstName	The name to search
searchLogic	standard (NYS standard debtor search), startsWith, exactMatch, containsAllInOrder
lienType	All / UCC Lien / Federal Tax Lien
lienStatus	All / Active / Released / Withdrawn / Purged / Lapsed
filingDateFrom/To, lapseDateFrom/To	Date-range filters (YYYY-MM-DD)
securedPartyFilter	Only output liens whose secured party contains this text
includeDetails	Enrich every record with secured parties + filing history
maxResults	Cap the number of records (default 100)

Freshness

Results come live from the NY DOS index at run time — nothing cached, nothing pre-scraped. The index covers UCC Article 9 / Revised Article 9 financing statements and Notices of Federal Tax Liens. Note the portal's own disclaimer: web results are not a certified official search.

Pricing

Pay-per-event — you pay for what you get, no subscription:

Event	Price
Search session (actor start)	$0.01
UCC filing result (per record)	$0.004
Lien detail enrichment (per lien, optional)	$0.02

Why these numbers: the live New Jersey UCC actor charges $2.00/1,000 filing results on a plain-HTTP portal; New York's portal requires a real browser session behind a Cloudflare challenge (residential proxy + browser compute per run), so the per-record price is 2× NJ's at $4.00/1,000. The live California UCC actor charges from $35.00/1,000 search sessions — a full NY search session here (start + 100 records) costs ~$0.41, and a detail-enriched lookup ($0.02) stays well under CA's per-session rate. A single manual paralegal lookup runs $15–75 at commercial UCC search shops; this actor does it for cents.

Notes

• A real browser (bundled) clears the portal's Cloudflare check automatically; use the default residential proxy setting for reliable runs.
• The actor searches politely: one session, sequential pages, throttled requests.
• filingNumber search returns that filing's record directly; secured-party discovery works via securedPartyFilter + detail enrichment (the NY portal does not expose a top-level secured-party search).