Texas TABC Liquor License Search 🍺🥃🍷

The only dedicated Texas liquor-license actor on Apify Store. Straight from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) official open-data feed on data.texas.gov — ~125,000 license records (~74,000 active), refreshed daily by the state. No CAPTCHAs, no stale scrapes, no guesswork. Every mixed-beverage permit, package store, beer retailer, distiller, brewpub, and winery license in Texas, filterable and normalized.

Other "liquor license" listings in the store are thin national aggregators. This actor is dedicated to Texas, pulls the authoritative state source, and returns clean, structured records you can drop straight into a CRM, territory map, or compliance workflow.

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Who buys this

• Alcohol distributors & beverage sales reps — build and refresh territory lead lists of every on-/off-premise license by county and license type.
• POS, payment & fintech vendors — target bars, restaurants, and package stores the day their license goes active.
• Restaurant / bar / hospitality suppliers — reach new and renewing licensees.
• Commercial real estate & site selectors — map license density and turnover by city and county.
• Compliance, AML & KYB teams — verify a business's alcohol license, owner of record, status, and expiration against the official state registry.

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What you get

Filterable, normalized records with a stable schema. Filters (all optional):

Input	Meaning
county	Texas county (partial, case-insensitive) — e.g. Harris, Travis, Bexar
city	City (partial, case-insensitive) — e.g. Houston, Austin
licenseType	TABC type code (exact) — MB, BQ, BG, Q, NT, P, DS, W, …
licenseStatus	Active, Expired, Surrendered, Suspended, … (defaults to Active)
includeAllStatuses	Return every status, not just active
nameContains	Substring matched against owner OR trade (DBA) name
issuedFrom / issuedTo	Issue-date range (ISO YYYY-MM-DD) — great for "new this month" lead pulls
maxRecords	Cap on results (default 5,000)
socrataAppToken	Optional Socrata app token to raise rate limits (not required)

Common license types: MB Mixed Beverage · BQ/BG Wine & Malt Beverage Retailer · Q Package Store · NT Beer Retail (Off-Premise) · P Package Store · DS Distiller · BE Brewpub · W Winery · S Wholesaler.

Example output record

{
  "licenseId": "100000290",
  "masterFileId": "2100050776",
  "licenseType": "BG",
  "licenseTypeLabel": "Wine and Malt Beverage Retailer",
  "licenseStatus": "Active",
  "primaryStatus": "Active",
  "ownerName": "BONNIE HEGEMEYER",
  "tradeName": "CROSS ROADS TAVERN",
  "tier": "Retail",
  "originalIssueDate": "1987-12-11",
  "currentIssuedDate": "2025-12-15",
  "expirationDate": "2027-12-10",
  "statusChangeDate": "2025-12-15",
  "address": {
    "street": "12716 FM 1094",
    "city": "Sealy",
    "state": "TX",
    "zip": "77474-9870",
    "county": "AUSTIN",
    "country": "United States"
  },
  "mailingAddress": {
    "street": "12716 FM 1094",
    "city": "Sealy",
    "state": "TX",
    "zip": "77474-9870",
    "country": "United States"
  },
  "phone": "",
  "legacyLicenseNumber": "BG227874",
  "sourceDataset": "7hf9-qc9f",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.texas.gov/resource/7hf9-qc9f.json"
}

Names are whitespace-cleaned and uppercased, IDs are de-noised (Socrata's trailing .0 stripped), ZIPs are ZIP+4 formatted, and all dates are ISO YYYY-MM-DD.

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Example runs

• Every active mixed-beverage permit in Harris County: { "county": "Harris", "licenseType": "MB" }
• New package stores issued this year statewide: { "licenseType": "Q", "issuedFrom": "2026-01-01" }
• Find a specific chain's licenses: { "nameContains": "SPEC'S" }
• Everything in Austin, all statuses: { "city": "Austin", "includeAllStatuses": true }

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Data source & freshness

• Dataset: 7hf9-qc9f — TABC License Information on data.texas.gov (Socrata SODA API).
• Volume: ~125,579 total records; ~73,749 currently Active (as of 2026-07-22).
• Refresh: updated by the state daily (verified 2026-07-22 12:30 UTC).
• Access: official public open data — no login, no CAPTCHA. This actor uses the documented SODA API with a descriptive User-Agent, server-side $where filtering, polite paging, and exponential backoff.

The companion dataset kguh-7q9z (TABCLicenses) carries only 11 columns and no status or dates; this actor deliberately uses the richer 7hf9-qc9f feed so you get status, tier, issue/expiration dates, phone, and mailing address.

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Pricing

Pay-per-event — you only pay for what you pull:

Event	Price (USD)
Actor start	$0.005
License record	$0.003

A typical county pull of 1,000 active licenses costs ~$3.01. The whole active-license universe (~74k rows) runs ~$222 for a full statewide refresh — a fraction of what any list broker charges for a one-time, un-sourced CSV, and yours is re-runnable daily against the authoritative state registry.

Why these numbers: priced to the pattern of our other government-filing actors (actor-start $0.005 + per-record $0.003, matching the Ohio SoS filings actor). The liquor-license category on Apify is underserved — existing entries are thin national aggregators with tiny user counts and no Texas focus — so this dedicated, authoritative, daily-fresh feed is priced to be an obvious yes for a distributor or vendor building a Texas book of business.

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Data is sourced from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission's public open-data portal. This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the TABC or the State of Texas.