Contractor License Lookup – WA, OR, NY, TX + Risk Flags

Verify contractors in bulk, or export full license rosters, from four official state sources in one clean schema: Washington L&I, Oregon CCB, New York DOL Contractor Registry and Texas TDLR. Every row comes back with risk flags, trade category and expiry countdowns already worked out, at $1.50 per 1,000 licenses.

Problems this fixes

Most contractor-license Actors on the Store cover one state each, scrape a lookup page one license at a time, and return that state's raw columns. The typical problems with those tools, and how this Actor handles them:

Typical problem	What this Actor does
One Actor and one schema per state	WA, OR, NY and TX in one run, one schema (state, licenseNumber, businessName, status, expirationDate, …)
Slow page scraping, captchas, timeouts	Reads the states' official open-data APIs (Socrata). No browser, no proxy, no captchas; thousands of rows per minute
Status only, no signal on whether the contractor is safe to hire	riskFlags + riskLevel (clear / watch / high): suspended, revoked, expired, debarred, wage-assessment, labor/tax-law and safety violations, no workers' comp, bond or insurance expired or expiring in 60 days
Re-downloading the whole list every day	Only new or changed mode: outputs just new licenses and licenses whose status, expiry, bond, insurance or risk flags changed
Personal data mixed into lead lists	No owner/principal names, no phone or fax numbers are requested from the source
Raw state codes nobody understands	Normalized tradeCategories (general, electrical, hvac, plumbing, roofing, painting, …), title-cased license types, merged Oregon endorsements

Enrichment added to every row (included in the price)

• riskLevel and riskFlags (see table above)
• daysToExpiration, bondDaysToExpiration, insuranceDaysToExpiration
• yearsLicensed (from the original registration date where the state publishes it)
• tradeCategories (normalized across states)
• Oregon: bond company, bond amount, insurance carrier, insurance amount and their expiry dates; workers' comp exempt flag; all endorsements merged into one row
• New York: full compliance history (debarment, wage assessments, labor/tax and safety determinations, workers' comp, apprenticeship, MWBE)
• verifyUrl back to the official state lookup and sourceDataset link for audit
• changeType (new / changed) in only-new mode

Typical uses

• KYB / vendor onboarding: paste 5,000 license numbers, get status + risk in one table.
• Insurance and surety leads: expiringWithinDays: 60 or riskOnly: true to find contractors whose license, bond or insurance is about to lapse.
• Supplier and SaaS sales: daily onlyNew: true schedule = a feed of newly licensed contractors by trade and city.
• GC / property managers: watch your subcontractor list for suspensions or new violations.

Input examples

Verify a list:

{ "states": ["WA"], "licenseNumbers": ["ECOSTSC758NN"], "activeOnly": false }

Roofers in Portland and Seattle, new or changed since last run:

{ "states": ["WA", "OR"], "trades": ["roofing"], "cities": ["Portland", "Seattle"], "onlyNew": true }

Oregon contractors whose insurance or bond is lapsing:

{ "states": ["OR"], "riskOnly": true, "maxItemsPerState": 100000 }

Output example (Oregon, trimmed)

{ "state": "OR", "licenseNumber": "100215", "businessName": "…", "status": "Active", "riskLevel": "watch",
  "licenseType": "Residential General Contractor", "tradeCategories": ["general"], "expirationDate": "2028-02-06", "daysToExpiration": 828,
  "bondCompany": "WESTERN SURETY COMPANY", "bondAmount": 25000, "insuranceCompany": "SCOTTSDALE INSURANCE CO", "insuranceAmount": 1000000,
  "insuranceExpirationDate": "2027-08-25", "yearsLicensed": 32, "riskFlags": [], "city": "BROOKINGS", "county": "Curry", "zip": "97415",
  "verifyUrl": "https://search.ccb.state.or.us/search/", "changeType": null }

Coverage

State	Source	Rows
WA	Washington L&I contractor license data (data.wa.gov m8qx-ubtq)	all statuses, ~76k active
OR	Oregon CCB active licenses (data.oregon.gov g77e-6bhs)	~46k active licenses
NY	NYS DOL Contractor Registry, public work (data.ny.gov i4jv-zkey)	~15k certificates
TX	TDLR licenses – A/C, electrical, electrical sign, appliance installation, elevator and water-well contractors (data.texas.gov 7358-krk7)	~38k contractor licenses (all statuses)

More states are added when they publish an official bulk file. Texas rows without a registered business name are skipped (only an owner name is published for them).

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 licenses, pay per result, all enrichment included. A full Oregon export (~46k) is about $69; verifying 1,000 license numbers is $1.50. Some single-state scrapers on the Store charge up to $5 per 1,000 for raw columns from one state.

Data & privacy

Public government licensing records. Business name, license, status, business address, bond and insurance only. The Actor never requests owner, principal or RMI names, phone or fax numbers, or emails. Data is as current as each state's open-data feed (usually updated daily); check verifyUrl before a hiring decision.