# Florida Liquor Licenses - New, Temporary & Transfers (Daily) (`liquorleads/florida-liquor-license-leads`) Actor

Daily new Florida liquor licences, temporary licences (a venue trading while its permanent licence is processed - the earliest public signal that a bar or restaurant is opening) and pending transfers, from FL DBPR public records. Typed leads with full premises addresses.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/liquorleads/florida-liquor-license-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Liquor License Leads](https://apify.com/liquorleads) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $250.00 / 1,000 venue leads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Florida Liquor Licenses — New, Temporary & Transfers (Daily)

**Know a bar or restaurant is opening before it picks its vendors.**

This Actor reads Florida's official alcohol-licence records every day and returns the
venues that just changed — including the ones that have **not opened yet**.

### Why temporary licences matter

When a venue is fitting out, Florida commonly issues a **temporary certificate** so it
can trade while the permanent licence is processed. That certificate is public, it is
dated, and it carries the premises address.

It is the earliest public signal that a specific address is about to become a bar or a
restaurant — months before a listing, a review, or a sign on the door. If you sell to
hospitality (point-of-sale, payments, insurance, linen, distribution, POS hardware,
kitchen equipment), that is the moment worth knowing about.

### What you get

One row per venue, with:

| field | |
|---|---|
| `dba_name` | the trading name |
| `applicant_name` | the licence holder |
| `address`, `city`, `county`, `zip` | the **premises**, not a mailing address |
| `license_id` | Florida's own licence number, verifiable on the state's lookup |
| `license_series` | e.g. `4COP` (full liquor), `2APS` (beer & wine package) |
| `status` | `temporary`, `active`, `pending` |
| `lead_type` | see below |
| `effective_date` | the state's own date |
| `detected_at` | when this Actor first saw the change |
| `source` | attribution, on every row |

#### Lead types

- **`current_temporary`** — trading on a temporary certificate right now. The
  pre-opening pool; the first run returns all of them.
- **`new_temporary`** — newly appeared on a temporary certificate.
- **`transfer_pending`** — the licence is changing hands. New owner, often a new concept
  at an existing address.
- **`new_active`** / **`temp_to_active`** / **`activated`** — newly issued or newly
  permanent.

### How it runs

The first run returns the **current standing pool** of venues on temporary certificates
(recently ~360). Every run after that returns only what changed since the previous run —
typically a handful to a few dozen a day. State is kept in the Actor's own key-value
store, so it diffs against its last run automatically.

Set it on a daily schedule around 13:00 UTC; Florida refreshes its file each weekday
morning Eastern.

### Pricing

Priced per venue returned, so you pay for what you actually get rather than a flat fee
in a quiet week. A run that finds nothing costs essentially nothing.

### Source and limits

- Data is **verbatim from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation,
  Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco** — public records — normalised into a
  consistent schema. The source is cited on every row.
- **No contact data.** No phone numbers, no email addresses, no owner-hunting. Those are
  not in the public record and this Actor does not go looking for them elsewhere.
- **Florida only.** Every state publishes differently; this Actor covers Florida
  properly rather than several states badly.
- Some records carry a placeholder or escrow address rather than a real premises. Those
  are filtered out.

# Actor input Schema

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Verified 2026-08-23: the source's Cloudflare challenge clears from Apify's own IPs with no proxy at all, so leave this off. Residential proxy is a paid feature and enabling it on a free account fails with ERR\_INVALID\_AUTH\_CREDENTIALS.

## `emitBaseline` (type: `boolean`):

First run has no prior state; if true it outputs the current ~300 temporary-license venues instead of nothing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "emitBaseline": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `leads` (type: `string`):

One row per venue: trading name, premises address, licence number, series, status and what changed.

## `leadsCsv` (type: `string`):

The same rows as CSV, for import into a CRM or spreadsheet.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("liquorleads/florida-liquor-license-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("liquorleads/florida-liquor-license-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call liquorleads/florida-liquor-license-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,liquorleads/florida-liquor-license-leads"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/DBVlriSUj7R7ZRe86/builds/S7ltCEGxcgdHLqRen/openapi.json