Pennsylvania New Business Leads: new Philadelphia business licenses (daily)

Get newly issued Philadelphia business licenses from the official City of Philadelphia Department of Licenses & Inspections (L&I) open data (OpenDataPhilly), updated daily. Find new restaurants, food trucks, caterers, auto repair shops, tow companies, vendors, child care centers and more, the week they get licensed.

In our last 30-day test run this returned 182 new active company licenses. Residential rental and vacant-property licenses are excluded because they describe homes, not businesses.

Each result has the business name, legal name, license number and type, first issue date, status, expiration, ZIP, council district and business address.

No browser, no proxies, no login. Runs take seconds.

Who uses this

• Food-service suppliers, POS and payments, insurance reaching new Philadelphia restaurants and food businesses.
• Auto parts and equipment sellers targeting new repair shops and tow companies.
• Lead-gen agencies, banks, payroll and accounting firms building fresh Philadelphia lists by ZIP.

Privacy by design

• Companies only. Licenses held by individuals are excluded at the source query (legal entity type = Company).
• No owner names, property-owner data or contact people are ever requested.
• Apartment addresses are withheld.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
withinDays	First issued in the last N days	30
dateFrom / dateTo	Exact date window	none
licenseTypes	License type contains, e.g. food, motor vehicle	none
zipCodes	ZIP prefixes	none
keywords	Name contains	none
activeOnly	Skip inactive licenses	true
maxResults	Cap	100

Output (example)

{
  "businessName": "Lens Auto Body & Painting Inc", "licenseNumber": "1021906",
  "licenseType": "Motor Vehicle Repair / Fuel Dispensing", "licenseStatus": "Active",
  "initialIssueDate": "2026-10-23", "expirationDate": "2027-10-22", "zipCode": "19135-1414", "businessAddress": "7230 TULIP ST"
}

Pricing

$2 per 1,000 results (pay per result), plus a tiny per-run start fee.

Run it on a schedule

Schedule it weekly and send new licenses to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack or email with Apify integrations. It also works from AI assistants through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Is this legal to use? Yes. The City of Philadelphia publishes this dataset on OpenDataPhilly for public reuse.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Philadelphia.

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