# Pennsylvania New Business Leads - Philadelphia Licenses (`loomwise/pennsylvania-philadelphia-business-licenses`) Actor

New Philadelphia business licenses from the City's Licenses & Inspections open data, updated daily: restaurants, food, auto repair, vendors, child care. Companies only. $2/1k.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loomwise/pennsylvania-philadelphia-business-licenses.md
- **Developed by:** [Loomwise](https://apify.com/loomwise) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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)

```json
{
  "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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# Actor input Schema

## `withinDays` (type: `integer`):

Licenses first issued in the last N days.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional start date (overrides N days).

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional end date (default today).

## `licenseTypes` (type: `array`):

e.g. food, motor vehicle, child care, tow.

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

e.g. 19103, 191.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

e.g. pizza, auto.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip inactive or expired licenses.

## `includeAddress` (type: `boolean`):

Apartment-style addresses are withheld.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Cap on results. You pay per result.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "withinDays": 30,
  "activeOnly": true,
  "includeAddress": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "withinDays": 30,
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loomwise/pennsylvania-philadelphia-business-licenses").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 = {
    "withinDays": 30,
    "maxResults": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loomwise/pennsylvania-philadelphia-business-licenses").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 '{
  "withinDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call loomwise/pennsylvania-philadelphia-business-licenses --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loomwise/pennsylvania-philadelphia-business-licenses"
        }
    }
}
```

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/iu3Aa5PT1oXOd5ceM/builds/TkIaXnTl9Xl8YkvXR/openapi.json