Texas TDLR License Scraper: electrical & HVAC contractor leads (businesses only)

Get Texas licensed contractor businesses from the official Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) "All Licenses" open data on data.texas.gov. By default it returns electrical contractors, A/C (HVAC) contractors, electrical sign contractors, elevator contractors and appliance installation contractors. You can also pick salons and other licensed establishments, barber and beauty schools, auto parts recyclers, PEOs, service contract providers and more.

Each result has the business name, TDLR license number, license type, expiration date, county, city and ZIP. Registered entities also include the business street address and phone.

No browser, no proxies, no login. The Actor reads the state's open-data API, so runs take seconds.

Who uses this

• HVAC and electrical distributors and supply houses building territory lists (Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio).
• Insurance, surety bond and CE providers targeting licenses that expire soon (use expiresFrom / expiresTo).
• Field-service software, payroll and fleet sales teams.
• General contractors and builders finding licensed electrical and HVAC subs by county.
• Compliance teams checking TDLR licenses in bulk.

Privacy by design

• Individual licenses are excluded. Journeyman, apprentice, technician and other person-only licenses are never offered. Rows whose business name is a person's name are dropped.
• Owner names, owner phone and mailing addresses are never requested from the API.
• Trade-name (DBA) businesses are optional and come without street address or phone.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
licenseTypes	e.g. Electrical Contractor, A/C Contractor, Full Service Establishment	5 contractor types
counties, cities, zipCodes	e.g. HARRIS, AUSTIN, 787	none
keywords	Business name contains, e.g. solar	none
activeOnly	Skip expired licenses	true
expiresFrom / expiresTo	Expiration window (YYYY-MM-DD)	none
includeContactDetails	Business address and phone (entities only)	true
includeDbaBusinesses	Add trade-name businesses (city/ZIP only)	false
maxResults	Cap	100

Output (example)

{
  "businessName": "SOAR ELECTRIC LLC", "licenseNumber": "41961", "licenseType": "Electrical Contractor",
  "licenseExpirationDate": "2027-10-16", "entityKind": "Registered business entity",
  "county": "Bell", "city": "Belton", "state": "TX", "zipCode": "76513",
  "businessAddress": "12900 CANYON TRL", "businessPhone": "(512) xxx-xxxx"
}

Note: TDLR does not publish a street address or phone for A/C contractor licenses, so those rows have county only.

Run it on a schedule

Schedule it weekly and send results 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 source is the State of Texas open-data portal, which publishes this dataset for public reuse.

How fresh is it? TDLR refreshes the dataset regularly; each result includes retrievedAt.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

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