North Carolina Electrical Contractor Leads Scraper (NCBEEC)

License-verified electrician leads, straight from the state board. Every row is pulled live from the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors public registry — business name, license number, classification, status, expiration date, mailing address, phone, and the licensed qualifier individuals behind each company. Sweep the whole state or target a city, classification, company, or license number. Opt-in contact-email finding turns registry records into outreach-ready leads. JSON or CSV out, billed per lead.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

• License-verified, not directory-scraped — every lead comes from the board's own registry, so the license number, classification, status, and expiry are authoritative at scrape time.
• Decision-makers included — each company row carries its qualifiers: the named, individually licensed electricians who stand behind the license. That's who signs off the work.
• Active-only by default — Terminated / Not Active / Not Valid records are dropped before you pay for them (turn activeOnly off for compliance or historical research).
• Full-state sweep built in — run it with an empty input and it walks a bundled list of ~1,500 NC place names, metro areas first. No URL hunting.
• Opt-in contact emails — the actor discovers each business's own website (search + directory filtering + name-match guard) and harvests a contact email from it. You're only charged when an email is actually found.
• New-license monitoring — flip monitoringMode on a schedule and each run returns only contractors licensed since your last run: the freshest leads in the state.
• Zero setup — US residential proxy is built in; the board's registry is public, no login or CAPTCHA involved.

🎯 Use cases

Who	What they do with it
Trade suppliers & distributors	Build call lists of active licensed electricians by city and classification — with phone, address, and the qualifier names to ask for
SaaS & fintech selling to trades	Feed license-verified contractor accounts into outbound; enrichEmails + qualifyByPayment qualify who can actually buy online
Insurance, bonding & lending	Verify license status and expiration before quoting; includePublicMatters adds the disciplinary record
Recruiters & M&A scouts	Map every Unlimited-classification shop in a metro; monitor newly licensed firms as expansion signals
General contractors & developers	Verify subs' licenses in bulk from a license-number list before award

📥 Supported inputs

Mode	Input	Behaviour
Full-state sweep (default)	(empty input)	Walks the bundled NC place list, biggest cities first
City sweep	cities: ["Charlotte", "Raleigh"]	Exact match on the licensee's mailing-address city
Company search	companyNames: ["electric"]	Board-side substring match on company name
Name search	lastName (+ optional firstName)	License-holder name lookup
License lookup	licenseNumbers: ["U.00025"]	Direct verification; accepts U.00025 or bare digits
Phone lookup	phoneNumber	Phone number on record

Not supported: other states or boards (this actor covers the NC electrical board — see the fabric note in FAQ), NC general contractors (NCLBGC is a different board), plumbing/HVAC licenses (separate NC board, separate actor).

🔄 How it works

1. Builds search jobs from your criteria — or the full-state city list when the input is empty.
2. Queries the board's live roster for each job and parses the result rows (license #, classification, holder, standing).
3. Filters inactive licenses (default), unwanted classifications, and duplicates — before any per-lead fetching, so you never pay for records you filtered out.
4. Fetches each license's detail record — name, DBA, address, phone, status, expiry — plus its qualifier individuals, in parallel.
5. Optionally enriches: discovers the business's own website (search-engine + directory blocklist + name-match guard) and scrapes a contact email from it; qualifyByPayment additionally detects Stripe/e-commerce signals.
6. Pushes one row per license to the dataset — qualifiers and enrichment merged inline.

⚙️ Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
cities	array	[] → full sweep	NC mailing-address cities, matched exactly
classifications	array	[] → all	Any of the 10 board classifications (label, fragment like unlimited, or numeric code)
activeOnly	boolean	true	Drop licenses not in good standing before fetching
companyNames	array	—	Substring company-name searches
lastName / firstName	string	—	License-holder name search
licenseNumbers	array	—	Direct license lookups
phoneNumber	string	—	Phone-number search
includePublicMatters	boolean	false	Fetch disciplinary records per licensee (+1 request each)
enrichEmails	boolean	false	Website discovery + contact-email harvesting
qualifyByPayment	boolean	false	Payment-processor detection (needs enrichEmails)
monitoringMode	boolean	false	Only licenses not delivered on previous runs
resetMonitoringState	boolean	false	One-shot: clear the monitoring baseline
maxItems	integer	500	Hard cap on leads
maxConcurrency	integer	10	Parallel detail fetches
searchConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel roster searches

📊 Output overview

One dataset row per license. The row merges the roster entry, the board's detail record, the qualifier list, and (when enabled) email enrichment — there are no separate or padding rows. isActive is computed from the authoritative detail status, and searchCity records which sweep query surfaced the lead.

📦 Output sample

Real trimmed row from a live run:

{
    "type": "license-lead",
    "stateCode": "NC",
    "trade": "electrical",
    "boardId": "ncbeec",
    "boardName": "North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors",
    "licenseNumber": "U.00025",
    "classificationCode": "U",
    "classification": "Unlimited Classification License",
    "businessName": "Interstate Electric Company LLC",
    "dbaName": null,
    "licenseStatus": "Active",
    "statusNote": null,
    "isActive": true,
    "expirationDate": "2027-02-28",
    "phone": "(704) 333-7149",
    "address": {
        "street": "4241 Taggart Creek Road",
        "city": "Charlotte",
        "state": "NC",
        "zip": "28208",
        "raw": "4241 Taggart Creek Road, Charlotte, NC 28208"
    },
    "searchCity": "Charlotte",
    "qualifiers": [
        { "name": "David Wayne Morrison", "qualifierNumber": "QUAL.U.05776", "status": "Active" },
        { "name": "Stuart Dale Robertson Jr.", "qualifierNumber": "QUAL.U.06725", "status": "Active" },
        { "name": "Michael John Capuano", "qualifierNumber": "QUAL.U.10213", "status": "Active" },
        { "name": "Justin Glenn Rhoden", "qualifierNumber": "QUAL.U.12921", "status": "Active" }
    ],
    "sourceUrl": "https://arls-public.ncbeec.org/Public/Search",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T15:54:10.895Z"
}

With enrichEmails: true, successful rows additionally carry:

{
    "contactEmail": "service@example-electric.com",
    "contactWebsite": "https://example-electric.com",
    "emailEnrichment": { "website": "…", "emails": ["…"], "source": "site-scrape", "confidence": "high" }
}

🗂 Key output fields

Group	Fields
License	licenseNumber, classification, classificationCode, licenseStatus, statusNote, isActive, expirationDate
Business	businessName, dbaName, phone, address.{street,city,state,zip,raw}
People	qualifiers[] — name, qualifier number, status of each licensed individual
Compliance (opt-in)	publicMatters[] — the board's public disciplinary records
Enrichment (opt-in)	contactEmail, contactWebsite, emailEnrichment, takesPayments, paymentProcessors, stripeLiveKey, paymentConfidence
Provenance	boardId, boardName, stateCode, trade, searchCity, sourceUrl, scrapedAt

❓ FAQ

How complete is the full-state sweep? The board's search matches on each licensee's mailing-address city. The bundled sweep list covers ~1,500 NC municipalities, CDPs, and USPS alias spellings, so in-state coverage is effectively complete; licensees whose mailing address is outside NC are only found via company/name/license searches.

What's the email hit rate? Expect roughly a third of active companies to yield a verified contact email — small local trades often have no website at all. You're only charged the email event when one is found; misses cost nothing. The emailEnrichment.website field is best-effort and can occasionally point at a same-named business elsewhere — confidence and source let you filter.

Why do I see fewer leads than the roster shows? activeOnly (default on) drops licenses not in good standing — on this board that's the majority of historical records. Set it to false to get everything.

Can I get plumbing / HVAC contractors too? NC keeps those on a separate board — covered by the matching NC Plumbing & HVAC Contractor Leads Scraper (plumbing, heating groups, fuel piping, and fire sprinkler classifications). The Special Restricted Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning classification here is an electrical restricted class, not the plumbing board's license.

Does monitoring mode re-charge for old leads? No. monitoringMode remembers every license already delivered to your account and silently skips it on later runs — you pay only for new rows. The first monitored run seeds the baseline.

Is this legal to scrape? The registry is a public government licensing record intended for license verification by the public. The actor accesses only those public pages, politely. See the Disclaimer below for your responsibilities.

💬 Support

• 🐛 Issues: the actor's Issues tab
• 💡 Feature requests: same place — concrete requests (new fields, other states, other trades) usually ship fast
• 📧 Direct: message via my Apify profile

🛠 Additional services

Need the same license-verified leads pipeline for another state or trade (plumbing, HVAC, general contractors), a custom export, or a managed feed into your CRM? This actor is the first of a per-state series built on a shared engine — new boards stamp out quickly. Reach out via my Apify profile.

🔎 Explore more scrapers

More lead-gen and directory actors from the same author: apify.com/memo23 — including email finding & verification, business directories, real-estate, and job boards.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This actor is MCP-ready: call it from agent frameworks via the Apify MCP server, or hit it with a single API call and read the dataset as clean JSON. The row schema is stable and flat where it matters (licenseNumber, businessName, phone, address.city, isActive), so it drops straight into RAG pipelines, lead-qualification agents, and compliance-check tools. Typical agent patterns: "verify this contractor's NC license" (pass licenseNumbers), "find active unlimited-class electricians in Raleigh with emails" (pass cities + classifications + enrichEmails), or a scheduled "alert me on newly licensed contractors" loop (monitoringMode).

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, the State of North Carolina, or any of their agencies or affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only the board's publicly available license-verification pages — no authenticated endpoints and no content behind a login. License data is a public record published for verification purposes; contact-email enrichment visits only the businesses' own public websites. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable law and regulation — including data-protection rules (GDPR, CCPA), telemarketing/e-mail regulations (TCPA, CAN-SPAM) when contacting leads, and any obligations of their own organisation.

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