Florida New Business Filings Feed (Sunbiz daily files)

A clean daily feed of new Florida corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships and nonprofits, read straight from the Florida Division of Corporations' official daily data files. About 850 new entities per work day, usually within a day of being entered into the state database.

No scraping and no anti-bot breakage: the Actor downloads the state's own yyyymmddc.txt daily corporate filings file and turns the fixed-width records into JSON.

• Entity type: LLC, corporation, limited partnership, nonprofit, trust; Florida-formed or foreign (formed in another state/country and registered to do business in Florida).
• Where: principal city, state, ZIP and county (derived from the ZIP code; approximate where a ZIP crosses county lines).
• Who (entity level only): legal entity name, state of formation, corporate registered agent (name when it is a company, e.g. a registered-agent service), corporate officers/members that are companies. Individuals are never output.
• Filters: date range or days back, entity types, Florida vs foreign, counties, cities, ZIP prefixes, name keywords, active/inactive, new formations only.

Who uses it

• B2B sales and lead gen for new businesses: banking, insurance, payroll, accounting, bookkeeping, software, signage, commercial real estate, telecom.
• Registered-agent, formation and compliance services (competitor monitoring: which agent services new entities pick).
• Market intelligence and local news: formation counts by county, entity type and industry keyword.

Quick start

Run with {} to get the 30 newest new-formation entities from the latest daily file (about 10 seconds).

{ "daysBack": 3, "counties": ["Miami-Dade", "Broward", "Palm Beach"], "entityTypes": ["llc"], "maxItems": 500 }

New LLCs in South Florida over the last three days (covers a weekend; files exist only for work days).

{ "origin": "foreign", "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 200 }

Out-of-state companies newly registered to do business in Florida.

{ "daysBack": 1, "nameContains": ["roofing", "construction", "contracting"], "maxItems": 1000 }

New contractor-style entities from the latest file. Schedule it daily with daysBack: 1.

Input

Field	Description
daysBack	Calendar days of daily files to read, ending at the newest file (default 1 = latest file; max 31)
dateFrom / dateTo	Explicit file-date range (YYYY-MM-DD); overrides daysBack
entityTypes	corporation, llc, lp, nonprofit, trust, agent, or codes DOMP, DOMNP, FORP, FORNP, DOMLP, FORLP, FLAL, FORL, NPREG, TRUST, AGENT. Empty = corporation, LLC, LP, nonprofit
origin	any (default), florida, foreign
counties, cities, zipPrefixes	Principal-address filters
floridaAddressOnly	Drop entities whose principal address is outside Florida
nameContains, excludeNameContains	Keyword filters on the entity name
status	any (default), active, inactive
newFormationsOnly + newFormationWindowDays	Default on, 30 days: keeps entities whose formation date is within 30 days of the file date. Turn off to get every record in the files
includeStreetAddress	Adds the principal street address (and a company registered agent's address). Off by default because small entities often list a home address
maxItems	Max records (default 30; also caps your spend)

Output example

See sample-output.json. Fields: documentNumber, entityName, entityType, entityTypeLabel, entityCategory, foreignEntity, status, formationDate, sourceFileDate, stateOfFormation, principalCity, principalState, principalZip, county, registeredAgentType (company / person), registeredAgentCompany, registeredAgentCity, officerCount, individualOfficersWithheld, corporateOfficers, hasFederalEin (a flag only), isNewFormation.

Data source and privacy

• Source: Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Data Downloads - Daily Data: https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/other-services/data-downloads/daily-data/ (file layout: https://dos.sunbiz.org/data-definitions/cor.html). The Division offers these downloads free "for informational purposes", "as is".
• Access: the Division publishes a public-access username and password for its data server (host sftp.floridados.gov, user Public) on that page for anyone to download the files. This Actor uses those published public credentials; they are not a private login. If the state changes them, update src/sftp.js (or the SUNBIZ_SFTP_* environment variables).
• Individuals are never output: registered agents and officers who are persons are withheld (only a count is given), and federal EINs are reduced to a yes/no flag. Street addresses are opt-in. Entity names are the public legal names of the registered entities (some LLCs are named after their founders).
• Data may lag or differ from the live sunbiz.org record (the state says so on its definitions page). The Actor is not affiliated with the State of Florida.
• Polite use: one connection per run, a few MB per daily file.

Pricing

Pay per event: a small start fee plus a fee per filing delivered. Your spend is capped by maxItems and your run's maximum cost limit.