# New York Business Entity Scraper (`muhammadafzal/ny-business-entity-scraper`) Actor

Search active New York business entity records by name or DOS ID through official NY Open Data. Return entity type, jurisdiction, county, service address, agent data, and source links. $0.01 per entity.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/muhammadafzal/ny-business-entity-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhammad Afzal](https://apify.com/muhammadafzal) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 ny business entity returneds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## New York Business Entity Scraper

Search active New York business entities by name or Department of State (DOS) ID through the official [New York Open Data active-entity dataset](https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Active-Corporations-Beginning-1800/n9v6-gdp6). The actor returns one compact, structured record per unique entity with identity, type, jurisdiction, county, service-of-process, agent, and physical-location fields.

The browser-based Public Inquiry page is useful for human verification, but it can present an automated-browser challenge. This actor uses the state’s published API dataset as its primary transport for predictable, agent-friendly runs.

### What it extracts

| Group | Fields |
| --- | --- |
| Identity | `entityName`, `dosId`, `entityType`, `entityStatus` |
| Formation | `dateOfInitialDosFiling`, `jurisdiction`, `county` |
| Service and contact | `serviceOfProcessName`, `serviceOfProcessAddress`, `chiefExecutiveOfficerName`, `chiefExecutiveOfficerAddress`, `registeredAgentName`, `registeredAgentAddress` |
| Location | `entityPrimaryLocationName`, `entityPrimaryLocationAddress`, `principalExecutiveOfficeAddress` |
| Provenance | `sourceUrl`, `searchQuery`, search settings, `scrapedAt`, `warnings[]` |

The official active-entity dataset does not provide every field displayed in the interactive Public Inquiry detail page. Fields not published in Open Data are explicit `null`. `filingLinks[]` contains the official active-dataset source link; the actor does not download certified documents or filing history.

### When to use it

Use this actor for public New York entity research, DOS-ID resolution, vendor due diligence, company-name lookups, service-of-process research, and compact structured inputs for AI agents.

Do not use it as a final name-availability opinion, a certificate-of-status provider, an ownership/EIN lookup, a private beneficial-owner source, a county-clerk assumed-name search, or a substitute for legal advice. The Department of State warns that public-record completeness and accuracy are not guaranteed.

### Input

```json
{
  "searchBy": "entityName",
  "query": "IBM",
  "searchFunctionality": "beginsWith",
  "entityStatus": "active",
  "entityTypes": ["corporation", "limitedLiabilityCompany", "limitedPartnership", "limitedLiabilityPartnership"],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "requestDelayMs": 400
}
```

For a direct DOS ID lookup:

```json
{ "searchBy": "dosId", "query": "1234567", "maxResults": 1 }
```

Name matching supports `beginsWith`, `contains`, and `exactMatch`. Entity types are filtered defensively after the API response. `entityStatus="active"` is the supported source scope; `inactive` exits with a warning because the active dataset cannot truthfully return inactive-only records.

### Output example

```json
{
  "recordType": "ny-business-entity",
  "entityName": "IBM",
  "dosId": "1234567",
  "entityType": "DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION",
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "dateOfInitialDosFiling": "01/01/1900",
  "county": "New York",
  "jurisdiction": "New York",
  "serviceOfProcessName": "IBM",
  "serviceOfProcessAddress": "1 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10010",
  "registeredAgentName": null,
  "registeredAgentAddress": null,
  "filingLinks": [
    { "linkType": "other", "label": "Active entities dataset", "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Active-Corporations-Beginning-1800/n9v6-gdp6" }
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?...",
  "warnings": ["The official Open Data active-entity dataset is the source for this record; inactive-only records are outside this actor’s source scope."]
}
```

The `OUTPUT` key-value record contains status, result and charge counts, the normalized search input, official source links, and warnings. A valid query with no matches is a successful empty result. HTTP, timeout, or API failures are reported as runtime failures rather than silently converted into an empty dataset.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
| --- | ---: |
| Actor start | $0.00005 per run |
| `entity-record` | $0.01 per stored entity |

The actor prints the maximum result-event cost before querying and stops at `maxResults` or an Apify event-charge limit. A one-result run costs up to $0.01005 in actor events before compute or usage charges.

### Official sources

- [New York Corporation and Business Entity Search Database](https://dos.ny.gov/corporation-and-business-entity-search-database)
- [Active Corporations: Beginning 1800](https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Active-Corporations-Beginning-1800/n9v6-gdp6)
- [NY Open Data API endpoint](https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json)

# Actor input Schema

## `searchBy` (type: `string`):

Use this when choosing whether the query is a New York entity name or a Department of State identification number. Accepted values are entityName or dosId; entityName is the default. This is not a filing-document number or tax ID selector.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Use this when specifying the New York business name or DOS ID to search. Enter a name such as IBM or a digits-only DOS ID such as 1234567. Defaults to IBM for the Apify health test. This is not a street address or county filter.

## `searchFunctionality` (type: `string`):

Use this when controlling how a name query matches New York active records. Choose beginsWith, contains, or exactMatch; beginsWith is the default. This option is ignored for DOS ID searches.

## `entityStatus` (type: `string`):

Use this when declaring the status scope needed for the search. The actor's official NY Open Data source currently contains active entities; active is the default and inactive exits with an actionable warning. This is not a legal good-standing opinion.

## `entityTypes` (type: `array`):

Use this when limiting the active New York records to entity categories. Select any of corporation, limitedLiabilityCompany, limitedPartnership, or limitedLiabilityPartnership; all four are used by default. This is a client-side filter over the official active-entity dataset.

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

Use this when capping the number of unique active entity records returned and charged. Enter an integer from 1 to 500; the default is 50. This is a result cap, not a page count or API request limit.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Use this when pacing requests to the official New York Open Data API. Enter 100 to 5000 milliseconds; the default is 400. Use a larger value for repeated runs, not as a substitute for a valid query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchBy": "entityName",
  "query": "IBM",
  "searchFunctionality": "beginsWith",
  "entityStatus": "active",
  "entityTypes": [
    "corporation",
    "limitedLiabilityCompany"
  ],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "requestDelayMs": 800
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Structured entity records are stored in the default dataset.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

The OUTPUT key-value record contains run status, counts, source URLs, and warnings.

# 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 = {
    "query": "IBM"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("muhammadafzal/ny-business-entity-scraper").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 = { "query": "IBM" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/ny-business-entity-scraper").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 '{
  "query": "IBM"
}' |
apify call muhammadafzal/ny-business-entity-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,muhammadafzal/ny-business-entity-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/5YpDpXzpCeQTJQEJK/builds/ESRVisXgB3BtZ5uVk/openapi.json