NY Business Registry Scraper

Search New York business entities by name or New York Department of State (DOS) ID using the official NY Open Data API. The actor returns one structured record per unique active entity, including entity type, jurisdiction, county, service-of-process address, and other address fields when they are published. Optional historical-name matching and recent filing history help with due diligence and entity resolution.

Use cases

• Find active New York corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and not-for-profit entities by name.
• Resolve a public DOS ID to the current entity record.
• Find active entities associated with a former or assumed name.
• Attach a short list of recent public filings for monitoring and research.
• Give AI agents compact, typed JSON records for vendor research or lead-list preparation.

Do not use this actor to determine whether a proposed name is available, prove ownership, obtain private beneficial-owner information, or replace a certified record or legal advice. The Department of State warns that the public database's completeness and accuracy are not guaranteed.

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["WEWORK"],
  "searchBy": "name",
  "matchMode": "contains",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 25,
  "includeHistoricalNames": true,
  "includeFilings": false,
  "maxFilingsPerEntity": 5,
  "requestDelayMs": 250
}

searchTerms is the only required field. Use one business name or DOS ID per line. Name searches support contains, beginsWith, and exact; DOS ID searches always use an exact match. Each entity is returned at most once across all search terms.

Output

Each dataset item includes:

• dosId, entityName, entityType, status, initialFilingDate, county, and jurisdiction;
• formatted service-of-process, CEO, registered-agent, and physical-location fields when published;
• historicalNames when historical-name matching finds an active entity;
• filings when includeFilings is enabled;
• sourceQuery, matchedBy, sourceUrl, and scrapedAt for traceability.

The SUMMARY key-value record contains counts, settings, warnings, and the official dataset IDs used for the run.

Official sources

• New York Corporation and Business Entity Search Database
• Active Corporations: Beginning 1800
• Corporations and Other Entities: All Filings
• Name Status History

Pricing

PPE is configured at $0.005 per unique entity returned, plus the standard actor-start event. The actor also supports Apify's usage-based billing path for larger runs. The upfront log message shows the maximum entity charge derived from the input cap.

MCP/agent routing

Use this actor when an agent needs public New York business-entity records by name or DOS ID. Do not use it for ownership, EINs, private contacts, entity-name availability, or certified legal documents. Results are compact records with dosId, entityName, entityType, addresses, historicalNames, optional filings, and source links. Empty matches return successfully with a warning in SUMMARY.