🔎 New York Active Corporation Check

A per-identity check: submit identifiers, get one official answer each. Billed per completed official answer — an unresolved, ambiguous, or unavailable outcome is returned but never charged.

Output is one corporation_status_answer row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one corporation status check (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.05 per corporation status check). Source: data.ny.gov.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run PnmrgZjFRCuTp4yli on build 0.1.4 (2026-09-17), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

current_entity_name	entity_type	initial_dos_filing_date	jurisdiction	county	dos_process_name
BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.	DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION	2013-06-27	New York	Westchester	BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.
BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.	DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION	2013-06-27	New York	Westchester	BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.

The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 2 billable answer(s), 0 definitive non-billable (not-found/ambiguous), 0 unavailable, 0 unparseable of 2 | corporation-status-check billable=2 | corporation-status-check charged=2

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• query_mode (string/null) — e.g. id
• dos_id (string/null) — e.g. 4424185
• current_entity_name (string/null) — e.g. BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.
• entity_type (string/null) — e.g. DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION
• initial_dos_filing_date (string/null) — e.g. 2013-06-27
• jurisdiction (string/null) — e.g. New York
• county (string/null) — e.g. Westchester
• dos_process_name (string/null) — e.g. BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.
• dos_process_address (string/null) — e.g. 23 BUSHNEIL PLACE
• dos_process_city (string/null) — e.g. MOUNT VERNON
• dos_process_state (string/null) — e.g. NY
• dos_process_zip (string/null) — e.g. 10550
• record_type (string/null) — e.g. corporation_status_answer
• input (string/null) — e.g. 4424185
• source (string/null) — e.g. https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json
• outcome (string/null) — e.g. answer
• outcome_reason (string/null) — null in every sample row

What you get

One record per submitted identity. A resolved identity carries the official status fields verbatim; fields the source withholds are honest null with a reason. Not-found, ambiguous, and service-unavailable outcomes are distinguished in the outcome field and are not billed. A run that gets no definitive result at all fails loud and charges nothing.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "entities": [
    "4424185",
    "BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC."
  ]
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 2 × $0.05 corporation-status-check = $0.12 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "entities": [
    "4424185",
    "BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC."
  ]
}

A bounded run for checking the field shape before scheduling.

3. A full-size run

{
  "entities": [
    "4424185",
    "BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC."
  ]
}

The same input run on a schedule; each run is billed only for what it delivers.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run PnmrgZjFRCuTp4yli, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "query_mode": "id",
  "dos_id": "4424185",
  "current_entity_name": "BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.",
  "entity_type": "DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION",
  "initial_dos_filing_date": "2013-06-27",
  "jurisdiction": "New York",
  "county": "Westchester",
  "dos_process_name": "BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.",
  "dos_process_address": "23 BUSHNEIL PLACE",
  "dos_process_city": "MOUNT VERNON",
  "dos_process_state": "NY",
  "dos_process_zip": "10550",
  "record_type": "corporation_status_answer",
  "input": "4424185",
  "source": "https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json",
  "outcome": "answer",
  "outcome_reason": null
}

🔧 How it works

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent.

Charging. Each corporation status check is charged at the moment it is pushed (corporation-status-check); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

How it behaves

Each identity is resolved against the New York DOS active-corporations dataset. A DOS ID resolves to at most one entity; an exact entity name that matches more than one returns an ambiguity (resolve by DOS id) and is not billed. A resolved entity returns entity type, initial DOS filing date, jurisdiction, county, and DOS process address verbatim — the record states only what the register lists, no broader good-standing claim. Unknown identities are not-found and not billed.

Billing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
apify-actor-start (one-time actor start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
corporation-status-check (per completed official answer)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Charged once per completed official answer. Invalid / not-found, ambiguous, and service-fault outcomes are emitted but never charged. Start fee $0.02.

Source

https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Corporation Status Check (corporation-status-check)	$0.05	$0.04	$0.04	$0.03

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 2 corporation status checks: $0.02 start + 2 × $0.05 = $0.12
• 25 corporation status checks: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.05 = $1.27
• 100 corporation status checks: $0.02 start + 100 × $0.05 = $5.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 1024 MB.

Yield on the sample run: NORMAL: 2 billable answer(s), 0 definitive non-billable (not-found/ambiguous), 0 unavailable, 0 unparseable of 2 | corporation-status-check billable=2 | corporation-status-check charged=2.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by data.ny.gov. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (data.ny.gov) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other company registry checks actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers data.ny.gov. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Fewer rows than expected → the source had fewer items in scope → widen the input.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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