Contractor License Lookup & New Contractors — WA OR NY CT TX

Check a contractor's license, or get the contractor companies that were just licensed, straight from the official open data of three state licensing agencies: Washington L&I, the Oregon Construction Contractors Board (CCB) and the New York State Department of Labor Contractor Registry, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection (home improvement, new home construction, major, demolition, asbestos and lead abatement contractors), and for look-ups the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) air-conditioning, electrical, sign, appliance-installation and elevator contractors. One clean row per license: company, license number, status, license type and trades, licensed and expiry dates, city and ZIP, plus the surety bond and liability insurance on file (Washington, Oregon) or the wage, debarment, violation and workers' compensation flags (New York). No login, no API key, $3 per 1,000 licenses plus $0.01 a run.

Try it now. The input is already filled in. Press Start: contractor companies licensed in the last 7 days in Washington, Oregon, New York and Connecticut, 20 per state — 80 licenses in about 35 seconds, for $0.25 (measured on 29 Oct 2026).

state	licensedOn	companyName	city	licenseType / trades	bond	insurance
WA	2026-10-28	BIGFOOT CUSTOM BUILDS LLC	PASCO	General	$30,000	Atlantic Casualty Ins Co
WA	2026-10-28	RENKO TILE LLC	PACIFIC	Tile, Ceramic, Mosaic…	$15,000	Contractors Bonding & Insurance
OR	2026-10-27	BW ELECTRIC LLC	BORING	Residential / Commercial Specialty Contractor	$55,000	Property & Casualty Ins Co of Hartford
OR	2026-10-26	SAFE CHIMNEY INC	PORTLAND	Residential General Contractor	$25,000	Great American E & S Ins Co
NY	2026-10-27	Jamin B LLC	Binghamton	Contractor Registry (public work)		workers' comp: yes, debarred: no

To check a contractor, put its name or license number in Look up (for example Skanska or 264089): every chosen state is searched, current and past licenses alike, so an expired, suspended or out-of-business license shows up too.

state	agency and list	what you get	new in 30 days (to 29 Oct 2026)
Washington	L&I contractor licenses (every status)	license type, specialties, status, period start and expiry, UBI, active bond and insurance	882 active company licenses (new and renewed)
Oregon	CCB active licenses	license types (endorsements), first registration date, expiry, bond and insurance, county	436 newly registered companies
New York	DOL Contractor Registry (needed for public work)	certificate, status, issue and expiry dates, outstanding wage assessments, debarment, labor/tax and safety violations, workers' compensation	1,017 certificates
Connecticut	DCP State Licenses and Credentials: home improvement, new home construction, major, demolition, asbestos and lead abatement contractors	credential number, type, status, first issue and expiry dates, trade name	265 newly licensed companies
Texas	TDLR licenses: A/C, electrical, electrical sign, appliance installation and elevator contractors	license type and number, expiry (Active or Expired), city, county	look-ups only (no license dates published)

Who uses it

• Homeowners, general contractors and property managers: verify a contractor before hiring or paying — is the license active, when does it expire, which bond and insurer are on file.
• Insurance, surety and bonding: newly licensed contractors in Oregon and Washington, with the bond and liability insurer they started with.
• Building-supply, equipment and software sales: new roofing, electrical, plumbing or general contractors; filter Trade contains on roof, electric, plumb.
• Public-work compliance: New York subcontractors with outstanding wage assessments, debarment or no workers' compensation.

Input

{ "states": ["OR", "WA"], "licensedWithinDays": 7, "tradeContains": ["roof"], "output": "new" }

Look companies up:

{ "lookup": ["Example Builders", "264089", "ALPHACC744P8"] }

• Look up: company names (any part) or license numbers; a 9-digit Washington UBI also works. Fills mean look-up mode: every chosen state, any date, any status.
• States: Washington, Oregon, New York, Connecticut, Texas, or all five (empty). Texas is used for look-ups only.
• Licensed within (days): for the list of new contractors. What the date means differs by state: Oregon's is the first registration with the CCB and Connecticut's the first issue of the credential (truly new contractors); Washington's is the start of the current license period, so renewals are in it too; New York's is the certificate's issue date (new and renewed).
• Trade or license type contains / City contains: keep licenses whose type, trade or city contains one of your words.
• Active licenses only: on by default for the new-contractor list, off by default for look-ups.
• Output: all licenses in the window, or only the licenses your last run with the same settings did not return, dated no more than 7 days before the newest one it returned (for a daily schedule; states add licenses a few days late, and those still come through). Licenses left out by Max contractors per state are remembered as seen and are not returned later.

What you get

Field	What it is
state, agency	WA, OR, NY, CT or TX, and the licensing agency
licenseNumber, companyName, dbaName, businessType	the license or certificate number, the company, its trade name (NY) and form (LLC, Corporation…)
licenseType, trades	the license type and every specialty or endorsement (WA specialties, OR endorsements)
status, suspendedOn	ACTIVE, EXPIRED, SUSPENDED, OUT OF BUSINESS… (WA); Active, exempt or not (OR); Active (NY)
licensedOn, licensedOnMeaning, firstLicensedOn, expiresOn	the license date and what it means in that state, the first registration (OR) and the expiry
city, addressState, zip, county	where the company is
stateBusinessId	Washington UBI (the state business number)
bond	surety company, amount, effective and expiry dates (WA, OR)
insurance	liability insurer, amount, effective and expiry dates (WA, OR)
compliance	New York: outstandingWageAssessments, debarred, debarmentEndsOn, laborOrTaxLawViolation, safetyViolation, workersCompInsurance, workersCompExempt, apprenticeshipProgram, mwbeOwned, publiclyTraded
matchedLookup	the look-up line this license matched
isNewSinceLastRun	true for a license your last run did not return, dated no more than 7 days before the newest one it returned (null on the first run and in look-ups)
source, licenseTerms, retrievedAt	the agency and dataset, its licence, and when it was read

Not returned, on purpose: people. Sole proprietors are left out completely (Washington "Individual", New York "Sole Proprietorship", Connecticut "Individual" and "Sole Proprietor", and Oregon and Texas licenses whose name carries no company marker such as LLC, Inc or Corp). The lists also hold principals' and officers' names, phone numbers and street addresses; the Actor never returns them — city, state and ZIP only.

Sources and licences

• Washington: L&I Contractor License Data — General, — Bond and — Insurance on data.wa.gov, Department of Labor & Industries, Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication.
• Oregon: CCB Active Licenses on data.oregon.gov, Construction Contractors Board, public domain.
• New York: Contractor Registry Certificate on data.ny.gov, Department of Labor, under the Open NY terms of use (no attribution or re-use restrictions).
• Connecticut: State Licenses and Credentials on data.ct.gov, Department of Consumer Protection, public domain; only the contractor credentials above are read (electrical, plumbing and other trade licenses are held by individuals and are not read).
• Texas: TDLR - All Licenses on data.texas.gov, Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation; only the contractor license types above are read.

The Actor reads each state's official open-data API (Socrata), one request a second per portal as their robots.txt asks. Each list is refreshed daily by the state.

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 licenses, plus $0.01 per run. Look-ups that find nothing, licenses left out as already returned, and error rows are free.

Notes

• This is each state's own list, not a national database. A company licensed in Oregon and Washington comes back once per state.
• Oregon lists active licenses only: a lapsed Oregon license is not found by a look-up.
• Texas lists each license with its current expiry only: status is Active until that date and Expired after it; suspensions are not in the open data.
• New York's registry is for public work (contractors and subcontractors on public projects), not a general contractor license.
• Washington renewals: a renewed license comes back on the list with its new period start; use licensedOnMeaning and the license number to tell.

More company records from northbell: New LLC & Business Registrations, Building Permits, UK Companies House Scraper.

For AI agents

{"lookup": ["Example Builders"], "maxMatchesPerLookup": 5} returns up to 5 licenses per state with status, expiresOn, bond and insurance. {"states": ["OR"], "licensedWithinDays": 3} returns Oregon contractors first registered in the last 3 days. Rows have type: license or error.

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