US Contractor Licenses – Multi-State Leads

Get licensed contractors from 7 US states in one clean format: business name, license type and number, trade, status, first-issue and expiration dates, address and phone (where the state publishes them).

Find newly licensed contractors (brand-new businesses), build trade-specific lead lists by city or ZIP, or verify a contractor's license. All data comes from official state licensing open data. No API key, no login.

States covered

State	Licensing body	Contractors included	Phone	First-issue date
Washington	L&I	All construction, electrical, plumbing & elevator contractors	✅	✅
Oregon	Construction Contractors Board	All residential & commercial contractors (+ bond & insurance amounts)	✅	✅
Texas	TDLR	A/C (HVAC), electrical, electrical sign, appliance installation & elevator contractors	✅	–
Colorado	DORA	Electrical & plumbing contractors	–	✅
Connecticut	DCP	Home improvement, new home, major, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, demolition, pool & more	–	✅
Illinois	IDFPR	Roofing contractors, alarm contractor agencies	–	✅
New York	NYS DOL	Contractor Registry for public work (+ MWBE & debarment flags)	✅	✅

That's over 250,000 active contractor licenses in total, with roughly 3,000 newly licensed contractors a month.

What people use it for

• Selling to contractors: building materials, tools, equipment rental, insurance, bonding, software, financing, marketing services
• New-business outreach: reach contractors in their first weeks of business, when they're choosing suppliers and vendors
• Recruiting and partnerships: find licensed electricians, plumbers, HVAC and roofing companies in a territory
• Verification and compliance: check license status, expiry, bond and insurance (OR), and public-work registration (NY)

Features

• 🗂️ One schema for 7 states, with every license mapped to a common trade category (general, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, home improvement, specialty, fire protection, elevator, demolition, asbestos/lead, pools, landscaping, security/alarm…)
• 🆕 Newly licensed within N days: only contractors whose license was first issued recently (WA, OR, CO, CT, IL, NY)
• 🔁 Only new licenses: remembers what you've already received, so a weekly schedule gives you just the new ones in every state, Texas included
• 📍 City and ZIP filters (ZIP prefixes like 981 work), plus keywords and an "active only" option
• ⚡ Fast: official data APIs only. A month of new licenses across 6 states takes about 25 seconds.
• 🔒 Business data only: contractor-level licenses only, no apprentice, journeyman or other personal licenses, and owner, officer and principal names are never collected

Example input

{
  "states": ["WA", "OR", "CT"],
  "categories": ["roofing", "general", "home_improvement"],
  "newlyLicensedWithinDays": 30,
  "activeOnly": true
}

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Example output

{
  "id": "WA:CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR:ACMEBBL123AB",
  "state": "WA",
  "businessName": "ACME BUILDERS LLC",
  "licenseNumber": "ACMEBBL123AB",
  "licenseType": "CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR",
  "category": "roofing",
  "specialties": ["ROOFING"],
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "issueDate": "2026-10-01",
  "expirationDate": "2028-10-01",
  "address": "1 MAIN ST",
  "city": "SEATTLE",
  "addressState": "WA",
  "zip": "98101",
  "phone": "(206) 555-0100",
  "entityType": "Limited Liability Company",
  "businessId": "600000001",
  "source": "https://data.wa.gov/d/m8qx-ubtq"
}

Other fields where available: dba, effectiveDate, county, bondAmount and insuranceAmount (OR), verifyUrl (CO), and mwbeOwned / debarred (NY).

Input reference

Field	What it does
States	Which states to search (default: Connecticut).
Trades	Normalized trade categories to include.
Newly licensed within N days	Original issue date in the last N days. Texas doesn't publish issue dates, so it's skipped for this filter.
Cities / ZIP codes	Location filters (ZIP prefixes supported).
Keywords	Match on business name, license type or specialty.
Active licenses only	Skip expired, suspended or revoked licenses (default on).
Only new licenses	Return only licenses not seen in earlier runs with the same filters.
Maximum results	Cap per run, across all states.

Notes

• Data is as published by each state licensing body, usually updated daily.
• For sole proprietors, the licensed business name may be the owner's own name; that is the public name the license is issued under.
• If a state's portal is temporarily unavailable, that state is skipped for the run (with a warning) and the others still complete.

Related Actors

• US Building Permits Monitor – Contractor Leads: see which contractors are pulling permits right now, and for what projects, in Chicago, NYC, LA, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco and more.
• SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Monitor: new federal contract bids by NAICS and set-aside.

Support

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