🏛️ California Franchise Scraper

Pull structured records from California Franchise — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/california-franchise-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/california-franchise-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), searchQuery (string), filingType (string), enforcementOnly (boolean, default false), dateFiledFrom (string), dateFiledTo (string). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~california-franchise-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

Collect franchise registration filings from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) without coding or manual searches. This tool is built for franchise attorneys, investors, compliance teams, and researchers who need structured franchise filing data. Whether you want to track new franchise registrations, monitor enforcement cases, or build a franchise market database, this actor handles it all automatically.

The California Franchise Scraper extracts franchise filing data from DFPI with up to 13 fields per record, covering 68,000+ historical filings with enforcement flags, filing dates, and detail page links.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🔍 Search by name - Find specific franchises by name across all California filings
• 🗂️ Filter by filing type - Target Initial, Renewal, Post-Effective/Amendment, or Consecutive Subsequent filings
• ⚖️ Enforcement detection - Identify franchises with enforcement cases or public actions
• 📅 Date range filters - Narrow results by filing date range
• 📋 Filing details - Get franchise name, app ID, application type, filing type, effective dates, and state
• 🔗 Detail page enrichment - Optionally fetch each record's detail page for additional fields like application ID and full filing type code

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "California Franchise Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: appId, applicationId, applicationType, dateFiled, detailUrl, effectiveDate, filingType, filingTypeCode, franchiseName, hasEnforcementCases, hasPublicActions, results, scrapedAt, state. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the California Franchise Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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