# Colorado Business Registry Scraper (`parseforge/colorado-business-registry-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Colorado business entities by name, ID or trademark: status, type, formation date, addresses and registered agent. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/colorado-business-registry-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 business record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 🏛 Colorado Business Registry Scraper

> 🚀 **Export Colorado business entities in seconds.** Name, ID number, status, entity type, formation date, principal and mailing address and registered agent for entities in the official Colorado Secretary of State database, with no account and no API key.

The Colorado Secretary of State publishes every business entity registered in the state: corporations, LLCs, partnerships, nonprofits and trade names. This Actor searches that official database by entity name, ID number or trademark and returns one flat row per entity, with the registered agent and the principal office address when you ask for details.

Colorado returns one result line per filing event, so the same company can appear many times in the registry grid. The Actor collapses those lines to one row per entity ID.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
| --- | --- |
| Sales and lead generation teams | Find registered Colorado companies by name and confirm they are active |
| Lawyers and paralegals | Look up the registered agent and principal office before serving or contacting a company |
| Banks, KYC and compliance teams | Check that a counterparty exists, its entity type and its standing |
| Registered agent services | Track entities by agent and formation date |
| Journalists and researchers | Trace who is behind a Colorado company |
| Data teams | Seed or refresh an internal company table for Colorado |

### 📋 What the Colorado Business Registry Scraper does

> 💡 **Why it matters:** a company name on an invoice or a contract proves nothing. The Secretary of State record shows whether the entity exists, what kind it is, and where its agent can be reached.

- Searches the official Colorado Secretary of State business database.
- Three search types: entity name, ID number and trademark.
- Returns one row per entity, collapsing the repeated filing-event lines the registry shows.
- Returns status, entity form, formation date and jurisdiction of formation.
- Optional detail pass adds the principal office address, the mailing address and the registered agent with its street address.
- Reports the registry message when a search is too broad instead of returning zero rows silently.
- Writes an unbilled error row when the registry refuses or finds nothing.

### 🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

### 📊 Output

Every row is one Colorado business entity. Columns the Colorado registry does not publish, such as FEI/EIN and officers, are not in the output. Address columns are filled when full details are on.

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 🏢 `corporateName` | string | Legal name of the entity as the registry prints it |
| 🧾 `corporationType` | string | Entity form code, for example DPC, FPC, DLLC or FLLC |
| 🔢 `documentNumber` | string | Colorado ID number of the entity |
| 📅 `dateFiled` | string | Formation date |
| 📍 `state` | string | Jurisdiction of formation, for example CO or DE |
| 🚦 `status` | string | Registry status of the entity |
| 📝 `lastEvent` | string | Last filing event shown by the registry, for example Statement of Change |
| 📬 `principalAddress` | object | Principal office address: street, city, state, zip |
| 📮 `mailingAddress` | object | Mailing address: street, city, state, zip |
| 🧑‍💼 `registeredAgent` | object | Registered agent: name and address |
| 🔗 `detailUrl` | string | Link to the entity page on coloradosos.gov |
| 🕒 `scrapedAt` | string | ISO 8601 timestamp of the extraction |
| ❌ `error` | string | Error message on a failed row, null on a real record |

Real records from a run:

```json
[
  {
    "corporateName": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
    "corporationType": "FPC",
    "documentNumber": "20171961374",
    "dateFiled": "12/27/2017",
    "state": "CO",
    "status": "Good Standing",
    "lastEvent": "Statement of Change",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "1 META WAY",
      "city": "MENLO PARK",
      "state": "CA",
      "zip": "94025"
    },
    "mailingAddress": {
      "street": "1 META WAY",
      "city": "MENLO PARK",
      "state": "CA",
      "zip": "94025"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY",
      "address": "1900 W Littleton Blvd, Littleton, CO 80120, US"
    },
    "detailUrl": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityDetail.do?quitButtonDestination=BusinessEntityResults&nameTyp=ENT&masterFileId=20171961374&entityId2=20171961374&fileId=20218169909&srchTyp=ENTITY",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T21:53:56.096Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "corporateName": "Meta Platforms Technologies LLC",
    "corporationType": "FLLC",
    "documentNumber": "20191650679",
    "dateFiled": "08/14/2019",
    "state": "CO",
    "status": "Good Standing",
    "lastEvent": "Statement of Change",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "1 Meta Way",
      "city": "Menlo Park",
      "state": "CA",
      "zip": "94025"
    },
    "mailingAddress": {
      "street": "1 Meta Way",
      "city": "Menlo Park",
      "state": "CA",
      "zip": "94025"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY",
      "address": "1900 W Littleton Blvd, Littleton, CO 80120, US"
    },
    "detailUrl": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityDetail.do?quitButtonDestination=BusinessEntityResults&nameTyp=ENT&masterFileId=20191650679&entityId2=20191650679&fileId=20221393240&srchTyp=ENTITY",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T21:53:56.433Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "corporateName": "CENTER FOR FINANCIAL TRAINING, WESTERN STATES, INC., Dissolved August 31, 2016",
    "corporationType": "DNC",
    "documentNumber": "19871143236",
    "dateFiled": "04/30/1959",
    "state": "CO",
    "status": "Voluntarily Dissolved",
    "lastEvent": "Entity Name Change",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "5310 Ward Road, Suite 211",
      "city": "Arvada",
      "state": "CO",
      "zip": "80002"
    },
    "mailingAddress": {
      "street": "5310 Ward Road, Suite 211",
      "city": "Arvada",
      "state": "CO",
      "zip": "80002"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "Christine Bumgardner",
      "address": "5310 Ward Road, Suite 211, Arvada, CO 80002, United States"
    },
    "detailUrl": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityDetail.do?quitButtonDestination=BusinessEntityResults&nameTyp=ENT&masterFileId=19871143236&entityId2=19871143236&fileId=19911019058&srchTyp=ENTITY",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T21:54:24.822Z",
    "error": null
  }
]
```

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

- **Official source.** Every row comes from coloradosos.gov, not from a resold list.
- **One row per entity.** The registry prints a line for every filing event; the Actor keeps one.
- **Trademark search included.** Search registered Colorado trademarks as well as entities.
- **Registered agent on the row.** Name and street address, with the principal and mailing addresses.
- **Honest limits.** Very broad names are refused by the registry itself and the Actor tells you so.
- **Clean tables.** Fixed column order, ready for CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| | This Actor | Multi-state registry scrapers | Manual lookups |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Colorado Secretary of State source | ✅ official site | Sometimes | ✅ |
| Search by name, ID and trademark | ✅ | Name only | ✅ one at a time |
| Registered agent and addresses | ✅ with details | Sometimes | ✅ one at a time |
| One row per entity | ✅ | Often one row per filing | ✅ |
| Officers and FEI/EIN | ❌ not published by Colorado | Varies | ❌ |
| Bulk export to CSV, Excel, JSON | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |

### 🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts get $5 in free credit: [sign up here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).
2. Open the Colorado Business Registry Scraper and click **Try for free**.
3. Choose the search type, then type the entity name (or part of it), the Colorado ID number or the trademark.
4. Set the maximum number of businesses you want.
5. Keep **Include full details** on if you need the addresses and the registered agent, or turn it off for a faster list.
6. Click **Start** and watch the run log.
7. When the run finishes, open the **Storage** tab and download CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or pull the same rows through the Apify API.

### 💼 Business use cases

#### Lead generation

Search a company name and keep only the entities with Good Standing status, so your outreach list does not contain dissolved companies.

#### Counterparty checks

Confirm that a Colorado company exists, what type it is and when it was formed before you sign or pay.

#### Legal and service of process

Pull the registered agent and the street address to use for notices.

#### Brand protection

Search a trademark text to see which Colorado entities hold similar names.

### 🔌 Automating Colorado Business Registry Scraper

- **Make and Zapier**: run the Actor on a schedule and push new entities into a CRM or a spreadsheet.
- **Slack**: post an alert when a watched business changes status.
- **Airbyte**: sync the dataset into a warehouse and join it to your own customer data.
- **GitHub Actions**: run weekly and commit the CSV so a status history builds itself.
- **Google Drive**: drop each export into a shared folder for the compliance team.
- **Apify Scheduler**: run daily, weekly or hourly with no external tooling at all.

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

- **Research**: study formation trends and entity types in Colorado.
- **Journalism**: check who stands behind a company named in a story.
- **Personal**: confirm that a contractor or a landlord is registered and in good standing.
- **Non-profit**: verify the legal status of partner organizations.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant:

> I am using the Colorado Business Registry Scraper on Apify. It returns fields such as corporateName, documentNumber, status, corporationType, dateFiled, principalAddress and registeredAgent. Help me design a workflow that checks a list of Colorado supplier names against the registry and flags the ones that are not in good standing.

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

#### 🔎 Which searches does it support?

Entity name, ID number and trademark. Colorado does not offer a search by registered agent or officer in this database.

#### 🌐 Which registry does it read?

The Colorado Secretary of State business database at coloradosos.gov/biz. Nothing is read from third-party aggregators.

#### 🚫 What does "Exceeded Record Count" mean?

Colorado refuses a name that matches too many filings instead of paginating. The Actor writes the registry message on an error row. Search a longer name, for example "Meta Platforms" instead of "Meta".

#### 🏢 Why are there fewer rows than the registry grid shows?

The registry prints one line per filing event. The Actor keeps one row per entity ID.

#### 📍 Why are the address columns empty for some rows?

Addresses come from the entity page and need full details on. Trade names and trademarks have no such page.

#### 🧑‍💼 What is in the registered agent field?

The agent name and street address as the registry prints them.

#### 📅 What date format is used?

The registry format, month/day/year, kept as printed.

#### 🔑 Do I need an account or API key for the registry?

No. The Actor reads the public Colorado registry. There is nothing to sign up for and no key to paste.

#### 🧾 Is this personal data?

The Actor returns business entity records as the registry publishes them: legal name, ID, status, addresses of the business and its registered agent. It does not look anyone up elsewhere and adds nothing to what the registry prints. Use the data in line with the privacy and marketing laws that apply to you.

#### 📦 How many records can I export?

As many as the registry returns for the search, up to 1,000,000 on a paid plan. Free accounts are limited to 10 records per run.

#### 🔀 Can the same entity appear twice?

Not within one run for searches that list entities. Rows are deduplicated on the registry identifier where the registry lists several rows per entity.

#### 🌐 Do I need a proxy?

The default is Apify Proxy with a United States exit, which is enough in most cases. If the registry refuses it, the Actor retries from a residential US exit on its own.

#### 🛑 What happens when the registry does not answer?

The Actor writes one error row that says what went wrong and does not charge for it. A run that finds nothing says so on a row instead of finishing silently empty.

#### 💰 What am I charged for?

One result per business record delivered. Error rows and empty searches are not charged. The price per result is on the Pricing tab of the Actor page.

#### 📤 Which formats can I export?

CSV, Excel, JSON and XML from the Storage tab, or through the Apify API.

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

Every run writes to an Apify dataset you can read over the REST API, stream into a webhook, or export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML. Apify's integrations cover Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Google Sheets and plain HTTP webhooks, so the rows land wherever your team already works.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

- [Sunbiz Florida Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/sunbiz-florida) for Florida business entities.
- [Texas SOS Business Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/texas-sos-business-scraper) for Texas business entities.
- [Delaware Business Search Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/delaware-business-search-scraper) for Delaware entities, where many corporations are incorporated.
- [NY Business Entity Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/ny-business-entity-scraper) for New York entities.

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

**🆘 Need Help?** [Open our contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA)

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Colorado Secretary of State. It collects only publicly available data.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):

A Colorado entity name (or part of it), a Colorado ID number, or a trademark, depending on the search type. A very broad name makes the registry answer "Exceeded Record Count"; narrow it to a longer name.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of business records to collect. Free users are limited to 10 items, paid users can collect up to 1,000,000.

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

What the search term is matched against.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open the registry page of each entity to add the principal office address, mailing address and registered agent. One extra request per entity; turn it off for a faster name-and-status list.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy used for registry requests. The default is Apify Proxy with United States exit. If the registry refuses it, the Actor retries from a residential US exit by itself.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerm": "Meta Platforms",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchType": "EntityName",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Key fields in a readable table.

## `fullData` (type: `string`):

Complete dataset with every field.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerm": "Meta Platforms",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchType": "EntityName",
    "includeDetails": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/colorado-business-registry-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchTerm": "Meta Platforms",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchType": "EntityName",
    "includeDetails": True,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/colorado-business-registry-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerm": "Meta Platforms",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchType": "EntityName",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call parseforge/colorado-business-registry-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,parseforge/colorado-business-registry-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/oLhs4bWeaB5yJcvXt/builds/kn42EZwWzESywDXpw/openapi.json