🏦 FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper

🚀 Collect broker and investment advisor profiles from FINRA BrokerCheck in minutes. Search by name, firm, CRD number, city, or state. Export employment history, regulatory actions, licensing, and disclosures. No coding, no FINRA account required.

The FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper collects broker and investment advisor data from FINRA's official BrokerCheck database, returning 50+ fields per record: personal information, CRD number, current and previous employment history, regulatory actions, disclosures, licensing details, exam history, and firm affiliations. Runs support up to 1,000,000 records on a paid plan.

The Actor supports two search modes: individual broker/advisor lookup and firm search. Filters include name query, firm name, firm CRD number, city, state, and a toggle for including previously registered individuals. The scraper hits FINRA's public API directly, the same data source that powers the BrokerCheck website.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Compliance officers, financial professionals, regulators, due-diligence analysts, legal teams, journalists, academic researchers	Background verification, compliance monitoring, due diligence, regulatory research, advisor vetting, firm auditing

📋 What the FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper does

Two search modes with geographic and firm filters:

• 👤 Individual search. Search by broker/advisor name, CRD number, or keyword.
• 🏢 Firm search. Search by firm name or firm CRD number to pull firm-level data.
• 📍 Geographic filters. City and state filters for individual searches.
• 🏢 Firm-level filters. Filter individuals by firm name or CRD number.
• 📋 Include previous registrations. Toggle to include brokers who are no longer actively registered.

Each record includes personal info (name, CRD, identifiers), current and previous employment with dates and firm names, regulatory disclosures, compliance history, licensing and exam details, and firm affiliation data.

💡 Why it matters: manually searching FINRA BrokerCheck one profile at a time is slow and doesn't scale. This Actor exports structured regulatory data at scale, ready for your compliance systems, due-diligence workflows, or research databases.

🎬 Full Demo

Watch this demo to see how to export FINRA broker data step by step.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: bcScope, brokerId, crdNumber, currentFirmName, detailPageUrl, firstName, fullName, iaScope, lastName, pdfReportUrl, scrapedTimestamp. All 11 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: the scraper hits FINRA's public BrokerCheck API directly. Results match what you see on the BrokerCheck website. For large batch searches, residential proxies are recommended to avoid rate limiting.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose individual or firm search. Enter a name, firm, or CRD number. Set filters and 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 FINRA or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available BrokerCheck data is collected.

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