🏛 Minnesota Business Registry Scraper

🚀 Export Minnesota business entities in seconds. Name, file number, status, standing, type, filing date, principal office, registered agent and officers for businesses in the official Minnesota Secretary of State database, with no account and no API key.

The Minnesota Secretary of State publishes its Business Filings database online. This Actor searches it by business name and returns one flat row per filing, with the principal executive office, the registered agent and the officers when you ask for details.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sales and lead generation teams	Find registered Minnesota companies and confirm they are active
Lawyers and paralegals	Find the registered agent and principal office of a Minnesota company
Banks, KYC and compliance teams	Check existence, type and standing of a counterparty
Registered agent services	Track filings by name and status
Journalists and researchers	See who is listed on a Minnesota company filing
Data teams	Seed or refresh a company table for Minnesota

📋 What the Minnesota Business Registry Scraper does

💡 Why it matters: a company name alone proves nothing. The Secretary of State filing shows whether the business exists, what it is, and who is listed on it.

• Searches the official Minnesota Business Filings database.
• Search by business name.
• Returns status, standing, business type, filing date and home jurisdiction.
• Optional detail pass adds the principal executive office, the registered agent and the officers with their roles.
• Writes an unbilled error row when the registry refuses or finds nothing.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

📊 Output

Every row is one Minnesota business entity. Minnesota offers name search only in this database. Search by ID, agent or officer is not available.

Field	Type	Description
🏢 corporateName	string	Legal name of the entity as the registry prints it
🧾 corporationType	string	Entity type, for example corporation or LLC
🔢 documentNumber	string	Minnesota file number of the business
📅 dateFiled	string	Filing date as printed by the registry
📍 state	string	Home jurisdiction, for example MN or DE
🚦 status	string	Registry status of the entity
✅ standing	string	Standing shown with the status, for example Good Standing
📬 principalAddress	object	Principal office address: street, city, state, zip
🧑‍💼 registeredAgent	object	Registered agent: name and address
👥 officers	array	Officers and managers listed on the filing: role, name and address
🔗 detailUrl	string	Link to the filing on mblsportal.sos.state.mn.us
🕒 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:

[
  {
    "corporateName": "TARGET & BEYOND LLC",
    "corporationType": "Limited Liability Company (Domestic)",
    "documentNumber": "631180100027",
    "dateFiled": "12/20/2012",
    "state": "MN",
    "status": "Active",
    "standing": "In Good Standing",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "84 SARATOGA CT",
      "city": "WINONA",
      "state": "MN",
      "zip": "55987-1368"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "(Optional) Currently No Agent",
      "address": "84 Saratoga Ct, Winona, MN 55987, USA"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "Manager",
        "name": "Target & Beyond",
        "address": "84 SARATOGA CT, WINONA, MN 55987-1368, USA"
      }
    ],
    "detailUrl": "https://mblsportal.sos.mn.gov/Business/SearchDetails?filingGuid=e4d83ed9-ae4b-e211-bc43-001ec94ffe7f",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T22:04:29.563Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "corporateName": "Target Brands, Inc.",
    "corporationType": "Business Corporation (Domestic)",
    "documentNumber": "10K-311",
    "dateFiled": "12/14/1998",
    "state": "MN",
    "status": "Active",
    "standing": "In Good Standing",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "1000 Nicollet Mall",
      "city": "Minneapolis",
      "state": "MN",
      "zip": "55403-2542"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "C T Corporation System",
      "address": "1010 Dale St N, St Paul, MN 55117-5603, USA"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "Number of Shares",
        "name": "1,000",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Chief Executive Officer",
        "name": "Stephen Lee",
        "address": "1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403-2542, USA"
      }
    ],
    "detailUrl": "https://mblsportal.sos.mn.gov/Business/SearchDetails?filingGuid=4845a99a-acd4-e011-a886-001ec94ffe7f",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T22:04:30.780Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "corporateName": "Target Bunwal Healthcare L.L.C.",
    "corporationType": "Limited Liability Company (Domestic)",
    "documentNumber": "1672435000024",
    "dateFiled": "9/30/2026",
    "state": "MN",
    "status": "Active",
    "standing": "In Good Standing",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "",
      "city": "",
      "state": "MN",
      "zip": ""
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "Michael Appiah",
      "address": "7447 Egan Dr Ste 100, Savage, MN 55378-2254, USA"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "Mailing Address",
        "name": "5748 178th St WLakeville, MN 55044–5191United States",
        "address": ""
      }
    ],
    "detailUrl": "https://mblsportal.sos.mn.gov/Business/SearchDetails?filingGuid=13babe23-18bd-f111-90aa-00155d01c53c",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T22:04:34.651Z",
    "error": null
  }
]

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Official source. Every row comes from mblsportal.sos.state.mn.us.
• Registered agent and officers. Name, address and roles in one row.
• Standing included. Status and standing on every row.
• Honest limits. Name search only, and the README says 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
Minnesota official source	✅ SOS database	Sometimes	✅
Status and standing	✅	Sometimes	✅ one at a time
Registered agent and principal office	✅ with details	Rare	✅ one at a time
Officers	✅ with details	Rare	✅ one at a time
Search by ID or agent	❌ name only	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.
2. Open the Minnesota Business Registry Scraper and click Try for free.
3. Type the business name or part of it.
4. Set the maximum number of businesses you want.
5. Keep Include full details on if you need the registered agent, principal office and officers, 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 active, good standing businesses.

Counterparty checks

Confirm a Minnesota business exists and see its type and standing.

Legal and service of process

Pull the registered agent and its address.

Data enrichment

Match your own company list to the registry by name.

🔌 Automating Minnesota 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 Minnesota.
• 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 Minnesota Business Registry Scraper on Apify. It returns fields such as corporateName, documentNumber, status, standing, dateFiled, registeredAgent and officers. Help me design a workflow that checks a list of Minnesota supplier names against the registry and flags the ones that are not in good standing.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔎 Which searches does it support?

Business name only. Minnesota does not offer search by ID, agent or officer in this database.

🌐 Which registry does it read?

The Minnesota Secretary of State Business Filings database at mblsportal.sos.state.mn.us.

📍 Why are some address columns empty?

Addresses and agents come from the filing page and need full details on.

📅 What date format is used?

The registry format, kept as printed.

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

No. The Actor reads the public Minnesota 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.

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• Sunbiz Florida Scraper for Florida business entities.
• Texas SOS Business Scraper for Texas business entities.
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• NY Business Entity Scraper for New York entities.

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