🏛️ Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

The Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper helps you collect public business entity records from the Florida Division of Corporations without browser setup, manual copy-paste, or custom scraping code. It is built for legal professionals, business analysts, sales teams, compliance researchers, and anyone who needs structured Florida corporate data in CSV, Excel, or JSON.

Use it to search by company name, document number, registered agent, officer, FEI number, trademark, zip code, or street address. The actor can stay in fast listings mode or open each detail page to collect richer fields such as addresses, registered agents, officers, annual reports, direct PDF links to official filings, and address change history.

The Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper collects live corporate records from the official Florida Division of Corporations, covering all 9 search types with full detail page support.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🏢 Corporate Identity - collect the official name, document number, entity type, and FEI number for every result.
• 📋 Status and Events - capture current status, last event filed, and event effective dates for compliance tracking.
• 📍 Addresses - collect principal address, mailing address, and the date each was last changed.
• 🔄 Cross Reference Names - collect alternate names and DBA names registered for the entity.
• 👤 Registered Agent - capture the registered agent name, address, and any historical name or address changes.
• 👔 Officers and Directors - collect all officer titles, full names, and addresses for every entity.
• 📅 Annual Reports - pull the complete filing history of annual reports with year and filed date.
• 📄 Document Images - collect direct PDF links to every official document filed with the state.

🎬 Demo Video

Demo video coming soon.

🔧 Input

• Search Type - choose one of 9 search methods: Entity Name, Document Number, Registered Agent, Officer or Registered Agent, FEI Number, Trademark, Trademark Owner, Zip Code, or Street Address.
• Search Term - enter the query that matches your chosen search type. Company name, document number, FEI number, zip code, or street address.
• Max Items - control the maximum number of business entities collected per run.
• Include Full Details - set to false for fast listings-only collection, or true to open each detail page and collect addresses, officers, annual reports, and document links.
• Proxy Configuration - optional proxy settings for high-volume runs.

Example input using entity name search:

{
  "searchType": "EntityName",
  "searchTerm": "McDonald's",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Example input using zip code search:

{
  "searchType": "ZipCode",
  "searchTerm": "33139",
  "maxItems": 25,
  "includeDetails": false
}

📊 Output

Each business entity includes structured listing fields and, when enabled, full detail fields.

🏢 Corporate Name	🔄 Cross Reference	🏷️ Entity Type
🆔 Document Number	🔢 FEI Number	📋 Status
📅 Date Filed	📅 Effective Date	🌐 State
🔔 Last Event	📅 Event Date Filed	📅 Event Effective Date
📍 Principal Address	📅 Principal Changed	📮 Mailing Address
📅 Mailing Changed	👤 Registered Agent	👔 Officers
📑 Annual Reports	📄 Document Images	🔗 Detail URL
🕒 Scraped At	⚠️ Error

When Include Full Details is turned on, the actor adds richer fields like addresses, crossReferenceName, principalAddressChanged, mailingAddressChanged, registered agent history, the full officer roster with titles, annual report history, and direct PDF links to all official filings.

💎 Why Choose the Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Typical competitors
All 9 Sunbiz search types supported	✔️	Partial
Cross reference names and DBA capture	✔️	✖️
Address change history dates	✔️	✖️
Registered agent name and address change history	✔️	Partial
Complete officer roster with full multi-word titles	✔️	Partial
Direct PDF links to all filed documents	✔️	Partial
Listings-only mode for lower cost	✔️	Partial

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up: Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Actor: Search for "Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Choose Your Search: Select a search type and enter your term
4. Run It: Click "Start" and wait for your dataset to finish

You can then export the results in JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• ⚖️ Legal and Due Diligence - verify registered agents, pull officer rosters, and access PDF filings for contracts and litigation support.
• 💼 Sales Prospecting - build lead lists of active Florida businesses with verified addresses and decision-maker names.
• 📊 Market Research - analyze business formations, entity types, and compliance status across industries or zip codes.
• 🏘️ Real Estate - identify businesses at specific addresses or in target zip codes for tenant and ownership research.
• 🔍 Compliance Monitoring - track annual report history and status changes to verify good standing before partnerships.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Sunbiz Florida Business 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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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔍 How does it work? Choose a search type, enter your term, run the actor, and download the collected records when the run finishes.

📋 What is the difference between listings mode and full details? Listings mode returns the corporate name, document number, status, and detail URL only. Full details mode opens each entity's page and collects addresses, officers, annual reports, document PDF links, and address change history.

📄 Can I download the actual PDF documents? The actor collects direct PDF links to every filed document. You can open or download each PDF directly from the dataset output.

📡 Does it support all Sunbiz search types? Yes. Entity Name, Document Number, Registered Agent, Officer or Registered Agent, FEI Number, Trademark, Trademark Owner, Zip Code, and Street Address are all supported.

📄 What formats can I export? You can export the dataset in JSON, CSV, or Excel.

⚖️ Is it allowed to collect this data? You are responsible for using the actor in line with local laws, site terms, and your own compliance standards.

🔗 Integrate Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5000+ apps
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

🔌 Integrate with any app

Sunbiz Florida Business Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and run your first Florida business records search in minutes.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Florida Division of Corporations, Sunbiz.org, or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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