🤠 Texas Businesses Scraper

🚀 Export Texas Comptroller franchise-tax registered businesses in seconds. Pull taxpayer name, number, address and status for any keyword search. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 8+ fields per record · 4,000,000+ Texas taxpayers · Texas, USA

The Texas Business Scraper queries the Texas Comptroller franchise-tax account status search.

Coverage: Texas, USA.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sales teams	Texas lead generation
Compliance officers	Tax-status verification
Real estate brokers	Owner verification
Researchers	Texas business landscape
Lenders	KYC for Texas entities

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📋 What this scraper does

• Texas franchise tax search
• Keyword name search
• Returns taxpayer #, status, address
• CSV, Excel, JSON, XML

💡 Why it matters: structured access to texas businesses data unlocks workflows that manual UI browsing cannot reach.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
searchKeyword	string	No	walmart	Filter.

Example 1:

{"searchKeyword":"walmart","maxItems":20}

Example 2:

{"searchKeyword":"lone star","maxItems":50}

⚠️ Good to Know: results reflect the live source at scrape time.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
  "taxpayerName": "WAL-MART STORES TEXAS LLC",
  "taxpayerNumber": "12345678901",
  "taxpayerStatus": "ACTIVE"
}

Each record exposes 8+ fields plus sourceUrl, scrapedAt, error.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Real Comptroller search
• 🟢 No API key
• 🟢 Keyword search
• 🟢 Up to 1M paid

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
comptroller.texas.gov UI	Yes	No	Yes
Manual scrape	Yes	Slow	Yes
ParseForge Texas Business Scraper	Yes	Yes	Yes

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set inputs, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Texas lead generation

Works out of the box.

Compliance KYC

Works out of the box.

Vendor verification

Works out of the box.

M&A research

Works out of the box.

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🔌 Automating Texas Business Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Local journalism

Ready to use.

Academic business research

Ready to use.

Civic-tech projects

Ready to use.

Tax-policy studies

Ready to use.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Microsoft Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? Texas Comptroller franchise-tax search.

Q: API key? No.

Q: Coverage? All Texas franchise-tax taxpayers.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: How often is the data refreshed? On every run.

Q: Schedule support? Yes - schedule from the Apify console.

Q: Free preview? Yes - 10 records.

Q: Paid bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 records per run.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Only publicly available data is collected.