# Berkeley CA Business License Leads - NAICS & Owner (`pink_comic/berkeley-business-license-leads`) Actor

Search 13.8k active City of Berkeley, California business licenses (updated daily). Get business and DBA name, description, NAICS industry, category, ownership type, employee count, Berkeley location and owner mailing address. Filter by category, NAICS or street.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/berkeley-business-license-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Ava Torres](https://apify.com/pink_comic) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 business results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Berkeley CA Business License Leads - NAICS & Owner

Search **active City of Berkeley, California business licenses** from the city's official **Business Licenses** file on data.cityofberkeley.info (about 13,800 licenses, refreshed daily). Every business operating in Berkeley, including contractors, landlords and home-based businesses, needs a city license.

Each result includes:

- business and DBA name and a short **business description**
- **NAICS code and title**, license category and tax code group
- ownership type (LLC, corporation, sole ownership...) and **employee count**
- Berkeley business location address and ZIP
- owner/business **mailing address** (often outside Berkeley)
- license record ID

Results are newest license record first. No API key, no CAPTCHA. Pricing: **$0.002 per business + $0.0001 start**.

```json
{ "categories": ["Construction or Contractor"], "maxResults": 300 }
```

```json
{ "naicsKeywords": ["Restaurant"], "streetKeywords": ["TELEGRAPH"] }
```

### Use cases

Local B2B lead generation for merchant services, insurance, payroll, marketing and suppliers; landlord lists from rental licenses; contractor sourcing; territory sizing by NAICS and employee count.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data from the City of Berkeley. It has no phone, email or license dates, so the record ID is the freshness signal. Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [San Francisco New Business Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/san-francisco-new-business-leads)
- [Business Entity Search (multi-state)](https://apify.com/pink_comic/us-business-entity-search)

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Quick single business or DBA name search (contains match). Leave blank for the newest license records.

## `names` (type: `array`):

Business or DBA names, contains match, case-insensitive.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Contains match, e.g. 'Construction or Contractor', 'Rental of Real Property', 'Professional', 'Retail Trade', 'Personal Repair', 'Non Profit', 'Manufacturing'.

## `naicsKeywords` (type: `array`):

Contains match on NAICS code/title or business description, e.g. '7225', 'Restaurant', 'Beauty', 'Software', 'Dentist'.

## `streetKeywords` (type: `array`):

Contains match on the Berkeley location address, e.g. 'SHATTUCK', 'TELEGRAPH', 'SAN PABLO', 'UNIVERSITY'.

## `ownershipTypes` (type: `array`):

Contains match, e.g. 'LLC', 'Corporation', 'Sole Ownership', 'Partnership'.

## `recordIds` (type: `array`):

Exact record IDs, e.g. 'BL-054251'.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total paid dataset items, split across search terms. The default returns 10 businesses (about $0.0201 including the start event).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "categories": [],
  "naicsKeywords": [],
  "streetKeywords": [],
  "ownershipTypes": [],
  "recordIds": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items.

# 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 = {
    "query": "",
    "names": [],
    "categories": [],
    "naicsKeywords": [],
    "streetKeywords": [],
    "ownershipTypes": [],
    "recordIds": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/berkeley-business-license-leads").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 = {
    "query": "",
    "names": [],
    "categories": [],
    "naicsKeywords": [],
    "streetKeywords": [],
    "ownershipTypes": [],
    "recordIds": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/berkeley-business-license-leads").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 '{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "categories": [],
  "naicsKeywords": [],
  "streetKeywords": [],
  "ownershipTypes": [],
  "recordIds": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/berkeley-business-license-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pink_comic/berkeley-business-license-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

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/CKoMIAlsHUAEG3e4E/builds/QIcgnu7t5EHOrQoPX/openapi.json