# Delaware Business License Leads - New & Active Licenses (`pink_comic/delaware-business-license-leads`) Actor

Find new and active Delaware businesses from the Division of Revenue's Business Licenses file (70k licenses, updated daily). Get business and trade name, license category, address, license number and valid-from/to dates. Filter by category, city or ZIP.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/delaware-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
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 license 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

## Delaware Business License Leads - New & Active Licenses

Get **new and active Delaware businesses** from the Delaware Division of Revenue's official **Delaware Business Licenses** file on data.delaware.gov (about 70,000 current licenses, refreshed daily). Anyone doing business in Delaware needs a state business license, including **out-of-state contractors**, so new licenses are an early signal of a new business or a contractor entering the state.

Each result includes:

- business (legal) name and **trade name**
- license **category** (contractor, restaurant, retailer, wholesaler, professional services, engineers, movers...)
- license number and **valid-from / valid-to dates**
- address, city, state and ZIP

Results are newest valid-from date first. No API key, no CAPTCHA. Pricing: **$0.002 per license + $0.0001 start**.

```json
{ "validFromAfter": "2026-10-01", "categories": ["RESIDENT CONTRACTOR"], "maxResults": 300 }
```

```json
{ "categories": ["RETAILER  RESTAURANT"], "cities": ["WILMINGTON"] }
```

### Use cases

New-business lead generation for merchant services, insurance, payroll, accounting and marketing; tracking contractors licensed in Delaware; quick KYB checks on a Delaware business.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data from the Division of Revenue. It has no phone, email or owner name, and the valid-from date also changes on annual renewal. A few source records carry malformed future dates and are excluded from browse results. Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [Business Entity Search (multi-state)](https://apify.com/pink_comic/us-business-entity-search)
- [Texas New Business Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits)
- [New Orleans Business License Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/new-orleans-business-license-leads)

# Actor input Schema

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

Quick single business or trade name search (contains match). Leave blank for the newest licenses.

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

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

## `validFromAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Use a recent date for new or just-renewed licenses.

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

Contains match, e.g. 'RESIDENT CONTRACTOR', 'NON-RESIDENT CONTRACTOR', 'RETAILER  RESTAURANT', 'RETAILER  GENERAL', 'GENERAL SERVICES', 'WHOLESALER', 'PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER', 'MOTOR VEHICLE DEALER'.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Business city, e.g. 'WILMINGTON', 'DOVER', 'NEWARK', 'LEWES'.

## `states` (type: `array`):

Business state, e.g. 'DE', 'PA', 'MD' (out-of-state licensees are included).

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

ZIP code or prefix, e.g. '19801' or '199'.

## `licenseNumbers` (type: `array`):

Exact Delaware business license numbers.

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

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

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "validFromAfter": "",
  "categories": [],
  "cities": [],
  "states": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "licenseNumbers": [],
  "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": [],
    "validFromAfter": "",
    "categories": [],
    "cities": [],
    "states": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "licenseNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/delaware-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": [],
    "validFromAfter": "",
    "categories": [],
    "cities": [],
    "states": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "licenseNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/delaware-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": [],
  "validFromAfter": "",
  "categories": [],
  "cities": [],
  "states": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "licenseNumbers": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/delaware-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/delaware-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/iLM8fmDmiWWqVGTdZ/builds/Np2Wbppuohn0dTpKG/openapi.json