# Los Angeles New Business Leads - LA Active Businesses (`pink_comic/los-angeles-new-business-leads`) Actor

Find new Los Angeles businesses from the City of LA Office of Finance active business listing (630k businesses). Filter by start date, NAICS industry, ZIP, council district or name. Get address, mailing address, NAICS and start date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/los-angeles-new-business-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

## Los Angeles New Business Leads - LA Active Businesses

Get **new Los Angeles businesses** from the City of LA Office of Finance **Listing of Active Businesses** on data.lacity.org (about 630k registered business locations, refreshed weekly). Every business operating in the City of LA must register for the business tax, so new registrations are an early public signal that a business just opened.

Each result includes:

- business name and **DBA**
- location account number
- **location start date**
- **NAICS code and industry description**
- street address, city, ZIP and council district
- mailing address
- latitude and longitude

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

```json
{ "startedAfter": "2026-09-01", "naicsCodes": ["7225"], "zipCodes": ["900"], "maxResults": 200 }
```

```json
{ "names": ["taco"], "councilDistricts": ["13"] }
```

### Use cases

New-business lead generation for merchant services, insurance, payroll, accounting, suppliers and marketing; territory planning by NAICS and ZIP; KYB checks on an LA business.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data, active registrations only, no phone or email. Some start dates are future-dated in the source; browsing without a name skips those. Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [Business Entity Search (multi-state)](https://apify.com/pink_comic/us-business-entity-search)
- [Restaurant Health Inspections](https://apify.com/pink_comic/restaurant-health-inspections)
- [Building Permits & Construction Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/building-permits-construction-leads)

# Actor input Schema

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

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

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

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

## `startedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD business location start date. Use a recent date for brand-new businesses.

## `naicsCodes` (type: `array`):

NAICS code or prefix, e.g. '722511' full-service restaurants, '238' specialty trades, '812' personal services, '5313' property managers.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Contains match on the NAICS description, e.g. 'restaurant', 'beauty', 'construction', 'real estate'.

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

ZIP code or prefix, e.g. '90028' or '900'.

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

Business city as registered, e.g. 'LOS ANGELES', 'VAN NUYS', 'HOLLYWOOD'.

## `councilDistricts` (type: `array`):

LA City Council district numbers 1-15.

## `accountNumbers` (type: `array`):

Exact LA Office of Finance location account numbers, e.g. '0000000108-0001-3'.

## `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": [],
  "startedAfter": "",
  "naicsCodes": [],
  "industries": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "cities": [],
  "councilDistricts": [],
  "accountNumbers": [],
  "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": [],
    "startedAfter": "",
    "naicsCodes": [],
    "industries": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "cities": [],
    "councilDistricts": [],
    "accountNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/los-angeles-new-business-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": [],
    "startedAfter": "",
    "naicsCodes": [],
    "industries": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "cities": [],
    "councilDistricts": [],
    "accountNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/los-angeles-new-business-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": [],
  "startedAfter": "",
  "naicsCodes": [],
  "industries": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "cities": [],
  "councilDistricts": [],
  "accountNumbers": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/los-angeles-new-business-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pink_comic/los-angeles-new-business-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/xuMUqMUe4lIX0Cs3z/builds/Ny4phwikd5GSVERny/openapi.json