# New Orleans Business License Leads - New Businesses with Phone (`pink_comic/new-orleans-business-license-leads`) Actor

Find new and active New Orleans businesses from the city's Occupational Business Licenses file (38k licenses, updated daily). Get business and owner name, phone, business type, address and license start date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/new-orleans-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 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

## New Orleans Business License Leads - New Businesses with Phone

Get **new and active New Orleans businesses** from the City of New Orleans' official **Occupational Business Licenses** file on data.nola.gov (about 38,000 licenses, refreshed daily). Every business operating in the city needs an occupational license, so new licenses are an early signal that a business just opened, and most records include a **phone number**.

Each result includes:

- business name and **owner name**
- **phone**
- business type (restaurants, bars, salons, lawyers, contractors, vendors...)
- license number and **business start date**
- address, city, state and ZIP

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

```json
{ "startedAfter": "2026-09-01", "businessTypes": ["Restaurant"], "maxResults": 200 }
```

```json
{ "businessTypes": ["Beauty", "Barber"], "zipCodes": ["701"] }
```

### Use cases

New-business lead generation with phone numbers for merchant services, POS, insurance, payroll, accounting, marketing and suppliers; territory planning by business type and ZIP; quick KYB checks on a New Orleans business.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data from the city. It has no email, a few records have no business name (the owner name is still present), and some licensees are located outside New Orleans. Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

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

# Actor input Schema

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

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

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

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

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

Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Use a recent date to get brand-new businesses.

## `businessTypes` (type: `array`):

Contains match, e.g. 'Restaurant', 'Beauty', 'Lawyers', 'Contractor', 'Short Term Rental', 'Drinking Places'.

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

ZIP code or prefix, e.g. '70130' or '701'.

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

Business mailing city, e.g. 'NEW ORLEANS', 'METAIRIE' (some licensees are outside the city).

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

Exact city business license numbers.

## `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": "",
  "businessTypes": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "cities": [],
  "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": [],
    "startedAfter": "",
    "businessTypes": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "cities": [],
    "licenseNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/new-orleans-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": [],
    "startedAfter": "",
    "businessTypes": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "cities": [],
    "licenseNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/new-orleans-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": [],
  "startedAfter": "",
  "businessTypes": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "cities": [],
  "licenseNumbers": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/new-orleans-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/new-orleans-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/lL0B1QS8O5R2Pe2x1/builds/YGCTAagPXflnc6vcq/openapi.json