# Norfolk Virginia New Business Leads - Business Licenses (`pink_comic/norfolk-virginia-new-business-leads`) Actor

Find new businesses in Norfolk, Virginia from the city's Business Licenses file (10k licenses, updated daily). Get trade name, owner, business type, location and mailing address and business opened date. Filter by opened date or business type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/norfolk-virginia-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

## Norfolk Virginia New Business Leads - Business Licenses

Get **new businesses in Norfolk, Virginia** from the City of Norfolk's official **Business Licenses** file on data.norfolk.gov (about 10,000 licenses, refreshed daily, roughly 200 new businesses a month). Every business operating in Norfolk needs a city business license, so the opened date is an early signal that a business just started.

Each result includes:

- trade name and **owner** (person or company)
- business type (restaurants, contractors, salons, consultants, online retail...)
- **business opened date**
- location address and **mailing address**
- census tract and coordinates

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

```json
{ "openedAfter": "2026-09-01", "maxResults": 300 }
```

```json
{ "businessTypes": ["Restaurant", "Contractor"], "addressKeywords": ["23510"] }
```

### Use cases

New-business lead generation for merchant services, insurance, payroll, accounting, marketing and suppliers in Hampton Roads; territory planning by business type; quick checks on a Norfolk business.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data from the city. It has no phone or email, and some out-of-town contractors show "NO NORFOLK ADDRESS REQUIRED" as their location (use the mailing address). Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [Virginia Contractor License Search](https://apify.com/pink_comic/virginia-contractor-license-search)
- [Business Entity Search (multi-state)](https://apify.com/pink_comic/us-business-entity-search)
- [New Orleans Business License Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/new-orleans-business-license-leads)

# Actor input Schema

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

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

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

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

## `openedAfter` (type: `string`):

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

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

Contains match on the business type, e.g. 'Restaurant', 'Contractor', 'Beauty', 'Real Estate', 'Consulting', 'Retail'.

## `addressKeywords` (type: `array`):

Contains match on location or mailing address, e.g. a ZIP like '23510' or a street like 'GRANBY'.

## `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": [],
  "openedAfter": "",
  "businessTypes": [],
  "addressKeywords": [],
  "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": [],
    "openedAfter": "",
    "businessTypes": [],
    "addressKeywords": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/norfolk-virginia-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": [],
    "openedAfter": "",
    "businessTypes": [],
    "addressKeywords": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/norfolk-virginia-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": [],
  "openedAfter": "",
  "businessTypes": [],
  "addressKeywords": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/norfolk-virginia-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/norfolk-virginia-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/U1oLoGp63xeWLvvlu/builds/jFchuRcXs80PPe0fa/openapi.json