Florida Sunbiz New Business Leads - LLC Filing Scraper

Download date-based Florida LLC and corporation filings from the official Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) public SFTP bulk feed. The safe default keeps newly formed entities from a recent daily file, with names, source and formation dates, officers, registered agents, addresses, FEI/EIN fields when published, and source-reported status.

This actor is for daily filing exports. It does not search the live Sunbiz registry by company name or document number.

What you get

Each dataset item represents one entity record in a requested daily bulk file.

Field	Description
documentNumber	Florida Division of Corporations document number
name	Entity name
status	Status reported in the downloaded bulk snapshot
filingType	Official filing type such as FLAL, FORL, DOMP, or DOMNP
sourceFileDate	Date the record was entered into the state database and included in the daily file
sourceFilePath	Exact path of the official Sunbiz SFTP file
fileDate	Original entity formation date reported by Sunbiz
feiNumber	FEI/EIN field when present in the public record
stateCountry	State or country code reported by the source
principalAddress	Reported principal address
mailingAddress	Reported mailing address
registeredAgentName	Reported registered-agent name
registeredAgentAddress	Reported registered-agent address
officers	Up to six reported officers, directors, or managers
moreThanSixOfficers	Indicates that the bulk record reports additional officers
annualReports	Up to three annual-report year/date entries in the bulk record
lastTransactionDate	Last transaction date reported in the bulk record

Input

{
  "startDate": "2026-07-17",
  "endDate": "2026-07-17",
  "filingTypes": ["FLAL"],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "formationOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 10
}

Parameter	Required	Description
startDate	No	First daily-file date (YYYY-MM-DD): the date records were entered into the state database. Blank uses a recent available business day.
endDate	No	Last daily-file date. Blank uses startDate.
filingTypes	No	Official filing-type codes to retain. Blank keeps all types. Common legacy aliases are accepted.
activeOnly	No	Keep only records whose source-reported status is Active. Default true.
formationOnly	No	Keep only entities whose original fileDate matches sourceFileDate. Default true for new-formation leads.
maxResults	No	Total output cap, default 10 and maximum 50,000. Omitted or legacy zero values are bounded to 10. A buyer-set maximum total charge can lower this cap further.

Daily files are normally published for Florida work days and contain corporate filings entered into the state database that day. sourceFileDate records that publication-batch date; fileDate is the entity's original formation date. With formationOnly=true, the actor keeps records where those dates match. Turn it off to include other corporate filings in the daily batch. If an explicitly requested daily-file date is unavailable, the run returns no rows rather than silently substituting another date. Blank/default input may search backward to a recent available business day despite weekends, holidays, or publication lag.

Filing-type examples

Code	Meaning
FLAL	Florida limited liability company
FORL	Foreign limited liability company
DOMP	Domestic profit corporation
FORP	Foreign profit corporation
DOMNP	Domestic non-profit corporation
FORNP	Foreign non-profit corporation
DOMLP	Domestic limited partnership
FORLP	Foreign limited partnership

Legacy aliases DOMLC, FORLC, DOMPRO, and FORPRO are normalized to FLAL, FORL, DOMP, and FORP.

Sample output

{
  "documentNumber": "L26000161070",
  "name": "EXAMPLE CONSULTING LLC",
  "status": "Active",
  "filingType": "FLAL",
  "sourceFileDate": "2026-07-17",
  "sourceFilePath": "doc/cor/20260717c.txt",
  "fileDate": "2026-07-17",
  "stateCountry": "FL",
  "principalAddress": {
    "street1": "123 MAIN STREET",
    "city": "ORLANDO",
    "state": "FL",
    "zip": "32801"
  },
  "registeredAgentName": "DOE JANE",
  "officers": [
    {
      "title": "MGR",
      "name": "DOE JANE",
      "city": "ORLANDO",
      "state": "FL"
    }
  ]
}

Good uses

• Daily Florida LLC and corporation prospecting
• New-business lists for banking, insurance, accounting, payroll, legal, and B2B services
• Business-formation trend research by date and filing type
• Source-backed enrichment of records already tied to the same entity
• Monitoring newly published Florida filings

Evidence and interpretation limits

Sunbiz bulk records are administrative, source-reported snapshots. They are not proof of identity, current good standing, regulatory compliance, ownership, authorization, solvency, or suitability. Status, officers, agents, addresses, and annual-report information can change after a file is published. Similar names and shared addresses require independent matching. When formationOnly=false, a daily batch can include filings for older entities; do not label every returned entity as newly formed. Florida also states that some filings, including annual reports and address changes, are not included in these daily downloads.

The FEI/EIN field is not complete; a blank value does not prove that an entity has no EIN. Officer output is bounded by the source record, and moreThanSixOfficers=true means the record reports additional people beyond the returned officer slots. Use public personal data lawfully and for a legitimate purpose. For a current or certified determination, confirm the exact entity through Florida's official live or certified-record services.

Source and reliability

Data is downloaded directly from the official sftp.floridados.gov public bulk-data service using Florida's Daily Data documentation and Corporate File Definitions. No browser automation, proxy, CAPTCHA bypass, or private credential is used. The actor retries transient initial SFTP connection failures and skips dates for which Sunbiz has not published a daily file.

Pricing

Live pay-per-event pricing is $0.0001 minimum per run start plus $0.002 per dataset item.

Output rows	Item charges	Approximate total including minimum start
10 (default maximum)	$0.02	$0.0201
100	$0.20	$0.2001
1,000	$2.00	$2.0001

Set maxResults deliberately when requesting large date ranges. If you set Apify's maximum total charge, the actor lowers maxResults before downloading data so result charges stay within that item budget. Results can be exported from Apify as JSON, CSV, or Excel and connected through datasets, schedules, webhooks, and the Apify API.