Contractor License Feed: New & Suspended Contractors, WA and OR (Companies Only)

Get newly licensed and newly suspended construction contractors in Washington and Oregon, pulled from the official open data of Washington Labor & Industries (L&I) and the Oregon Construction Contractors Board (CCB). Each row is one contractor company: business name, license type and specialty, status, expiration, business phone and filed address, plus Oregon bond and insurance companies and expiration dates. Washington rows typed Individual (sole proprietors), any row whose business name fails the strict company-name test, and principal or responsible-managing-individual names are never returned. Oregon has no business-type column, so there only the name test applies.

What you get

Field	Meaning
eventDate, event	licensed: the license effective date (WA) or the license's first registration date (OR, the earliest of its license classes) falls in your window. suspended: the WA suspension date falls in your window
state, licenseNumber	Licensing state (WA or OR) and the board's license number
businessName, businessType	The licensed company; businessType as WA publishes it (Limited Liability Company, Corporation, ...). Oregon has no type column
licenseType, specialties	WA license type and specialty 1/2; OR license class codes and endorsement texts, joined with ; . In both states, a text containing a non-ASCII character, an '@', a phone-like run of 7 or more digits or a common first name is left out
licenseStatus, expirationDate	Current WA status (ACTIVE, SUSPENDED, ...). Oregon's dataset lists active licenses only, so OR rows say ACTIVE
bondCompany, bondAmount, bondExpirationDate	Oregon only: surety bond company (blank unless it is one proven organisation), amount and expiration
insuranceCompany, insuranceAmount, insuranceExpirationDate	Oregon only: liability insurer (blank unless it is one proven organisation), amount and expiration
street, city, region, postalCode, county	The address the company filed with the board (county Oregon only). When the street is withheld (see Privacy), city, region and ZIP are blank too, so cities and zipPrefix filters skip that row
phone, ubi	Business phone as filed; ubi is Washington's unified business id
changeType	new, or changed when a license you already received changed event, status, expiration, name, specialty, phone, street, insurer, or bond or insurance expiration
sourceDataset, sourceUrl, sourceFreshness, retrievedAt	Where the row came from (a link to the official record), the newest event date that source had, and when you pulled it

Who it's for

• Contractor insurance and surety bond agents: new licensees need coverage; suspensions and coming insurance or bond expirations are renewal and replacement signals.
• Building-supply, equipment-rental and trade distributors opening accounts with new contractors.
• Payroll, estimating, field-service and accounting software vendors selling to new construction businesses.
• General contractors and property managers checking that a subcontractor's license is still active.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
states	both	WA, OR
events	licensed	licensed, suspended (Washington only)
daysBack	7	1-90, counted back from today
sinceDate	none	YYYY-MM-DD; overrides daysBack (never more than 90 days back)
specialtyContains	none	e.g. ELECTRICAL, ROOFING, Residential; case-insensitive
cities	all	Exact city names, case-insensitive
zipPrefix	none	e.g. 981 for Seattle-area ZIP codes
onlyNewSinceLastRun	true	See "Repeat runs" below
maxItems	1000	1-20,000 rows per run, newest first

Daily feed of new contractors in both states:

{ "states": ["WA", "OR"], "events": ["licensed"], "daysBack": 7, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true }

Washington suspensions this week (insurance and bond agents):

{ "states": ["WA"], "events": ["suspended"], "daysBack": 7 }

New residential contractors around Portland:

{ "states": ["OR"], "specialtyContains": "Residential", "zipPrefix": "972", "daysBack": 30 }

Output example

Values below are illustrative; real rows have the same shape.

[
  { "eventDate": "2026-10-19", "event": "licensed", "state": "WA", "licenseNumber": "EXAMPLL700AA", "businessName": "EXAMPLE ROOFING LLC",
    "businessType": "Limited Liability Company", "licenseType": "CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR", "specialties": "ROOFING",
    "licenseStatus": "ACTIVE", "expirationDate": "2028-10-19", "street": "100 EXAMPLE AVE STE 1", "city": "SPOKANE", "region": "WA",
    "postalCode": "99201", "phone": "5095550100", "ubi": "600000001", "changeType": "new", "sourceDataset": "m8qx-ubtq",
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.wa.gov/resource/m8qx-ubtq.json?contractorlicensenumber=EXAMPLL700AA",
    "sourceFreshness": "2026-10-19", "retrievedAt": "2026-10-19T12:00:00+00:00" },
  { "eventDate": "2026-10-12", "event": "licensed", "state": "OR", "licenseNumber": "240000", "businessName": "EXAMPLE CONVEYOR SYSTEMS INC",
    "licenseType": "CGC1; RGC", "specialties": "Commercial General Contractor Level 1; Residential General Contractor",
    "licenseStatus": "ACTIVE", "expirationDate": "2028-10-12", "bondCompany": "EXAMPLE SURETY COMPANY", "bondAmount": "20000",
    "bondExpirationDate": "2028-10-12", "insuranceCompany": "EXAMPLE INSURANCE COMPANY", "insuranceAmount": "1000000",
    "insuranceExpirationDate": "2027-07-14", "city": "SALEM", "region": "OR", "county": "Marion", "changeType": "new",
    "sourceDataset": "g77e-6bhs", "sourceUrl": "https://data.oregon.gov/resource/g77e-6bhs.json?license_number=240000" }
]

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0024 per license row ($2.40 per 1,000 rows), charged once per row returned. Apify also charges its standard actor-start event (default $0.00005, i.e. $0.05 per 1,000 runs) once per run. You are never charged for the run summary or for errors; those go to the run's key-value store (OUTPUT), not the dataset. A run stops cleanly when it reaches the spending limit you set.

Repeat runs. With onlyNewSinceLastRun on (the default), the actor remembers which licenses this exact input already returned, in a storage that stays in your account. A daily schedule only returns licenses that are new or that changed (for example a Washington license that is later suspended, or an Oregon contractor that switches insurer). The memory forgets a license it has not seen for 45 days (or 3 × daysBack, if longer), so sinceDate runs spaced further apart than that return and charge those licenses again as new. Rows are only deduplicated between runs that follow one another: two runs of the same input that overlap in time, or a run interrupted after it delivered rows but before it saved its memory, can return and charge some rows again.

Free-plan users can try it within Apify's monthly free usage credit.

Freshness and limits, stated honestly

State	Source cadence	What that means
Washington	Updated three times a day	licensed uses L&I's license effective date. In samples seen on 2026-10-19 a renewed license kept its original effective date, so these look like new licenses, but L&I does not document it; treat an older business with a fresh date as possibly re-licensed. suspended uses the suspension date; licenseStatus shows the status now, so a license reinstated since shows ACTIVE
Oregon	Daily	The CCB dataset lists active licenses only, so Oregon supports licensed (first registration date) and never suspended. A license is returned only when its earliest active class is in your window, so an older contractor that just added a class (for example a lead-based paint renovation class) is not reported as new. Asking for suspended Oregon rows returns none and says so in the run's OUTPUT notes

Companies only means some real companies are withheld. Rows and names that cannot be proven to be one organisation are withheld, not guessed. In 7-day samples on 2026-10-19, roughly 6 in 10 new Washington licenses (115 of 193 in the latest run) and 6 to 8 in 10 Oregon licenses passed the company test below. Left out: sole proprietors; businesses whose name carries no legal form (for example 'EXAMPLE CONSTRUCTION'); names that join two parts with '&' where the first reads like a person's name (for example 'ALL FENCE & REPAIR LLC'); and names that fail the allowlist in Privacy below, such as any symbol other than & , . ' -, '&' glued between longer words, a listed word like 'by', 'for', 'ta', 'family', 'estate', 'member' or 'md', 'CO' before the last word, or two single letters in a row (for example 'BELLEVUE MASONRY/DRAINAGE LLC', 'EVERGREEN FLOORING #1 LLC', 'KARPSTEIN BUILD&REPAIR LLC', 'BB REAL ESTATE SERVICES LLC', 'GARAGE DOOR MD LLC', 'THE DRYWALL REPAIR CO LLC' or 'TA CONSTRUCTION LLC'), even when the business is real. A surety or insurer name without that proof (for example an abbreviation like 'CBIC', or 'SL - KINSALE INSURANCE COMPANY') is left blank. A business named after its owner with a legal form (for example 'EXAMPLE SMITH PAINTING LLC') is an organisation's legal name and is returned.

Each run's OUTPUT record lists every source's status, row count and newest date; one state failing never stops the other.

Data sources, license and attribution

• Washington: "L&I Contractor License Data - General", dataset m8qx-ubtq on data.wa.gov, published by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL). Attribution: Labor & Industries.
• Oregon: "CCB Active Licenses", dataset g77e-6bhs on data.oregon.gov, published by the Oregon Construction Contractors Board. License: labelled by the publisher on data.oregon.gov as "Public Domain U.S. Government" (that label's linked page notes the U.S. government-work designation does not itself cover state works; no terms restricting reuse were found).

Source and version. Every row carries sourceUrl, a link to that license's record in the official dataset, and retrievedAt, the time this run read it; the data is whatever the board published at that moment.

Modifications made here. Rows are filtered to companies, renamed to the columns above, dates converted to YYYY-MM-DD, Oregon's one-row-per-license-class records merged into one row per license (classes sorted by registration date and class, joined; bond, insurer and expiration taken from the earliest class that has a bond), and address lines that are not address-shaped, person-shaped or c/o withheld, and specialty texts with contact or first-name shapes dropped. Nothing is added from other sources.

This actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Washington L&I or the Oregon CCB. Data is provided as published, without warranty; check a license with the board before relying on it.

Only the official Socrata open-data API is used, one request at a time with a pause of more than one second between requests. No login, no web-page scraping.

Privacy

• Only company-level columns are requested. Washington's principal name and Oregon's responsible managing individual (RMI) name and fax number are never downloaded, and neither are Washington's principal and authorized-signer datasets.
• A row is returned only when the business name, exactly as filed, passes an allowlist test:
  • Every character is plain ASCII (any other character, even one that looks like a Latin letter, fails the name): letters, digits and spaces plus & , . ' -. A dash, dot or apostrophe sits only inside a word (a dot may also end an abbreviation such as 'INC.', and an apostrophe may follow a final S, as in "RESIDENTS'"). '&' is spaced on both sides ('R & R') or glued only where one side is a single letter or digit ('A&B', 'AT&T'). A comma is allowed only right before the closing legal form ('ACME, LLC').
  • The last word is a legal form or organisation word (LLC, INC, CORP, LTD, LP, LLP, PLLC, PC, CO, NA, COMPANY, CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION, BANK, ...). A bare CO counts only on a Washington row typed as a company; Oregon needs 'CO.' or '& CO'. No legal form appears earlier in the name, except a word like COMPANY or CORPORATION directly before the last one ('ACME COMPANY LLC'), and CO or NA never does.
  • It holds no joiner, capacity, officer, fiduciary, trust or title word: DBA, AKA, FKA, TA, OBO, WITH, OR, BY, VIA, FOR, AS, ET, OWNER, OPERATING, TRADING, ATTN, CARE, TRUST, TRUSTEE, TR, TRS, ESTATE, EST, FAMILY, LIVING, PRESIDENT, MEMBER, MANAGER, AGENT, OFFICER, PARTNER, INDIVIDUAL, EXECUTOR, GUARDIAN, MR, MRS, DR, MD, ESQ, JR, SR and similar. These joiners also fail when spelled with dots, spaces, dashes, quotes or '&' inside them ('D.BA', 'D B A', 'D&B&A', 'O BO', 'W ITH').
  • It has no two single letters in a row ('C.O.', 'J P') and no run of 7 or more digits.
  • When it joins parts with '&' or AND, no part reads as a person's name, and the last part is itself a company.
• Washington rows whose business type is Individual are always dropped, whatever the name says; Oregon publishes no business type, so there only this name test applies. Nothing is cut out of a name: a name that fails drops the whole row (a sole proprietor's business address is a person's address). Surety and insurer names follow the same rule and are blank when they fail.
• This is default-deny, so it also withholds real companies, for example 'TA CONSTRUCTION LLC', 'BUILT BY DESIGN LLC', 'ST. JAMES BAKERY LLC', 'GARAGE DOOR MD LLC', 'BANK OF AMERICA' (legal form not last) and any name with an accent or symbol. It does not detect a person's name inside a legal name that passes: a business named after its owner (for example 'EXAMPLE SMITH PAINTING LLC') is that organisation's legal name and is returned. Likewise, a plain-text name that strings a person and a firm together without any marker cannot be told apart from a registered business name, and is returned.
• specialties and licenseType are publisher text; a part is left out unless it is plain ASCII (after Unicode normalisation) and has no '@', no run of 7 or more digits (ignoring every character that is not a letter or digit) and no common first name.
• The address is the one the company filed with the board. For a small company that can be a home or apartment address; it is shown because the company filed it as its business address. An address is published only when it is address-shaped: the first line starts with a street number or a PO, HC or RR box, and after its last street-type word (ST, AVE, RD, WAY, ...), box number or route number holds only unit, suite, building or direction words and numbers (a line with no street-type word may hold only numbers and directions); any second line holds only such words and numbers (a short unit letter code after a unit word is allowed, but never a common first name such as 'STE AMY'); and every character is a plain letter, digit or address punctuation. An address with a line that hands mail to someone else (c/o, attn, care of), reads as a person's name, holds a phone-like run of 7 or more digits joined only by separators, or has any other text is withheld with its city, region and ZIP. This also withholds some real addresses (80 of 5,337, or 1.5%, in a 2026-10-19 sample), mostly ones without a street-type word, for example '401 BROADWAY STE 100'. E-mail-shaped values are never passed on.
• No skip tracing and no contact enrichment. Calls and texts to listed phone numbers are the buyer's responsibility under TCPA and do-not-call rules.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

The actor runs with limited permissions, charges exactly once per returned row plus the tiny per-run start event, and returns a fixed column set described by its dataset schema. That makes it straightforward for agents to call through the Apify MCP server and to budget.

FAQ

Why is a contractor I expected missing? It is a Washington sole proprietor, its name does not end in a legal form or organisation word, its name has a symbol, a non-ASCII character, a listed word (dba, by, for, trust, estate, member, md, ...), CO before the last word or two single letters in a row, or (Oregon) its license is not active. That loses some real companies rather than ever returning a person's name.

Can I look up one license? Not in this version; it is a date-window feed. Use cities, zipPrefix or specialtyContains to narrow it.

How do I schedule it? Create a daily schedule with daysBack around 7. Changes-only mode means the overlap costs nothing.

How do I get CSV or Excel? Open the run's dataset and choose the export format, or call the dataset items API with format=csv.

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