All notable changes to this actor are documented here. This renders on the Apify Store
Info tab, so keep entries buyer-readable.
- Business-name and owner-name searches now report a CSLB outage instead of returning nothing.
When the state portal is down it redirects every request to a Department of Consumer Affairs
maintenance page, which looks like an ordinary successful page load — so a name search came back
empty and read as "no such contractor". Licence-number lookups already detected this; both name
searches now do too, returning the same free, never-charged "CSLB unavailable" row.
- First release: look up & verify a California contractor license from a single query — a
license number (direct lookup) or a business/contractor name (CSLB business-name search).
Returns deduped matches, optionally enriched with the full license record: entity type,
issue/expiry dates, classifications, contractor's bond, and workers' comp. Pay-per-result
(
dataset-item); no charge for empty runs.
- Added personnel/owner-name search: a name query now also searches the CSLB personnel index
and returns every license a person is listed on (RMO/RME/owner) — even under a different
business name — unioned with business-name matches and deduped by license #.
- Fixed: a refused lookup no longer looks like "no such license". When CSLB declines a
request it quietly redirects to its search page, which the actor used to read as an empty
result — so a run that never reached the source returned zero rows and looked like a clean
"not found". It now returns a single free, unbilled row explaining that CSLB was
unavailable. A genuine "no such license" still returns zero rows, as before.
