Florida Roofing Contractor Directory & Leads (DBPR)

Pain points

• DBPR's licence search shows at most 50 results a page, so a statewide list of active roofers is about 200 pages of clicking and copying.
• DBPR's own bulk file is a 47 MB, header-less CSV of 262,832 licences across every construction trade, with status and county stored as codes — not a roofer list you can open.
• Roofing sales and supply teams need to know which roofers are actually licensed and active today, not a list bought months ago.

What we solve

• Reads DBPR's free daily construction-licence file in one pass and keeps only the two roofing licences: CCC Certified and RC Registered Roofing Contractor.
• Decodes DBPR's status and county codes into plain words (Current, Active; Miami-Dade) and dates into ISO format.
• Filter by county, city, licence type and status in one run — statewide export up to 100,000 rows.
• Flags addresses of record that are PO boxes, so you can split mailers from door-knocking lists.

Summary

Export every DBPR-licensed Florida roofing contractor in one run. On 2026-10-14 DBPR's file listed 9,856 active roofing licences (9,387 Certified CCC + 469 Registered RC) and 10,905 in all published statuses. Each row gives the firm, the licensed qualifier, licence number, status, original licensure and expiration dates, and the address of record with city, ZIP and county. Pick counties or run statewide. The file has no phone or email column, so this actor returns neither.

Who it's for

• Roofing material suppliers and distributors building territory prospect lists
• Sales reps selling software, insurance, financing or equipment to roofing contractors
• General contractors and property managers finding licensed roofing subs by county
• Storm-response and restoration companies sizing the licensed roofer pool in a region
• Compliance teams checking roofing licence status and expiry at scale

How to use

Set the input, run the actor, and collect results from the run's dataset (export to JSON/CSV/Excel, or pull via the Apify API). Example input:

{
  "counties": [
    "Miami-Dade"
  ],
  "licenseTypes": [
    "CCC",
    "RC"
  ],
  "statuses": [
    "active"
  ],
  "maxResults": 2000
}

See Inputs below for every available field.

What you get

One row per record:

Field	Description
business_name	Firm the licence is qualified under (DBPR's 'doing business as' name); the qualifier's own name when no firm is listed
person_name	Licensed qualifier, as DBPR writes it (LAST, FIRST MIDDLE)
license_number	DBPR licence number, e.g. CCC1338052 or RC0065048 (unique per row)
license_code	CCC or RC
license_type	Certified Roofing Contractor or Registered Roofing Contractor
status	DBPR primary + secondary status, e.g. 'Current, Active', 'Current, Inactive', 'Suspended, Active'
issue_date	Original licensure date (ISO)
effective_date	Effective date of the current licence record (ISO)
expiration_date	Expiration date (ISO)
address	Address of record (street or PO box); null on 2% of active rows
po_box	True when the address of record is a PO box
city	City of the address of record
address_state	State of the address of record (most FL; 701 active licensees live out of state)
zip_code	ZIP or ZIP+4
county	Florida county, or 'Out of State' / 'Foreign'
county_code	DBPR's county code
phone	Not in DBPR's file; always null
source_url	DBPR's construction-licence file the row was read from

Sample:

{
  "state": "FL",
  "license_number": "RC0065048",
  "license_code": "RC",
  "license_type": "Registered Roofing Contractor",
  "business_name": "CREST ENTERPRISES AND LAND DEVELOPMENT INC",
  "person_name": "MEDINA, MOSES C",
  "status": "Current, Active",
  "issue_date": "1992-04-27",
  "effective_date": "2013-09-24",
  "expiration_date": "2027-08-31",
  "address": "106 TRADE CIRCLE W, SUITE B",
  "po_box": false,
  "city": "PORT ST JOE",
  "address_state": "FL",
  "zip_code": "32456",
  "county": "Gulf",
  "county_code": "33",
  "phone": null,
  "matched_by": "statewide_file",
  "source_url": "https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/sto/file_download/extracts/CONSTRUCTIONLICENSE_1.csv"
}

Inputs

Field	Required	Type	Default	Description
counties	no	array	[]	Florida counties to export, e.g. 'Miami-Dade', 'Hillsborough', 'St. Johns'. Case, punctuation and a trailing 'County' do not matter; 'Dade' and DBPR's two-digit county codes work too. Leave empty for all of Florida (plus licensees with an out-of-state address). A name that is not a Florida county is dropped and logged; if none is recognised the run returns one free notice instead of widening to the whole state.
cities	no	array	[]	Optional: keep only licensees whose address city is one of these (exact city name, case-insensitive, e.g. 'Jacksonville', 'Cape Coral'). Leave empty for every city.
licenseTypes	no	array	["CCC", "RC"]	CCC = Certified Roofing Contractor (may work anywhere in Florida), RC = Registered Roofing Contractor (limited to the local jurisdictions where they hold a competency card). Default: both.
statuses	no	array	["active"]	active (current or on probation, and active — allowed to contract), inactive, suspended, or all. Default: active. DBPR's file leaves out null & void, delinquent and involuntarily inactive licences, so 'all' means every roofing licence DBPR still publishes.
maxResults	no	integer	500	Cap on the rows returned for the whole run (this is one statewide export, not a per-county search). Florida has about 9,900 active roofing licences, so 10000 returns all of them. Default 500.
proxyConfiguration	no	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Used only to download DBPR's licence file, and only if the direct download is refused. Apify datacenter is the default; residential would bill ~47 MB of traffic per run.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

You pay per result (dataset-item) — no charge for empty runs. Example: 1101 active Miami-Dade roofing licences at $0.002/result ≈ $2.20.

Measured 2026-10-14: all 9,856 active Florida roofing licences statewide cost about $19.71. Free marker rows (no match, unusable input, source outage, max charge reached) are never charged. Apify platform usage is billed separately per your plan.

Use cases

• Supplier prospecting — a distributor exports every active roofer in Lee and Collier counties before a territory push.
• Direct mail — a marketer pulls a statewide list and uses the po_box flag to split mail-only addresses from storefronts.
• Subcontractor vetting — a GC confirms a roofing sub holds an active CCC licence and when it expires.
• Market sizing — an analyst counts active Certified vs Registered roofers by county before opening a branch.

Why this actor

• Official source: DBPR's own daily licence file, read at run time — not a resold copy.
• One run covers the whole state; county, city, type and status filters run in memory, so a statewide export takes no longer than one county (9,856 rows in under 2 seconds, measured from a workstation 2026-10-14).
• Codes decoded for you: status, county and dates come out in plain words and ISO format.

Limitations & updates

Covers DBPR roofing licences only (CCC and RC). No phone or email (not in DBPR's file). The address is DBPR's address of record: 425 active licences (4%) list a PO box and 202 (2%) list no address. 701 active licensees have an out-of-state address and 326 have no county code. The licensee in DBPR's file is the qualifying individual; one qualifier can hold several licences, each a separate row. DBPR refuses the download from Apify's container IP, so the file comes through Apify's datacenter proxy (the default) and a run spends about four minutes downloading it (213 s on 2026-10-14). Data refreshes daily as DBPR rebuilds its file; counts measured 2026-10-14.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) publishes a free daily file of every construction licence on its Construction Industry public-records page. The actor downloads that file at run time and keeps the roofing licences.

Which licences are included?

The two Florida roofing licences: CCC Certified Roofing Contractor (may work anywhere in the state) and RC Registered Roofing Contractor (limited to the local jurisdictions where they hold a competency card). Other trades are not served by this actor.

Is there a phone number or email?

No. DBPR's file has no phone or email column. You get the firm, qualifier and address of record (98% of active rows have one).

How many rows can I get?

Up to 100,000 per run. On 2026-10-14 there were 9,856 active roofing licences statewide (1,101 in Miami-Dade, 886 in Broward, 588 in Palm Beach) and 10,905 in all published statuses.

How current is it?

DBPR rebuilds the file daily (the 2026-10-14 copy was dated that morning). Each run downloads the current file.

What does 'active' mean here?

DBPR primary status Current or Probation with secondary status Active. 'inactive' and 'suspended' are separate filter values, and 'all' returns every roofing licence in the file. DBPR leaves null & void, delinquent and involuntarily inactive licences out of the file entirely.

How am I charged?

Per row returned. A run that finds nothing, an unusable filter, or a source outage returns one free notice row and costs nothing beyond Apify platform usage.

Which actor to choose

Part of the roofing contractor data suite:

• Illinois Roofing Contractor Directory & Leads Scraper (IDFPR) — You want the same roofing contractor list for Illinois (IDFPR).

Guides & use cases

Written up on scrapebench.dev — the bench that runs and verifies this actor against the live source every night:

• How-to: How to run Florida Roofing Contractor Directory & Leads (DBPR)
• Use case: Export Every Active Florida Roofing Contractor (DBPR)

More actors, coverage and nightly verification results: scrapebench.dev

Works with AI assistants (MCP)

Callable as an MCP tool, so Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot and other MCP clients can run it directly. Grab the config from the MCP tab on this page — Apify hosts the server and keeps that snippet current, and OAuth signs you in on first connect, so no API token goes in your config file.

Then just ask:

"Export the active roofing contractors in Miami-Dade County, Florida."

Miami-Dade returned 1,101 active licences on 2026-10-14 (about $2.20); leave the county out for the whole state. Runs started this way bill exactly like any other run.