Kansas City KS Contractor License Lookup & Leads Scraper

Pain points

• Kansas has no statewide contractor licence: cities and counties license contractors, so a Kansas contractor list has to be read locality by locality.
• The Unified Government's licensee search stops at '100+' results and shows 10 rows a page, so its contractor list cannot be read whole from it (checked 2026-11-06).
• Phone, e-mail and the contact's name are not on the result list: each licence has to be opened on its own page.

What we solve

• The Unified Government's contractor licences read by licence-number range, so no search hits the 100-result cap.
• Each delivered licence's own page is opened for its phone, e-mail and contact name.
• Old rows cleaned out: licences that expired more than 3 years ago are left out of exports; each row says whether its licence is Unexpired, Expired or carries no expiry date.
• Looks up licence numbers or business names live on the Unified Government's search.

Summary

Contractor licences issued by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas (UG), from its Accela Citizen Access licensee search. Each row has the licence number, business name, street address, city, state and ZIP; each licence's own page adds the phone, e-mail and the contact's name. In a sample of 35 current licences read on November 6, 2026, every row had an address, 32 a phone and 27 an e-mail. Current licences carry six-digit numbers and the UG prints no expiry or status for them, so they are marked No expiry date; older numbers expired by 2020 and are left out. Kansas City, Kansas only: Kansas has no statewide contractor licence, and firms from Missouri and elsewhere appear when they are licensed to work in Kansas City, Kansas. Exports read a stored copy of the register (its date is in the run log); lookups search the UG live. Pay only per licence returned.

Who it's for

• Building-material suppliers and distributors selling to contractors working in Kansas City, Kansas
• Subcontractors and staffing firms looking for contractors licensed in Wyandotte County
• Property managers and developers checking a contractor's Kansas City, Kansas licence
• Insurers and bonding agents reaching Kansas City-area trades

How to use

This actor does two jobs. Run it, then collect results from the run's dataset (export to JSON/CSV/Excel, or pull via the Apify API).

Get a list (export): no names, just filters; returns the whole matching list.

{
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Check specific firms (lookup): put company names or licence numbers in mode, queries; Inputs below says how each is matched.

{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "queries": [
    "SANTOS PAINTING",
    "010506"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}

See Inputs below for every available field.

What you get

One row per record:

Field	Description
license_number	Licence number as the UG issued it (six digits for current licences, e.g. 010506); listing_id holds the same
license_type	The UG's licence type (Contractor)
business_name	Business name as registered
address	Street address
city	City
address_state	State of the address (KS, MO, …)
zip_code	ZIP code
phone	Phone, from the licence's own page, where the UG has one
email	E-mail, from the licence's own page, where the UG has one
expiration_date	Licence expiry (YYYY-MM-DD), where the UG prints one (not on current six-digit licences)
extras.expiry_status	Unexpired, Expired or No expiry date, derived from the expiry (the UG publishes no status)
extras.person_name	The contact's name from the licence's own page
extras.locality	The local register the licence comes from (Kansas City)
source_url	The licensee's own page on the UG's search (the part after # keeps rows with a shared licence number apart)

Sample:

{
  "license_number": "010506",
  "license_type": "Contractor",
  "business_name": "SANTOS PAINTING LLC",
  "address": "2941 N 123RD ST",
  "city": "KANSAS CITY",
  "address_state": "KS",
  "zip_code": "66109",
  "phone": "9139915178",
  "email": "SANTOSPAINTINGLLC.KC@GMAIL.COM",
  "state": "KS",
  "extras": {
    "locality": "Kansas City",
    "expiry_status": "No expiry date",
    "licence_type": "Contractor"
  },
  "source_url": "https://aca-prod.accela.com/UG/GeneralProperty/LicenseeDetail.aspx?LicenseeNumber=010506&LicenseeType=Contractor#%7CSANTOS%20PAINTING%20LLC%7C2941%20N%20123RD%20ST"
}

Inputs

Field	Required	Type	Default	Description
mode	no	string	"auto"	export: no names, just filters; returns the whole matching list. lookup / verify: put company names (matched if contained in the company name) or licence numbers (exact) in 'queries'. auto picks the mode for you.
query	no	string	—	A business name (or listing number) to look up live. Kept alongside 'queries' for saved tasks.
queries	no	array	[]	A business name (or listing number) to look up live. Several values in one run; combined with 'query'.
locality	no	string	—	Only listings in this locality. Kept alongside 'localities' for saved tasks.
localities	no	array	[]	Only listings in this locality. Several values in one run; combined with 'locality'.
expiry_status	no	string	—	Only listings in this expiry_status. Kept alongside 'expiry_statuses' for saved tasks.
expiry_statuses	no	array	[]	Only listings in this expiry_status. Several values in one run; combined with 'expiry_status'.
categories	no	array	[]	Only rows from this licence type (one or more). Available: Contractor.
licenseTypes	no	array	[]	Same filter as 'Licence type', under the name every state licence actor takes; the two lists are combined.
expiresAfter	no	string	—	Only licences expiring on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Licences with no published expiry are left out when set.
expiresBefore	no	string	—	Only licences expiring on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD): renewals coming due.
maxResults	no	integer	500	Per query in lookup mode; per run in export mode.
proxyConfiguration	no	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Used only for live lookups; exports read the stored snapshot.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

You pay per result (dataset-item) — no charge for empty runs. Example: 1000 contractor licences at $0.004/result ≈ $4.00.

Notices (unknown licence type, no match, source unavailable, stale copy, rows not opened in time) are free.

Use cases

• Sales lists: contractors licensed to work in Kansas City, Kansas, with phone, e-mail and street address.
• Cross-state outreach: the Missouri firms licensed on the Kansas side of the metro.
• Contractor checks: confirm a firm holds a Unified Government licence before work starts.
• Market sizing: count the contractors licensed in Wyandotte County by home city or state.

Why this actor

• The Unified Government's contractor register, not the first 100 rows of a search.
• Phone and e-mail from each licence's own page, which the result list does not show.
• Long-expired rows filtered out, every row flagged Unexpired, Expired or no expiry date.
• Pay per licence; notices are free.

Limitations & updates

Covers the Unified Government of Wyandotte County / Kansas City, Kansas licensee register (Accela Citizen Access), Contractor licences, Kansas City, Kansas only: not the rest of Kansas. Current licences carry no expiry or status. Exports leave out licences that expired more than 3 years ago and come from a stored copy. Phone and e-mail are read per delivered row from each licence's page; if the run's time runs out first, the remaining rows carry the list fields only and a free notice says how many. One run returns at most 100,000 rows.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

The Unified Government of Wyandotte County / Kansas City, Kansas's Accela Citizen Access licensee search (aca-prod.accela.com/UG). Exports come from a stored copy of that register; the run log gives its date. Lookups search the UG live. Phone and e-mail are read from each delivered licence's own page.

Does it cover all of Kansas?

No. Kansas has no statewide contractor licence: cities and counties license contractors. This actor reads the Unified Government of Kansas City, Kansas today; Johnson County (Overland Park, Olathe …) and Wichita / Sedgwick County are not included yet.

Are expired licences included?

Exports leave out licences that expired more than 3 years ago. Current licences (six-digit numbers) carry no expiry date in the register, so they come with expiry_status No expiry date; the UG publishes no status. Lookups return every row the search finds.

Is there a phone or email?

Yes, where the UG has one: each delivered licence's own page is opened for its phone, e-mail and contact name. In a sample of 35 licences read on 2026-11-06, 32 had a phone and 27 an e-mail.

Which licence types are covered?

Contractor, the one type the UG's search returns rows for (2026-11-06). Its Master Electrician, Master Mechanic, Master Plumber and Other types returned no rows; Security (guard firms) is not a contractor licence and is left out.

How do I look up a firm or a licence number?

Put business names or licence numbers in queries and set mode to lookup. Both match from the start of the UG's own value: 'SANTOS PAINTING' finds SANTOS PAINTING LLC; a licence number is typed as issued (010506).

How am I charged?

One event per licence returned. Notices are free.

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 Kansas City KS Contractor License Lookup & Leads Scraper
• Use case: Kansas City KS Licensed Contractors (Unified Government)

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:

"Find Santos Painting's contractor licence with Kansas City, Kansas: licence number, address, phone and e-mail."

That is a lookup for the business name SANTOS PAINTING (run live 2026-11-06: one licence, 010506, with phone and e-mail). Keep maxResults small on a first call. Runs started this way bill exactly like any other run.

Data & lawful use

This actor collects publicly available information that the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas (UG) publishes for public lookup — licence records, business listings and the contact details professionals list there. Some of it identifies individuals (sole proprietors, licence holders, agents), so treat any names, phone numbers and emails in your results as personal data.

When you run this actor, you decide what is collected and what it is used for, so you are the controller of that data and we act only as your processor (Apify Standard Actor Contract). You need a lawful basis for your use, must honour opt-out and deletion requests, and must follow the marketing rules that apply to you (CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR, CCPA and similar). Don't use the output for unsolicited bulk messaging, for screening covered by the FCRA, or for anything the source's own terms forbid.

Your results are stored in your own Apify account. We don't keep a copy of your results and don't sell or share them.

Disclaimer

This is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas (UG). Names and marks are used only to describe the data source. Records are provided as published by the source and may be out of date or incomplete. For anything consequential (hiring, a permit, a legal decision), confirm the record with the issuing agency. You are responsible for making sure your use complies with applicable law and the source's terms.

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