Oklahoma Contractor License Lookup & List Scraper (CIB)

Pain points

• The CIB licence search answers one trade or one name at a time on a single long web page, with no export button and no download (checked 2026-10-30).
• The search page has no licence-type, status or city filter, so finding the active plumbing contractors in Tulsa means reading every plumbing licence in the state.
• A licence number is not unique: the same number can belong to several people across trades (one 2026-10-30 search for 003019 returned five licences), so a number alone can point at the wrong person.

What we solve

• Returns any CIB trade as a table: 264,976 licences across the nine trades on October 30, 2026, filterable by licence class (Contractor, Journeyman, Apprentice, Inspector), status and city.
• Exports include the 3,274 licences the board's trade lists leave out (it shows one licence per person per trade, so a contractor's journeyman licence in the same trade is missing there), read from each active contractor's own licence page.
• Checks a person's name or a licence number live against the board's own search and returns every matching licence with its type, status and city.
• Links every row to the board's own page for that person, so two people sharing a licence number stay two rows.

Summary

Oklahoma Construction Industries Board trade licences in one dataset: electrical, mechanical and plumbing contractors and journeymen, their apprentices, and the board's building, home, electrical, mechanical and plumbing inspectors. Each row has the licence holder's name, city, licence type, licence class, licence number, status and citation flag. The CIB licenses individuals, not companies, and publishes no address, phone or email, so this is a verification and list product, not a contact list. On October 30, 2026 the stored copy held 264,976 licences: 43,895 active, 6,224 of them active contractor licences (2,436 mechanical, 2,094 electrical, 1,694 plumbing). Lookups search the board live; exports read a stored copy. Pay only per licence returned.

Who it's for

• General contractors and property managers checking that an electrician, plumber or HVAC tech holds an active Oklahoma licence
• Staffing agencies and trade schools tracking licensed journeymen and apprentices by trade and city
• Compliance and procurement teams verifying subcontractor licences in bulk
• Suppliers sizing the licensed trade workforce in an Oklahoma city

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.

{
  "categories": [
    "plumbing"
  ],
  "license_class": "Contractor",
  "status": "Active",
  "maxResults": 500
}

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

{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "queries": [
    "Smith, John",
    "00196169"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}

See Inputs below for every available field.

What you get

One row per record:

Field	Description
name	Licence holder, as the board prints it: LAST, FIRST MIDDLE (always a person)
listing_id	Licence number exactly as the board prints it, leading zeros included; not unique on its own
extras.license_type	Licence type, e.g. Electrical Contractor License, Plumbing Journeyman License, Mechanical Apprentice Registration
extras.license_class	Contractor, Journeyman, Apprentice or Inspector
extras.status	Licence status: Active, Expired, Inactive, Pending - CE Hours, Tax, Withdrawn, Denied, Deceased, Completed
extras.citation	Yes or No: whether the board shows a citation on the licence
category	Trade: Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, their Apprentice trades, or an inspector trade
city	The holder's city as the board lists it (no street, state or ZIP is published)
source_url	The board's own verification page for this licence

Sample:

{
  "listing_id": "00192177",
  "name": "ALDER, ALEX A",
  "city": "WILBURTON",
  "country": "US",
  "category": "Plumbing",
  "categories": [
    "Plumbing"
  ],
  "source": "live",
  "source_url": "https://okcibv7prod.glsuite.us/GLSuiteWeb/Clients/OKCIB/Public/LicenseeSearch/Posting.aspx?EntityID=1693095&LicenseID=1436877",
  "extras": {
    "license_type": "Plumbing Journeyman License",
    "license_class": "Journeyman",
    "status": "Active",
    "citation": "No"
  }
}

Inputs

Field	Required	Type	Default	Description
mode	no	string	"auto"	export: no names, just filters; returns the whole matching list. lookup / verify: put person names (matched if contained in the person name) or licence numbers (exact) in 'queries'. auto picks the mode for you.
query	no	string	—	A person's name (or listing number) to look up live. Kept alongside 'queries' for saved tasks.
queries	no	array	[]	A person's name (or listing number) to look up live. Several values in one run; combined with 'query'.
license_class	no	string	—	Only listings in this license_class. Kept alongside 'license_classes' for saved tasks.
license_classes	no	array	[]	Only listings in this license_class. Several values in one run; combined with 'license_class'.
status	no	string	—	Only listings in this status. Kept alongside 'statuses' for saved tasks.
statuses	no	array	[]	Only listings in this status. Several values in one run; combined with 'status'.
city	no	string	—	Only listings in this city. Kept alongside 'cities' for saved tasks.
cities	no	array	[]	Only listings in this city. Several values in one run; combined with 'city'.
categories	no	array	[]	Only rows from this trade (one or more). Available: building-inspector, electrical, electrical-apprentice, home-inspector, mechanical, mechanical-apprentice, plumbing, plumbing-apprentice, plumbing-inspector.
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 trade licences at $0.004/result ≈ $4.00.

Notices (unknown trade, no match, stale data) are free. Apify platform usage is billed separately per your plan.

Use cases

• Subcontractor checks: confirm a list of electricians' licences are Active before they start work.
• Workforce counts: active journeyman plumbers in Oklahoma City, or apprentices by trade.
• Licence audits: every Mechanical Contractor licence in Pending - CE Hours or Inactive status.
• Verification by number: a licence number returns every person who holds it, with type and status.

Why this actor

• A whole trade in one run, not one long page per search.
• Filters the board's search lacks: licence class, status and city, each taking a list.
• Name and number lookups run live in all nine trades (the board's own search shows one licence per person unless a trade is chosen), with the stored copy as a fallback.
• Pay per licence; notices are free.

Limitations & updates

Covers the licences the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board publishes in its trade licence search: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, their apprentices and the board's inspectors. No roofing (a separate registry) and no general contractors (Oklahoma has no state licence). Name and city only: no address, phone, email or expiry date. Exports read a stored copy; lookups are live.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

The Oklahoma Construction Industries Board's public licence search (the CIB License Verification site). Lookups search it live; exports read a stored copy of every trade.

Is there a phone, address or email?

No. The board licenses individuals and publishes only the holder's name and city, on the search and on each licence's verification page. No public CIB source carries a street address, phone or email for these licences (checked 2026-10-30).

What about roofing or general contractors?

Oklahoma has no state general-contractor licence. Roofing contractors register separately with the CIB; for them (with phone and address) use the Oklahoma roofing contractor actor in this suite.

Which trades are covered?

The nine options of the board's search: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, electrical-apprentice, mechanical-apprentice, plumbing-apprentice, building-inspector, home-inspector and plumbing-inspector. Put one or more in Trade; leave it empty for all.

How do I get only active contractors?

Set license_class to Contractor and status to Active. license_class takes Contractor, Journeyman, Apprentice or Inspector; status takes the board's own words (Active, Expired, Inactive, …).

How do I look up a person?

Put a last name, "Last, First" or "First Last" in queries. The board matches the last name exactly and the first name as a prefix, and needs at least three letters of the last name. The board's own search shows one licence per person unless a trade is chosen, so each name is searched in all nine trades: about 40 seconds per name. If the live search cannot answer, the stored copy is searched instead and the run says so in a free notice.

Can I verify a licence number?

Yes. Put the number in queries as the board prints it, leading zeros included, and set mode to lookup. The board gives a person one number for all their licences (one holder had five under 00158663), and old numbers repeat across people, so a number usually returns several licences; check the name and licence type. In mode auto or verify, a number with several licences returns one free notice instead of guessing; add license_class (e.g. Contractor) to narrow it.

How current is it?

Lookups are live. Exports read a copy taken on October 30, 2026; the run log states its date, and a copy older than 45 days returns one free notice saying so.

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 Oklahoma Contractor License Lookup & List Scraper (CIB)
• Use case: Oklahoma Active Plumbing Contractors (CIB)

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:

"List active plumbing contractors licensed by the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board."

That is Trade plumbing, license_class Contractor, status Active. 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 Oklahoma Construction Industries Board (CIB) 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 Oklahoma Construction Industries Board (CIB). 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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