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Texas Contractor & Trade License Lookup & Export (TDLR)

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Verify a Texas electrician, HVAC or trade license by number or name — or export every Electrical or A/C Contractor statewide, filtered by county, city, ZIP or expiry, from TDLR.

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You can access the Texas Contractor & Trade License Lookup & Export (TDLR) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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            "description": "A Texas TDLR license number, business name, or owner name. Searches all three: exact license number, business-name substring, and owner-name substring — results are unioned and deduped by license #. TDLR keeps owner and business as separate columns and they disagree on 19,774 of its 983,494 records, so an owner search finds people a business-name search cannot. Leave this and the batch list empty to run a statewide export by licence type instead (see the statewide fields below)."
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          "licenseTypes": {
            "title": "Licence types (statewide export, list)",
            "type": "array",
            "description": "Several TDLR licence types in one export. Combined with 'Licence type'. Note: TDLR publishes address, city, ZIP and phone only for company/establishment types — Electrical Contractor, Appliance Installation Contractor, Electrical Sign Contractor and Elevator Contractor have them on ~99.8% of rows; A/C Contractor and every individually held licence (A/C Technician, Master Electrician, ...) have none.",
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          "county": {
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            "type": "string",
            "description": "Statewide mode only: keep licences whose business county is this Texas county, e.g. 'Travis' or 'Harris County'."
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            "description": "Statewide mode only: several counties (OR). Combined with 'County'. Unknown names are dropped with a log line.",
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            "title": "City (statewide export)",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Statewide mode only: keep licences whose business city is this, e.g. 'Austin'. Only company/establishment types carry a city, so A/C Contractor rows never match."
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            "title": "Cities (statewide export, list)",
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            "description": "Statewide mode only: several cities (OR). Combined with 'City'.",
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          "zip": {
            "title": "ZIP (statewide export)",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Statewide mode only: 5-digit business ZIP, e.g. '78701'. Same coverage caveat as City."
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          "zips": {
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            "description": "Statewide mode only: several ZIPs (OR). Combined with 'ZIP'. Values that are not 5 digits are dropped with a log line.",
            "default": [],
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
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          "excludeExpired": {
            "title": "Exclude expired licences",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Statewide mode only: keep only licences whose expiration date is today or later. TDLR publishes no status column, so expiry is the only currency signal.",
            "default": false
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          "expiresAfter": {
            "title": "Expires on or after (YYYY-MM-DD)",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Statewide mode only: keep licences expiring on or after this date."
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          "expiresBefore": {
            "title": "Expires on or before (YYYY-MM-DD)",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Statewide mode only: keep licences expiring on or before this date — with 'Expires on or after' this gives a renewal-window list."
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          "maxResults": {
            "title": "Max results",
            "minimum": 1,
            "maximum": 100000,
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Search mode: cap PER ENTRY (default 50), so a batch cannot silently return only the first 50 rows overall. Statewide mode: cap on the whole export (default 500; up to 100,000). The log states how many records matched in total, so a capped export never reads as complete."
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            "type": "object",
            "description": "Optional. The Texas TDLR open-data API is reachable directly; a proxy is not needed.",
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                    "example": 0
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