California Real Estate License Scraper (DRE)

Extract California real estate license records from the DRE public license lookup by agent name, broker name, brokerage name or license ID, covering salespersons, brokers and corporations across the state.

Agents & brokers salesperson, broker, corporation

Responsible broker + officers & DBAs

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

What you get

Each record is a California real estate licensee pulled from the Department of Real Estate public license lookup, ready to load into a CRM, spreadsheet, or lead pipeline:

• name: licensee name (agent, broker, or brokerage/corporation)
• licenseId: DRE license identification number
• licenseType: salesperson, broker, broker-officer, or corporation
• status: license status (Licensed, Expired, Surrendered, and similar)
• expirationDate: date the license expires
• issueDate: date the license was originally issued
• responsibleBroker: for a salesperson, the responsible or employing broker (license ID, name, and address)
• formerNames: prior names recorded on the license
• mainOffice: main office address for a broker or corporation
• licensedOfficers: for a corporation, the designated and licensed officers (license ID, name, expiration)
• dbas: doing-business-as names on the license with their active status
• address / city / state / zip: mailing address on file
• addressReliable: false when the address is flagged unreliable in the DRE database
• mortgageLoanOriginator: whether the licensee holds a mortgage loan originator endorsement
• disciplinaryAction: true when the license carries a disciplinary or enforcement comment
• comments: the disciplinary and enforcement history text when present
• url: direct link to the licensee record
• observedAt: when this record was last seen by the scraper
• error: populated only if a lookup fails, otherwise null

Turn off Include Full License Details for a fast name search that returns only the summary fields (name, license ID, license type, city, and mortgage loan originator flag).

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Real estate recruiting	Brokerages and teams sourcing licensed agents by name or area
Lead generation	Vendors and service providers prospecting agents and brokers
License verification	Title, escrow, and lending teams confirming an agent's license
Compliance and due diligence	Teams checking status, expiration, and disciplinary history
Market research	Analysts mapping brokerages, officers, and DBAs
Data pipelines	Developers feeding CRMs and BI tools with licensee data

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I look up a single agent or broker? Enter the person's name in the format last name, first name (for example Smith, John), or paste their 8-digit license ID. An 8-digit number returns that one license with the full detail record.

Can I pull every agent at a brokerage? Yes. Search the brokerage or corporation name (for example Coldwell Banker) and the actor returns the matching licenses. Use Max Items to cap how many records you collect and the City field to narrow to one city.

Does it show the responsible broker for an agent? Yes. For a salesperson, the record includes the responsible or employing broker with the broker's license ID, name, and address, which is the key link for recruiting and verification.

Does it include disciplinary actions? Yes. When a license carries a disciplinary or enforcement comment, the record sets a disciplinary flag and includes the comment history text. Licenses in good standing are marked accordingly.

Are email addresses and phone numbers included? No. The California DRE public license lookup does not release licensee email addresses or phone numbers, so they are not part of the data and are never invented.

How do I get only active licenses? Set License Status to Licensed. You can also filter by license type to keep only salespersons, only brokers, or only corporations.

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the California Department of Real Estate or the State of California. It only accesses data that is published on the DRE public license lookup. Use it in accordance with the DRE website terms.