Washington L&I Contractor Scraper: Leads, Bond, Insurance

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns (in the source source field the vendor uses an em dash; it is rendered here as a hyphen, all other values are exactly as returned):

{
  "businessName": "CONSTRUCTION ABC INC",
  "licenseNumber": "CONSTAI789DJ",
  "ubi": "604843070",
  "status": "EXPIRED",
  "licenseType": "Construction Contractor",
  "contractorType": "General/Specialty Contractor",
  "contractorGroup": "Construction Contractor",
  "specialty": "GENERAL",
  "phone": "(425) 791-5539",
  "address": "2615 RUSSELL WAY",
  "city": "EVERETT",
  "state": "WA",
  "county": "SNOHOMISH",
  "zip": "98204",
  "businessType": "Corporation",
  "parentCompany": null,
  "effectiveDate": "01/06/2022",
  "expirationDate": "01/08/2026",
  "suspendDate": "12/12/2024",
  "owners": [
    { "name": "MEDINA NAVA, ISMAEL A", "role": "MEMBER", "roleType": "CMB", "startDate": "01/06/2022", "endDate": null }
  ],
  "ownerCount": 1,
  "bondCompany": "NORTH RIVER INSURANCE COMPANY THE",
  "bondAmount": 12000,
  "bondAccountNumber": "46CF809376",
  "bonds": [
    { "company": "NORTH RIVER INSURANCE COMPANY THE", "accountNumber": "46CF809376", "amount": 12000, "effectiveDate": "12/10/2022", "cancelDate": "12/12/2024", "impaired": true },
    { "company": "HARTFORD INSURANCE CO THE MIDWEST", "accountNumber": "57BSBIN0957", "amount": 12000, "effectiveDate": "12/10/2021", "cancelDate": "12/11/2022", "impaired": false }
  ],
  "insuranceCompany": "Obsidian Specialty Insurance C",
  "insuranceAmount": 1000000,
  "insuranceExpiration": "04/28/2025",
  "insurances": [
    { "company": "Obsidian Specialty Insurance C", "accountId": "PTC-GL- 000002922-00", "amount": 1000000, "effectiveDate": "04/28/2024", "expirationDate": "04/28/2025", "cancelDate": null }
  ],
  "savingsAccounts": null,
  "lawsuits": [
    { "plaintiff": "STATE OF WASHINGTON", "amount": null, "date": null },
    { "plaintiff": "Department of Labor and Industries", "amount": null, "date": null }
  ],
  "violations": null,
  "hasSafetyViolation": false,
  "hasContractorViolation": false,
  "doshInspectionCount": null,
  "workersCompStatus": "Call account representative for premium status.",
  "workersCompAccountId": "14494100",
  "workersCompRepresentative": "/ JOSEPH PIERSON (425) 290-1359 - Email: PIEZ235@lni.wa.gov",
  "detailUrl": "https://secure.lni.wa.gov/verify/Detail.aspx?UBI=604843070&LIC=CONSTAI789DJ&SAW=",
  "searchQuery": "construction",
  "source": "Washington State L&I - Verify a Contractor",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-11T13:23:36.699Z"
}

The most complete Washington L&I contractor scraper available. It returns every field the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries "Verify a Contractor" register exposes, from license status, UBI and trade type to business owners, surety bonds, liability insurance, savings accounts, lawsuits, contractor and safety violations, and workers' comp status, and gives you server-side and client-side filters to target exactly the contractors you need.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor searches the Washington State Labor & Industries "Verify a Contractor" register by business or contractor name, license number, UBI number, or workers' comp account number. For each match it returns a listing row (name, license number, UBI, status, city), and when detail enrichment is on, opens the contractor detail record to add phone, street address, county, business owners and principals, entity type, effective and expiration dates, every surety bond and liability insurance policy, savings accounts, lawsuits, contractor and safety violations, DOSH inspection count, and workers' comp account status. Missing source values are returned as null.

Filters include server-side facets (contractor type, city, ZIP, active license, active workers' comp, has safety or contractor violation) and client-side filters (status, city, business name contains) so you can narrow the register precisely.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns up to 50 contractors matching construction, each enriched with owners, bonds, and insurance.

{
  "searchQueries": ["construction"],
  "searchBy": "Name",
  "withDetails": true,
  "maxContractors": 50
}

Provide at least one term in searchQueries. Set withDetails to false for faster listing-only rows.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	yes	["construction"]	One or more search terms. Meaning depends on searchBy.
searchBy	enum	no	Name	What each term represents: Name, LicenseId, Ubi (9-digit WA UBI), or AccountId (workers' comp account).
withDetails	boolean	no	true	Enrich each contractor with phone, address, county, owners, entity type, dates, bonds, and insurance. Turn off for listing-only rows.
activeOnly	boolean	no	false	Limit to currently active contractor registrations or licenses.
activeWorkersComp	boolean	no	false	Limit to businesses with an active, paid-to-date workers' comp account.
hasSafetyViolation	boolean	no	false	Keep only businesses with a DOSH safety violation on file.
hasContractorViolation	boolean	no	false	Keep only businesses with a contractor violation on file.
contractorTypes	string[]	no	(empty)	Server-side facet, for example Construction Contractor, Electrical Contractor, Plumber, Electrician.
cityFilter	string	no	(empty)	Restrict the search to a single city (server-side facet).
zipFilter	string	no	(empty)	Restrict the search to a single ZIP code (server-side facet).
statuses	string[]	no	(empty)	Client-side: keep only records whose status contains one of these, for example Active, Expired, Suspended.
filterCities	string[]	no	(empty)	Client-side: keep only records in these cities.
nameContains	string[]	no	(empty)	Client-side: keep only records whose business name contains one of these terms.
maxContractors	integer	no	50	Maximum records to return across all searches.
useResidentialProxy	boolean	no	false	Route requests through Apify US residential proxy. Enable only if the site starts blocking direct requests.

At least one term in searchQueries is required.

Output reference

One dataset item per contractor. Types: string, number, integer, boolean, object[], or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
businessName	string	Contractor or business name.
licenseNumber	string	L&I contractor or tradesperson license number.
ubi	string	Washington Unified Business Identifier (9 digits).
status	string	License status, for example ACTIVE, EXPIRED, SUSPENDED.
licenseType	string	License type, for example Construction Contractor.
contractorType	string	Contractor category, for example General/Specialty Contractor.
contractorGroup	string	Contractor group label.
specialty	string	Trade specialties, or null.
phone	string	Formatted phone number (detail), or null.
address	string	Street address (detail), or null.
city	string	City.
state	string	State code.
county	string	County (detail), or null.
zip	string	ZIP code.
businessType	string	Legal entity type, for example Corporation (detail), or null.
parentCompany	string	Parent company (detail), or null.
effectiveDate	string	License effective date (detail), or null.
expirationDate	string	License expiration date (detail), or null.
suspendDate	string	Suspension date (detail), or null.
owners	object[]	Business owners and principals, each with name, role, roleType, startDate, endDate, or null.
ownerCount	integer	Number of owners, or null.
bondCompany	string	Primary surety bond company (detail), or null.
bondAmount	number	Primary bond amount (detail), or null.
bondAccountNumber	string	Primary bond account number (detail), or null.
bonds	object[]	All surety bonds with company, account number, amount, dates, and impaired flag, or null.
insuranceCompany	string	Primary liability insurer (detail), or null.
insuranceAmount	number	Primary insurance amount (detail), or null.
insuranceExpiration	string	Primary insurance expiration (detail), or null.
insurances	object[]	All liability insurance policies with company, account, amount, and dates, or null.
savingsAccounts	object[]	Assigned savings accounts in lieu of a bond, or null.
lawsuits	object[]	Summons and warrants with plaintiff, amount, and date, or null.
violations	object[]	Contractor violations with ID, type, date, and amount, or null.
hasSafetyViolation	boolean	Whether a DOSH safety violation is on file.
hasContractorViolation	boolean	Whether a contractor violation is on file.
doshInspectionCount	integer	Number of DOSH inspections, or null.
workersCompStatus	string	Workers' comp account status message (detail), or null.
workersCompAccountId	string	Workers' comp account ID (detail), or null.
workersCompRepresentative	string	Assigned L&I account representative (detail), or null.
detailUrl	string	Link to the official L&I detail page.
searchQuery	string	The search term that returned this record.
source	string	Data source label (vendor uses an em dash; rendered here as a hyphen).
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
error	string	Present only on a failed run; an item with a populated error field is written instead.

Example output record

Real record from a live run (input {"searchQueries": ["construction"], "searchBy": "Name", "withDetails": true, "maxContractors": 50}). See the hero example at the top of this page; the insurances array there is trimmed to the first of four real policies for readability, and the source em dash in source is rendered as a hyphen. A live run returns every policy and the vendor's original punctuation.

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~washington-lni-contractors-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["electrical"],"searchBy":"Name","withDetails":true,"maxContractors":25}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~washington-lni-contractors-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["604843070"],"searchBy":"Ubi","maxContractors":10}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/washington-lni-contractors-scraper \
  --input '{"searchQueries":["construction"],"withDetails":false,"activeOnly":true}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per contractor record returned (result event). When withDetails is enabled, a separate details event is charged for each contractor successfully enriched from its detail record. See the pricing tab for current prices.
• No charge on failure. If a search or session fails, the actor writes a single item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results, including the details add-on.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 contractors per run. Upgrade for higher maxContractors.

FAQ and troubleshooting

What does withDetails add? Phone, street address, county, business owners, entity type, effective and expiration dates, every surety bond and liability insurance policy, savings accounts, lawsuits, violations, and workers' comp status. Turn it off for listing-only rows.

Can I search by UBI or license number instead of name? Yes. Set searchBy to Ubi, LicenseId, or AccountId and pass the matching identifiers in searchQueries.

How do I find contractors with violations only? Set hasContractorViolation or hasSafetyViolation to true. These are server-side facets applied at search time.

A run returned 0 records. Why? The search matched nothing, or your filters removed every row. Loosen filters or broaden the term. Zero-result runs are not charged.

Is this an official L&I tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with Washington State L&I. It reads only data that is publicly available through the "Verify a Contractor" register. Use it in accordance with the source terms of service.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with Washington State L&I. Accesses only publicly available data. Use in accordance with the source terms of service.