Florida Contractor License Scraper — DBPR Records

Licensed Florida construction contractors from the state's own public-records extracts: name, full street address, city, ZIP, license number and type, status, issue and expiry dates.

Certified general, building, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, pool and specialty contractors, plus business qualifiers. Filter by license type, city or ZIP.

Two record sets — pick the one you need

DBPR publishes these as separate files and they carry different fields. This Actor exposes both through one schema rather than silently merging them.

source	Rows	Has phone	Has license status & expiry
licensed (default) — the contractor roster	250,000+	❌	✅
applicants — license applicants	104,359	✅ 76%	❌

If you need to call people, use applicants. If you need verified license status, numbers and renewal dates, use licensed. The roster genuinely contains no phone column — this Actor will not pretend otherwise.

Example — licensed

{
  "licenseNumber": "CBC028081",
  "licenseTypeCode": "CBC",
  "name": "KALLINOSIS, LOUIS C",
  "entityType": "INDIVIDUAL",
  "address1": "17494 SW 83 COURT",
  "city": "MIAMI", "state": "FL", "zip": "33157",
  "status": "Current", "isCurrent": true,
  "originalIssueDate": "1984-03-06",
  "expirationDate": "2028-08-31", "daysUntilExpiry": 750
}

Measured on a live run (CGC + CBC in Miami / Orlando / Tampa): 100% fill on name, license number, type, address, city, ZIP, county, status and expiry. applicants returns 76% phone fill, normalised to (941) 330-5058.

License type codes

QB business qualifier · CGC certified general · CBC certified building · CAC air conditioning · CCC roofing · CFC plumbing · CRC residential · CPC pool · SCC specialty · FRO

(The applicant file uses numeric codes instead — 0605 = Certified General Contractor.)

Reliability note — why this needs a residential proxy

DBPR's download host sits behind Cloudflare. Measured:

Route	Result
No proxy / plain datacenter	403 "Just a moment…"
Apify datacenter proxy	403
Apify residential, no session pin	intermittent SSL failure
Apify residential + pinned session	200 text/csv

Sustained-load test: 17 of 18 calls succeeded (94.4%) with a fresh pinned session per request. The Actor defaults to RESIDENTIAL/US and retries with a new session on failure, which clears the occasional bad exit IP. The unwalled sibling host www.myfloridalicense.com serves the search form but 404s on these files — there is no datacenter-reachable route.

What this Actor deliberately does not pull

cilb_certified.csv is 708 MB / ~4.1 million rows and looks like the obvious prize. It isn't a license roster — it's the continuing-education transcript, one row per course per licensee, with the same license number repeating dozens of times. Billing you per row for that would be billing you for duplicates. cilb_registered.csv (28 MB) is the same shape. Neither is used.

Pricing

$0.004 per record ($4 per 1,000).

Public records published by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. You are responsible for complying with DBPR's terms and with how you use the data.