🍾 New Liquor License Monitor — Restaurant & Bar Opening Leads

Catch new restaurants, bars, and liquor stores the moment they file for a license. This actor pulls newly-filed / newly-issued alcohol license records from public state ABC data (California, New York, Texas) — applicant, business name, premises address, license type, status, and date — and runs on a schedule to alert you to NEW filings via Slack, email, or webhook. A pre-opening lead feed for POS, payments, insurance, distribution, and B2B sales.

No login, no anti-bot — every source is a public state record.

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Why this actor?

A newly-filed liquor license is one of the strongest "a business is about to open" signals there is — the venue is 2–6 months from opening and actively buying: POS, payments, insurance, furniture, food & beverage distribution, signage, payroll. Most existing scrapers dump the full active license roster; this one is a delta monitor that emits only the new records since your last run — the part a salesperson actually wants.

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What it does

• 🆕 New-filing monitor — schedule it; each run outputs (and alerts on) only licenses that newly appeared.
• 🗺️ Three big states out of the box — California, New York, Texas (more being added).
• 🎯 Filter by date window, keyword (e.g. restaurant, brew), or — for CA — application action type.
• 🔔 Alerts — Slack, email, and webhook for every new record.

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States & sources (all public, validated)

State	Source	Signal	Notes
CA	California ABC "Daily Report of New Applications"	Application filed	Owner + premises, license type, action (ORI = brand-new), escrow, county.
NY	NY State Liquor Authority "Pending Licenses"	Application filed (true received_date)	Tags the business type (Restaurant, Grocery Store, …), DBA, premises county. ⭐
TX	Texas TABC "License Information"	License issued (current_issued_date)	Trade name, owner, county, expiration.

More states (CO, FL, WA, …) are on the roadmap — the actor uses per-state adapters so coverage grows without breaking your runs.

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Output (one record per license)

state · source · license_id · event_type (application_filed / license_issued) · event_date · status · license_type (+ license_type_code) · business_name · applicant_name · owner_and_premises (CA raw) · address · city · county · state_code · zip · mailing_address · expiration_date · action / action_desc (CA) · detail_url · is_new · scraped_at

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or pull via the Apify API straight into your CRM / n8n / Make / Clay workflow.

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How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick your states (default CA, NY, TX) and a lookback window (e.g. 7 days).
3. (Optional) add a keyword like restaurant to keep only the records you sell to.
4. Click Start, then open the Dataset tab.
5. For a live lead feed: turn on Monitor mode, add a Schedule (e.g. daily), and set a Slack/email/webhook — you'll get only the new filings each day.

Quick start

{ "states": ["CA", "NY", "TX"], "lookbackDays": 7, "keyword": "restaurant" }

Daily monitor

{ "states": ["CA", "NY", "TX"], "monitorMode": true, "alertOnNewLicense": true, "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…" }

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Pricing (pay-per-event)

You pay only for what you pull:

Event	What it covers	Suggested price
lot-scraped	each license record returned	~$3–4 / 1,000
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	~$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each newly-appearing license	~$0.02 / record
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook alert	~$0.005 / alert

(Final prices are set on the actor's pricing page.)

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Is it legal / private?

Every source is a public state government record of business licensees — no consumer personal data. Use it for legitimate B2B outreach and market research, and comply with TCPA/DNC and CAN-SPAM for any contact you make (skip-tracing / dialing is your separate step, not part of this actor). Review each state agency's site terms; you're responsible for your use.

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FAQ

How fresh is it? CA and NY publish new filings daily; TX updates issued licenses daily. Schedule the monitor daily to stay current.

Will it double-count? No — monitor mode remembers what it's seen (per state + filter scope) in a persistent named store and emits each record only once.

Can I get just restaurants? Use keyword: "restaurant" (NY tags business type directly; CA/TX match on license type / name).

More states? Yes — adapters for CO/FL/WA and others are planned. Open an issue with the state you need.