US Contractor License Scraper — Builder & Trade Leads (Bond, Insurance, Phone & Owner)

Extract licensed-contractor records straight from official US state licensing boards — California (CSLB), Washington (L&I) and Oregon (BCD) — and turn every one into a ready-to-contact B2B lead. Get the business name, license number, trade/classification, license status, surety-bond carrier & amount, liability-insurance & workers'-comp carriers, the qualifier/owner, phone, and full address — plus a 0–100 lead score on every row.

These are government-published licensing records, not a thin directory scrape: the result is the richest contractor lead dataset on the Apify Store, with bond and insurance details no other scraper ships.

No login, no API key, no browser — fast, keyless extraction with monitoring built in.

Why this contractor scraper?

Most "contractor" scrapers just dump a Google-Maps listing or a single state's name + address. This actor pulls the authoritative license file from each state board and joins in the bond, insurance and principal data:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Official license number & status	partial	✅ every state
Trade / classification (GB, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing…)	partial	✅ normalized
Business phone	❌ often null	✅ CA + WA
Qualifier / owner / principal name	❌	✅
Surety-bond carrier, number & amount	❌	✅ CA + WA
Liability insurance carrier, policy & amount	❌	✅ WA
Workers' comp carrier & status	❌	✅ CA
Issue date / expiration date (renewal intent)	❌	✅
Entity type (LLC, corp, sole owner…)	❌	✅
Lead score (0–100)	❌	✅
"Only new licenses since last run" monitoring	❌	✅

Use cases

• Lead generation — newly licensed contractors are active buyers: they need insurance, surety bonds, financing, accounting, job-management software (Procore, Buildertrend, Jobber), materials, vehicles, staffing and marketing. Score them by leadScore, filter by trades, and reach them by phone + principalName.
• Renewal & cross-sell campaigns — use expiringBefore to find licenses about to lapse (perfect for insurance, bond and software renewals), or read each contractor's existing bond / insurance / workersComp carrier to target competitive displacement.
• Fresh-license monitoring — turn on monitorMode (or set issuedAfter) and schedule a daily run to capture brand-new contractors the moment they're licensed in a city or trade.
• Market & competitive intelligence — map contractor density and trade mix by city, track active-vs-inactive ratios, and analyze which surety/insurance carriers dominate a market.
• Verification & compliance — confirm a contractor's license status, classification, bond and workers' comp before hiring or onboarding a vendor.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the US Contractor License Scraper, choose states and enter cities (WA/OR) or business names / license numbers (CA), then click Start.
3. Watch contractor leads stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "states": ["California", "Washington", "Oregon"],
    "cities": ["Seattle, WA", "Portland, OR"],
    "businessNames": ["Pacific Plumbing"],
    "licenseNumbers": ["1000000"],
    "trades": ["Electrical", "Plumbing"],
    "activeOnly": true,
    "issuedAfter": "2026-01-01",
    "expiringBefore": "2026-12-31",
    "includeBondAndInsurance": true,
    "withPhoneOnly": false,
    "maxResults": 2000,
    "monitorMode": false
}

• states — any subset of California, Washington, Oregon (the three states with a clean, reliable source). Leave empty for all three.
• cities — cities to pull all contractors from for Washington & Oregon (Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, or a bare Tacoma). California has no public city browse — use business names / license numbers for CA.
• businessNames — company names (or partials). In California this runs a CSLB name search and pulls the full license detail for every match; in WA/OR it filters the registry by name.
• licenseNumbers — direct lookups. Numeric values are California (CSLB); alphanumeric values (e.g. ALLYEEL740KR, BB319) are Washington/Oregon.
• trades — keep only General Building / Construction, Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC / Mechanical, Roofing, Elevator, Boiler. Leave empty for all.
• activeOnly — drop expired/revoked/suspended/cancelled licenses.
• issuedAfter / expiringBefore — fresh-license and renewal-intent date filters (YYYY-MM-DD).
• includeBondAndInsurance (default true) — for Washington, join the official surety-bond, liability-insurance and principal datasets onto each contractor (California always returns bond + workers' comp from the detail page).
• withPhoneOnly — only keep contractors that have a phone (CA + WA).
• monitorMode (default false) — remember licenses already returned and emit only new ones on the next run. Pairs with Schedules.
• maxResults / maxResultsPerState / deduplicateResults / maxConcurrency / proxyConfiguration — limits & runtime controls.

Output

One record per contractor license (type: "contractor"):

{
    "type": "contractor",
    "state": "Washington",
    "stateCode": "WA",
    "licenseNumber": "FREEDBC744LQ",
    "businessName": "Freedom Builders Cooperative",
    "dba": null,
    "licenseType": "Construction Contractor",
    "classifications": [
        { "code": null, "description": "Construction Contractor" },
        { "code": null, "description": "General" }
    ],
    "tradeCategories": ["General Building / Construction"],
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "isActive": true,
    "entityType": "Corporation",
    "issueDate": "2026-06-18",
    "expireDate": "2028-06-18",
    "ageInDays": 2,
    "expiresInDays": 729,
    "phone": "(206) 608-3809",
    "street": "6113 35th Ave S",
    "city": "Seattle",
    "addressState": "WA",
    "postalCode": "98118",
    "businessId": "606215029",
    "principalName": "Murphy, Matthew",
    "principals": [{ "name": "Murphy, Matthew", "since": "2026-06-18" }],
    "bond": [
        { "firmName": "Westfield Insurance Co", "accountId": "545214J", "amount": 30000, "effectiveDate": "2026-05-19", "expirationDate": "Until Canceled" }
    ],
    "insurance": [
        { "company": "State National Ins Co Inc", "policyNumber": "NXTDRVWJJH00GL", "amount": 300000, "effectiveDate": "2026-05-20", "expirationDate": "2027-05-20" }
    ],
    "workersComp": null,
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.wa.gov/resource/m8qx-ubtq.json?contractorlicensenumber=FREEDBC744LQ",
    "leadScore": 100,
    "searchContext": { "mode": "city", "query": "Seattle" },
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T02:13:47.357Z"
}

California (CSLB) records additionally include dba, qualifyingBond (the qualifying individual / owner), workersComp (carrier, policy & dates) and code-level classifications (e.g. C36 – Plumbing, C-61 / D21 – Machinery and Pumps). Every state also passes through its remaining published columns under additionalData.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it daily/weekly with monitorMode to capture newly licensed contractors in a city or trade automatically.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/us-contractor-license-scraper').call({
    states: ['Washington'],
    cities: ['Seattle, WA'],
    trades: ['Electrical'],
    activeOnly: true,
    issuedAfter: '2026-01-01',
    monitorMode: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} contractor leads`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new contractor leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored city or trade gets a new license.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "find newly licensed electrical contractors in Seattle and list their phone numbers and bond carriers" and let it run this scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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• Thumbtack Scraper — home-service pro profiles, reviews & hire data.
• Houzz Scraper — home-design & remodeling professionals.
• Hipages Scraper — Australian trades & home-services leads (ABN, licence, phone).
• FMCSA Trucking Scraper — motor-carrier & trucking-company leads from the federal registry.
• Google Maps with Contact Details — local businesses with emails, phones & socials.
• Website Contact Scraper — turn any list of company websites into emails & phone numbers.

Tips

• California discovery: CSLB only allows targeted lookups (no city browse). Search by businessNames (a name search returns and enriches every matching license) or paste numeric licenseNumbers. For city- or trade-wide bulk discovery, use Washington & Oregon.
• Fresh leads: combine issuedAfter with monitorMode and a daily Schedule to capture only contractors licensed since your last run.
• Renewal campaigns: set expiringBefore to a date 30–90 days out to find licenses about to lapse.
• Leaner Washington runs: turn off includeBondAndInsurance to skip the bond/insurance/principal joins when you only need core license + contact data.
• Cost control: use activeOnly, trades, withPhoneOnly and the per-state / global caps to keep runs focused on the leads you actually want.

FAQ

Which states are supported? California (CSLB), Washington (L&I) and Oregon (BCD) — the states that publish a clean, reliably scrapeable contractor-license source. More states are added on request; vote on the actor's Issues tab.

Do I need an API key or login? No. All three sources are public government records — Washington & Oregon via their official open-data APIs, California via the public CSLB license-check pages. No key, no account, no browser.

How do I get all contractors in a city? Put the city in cities (e.g. Seattle, WA) for Washington or Oregon. California doesn't offer a public city search, so for CA use business names or license numbers.

Where do the bond and insurance details come from? Directly from the state boards — California's license-detail page lists the contractor's bond and workers'-comp carriers; Washington publishes official surety-bond and liability-insurance datasets that this actor joins onto each contractor by license number.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

How do I monitor only newly licensed contractors? Turn on monitorMode (and/or set issuedAfter), then create a Schedule. Each run emits only licenses not seen before — perfect for a daily fresh-lead feed into your CRM.

A field is null — why? Some records genuinely don't publish a field (Oregon doesn't expose phones; an exempt contractor has no workers'-comp carrier; an inactive license may have no current bond). Fields are null only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them.

Is scraping this data legal? This actor collects publicly available licensing records only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. CCPA for personal data) and each board's terms.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests — especially new states — are welcome; this actor is actively maintained.