US State Business Registrations Scraper (NY, CO, CT, OR)

Newly registered and active businesses straight from the Secretary of State registries of New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Oregon, as each state publishes them on its open-data portal: entity ID, name, entity type, status, formation or filing date, principal and mailing address, registered agent, and (New York) chairman and service-of-process address, (Connecticut) business e-mail, NAICS industry and woman-, veteran- and minority-owned flags, (Oregon) authorized representatives and a link to the state's record.

Filter by formation date, entity type, name, city and ZIP. Official open data: no key, no login, no proxy. On 25 September 2026 the portals showed New York, Colorado and Connecticut updated on the 24th, Oregon on the 22nd.

What it is for

• New-business lead lists — every LLC formed in Denver this month for banking, insurance, accounting, payroll, web and signage offers.
• Registered-agent and compliance research.
• Market counts — how many companies of a type formed in a city.

Input

field	what it does
states	NY, CO, CT, OR — one search each, one summary each.
formedFrom / formedTo	Formation / filing date window (YYYY-MM-DD).
entityTypeContains	e.g. limited liability, nonprofit, corporation.
nameContains	Part of the name, any case.
cities, zipCodes	Exact cities (any case); ZIPs or ZIP prefixes.
includeInactive	Colorado and Connecticut: include dissolved, forfeited, withdrawn...
includeAssumedNames	Oregon only: include assumed business names (DBAs).
sortBy	Newest or oldest first.
maxItems	Per state, default 200; 0 = all.

Things about these registries worth knowing

1. New York rarely gives a business address

New York's file always has the service-of-process address (where legal papers go — often the owner's home or an agent firm) and only sometimes a business location. None of 1,200 LLCs filed in September 2026 had one. The Actor keeps both: principalAddress falls back to the process address and principalAddressSource says which you are looking at. City and ZIP filters match either address.

2. Oregon lists each business several times

Oregon publishes one row per associated name — place of business, mailing address, registered agent, authorized representative — 1 to 7 rows per business. The Actor merges them into one row (sourceRowCount says how many), including when a business straddles two pages. The same agent can be listed once per spelling of its name; one is kept, with its Oregon registry number.

Oregon's "active businesses" also contain 116,553 assumed business names (trade names, not companies); they are left out unless you ask for them.

3. Colorado keeps dissolved companies

Colorado's file has 3.1 million entities, of which about a million are in Good Standing; the rest include over 770,000 dissolved ones. They are excluded unless includeInactive is on. Colorado stores types as codes (DLLC, DPC...); the Actor translates them and expands a type filter to the codes.

4. Connecticut's table also holds name reservations

Connecticut's registry lists reserved names and rejected filings next to real businesses, and only 461,857 of its 1.3 million records are Active (357,213 are Forfeited). Reservations and rejections are never returned; non-active businesses only with includeInactive. Connecticut types are short labels ("Stock", "Non-Stock") that the Actor spells out, so entityTypeContains: "nonprofit" works there too. Connecticut is also the only one of the four that publishes a business e-mail (1,500 of 1,500 new LLCs in September) and a NAICS industry (1,441 of 1,500).

5. A formation date can be in the future

Delayed-effective filings carry their future effective date (Colorado had one dated 2026-11-01 on 25 September). Such rows have formationDateInFuture: true.

Output

One BUSINESS_ENTITY row per business, the same fields for every state, with the state's own record(s) under source; one SEARCH_SUMMARY per state.

{
  "recordType": "BUSINESS_ENTITY",
  "state": "OR",
  "entityId": "262743892",
  "entityName": "PEAHENPACKAGESPDX, LLC",
  "entityType": "DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "formationDate": "2026-09-14",
  "principalAddress": {"street": "2926 SW 4TH AVE APT 203", "city": "PORTLAND", "state": "OR", "zip": "97201"},
  "principalAddressSource": "principal",
  "registeredAgent": {"name": "PEA HEN PARENTPDX, LLC", "street": "2926 SW 4TH AVE APT 203", "city": "PORTLAND", "state": "OR", "zip": "97201", "registryNumber": "262654891"},
  "sourceRowCount": 7
}

Speed

1,000 rows per request, one request per second (the portals' crawl delay). 1,200 new LLCs from each of the three states took 23 seconds.

Limits

• Three states for now: each state publishes its registry differently, and these three publish theirs as complete, current open data.
• Owner / member names are only what the state publishes (NY chairman, Oregon authorized representatives, registered agents).