US New Business Licenses Scraper
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US New Business Licenses Scraper
Businesses newly licensed to operate in Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle, from each city's official open data: name, DBA, activity or NAICS, start date, address; Seattle adds phone and ownership type. Filter by date, activity, NAICS, ZIP.
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US New Business Licenses Scraper (Chicago, LA, Seattle)
Businesses newly licensed to operate in Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle, from each city's official open data: legal and DBA name, business activity or NAICS industry, start date and address — plus, in Seattle, the business phone number and ownership type (LLC, sole proprietorship…), and in Chicago every licence the location took out.
Filter by start date, activity words (restaurant, salon, tax), NAICS
code, name and ZIP. No key, no login, no proxy.
What it is for
- Leads on businesses that just opened — POS, payroll, insurance, signage, cleaning, suppliers, accountants.
- Local market tracking — new restaurants, salons or contractors by neighbourhood and month.
Input
| field | what it does |
|---|---|
cities | chicago, los_angeles, seattle — one search each. |
dateFrom / dateTo | Start-date window. Default: the last 30 days up to today. |
includeFutureStarts | Also return businesses registered with a start date still ahead. |
includeRenewals | Chicago: include licence renewals (off = new licences only). |
activityContains | Words in the business activity / NAICS description. |
naicsPrefixes | NAICS codes or prefixes (Los Angeles and Seattle). |
nameContains, zipCodes | Name words; ZIPs or ZIP prefixes. |
sortBy | Newest or oldest start date first. |
maxItems | Per city, default 200; 0 = all. |
Things about this data worth knowing
1. Chicago's list is mostly renewals
Chicago publishes licence applications: in 2026 so far, 15,879 renewals
against 5,202 new licences. Only new ones (ISSUE) are returned unless you
turn on includeRenewals.
2. One Chicago business, several licences
A location that takes out several licences appears once per licence in
Chicago's data (495 rows for 420 businesses in September). The Actor merges
them into one row with a licenses list, and when the same location takes
another licence later, keeps only its newest event (46 repeats skipped in a
1,500-row run).
3. Businesses register before they open
Seattle has start dates as late as February 2027, and Los Angeles 210
locations starting after today. The default window ends today;
includeFutureStarts returns them too, flagged startDateInFuture.
4. Seattle's list comes with phone numbers
84,247 of Seattle's 84,681 licensed businesses list a phone number. Chicago and Los Angeles publish none.
5. Placeholders
Los Angeles uses 0.0, 0.0 as coordinates for unmapped businesses and ZIPs
like 90026-; the Actor turns those into null and 90026.
Output
One NEW_BUSINESS row per business location (the city's record(s) under
source) and one SEARCH_SUMMARY per city.
Speed
1,000 records per request, one request per second: 1,500 businesses from each of the three cities took 19 seconds.
