# Newbiz Filings Actor (`silentshadow55/newbiz-filings-actor`) Actor Daily chronological feed of newly registered businesses from 8 official state sources (FL, TX, NY, CO, CT, PA, OR, DE). Every new LLC & corporation with filing date, addresses, registered agent, officers, emails & NAICS where published. Fresh B2B leads for insurance, payroll, POS & web services. - **URL**: https://apify.com/silentshadow55/newbiz-filings-actor.md - **Developed by:** [Esteban Ortega](https://apify.com/silentshadow55) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $3.00 / 1,000 new business filings This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## US New Business Filings — Daily New LLC & Corporation Leads Get a **chronological feed of newly registered businesses** straight from official state sources — the LLCs, corporations, and new businesses registered in the last N days, with business name, exact filing date, entity type, addresses, and (where the state publishes them) **registered agents, officers, emails, and NAICS codes**. New businesses need insurance, payroll, bookkeeping, payment processing, websites, phones, and utilities **in their first weeks** — before they've picked vendors. This feed is the timing advantage: an LLC filed Tuesday shows up in your feed within 1–3 business days, while the owner is still choosing vendors. ### Coverage — 8 states, all from official government sources | State | Source | Refresh | Extras included | |---|---|---|---| | **FL** | Division of Corporations daily filing files (Sunbiz) | Daily (business days) | Registered agent, **up to 6 officers with titles**, mailing address, FEI/EIN, per-filing Sunbiz link | | **TX** | Comptroller — new sales tax permits | ~Weekly, 1-3 day latency | **NAICS code**, outlet + taxpayer addresses | | **NY** | Department of State corporations open data | Near-daily | County, service-of-process (agent) name + address | | **CO** | Secretary of State business entities open data | Daily | Registered agent name + address | | **CT** | Business registry open data | Daily | **Business email**, NAICS, mailing address | | **PA** | Department of State registered businesses | ~Monthly bulk refresh | Organizers/incorporators with names, county | | **OR** | Secretary of State active businesses | ~Monthly bulk refresh | Registered agent address, per-filing SOS link | | **DE** | Division of Revenue new business licenses | ~Daily | License category, trade name | Honesty notes, so you know exactly what you're buying: - **Texas** publishes new *sales tax permits*, not Secretary of State charters (those are a paid state product). Permits skew toward businesses that are actually about to operate — often a better lead than a paper LLC — but holding companies without sales won't appear. Rows are per *outlet*, so an existing business opening a new location appears too (the `registration_id` is `taxpayer-outlet`, so chains are easy to spot by the repeated taxpayer prefix). - **Delaware** sells its corporate registry commercially, so this actor uses *business licenses* as the free proxy — and licenses **include renewals** of existing businesses. Runs whose window covers early January will be dominated by annual renewals. Treat DE as a business-activity signal, not a formations feed (it's excluded from the default input for this reason). - **PA and OR** re-publish their datasets in ~monthly batches. **Query them with `lookbackDays: 35` or more** (e.g. a weekly schedule with a 35–45 day window plus dedupe) — a 7-day daily window slides past most of a month's filings before the state publishes them. The actor logs a warning if you run PA/OR with a short window. - **Florida and New York** also list *foreign* registrations — existing out-of-state companies newly registering to operate in-state. Great expansion leads, but not brand-new companies; filter on `entity_type` ("Foreign …") if you only want fresh formations. Florida's administrative registered-agent filings (type AGENT) are excluded automatically. - **NY's** official metadata says monthly refresh; in our monitoring it updates near-daily. The per-state summary record is your early-warning system — if NY's `filings_found` drops to zero for days, widen `lookbackDays`. - States not listed (CA, GA, NC, WA, and most others) either sell their data ($500–$5,000/yr), gate it behind logins, or block programmatic access outright. If a state opens up, it gets added. ### Output One JSON object per filing — **every record carries the identical field set** (no missing columns in CSV/Excel exports): ```json { "type": "filing", "state": "FL", "business_name": "COSO ENTERPRISES LLC", "entity_type": "Florida Limited Liability Company", "filing_date": "2026-07-02", "registration_id": "L26000345613", "status": "Active", "registered_agent": "OLIVER STEFAN L", "registered_agent_address": "324 CEDARSTONE WAY, SAINT AUGUSTINE, FL, 32092", "principal_address": "324 CEDARSTONE WAY", "principal_city": "SAINT AUGUSTINE", "principal_state": "FL", "principal_zip": "32092", "mailing_address": "324 CEDARSTONE WAY, SAINT AUGUSTINE, FL, 32092", "county": null, "officers": [ {"title": "MGR", "name": "OLIVER STEFAN L"}, {"title": "AMBR", "name": "OLIVER CHRISTY L"} ], "business_email": null, "naics_code": null, "fei_number": null, "trade_name": null, "source": "Florida Division of Corporations — Sunbiz daily filings (SFTP)", "source_url": "https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResults?searchTerm=L26000345613", "scraped_at": "2026-07-06T18:24:11+00:00" } ```` Each run also emits one `type: "state"` summary record per state (filing count + exact date window scanned) so scheduled pipelines can detect a lagging source at a glance. Turn this off with `includeStateSummary: false`. ### Input ```json { "states": ["FL", "TX", "NY", "CO", "CT"], "lookbackDays": 7, "maxFilingsPerState": 25000, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true, "filterKeyword": "", "includeStateSummary": true } ``` - **states** — any of FL, TX, NY, CO, CT, PA, OR, DE. - **lookbackDays** — return filings dated within the last N days, today included (1–90). Daily-refresh states publish with a 1–3 business-day lag, so 7 is the safe default for daily monitoring; PA/OR need 35+. - **maxFilingsPerState** — cap per state **per run** (the whole window, not per day — a 7-day FL window alone is ~10,000–15,000 filings). At the cap, the newest filings win, the log warns, and the state summary sets `window_truncated: true`. Typical daily volume: FL ~1,500–2,500, TX ~1,000–2,000, NY ~800–1,500, CO ~400–800, CT ~200–400. - **onlyNewSinceLastRun** — incremental mode: remembers every delivered filing (in a named key-value store in your account) and never delivers — or bills — the same filing twice across runs. **Turn this on for scheduled runs.** - **filterKeyword** — keep only business names containing this text (e.g. `trucking`, `realty`, `salon`). **Billing note:** you pay per dataset item. Without incremental mode, a daily schedule with a 7-day window re-delivers (and re-bills) each filing ~7 times — that overlap is deliberate (it's what makes a slow-publishing state safe), but `onlyNewSinceLastRun: true` gives you the safety without the repeat cost. Summary records are billed like ordinary results (a few items per run). ### Set up a daily lead feed in 2 minutes 1. Run the actor once to confirm the output fits your workflow. 2. On the actor page, open **Schedules** and create a daily schedule with your states, `lookbackDays: 7`, and `onlyNewSinceLastRun: true`. 3. Point a webhook, the API, or an n8n/Make/Zapier integration at the run's dataset — filings arrive as clean JSON/CSV. 4. That's it — incremental mode dedupes across runs for you. (If you prefer stateless runs, leave it off and dedupe downstream on `state + registration_id` instead; you'll then see most filings ~7 times across daily runs and pay per delivery.) ### Who uses this - **Insurance agents** — new LLCs need general liability and workers' comp immediately. - **Payroll, bookkeeping & tax services** — reach owners before they've picked a provider. - **Payment processors & POS vendors** — TX sales-tax permits literally mean "about to start selling." - **Web design, marketing & phone/internet services** — brand-new businesses have none of it yet. - **Commercial real estate & equipment leasing** — new entities signal expansion. - **Lead resellers & data platforms** — a fresh, deduplicatable, multi-state feed at per-result pricing. ### FAQ **Is this legal?** Yes. Every source is an official government publication: state open-data APIs and Florida's public data-download service. Business registrations are public records. **Why not all 50 states?** Most states sell bulk registry data (GA: $5,000/yr, NC: $2,000/yr), require accounts, or actively block automated access. This actor covers the states that publish genuinely free, fresh public data — which happen to include four of the biggest business-formation markets (FL, TX, NY, PA). **How fresh is "fresh"?** FL/CO/CT publish daily; NY near-daily; TX within a few days. A filing typically appears here 1–3 business days after it's filed. PA and OR batch ~monthly. **Can I get just one state?** Yes — set `states` to a single state and only that source is queried. **Something looks off?** Open an issue on the actor page — sources get fixed fast. # Actor input Schema ## `states` (type: `array`): Which states to pull new filings from. FL, TX, CO and CT refresh daily; NY has refreshed near-daily in our monitoring (its official cadence says monthly). PA and OR re-publish in ~monthly batches — query them with lookbackDays 35+ or a short window will miss most of the month. DE is a business-license feed and INCLUDES RENEWALS of existing businesses (Delaware sells its corporate registry, so licenses are the free proxy). ## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`): Return businesses whose filing/registration date falls within the last N days (the window also includes today). Daily-refresh states publish with a 1-3 business-day lag, so windows under 5 days can return few rows; 7 is a safe default for daily monitoring. PA and OR need 35+ (they re-publish ~monthly). Note: you are billed per result, so with overlapping daily windows enable 'Only new since last run' to avoid paying for the same filing twice. ## `maxFilingsPerState` (type: `integer`): Hard cap on filings returned per state PER RUN (the cap applies to the whole window, not per day — a 7-day FL window alone holds roughly 10,000-15,000 filings). When a state hits the cap the newest filings are kept, the log warns, and the state's summary record sets window\_truncated: true. ## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`): Remember every delivered filing (in a named key-value store in your account) and skip filings already delivered by previous runs. Turn this on for scheduled daily runs: overlapping windows then never re-deliver — or re-bill — the same lead twice. ## `filterKeyword` (type: `string`): Only keep filings whose business name contains this keyword (case-insensitive), e.g. 'trucking', 'realty', 'consulting'. Leave empty to keep all filings. ## `includeStateSummary` (type: `boolean`): Emit one extra item per state (type: 'state') with the filing count, the exact date window scanned, and window\_truncated — useful for monitoring pipelines and spotting states whose source lagged. These summary items are billed like ordinary results (a few extra items per run). ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxies for the open-data HTTP requests. These are public, unauthenticated government APIs, so Apify Proxy (datacenter) is more than sufficient. Florida's SFTP download connects directly and does not use the proxy. ## Actor input object example ```json { "states": [ "FL", "TX", "NY", "CO", "CT" ], "lookbackDays": 7, "maxFilingsPerState": 25000, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false, "includeStateSummary": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "states": [ "FL", "TX", "NY", "CO", "CT" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("silentshadow55/newbiz-filings-actor").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "states": [ "FL", "TX", "NY", "CO", "CT", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("silentshadow55/newbiz-filings-actor").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "states": [ "FL", "TX", "NY", "CO", "CT" ] }' | apify call silentshadow55/newbiz-filings-actor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=silentshadow55/newbiz-filings-actor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Newbiz Filings Actor", "description": "Daily chronological feed of newly registered businesses from 8 official state sources (FL, TX, NY, CO, CT, PA, OR, DE). Every new LLC & corporation with filing date, addresses, registered agent, officers, emails & NAICS where published. Fresh B2B leads for insurance, payroll, POS & web services.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "JHZWf2V8PmHY7bWY1" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/silentshadow55~newbiz-filings-actor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-silentshadow55-newbiz-filings-actor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/silentshadow55~newbiz-filings-actor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-silentshadow55-newbiz-filings-actor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/silentshadow55~newbiz-filings-actor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-silentshadow55-newbiz-filings-actor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "states" ], "properties": { "states": { "title": "States", "type": "array", "description": "Which states to pull new filings from. FL, TX, CO and CT refresh daily; NY has refreshed near-daily in our monitoring (its official cadence says monthly). PA and OR re-publish in ~monthly batches — query them with lookbackDays 35+ or a short window will miss most of the month. DE is a business-license feed and INCLUDES RENEWALS of existing businesses (Delaware sells its corporate registry, so licenses are the free proxy).", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "FL", "TX", "NY", "CO", "CT", "PA", "OR", "DE" ], "enumTitles": [ "Florida — Sunbiz daily filing files", "Texas — new sales tax permits (Comptroller)", "New York — DOS corporations open data", "Colorado — SOS business entities open data", "Connecticut — business registry open data (incl. emails + NAICS)", "Pennsylvania — registered businesses open data (~monthly refresh; use lookbackDays 35+)", "Oregon — active businesses open data (~monthly refresh; use lookbackDays 35+)", "Delaware — business licenses (proxy; includes renewals)" ] } }, "lookbackDays": { "title": "Lookback window (days)", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 90, "type": "integer", "description": "Return businesses whose filing/registration date falls within the last N days (the window also includes today). Daily-refresh states publish with a 1-3 business-day lag, so windows under 5 days can return few rows; 7 is a safe default for daily monitoring. PA and OR need 35+ (they re-publish ~monthly). Note: you are billed per result, so with overlapping daily windows enable 'Only new since last run' to avoid paying for the same filing twice.", "default": 7 }, "maxFilingsPerState": { "title": "Max filings per state", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cap on filings returned per state PER RUN (the cap applies to the whole window, not per day — a 7-day FL window alone holds roughly 10,000-15,000 filings). When a state hits the cap the newest filings are kept, the log warns, and the state's summary record sets window_truncated: true.", "default": 25000 }, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": { "title": "Only new since last run (incremental)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Remember every delivered filing (in a named key-value store in your account) and skip filings already delivered by previous runs. Turn this on for scheduled daily runs: overlapping windows then never re-deliver — or re-bill — the same lead twice.", "default": false }, "filterKeyword": { "title": "Filter by keyword", "type": "string", "description": "Only keep filings whose business name contains this keyword (case-insensitive), e.g. 'trucking', 'realty', 'consulting'. Leave empty to keep all filings." }, "includeStateSummary": { "title": "Include per-state summary records", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one extra item per state (type: 'state') with the filing count, the exact date window scanned, and window_truncated — useful for monitoring pipelines and spotting states whose source lagged. These summary items are billed like ordinary results (a few extra items per run).", "default": true }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxies for the open-data HTTP requests. These are public, unauthenticated government APIs, so Apify Proxy (datacenter) is more than sufficient. Florida's SFTP download connects directly and does not use the proxy.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```