Tennessee DOT Qualified Products List

Scrapes and structures Tennessee DOT's monthly Qualified Products List (QPL) — the official PDF report of construction/road materials approved for use on TDOT projects. Instead of manually paging through a 500+ page PDF, get every approved product, its manufacturer, evaluation number, and Build America Buy America (BABA) compliance status as clean structured data.

Use cases

1. Road contractors & estimators — check whether a specific product/manufacturer is currently on TDOT's approved list before bidding a project, without opening the PDF.
2. Manufacturers & suppliers — monitor which of their products are listed, track competitors in a given material category, or verify BABA compliance status across their line.
3. Compliance/procurement monitoring — pull the "added in the last month" list on a schedule to catch new approvals as soon as TDOT publishes its monthly update.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
listType	string	"all"	"all" (full current QPL) or "addedLastMonth" (only products added in the most recent monthly update)
maxItems	integer	100	Max product records to output
categoryContains	string	""	Case-insensitive substring filter on Product Category
manufacturerContains	string	""	Case-insensitive substring filter on manufacturer/source name

Output

Field	Type	Description
productCategory	string	e.g. "01 - Traffic Control Materials"
section	string	e.g. "A-Pav Marker (Raised/Snowplow./Reflect.)"
materialCode	string	TDOT material spec code, e.g. "918.20.031"
materialDescription	string	Material description, e.g. "Snowplowable Reflective Markers"
sourceId	string	TDOT internal source/manufacturer ID
manufacturerName	string	Manufacturer / supplier name
tradeName	string	Approved product trade name / model
evaluationNumber	string	TDOT evaluation number ("--" if none listed)
remarks	string	Free-text remarks/usage notes attached to the product row, if any
babaIndicator	string	"COMPLIANT", "EXEMPT", or "" — parsed from the PDF's Build America Buy America flag
listType	string	"all" or "addedLastMonth", echoes input
sourcePdfUrl	string	The source PDF this record was parsed from
pageNumber	integer	1-indexed PDF page the record appeared on (provenance)
crawlTimestamp	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of the run

Example record:

{
  "productCategory": "01 - Traffic Control Materials",
  "section": "A-Pav Marker (Raised/Snowplow./Reflect.)",
  "materialCode": "918.26.041",
  "materialDescription": "Raised Reflective Pavement Markers",
  "sourceId": "89900678",
  "manufacturerName": "Pexco LLC",
  "tradeName": "RPM-Durable Raised Pavement Marker",
  "evaluationNumber": "13013",
  "remarks": "BABA COMPLIANT",
  "babaIndicator": "COMPLIANT",
  "listType": "all",
  "sourcePdfUrl": "https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/hq-materials-tests/qpl/Monthly_QPL.pdf",
  "pageNumber": 3,
  "crawlTimestamp": "2026-08-16T08:29:23.553889+00:00"
}

How it works

TDOT republishes the entire QPL as a single PDF each month (Monthly_QPL.pdf, ~500 pages) plus a short "added in the last month" PDF (Monthly_Added_QPL.pdf). The Actor downloads whichever one listType selects, then walks its text blocks in document order — tracking the current Product Category / Section / Material as it goes, and pairing each product row with its (optional) remarks block — to reconstruct clean records without needing OCR or a browser.

Known limitation: a small minority of rows (well under 1% in testing) use irregular evaluation- number formats the parser doesn't recognize (e.g. multi-part codes with embedded parenthetical notes); these are logged and skipped rather than mis-attributed to the wrong product.

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 results.

Results	Cost
100	$0.30
500	$1.50
1,000	$3.00
5,000	$15.00

Basis: a narrower, single-state procurement dataset than federal compliance lists — priced below epa-fuel-programs-registration-lists ($4/1,000) and niosh-certified-equipment-list-respirators ($5.99/1,000) since this Actor does a single cheap PDF-file parse rather than a per-item crawl.