Contractor License Scraper Canada - Quebec RBQ Registry

Get every active construction contractor licence in Quebec from the official Régie du bâtiment du Québec (RBQ) registry — as clean, structured data. Licence number, company name, trade names, NEQ, address, region, phone, email, licence categories and trade classes, bond amount and restrictions.

Data comes from the official RBQ open dataset (CC-BY 4.0, refreshed daily). No scraping of private sites, no legal grey zone.

Why you'd use it

• B2B lead generation — every licensed roofer, plumber, excavator or GC in a region, with phone numbers and emails. Filter by trade class and city.
• New contractor leads — incremental mode returns only licences that appeared since your last run: brand-new construction businesses, first on the market.
• Contractor verification / due diligence — check licence status, restrictions, trade classes and bond before hiring or insuring.
• Enrichment for building permits — pairs with Building Permits Canada by the same author: permits tell you who's building, licences tell you who's licensed for what.

Just need to look up one contractor?

Use our free web lookup — CheckContractors.ca — every RBQ licence and HCRA builder, searchable by business name or licence number. This Actor is the engine behind it; run the Actor when you need the data in bulk, filtered, or on a schedule.

Input

Field	Description
provinces	["quebec", "ontario"] — BC on the roadmap
keywords	Match against company name, trade names, city, trade class labels
licenseClasses	RBQ codes, e.g. "1.3", "6.2", "15.5". Prefix match supported
regions	Administrative region / city substring, e.g. "Monteregie"
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Incremental monitoring mode
maxResults	Cost guard, default 500

Output example

{
    "licenseNumber": "5717-0235-01",
    "holderName": "CONSTRUCTION EXEMPLE INC.",
    "otherNames": ["Toitures Exemple"],
    "neq": "1160000000",
    "address": "123 RUE PRINCIPALE",
    "city": "Montréal",
    "region": "Montréal",
    "postalCode": "H1A 1A1",
    "phone": "514-555-0100",
    "email": "info@exemple.ca",
    "categories": ["Entrepreneur spécialisé"],
    "subcategories": ["Spécialisée 6.2"],
    "subcategoryCodes": ["6.2"],
    "bondAmount": 40000,
    "status": "Active",
    "province": "QC",
    "source": "rbq-open-data",
    "country": "CA"
}

FAQ

How fresh is the data? RBQ publishes the full active-licence file daily; each run downloads the latest snapshot.

Is this legal? Yes — official open data under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (Quebec).

What do the licence class codes mean? RBQ Annex: 1.x general contractor classes, 2.x–17.x specialized trades (e.g. 6.2 wood & plastic, 15.5 plumbing). Full list in RBQ documentation.

Ontario? Supported — the Ontario HCRA Builder Directory (new home builders and vendors) is included; use provinces: ["ontario"] with keywords like "homes" or "construction". BC (BC Housing Licensed Residential Builders) is on the roadmap — open an issue to vote.

How do I get contractor leads without coding? Press Run — the default input returns 500 licensed Quebec contractors as a table you can export to Excel or CSV.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents via the Apify MCP server. Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent can query Canadian contractor licences on demand — e.g. "find licensed roofing contractors in Laval with active status".

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=truenorthdata/canada-contractor-licenses"
    }
  }
}

On first connection you'll sign in to Apify via OAuth. Works with agentic payments (x402/Skyfire) too.

Use in Clay and n8n (no code)

Plug licensed-contractor data straight into the tools your team already uses.

Clay — add a source → Import from Apify Actor → search canada-contractor-licenses → set your input (province, keywords). Turn on auto-update to keep a fresh licence list, then enrich with email and LinkedIn.

n8n — add the official Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify): Run Actor on truenorthdata/canada-contractor-licenses, then Get Dataset Items, and route to Google Sheets, a CRM, or Slack. Add a Schedule trigger for an automatic refresh.

More Canada open-data Actors by TrueNorthData

• Canada Tenders Scraper — federal + Québec government tenders (CanadaBuys, SEAO)
• Building Permits Canada — fresh building permits from Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton & Montréal
• Canada Charities Scraper — CRA registered charities directory
• Canada New Incorporations — fresh federal company registrations, daily

All built on official Canadian open data. See also CheckContractors.ca — free public contractor-licence lookup.