Florida Business Registry (Sunbiz) Search

Florida Business Registry (Sunbiz) Search extracts public business registration records from the official Florida Division of Corporations search site at search.sunbiz.org. The actor searches by entity name, reads the Sunbiz search results table, and can visit each entity detail page to collect filing information, principal and mailing addresses, registered agent details, officers or directors, and the most recent annual report year shown on the public record.

The source is the official public Florida business registry. Corporate registration data, officer data, document numbers, registered agent information, addresses, filing dates, and annual report references are published by the state as public records. This actor is designed for teams that need repeatable, structured access to those public records without manually searching the Sunbiz website one company at a time.

Sunbiz is protected by Cloudflare and normally requires a real browser session. For that reason this actor uses Crawlee with Playwright and is configured for Apify Proxy Residential by default. Keep residential proxy enabled for reliable production runs.

What It Extracts

For every matching search result, the actor returns the corporate name, document number, status, and absolute detail URL. When detail extraction is enabled, each dataset item also includes the entity name, FEI/EIN number when present, filing status, filing date, principal address, mailing address, registered agent name and address, officer or director entries, and the last annual report year found on the page.

The actor never invents missing values. If Sunbiz does not show a field on a record, the output field is set to null, and officers are returned as an empty array when no officer section is available.

Input

The main input is searchTerms, an array of business names or name fragments. Use exact names for verification workflows and broader fragments for prospecting or local market research.

maxResultsPerTerm limits how many search result rows are processed for each term. The default is 10 so the default run finishes quickly and stays under five minutes in normal conditions.

includeDetails controls whether the actor opens entity detail pages. Set it to false when you only need names, document numbers, statuses, and links.

proxyConfiguration defaults to Apify Proxy Residential. This is intentional because the official Sunbiz site is behind Cloudflare.

Example Output

{
  "searchTerm": "acme",
  "corporationName": "ACME GLOBAL, INC.",
  "documentNumber": "P06000011111",
  "status": "Active",
  "detailUrl": "https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?...",
  "detail": {
    "name": "ACME GLOBAL, INC.",
    "documentNumber": "P06000011111",
    "feiEin": "59-1234567",
    "status": "Active",
    "filingDate": "01/15/2006",
    "principalAddress": "100 Ocean Drive\nSuite 400\nMiami, FL 33139",
    "mailingAddress": "P.O. Box 1234\nMiami, FL 33101",
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "RODRIGUEZ, MARIA L",
      "address": "200 Brickell Avenue\nFloor 12\nMiami, FL 33131"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "PRES",
        "name": "SMITH, JOHN A",
        "address": "100 Ocean Drive\nSuite 400\nMiami, FL 33139"
      }
    ],
    "lastAnnualReportYear": "2025"
  }
}

Use Cases

Due diligence teams can verify whether a Florida company exists, whether it is active or inactive, when it was filed, and which public addresses and registered agent are on record.

KYB and onboarding teams can use the actor as a first pass for business identity checks before requesting additional documents from customers. The document number and filing status are useful stable identifiers for downstream review.

Local sales and lead generation teams can search by name fragments, neighborhoods, brand terms, or vertical keywords to build lists of Florida entities and route them into CRM enrichment workflows.

Compliance teams can monitor registered agent information and mailing addresses for vendors, counterparties, and portfolio companies that operate in Florida.

Investigators and analysts can quickly collect officer and director names shown in public Sunbiz filings and compare them with other official public data sources.

Pricing

This actor is intended for pay-per-event pricing. A practical four-tier PPE structure is:

Starter: about $1.50 per 1,000 saved results for lightweight search-only usage.

Standard: about $1.90 per 1,000 saved results for common search and detail extraction workloads.

Business: about $2.30 per 1,000 saved results for higher-volume due diligence and enrichment runs.

Enterprise: about $2.70 per 1,000 saved results for large monitoring or integration workflows that require stronger proxy reliability and operational support.

Actual Store pricing is configured in the Apify Console and may differ from these guide levels.

FAQ

Is this official data?

The actor reads records from the official Florida Division of Corporations Sunbiz search website. The actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the State of Florida.

Is the data public?

Yes. Florida corporate registration records available through Sunbiz are public records. Users are responsible for using the data lawfully and respecting privacy, compliance, and contractual obligations that apply to their own use case.

Why does the actor use Playwright?

Sunbiz is behind Cloudflare. A browser-based crawler with residential proxy support is required for reliable access. Plain HTTP requests often receive a challenge page instead of registry data.

Can I run search-only jobs?

Yes. Set includeDetails to false. The actor will only save the search result rows with name, document number, status, and detail URL.

What happens when a field is missing?

Missing fields are returned as null. The parser does not infer FEI/EIN numbers, filing dates, addresses, officers, or report years.

How should I avoid oversized runs?

Start with specific search terms and keep maxResultsPerTerm low. Increase it gradually after confirming that the output matches your workflow.

Can this actor monitor companies?

Yes. Schedule repeat runs with exact entity names or stored company names, then compare output changes in your own database or automation.