Contractor License Lookup (Texas & Florida)

Contractor License Lookup — Texas (TDLR) & Florida (DBPR)

Look up contractor licenses from official state public-record sources and get clean, structured rows: license number, type, holder name, business name, address, county, expiration date, and status where the state publishes it.

Use it for

• Verifying a contractor's license before hiring or subcontracting
• Building lead lists of licensed HVAC, electrical, roofing, building and general contractors by county or city
• Checking for expiring licenses (compliance, insurance and supplier teams)

Data sources (official, public)

State	Source	Method
TX	Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation "All Licenses" dataset on data.texas.gov (7358-krk7)	Official Socrata open-data API
FL	FL DBPR Construction Industry Licensing Board public extract (CONSTRUCTIONLICENSE_1.csv), linked from the DBPR "Public Records" page	Official bulk download, streamed and filtered

Not included (yet):

• Michigan (LARA): the public lookup is an Accela portal that relies on interactive sessions and postbacks. We found no official API or bulk file, so we left it out instead of scraping it.
• Ohio (eLicense): the verification site serves a bot-protection challenge to automated requests, so we didn't build around it.

Input

• states: ["TX","FL"]
• nameContains: part of the business or owner name
• licenseNumber: exact license number (TX number, or FL full number such as CBC006261)
• city: FL exact city; TX substring match on the address. Many TX contractor records have no address, so use county instead.
• county: TX county name (e.g. TRAVIS); FL DBPR county code (e.g. 52)
• licenseTypes: TX names (A/C Contractor, Electrical Contractor, …), or FL class codes (CGC general, CBC building, CRC residential, CCC roofing, CAC/CMC A/C, CPC pool)
• maxResults

Output example

{"state":"TX","licenseNumber":"20025","licenseType":"A/C Contractor","businessName":"DAVID BURGOS","ownerName":"BURGOS, DAVID","county":"TRAVIS","expirationDate":"05/17/2027"}

Notes and limits

• Fields depend on what each state publishes. TX often omits address and phone for individual contractors, and FL doesn't include phone numbers.
• The FL column mapping is inferred from the unlabeled extract, so treat status (C = Current) as provisional.
• Data is only as current as each state's published file. Always confirm critical checks on the state's own site.
• Use the data lawfully. If you contact anyone from these lists, you must follow CAN-SPAM, TCPA and do-not-call rules.

Pricing

Pay per result: $2.50 per 1,000 results ($0.0025 per license row). No start fee. You only pay for rows returned.