US State Business Entities API (NY, CO, OR, CT)

US State Business Entities API returns business entity records from the official open-data registers of four US states (New York, Colorado, Oregon and Connecticut) as clean JSON rows in one schema, with no API key needed. Each row has the state's entity ID, name, entity type, status, formation date, jurisdiction of formation, business address, NAICS code (Connecticut) and a link to the dataset and its licence. Use it as a Secretary of State business entity search API for business verification and KYB, good-standing checks and new LLC and corporation filings. Three modes:

• Look up entities: up to 500 entities by state and ID, for example NY:4424185 or CO:18961000001.
• Search by name: "contains" or "starts with" matching in any of the four states.
• New filings: entities formed or registered in a date range, newest first.

Turn on monitor mode and schedule the Actor to get only entities that are new or have changed since the last run, with the fields that changed and their previous values.

It's one business entity search across four states: a NY business entity search, a Colorado Secretary of State business search, the Oregon business registry and Connecticut's Business Registry, in place of four separate Secretary of State business search sites. Use it for an LLC lookup by ID or name, and export the rows as CSV, JSON or Excel.

State	Register (open dataset)	ID	Look up	Search	New filings	Which entities
NY	Department of State, Active Corporations	DOS ID	yes	yes	yes	active only
CO	Department of State, Business Entities	Entity ID (11 digits)	yes	yes	yes	all statuses
OR	Secretary of State, Active Businesses	Registry number	yes	yes	yes	active only
CT	Secretary of the State, Business Registry	Business ID (account number)	yes	yes	yes	all statuses

Not affiliated with any state. This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any state government or office named here. It reads their official open-data portals. Each row carries the dataset's licence and attribution (see Data sources, licences and attribution).

Why this one

• Official open data, not scraped search pages. Every row comes from a state's own open-data API, so a change to a state's business-search website doesn't break it.
• One schema for four states. The same field names, the same four status values (active, not_in_good_standing, inactive, unknown) and the same address shape, with the state's own wording kept in statusDetail.
• New filings, not just lookups. List entities formed in the last N days in each state, with NAICS industry codes for Connecticut.
• Clean values. Placeholder text such as "No information provided" becomes null, "C/O" and "ATTN" lines are removed from addresses, and Colorado's status suffixes (for example ", Delinquent April 1, 2020") are moved out of the entity name into extra.nameStatusNote.
• Clear answers when nothing is found. An unknown ID gets a free not_found row, a badly formed ID gets invalid_id, a state with no matches gets no_matches, and an unreachable state gets source_error while the other states carry on, so an empty result is never silent.
• You choose how much comes back. maxResults caps the whole run and maxResultsPerState caps each state, and the Actor stops before your run's maximum cost.
• Company-level data only. Sole proprietorships, assumed business names (DBAs) and name reservations are skipped and never charged. Officer and owner names are never requested from the states.
• Polite to the sources. Requests to each portal are paced, retried after rate-limit or server errors, and identify the Actor.

Quick start

Press Start with the prefilled input, or paste this into the JSON view of the Input tab. It looks up one entity in each state.

{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "entities": ["NY:4424185", "CO:18961000001", "OR:338616", "CT:0067276"]
}

In our test run on 30 October 2026 it returned 4 rows: BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC. (NY), PARK RESERVOIR COMPANY (CO), PORTLAND TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY (OR) and TORRINGTON LIBRARY (CT), all active.

Active entities whose name contains "bakery" in Colorado and Connecticut:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "name": "bakery",
  "states": ["CO", "CT"],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxResultsPerState": 10
}

Entities filed in the last 7 days in all four states:

{
  "mode": "newFilings",
  "filedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResultsPerState": 100,
  "maxResults": 400
}

Who it's for

• KYC, onboarding and credit teams checking that a US business entity exists in its home state, is in good standing and is registered at the address it gave.
• Data and CRM teams enriching account lists with official entity names, types, formation dates and statuses.
• B2B sales and market researchers following newly formed businesses in a state, by industry in Connecticut.

Use cases

1. Counterparty check. Look up a list of entity IDs and get status, type, formation date and address in one table.
2. Good-standing watch. Monitor a watch list daily and get a row only when an entity's name, status, address or NAICS code changes, for example when a Colorado entity becomes delinquent.
3. New businesses. Entities formed in the last N days, filtered to the states you want.
4. Name check. Find registered entities matching a name across four states at once.

Output sample

The rows from the Quick start input (run on 30 October 2026), shortened:

State	ID	Name	Entity type	Status	Formed	City
NY	4424185	BUTCHY'S WINE & SPIRITS, INC.	DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION	active	2013-06-27	MOUNT VERNON
CO	18961000001	PARK RESERVOIR COMPANY	Domestic Profit Corporation	active	1896-03-16	Cedaredge
OR	338616	PORTLAND TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY	DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION	active	1882-08-28	PORTLAND
CT	0067276	TORRINGTON LIBRARY	Special Chartered	active

One row as JSON, from a run on 30 October 2026 (build 0.1.3). Some fields are left out to keep it short; the full list is under Output.

{
  "rowType": "entity",
  "state": "OR",
  "registerName": "Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division",
  "idType": "Registry number",
  "registerId": "338616",
  "name": "PORTLAND TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY",
  "entityType": "DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION",
  "status": "active",
  "statusDetail": "Listed in the Active Businesses dataset",
  "formationDate": "1882-08-28",
  "closedDate": null,
  "jurisdictionOfFormation": "OR",
  "address": {
    "street": "3500 NW YEON AVE",
    "city": "PORTLAND",
    "state": "OR",
    "postalCode": "97210",
    "country": null,
    "full": "3500 NW YEON AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97210"
  },
  "addressType": "principal_place_of_business",
  "naicsCode": null,
  "naicsDescription": null,
  "recordUrl": "https://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.do_name_srch?p_name=&p_regist_nbr=338616&p_srch=PHASE1&p_print=FALSE&p_entity_status=ACTINA",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.oregon.gov/resource/tckn-sxa6.json?%24where=registry_number%3D%27338616%27",
  "dataset": "https://data.oregon.gov/d/tckn-sxa6",
  "licence": "Public domain (ORS 276A.368)",
  "licenceUrl": "https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_276a.368",
  "attribution": "Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division"
}

Input examples

Paste any of these into the JSON view of the Input tab. Each one is the input of a ready-made example task.

Business entity lookup by ID in all four states

{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "entities": ["NY:4424185", "CO:18961000001", "OR:338616", "CT:0067276"],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxResultsPerState": 25
}

New business filings in the last 7 days

{
  "mode": "newFilings",
  "states": ["NY", "CO", "OR", "CT"],
  "filedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxResultsPerState": 25
}

Business name search ("starts with") in four states

{
  "mode": "search",
  "name": "blue ridge",
  "nameMatch": "startsWith",
  "states": ["NY", "CO", "OR", "CT"],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxResultsPerState": 10
}

Input

Field	Used by	What it does
mode	all	lookup (default), search or newFilings.
entities	lookup	Up to 500 entries like NY:4424185, CO 18961000001 or CT-0067276.
defaultState	lookup	State for entries without a prefix.
name	search	Name or part of it, at least 2 letters or digits. Case is ignored.
nameMatch	search	contains (default) or startsWith (faster on large states).
states	search, newFilings	States to query. Defaults to all four.
activeOnly	all	Leave out dissolved, revoked, withdrawn or otherwise closed entities (CO and CT; the NY and OR datasets list active entities only).
filedWithinDays, filedSince, filedUntil	newFilings	Last N days (default 7, up to 366), or a YYYY-MM-DD range.
includeRegisteredAgent	all	Off by default. Adds the registered agent for NY and CO, only when the agent is an organisation.
maxResults	all	Most entity rows per run. Default 50; 0 means no limit.
maxResultsPerState	search, newFilings	Most entity rows per state. Default 25; 0 means no limit.
monitorMode, emitBaselineOnFirstRun, stateStoreName	all	See Monitor mode below.

Output

Every row has rowType. An entity row (entity) has state, registerName, idType, registerId, name, entityType, status, statusDetail, formationDate, closedDate, jurisdictionOfFormation, county, address (street, city, state, postalCode, country, full), addressType, mailingAddress, naicsCode, naicsDescription, registeredAgent, extra (state-specific fields), recordUrl, sourceUrl, dataset, licence, licenceUrl, attribution and retrievedAt. Fields a state doesn't publish are null. Values shortened:

{
  "rowType": "entity",
  "state": "CO",
  "registerName": "Colorado Department of State, Business Division",
  "idType": "Entity ID",
  "registerId": "18961000001",
  "name": "PARK RESERVOIR COMPANY",
  "entityType": "Domestic Profit Corporation",
  "status": "active",
  "statusDetail": "Good Standing",
  "formationDate": "1896-03-16",
  "address": { "street": "980 W Main St", "city": "Cedaredge", "state": "CO", "postalCode": "81413", "country": "US" },
  "addressType": "principal_office",
  "mailingAddress": { "street": "PO Box 399", "city": "Cedaredge", "state": "CO", "postalCode": "81413", "country": "US" },
  "dataset": "https://data.colorado.gov/d/4ykn-tg5h",
  "licence": "Public Domain (Colorado Information Marketplace terms)"
}

addressType says which address the state published: location or service_of_process (NY), principal_office (CO), principal_place_of_business or mailing (OR), business_address (CT). New York rows use the service-of-process address only when it is addressed to the entity itself or to an organisation; otherwise address is null.

Status rows (status, free): invalid_input, invalid_id, not_found, no_longer_listed, no_matches, scan_limit, skipped_individual, skipped_other_form, skipped_inactive, source_error or budget_reached, each with a plain-English message.

The SUMMARY record in the default key-value store lists the input, rows per state, skipped records, status counts, request counts and each dataset's licence. The dataset has views for Overview, Changes and Status rows.

Monitor mode: only new or changed entities

Set monitorMode to true and schedule a saved task. The Actor remembers each entity's name, type, status, closed date, jurisdiction, addresses and NAICS code in the named key-value store stateStoreName, and returns only entities it hasn't returned before (changeType: "new") or where one of those fields changed (changeType: "updated", with changedFields and previousValues). In Look up mode, an entity it has seen before that drops out of its state's dataset gets a free no_longer_listed row; in New York and Oregon that usually means it is no longer active.

• emitBaselineOnFirstRun (default true) returns current matches on the first run. Set it to false to remember them silently, without charge, and get only later changes.
• Use a different stateStoreName for each separate watch list.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price
Entity record returned	$0.0025
Alert run with new or updated entities (monitor mode only, once per run that returns at least one)	$0.01
Actor start	$0.00005

Higher Apify plans get lower prices (shown on the Pricing tab). Status rows, skipped records, the SUMMARY record and monitor runs with nothing new are free of record and alert charges. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options: the Actor stops before going over it and adds a free budget_reached row.

Data sources, licences and attribution

Every entity row carries its dataset's dataset, licence, licenceUrl and attribution, so you can keep the attribution when you reuse the data. Rows are normalised by this Actor (field names, status values, address clean-up), so they are modified from the original records.

State	Source register (open dataset)	Licence or terms	Attribution line (in every row's attribution)
NY	New York State Department of State, Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 (data.ny.gov)	Open NY Terms of Use: no set wording; we name the source	New York State Department of State
CO	Colorado Department of State, Business Entities in Colorado (data.colorado.gov)	Public domain, Colorado Information Marketplace terms: the State of Colorado disclaimer below must go with the data	Colorado Department of State. followed by the full State of Colorado disclaimer below
OR	Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division, Active Businesses - ALL (data.oregon.gov)	Public domain under ORS 276A.368, Oregon.gov terms: no set wording; we name the source	Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division
CT	Connecticut Secretary of the State, Connecticut Business Registry - Business Master (data.ct.gov)	Public domain, data.ct.gov terms: no set wording; we name the source	Connecticut Secretary of the State

State of Colorado disclaimer

The State of Colorado requires this notice with its data, and every Colorado row carries it in attribution:

The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado. THE STATE OF COLORADO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY AS TO THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR CONTENT OF ANY DATA MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE. THE STATE OF COLORADO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the Web feed is being used at one's own risk.

Company-level data only

This Actor returns company-level (entity-level) data only. Sole proprietorships, assumed business names (DBAs) and name reservations are skipped and never charged. Officer and owner names are never requested from the states. The registered agent is off by default; when you turn it on, it is added for New York and Colorado only when the agent is an organisation, and agent names that look like a person's are dropped, never returned. Business addresses are returned as the state publishes them, and for small entities they can be a home address.

Limits

• States: New York, Colorado, Oregon and Connecticut only. The New York and Oregon datasets list active entities only, so dissolved entities there get not_found.
• Look up: up to 500 entities per run.
• New filings: filedWithinDays goes up to 366.
• Records read per state: outside monitor mode, at most 500 records beyond your per-state limit are read to fill it (skipped records count towards this); in monitor mode, at most 5,000 records per state per run. A free scan_limit row says when a run stopped early; narrow the name or use "starts with".
• Pacing: the portals are called without an app token, at most 2 requests a second per state, so large runs take time.
• Freshness: each state refreshes its dataset on its own schedule. New York can lag the Department of State by a few days and Oregon is refreshed about once a week, so the newest filings can appear later than on the state's website.

Use it from code, spreadsheets or an AI agent

Run it with the Apify API or client libraries, schedule it, or connect it to Make, Zapier, Google Sheets or webhooks through Apify integrations. AI agents can call it through Apify's MCP server.

FAQ

Why don't New York and Oregon return dissolved entities? Their open datasets list active entities only. An ID that isn't there gets a not_found row that says so; it may be inactive rather than non-existent. Use the state's own business search for its full history.

How current is the data? Each run reads the open datasets at that moment, but each state refreshes its dataset on its own schedule. The New York dataset can lag the Department of State by a few days, and the Oregon dataset is refreshed about once a week, so the newest filings can appear later than on the state's website.

Why are registered agents off by default? Many registered agents are individuals. When you turn the option on, New York and Colorado agents are added only when the agent is an organisation; named people are never returned. Oregon and Connecticut agents are not included.

Why are officers and owners not included? This Actor returns entity-level data only.

Why are some entities missing from a search? Sole proprietorships (CO), assumed business names (OR) and name reservations (CT, OR) are skipped and not charged, and the run says how many. Narrow the name or use "starts with" if you get scan_limit.

Can I add another state? Open an issue with the state you need. A state is added only if it publishes its business register as official open data that allows reuse.

Can I do an LLC lookup by name? Yes. Use mode: "search" with the name and pick "contains" or "starts with" matching. Rows include the entity type, so LLCs are easy to filter, and each row links to the state's own record.

Is this the same data as the Secretary of State business search sites? Rows come from each state's official open dataset of its business register, which the state refreshes on its own schedule (see How current is the data?). Each row links to the record and the dataset it came from.

Feedback

Found a problem or need a state? Open an issue on the Issues tab.