Professional License Lookup Scraper — DE + CO Roster Export

What this Actor scrapes

This Actor bulk-exports professional and occupational license rosters from official state licensing-board open-data portals — Delaware and Colorado in v1 (more states coming) — and returns one structured row per licensee per state. Each row carries the licensee's name, license number, profession, license type, current status, issue and expiration dates, and a disciplinary-action flag with detail where the state publishes one.

We built this as a self-serve alternative to paying for a dozen near-identical single-state, single-profession scrapers. One call per state buys you coverage across nursing, real estate, contractors and trades, medical practice, accountancy, and dozens of other regulated professions — not one narrow niche. It queries each state's own free, keyless Socrata open-data API directly, not a paywalled search UI.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so every request looks like a browser, not Python.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per request, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Graceful degradation per state — if one state's dataset hiccups, that state is skipped with a warning; your batch keeps running.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, a shared cross-state schema despite each state publishing wildly different raw field names.
• 🧩 Disciplinary-signal resolution done right — Delaware's inline flag is a dead column (always "N"); we join the state's companion disciplinary dataset instead of trusting it.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for licensee rows that land in your dataset. No data, no charge (beyond the small warm-up fee).

Use cases

• Background-check / HR / compliance vendors — verify a candidate or contractor's professional license is current before a hire or engagement.
• Staffing agencies — bulk-pull active licensees in a profession/region for a candidate pipeline.
• Lead-gen / sales prospecting — build a contact list of licensed professionals in a target trade or profession.
• Insurance underwriting — confirm license status and disciplinary history before binding a policy.
• List hygiene — drop licensees whose status_normalized comes back inactive, or filter to disciplinary_only before outreach.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "jurisdictions": [
    "DE",
    "CO"
  ],
  "professionQuery": "nursing",
  "activeOnly": true,
  "disciplinaryOnly": false,
  "maxResults": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

jurisdictionlicensee_namelicense_numberprofessionlicense_typestatusstatus_normalizedissue_dateexpiration_datedisciplinary_flagdisciplinary_detailcitymailing_statesource_record_urlregistry_urlscraped_at

{
  "jurisdiction": "DE",
  "licensee_name": "SHAHAN,BRIAN",
  "license_number": "RS-0037427",
  "profession": "Real Estate",
  "license_type": "Salesperson",
  "status": "Active",
  "status_normalized": "active",
  "issue_date": "2021-09-14",
  "expiration_date": "2028-04-30",
  "disciplinary_flag": false,
  "disciplinary_detail": null,
  "city": "WILMINGTON",
  "mailing_state": "DE",
  "source_record_url": "https://data.delaware.gov/resource/pjnv-eaih.json?license_no=RS-0037427",
  "registry_url": "https://data.delaware.gov/d/pjnv-eaih",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.