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State Contractor Databases data scraping service.
Licensed contractor lists from state databases. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and more. Cleaned, deduplicated, with verified contact information.
The problem.
WHY THIS IS HARDER THAN IT LOOKS
B2B companies selling to contractors (SaaS platforms, insurance providers, equipment distributors, marketing agencies) need targeted lists of licensed contractors. State licensing databases are the authoritative source: they contain every active license holder with business name, license type, issue date, expiration, and registered address.
The problem is that each state structures its licensing database differently, and the variation is more extreme than most clients expect. Florida's DBPR portal uses a paginated search interface with license-type-specific category codes. California's CSLB has its own query system with different search parameters and a separate download path for bulk data. Texas's TDLR publishes quarterly bulk download files in a flat CSV format with columns that shift between releases. New York runs its licensing through a different agency entirely with a different URL structure, different field names, and different status codes. Some states require a search query before showing any results, which means bulk extraction requires iterating through query parameters systematically rather than hitting a single paginated list. A few states have no public online access at all and require a formal public records request to get the same data. Building a pipeline for each state is its own project, not a configuration change. Before any engagement I confirm what access the target state actually provides and scope the work accordingly, so there are no surprises mid-project.
For a B2B SaaS company I work with, the pipeline extracted 15,000 unique HVAC contractors across 67 Florida counties from the DBPR database. The extraction included license type, status, issue and expiration dates, business name, registered address, and phone numbers. A 34% duplicate rate was caught and resolved during deduplication (same contractor holding multiple license types). Phone number accuracy was 91% after verification.
This service builds the same pipeline for your target state, license type, and data fields.
Is this right for you?
GOOD FIT IF ANY OF THESE SOUND LIKE YOU
You are a B2B SaaS company selling to contractors and need targeted, fresh licensed contractor lists
You are an insurance provider underwriting contractor policies and need license verification data
You are a home services platform onboarding contractors and need to verify active licensure
Your sales team currently buys stale contractor lists from list brokers and the data quality is poor
What you receive.
EXACT FIELDS, DELIVERED IN YOUR FORMAT
Sample record.
{
"license_number":"CAC1234567",
"license_type":"Certified HVAC Contractor",
"license_status":"active",
"business_name":"Cool Air Solutions LLC",
"owner_name":"Robert Martinez",
"address":"1420 Palm Beach Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33901",
"phone":"(239) 555-0142",
"issue_date":"2018-03-15",
"expiration_date":"2026-09-30",
"county":"Lee",
"state":"FL",
"extracted_at":"2026-04-14T07:00:00Z"
}Straightforward pricing.
SCALE DETERMINES PRICE · NO HIDDEN FEES
State list
One-time extraction of contractors from a single state database. Delivered in 2 to 5 days.
- One state
- Any license type
- Deduplication included
- CSV or Google Sheet
Multi-state recurring
Monthly refresh across multiple states with new license detection.
- Up to 5 states
- New license alerts
- Phone verification
- CRM write-back available
National coverage
All available states with custom license type filtering.
- All scrapable states
- Custom classification
- Skip trace integration
- Scoping call required
Frequently asked questions.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Any state that publishes contractor licensing data through a public online portal or bulk download. Florida, California, Texas, and New York are the most commonly requested. Coverage for each state depends on how the state publishes its data. Some states have fully searchable portals. Others publish quarterly CSV files. A few have no public access at all.
Any license type the state database includes: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, general contracting, pest control, fire protection, and others. The license type filter is configured during setup based on your target audience.
Contractors often hold multiple license types (an HVAC contractor might also hold a plumbing license). The pipeline deduplicates by business name and address, merging multiple licenses into a single contractor record. For the Florida engagement the dedup process caught a 34% duplicate rate.
Phone numbers extracted from the state database are verified against the registered business. For the Florida engagement the verification accuracy was 91%. Numbers that fail verification are flagged rather than removed so you can decide whether to use them.
Yes. Skip trace and email enrichment can be layered on top of the state database extraction as an add-on. This is priced per record based on the skip trace provider's rates and is separate from the base extraction fee.
For one-time extractions the data is as fresh as the extraction date. For monthly recurring the pipeline re-extracts the full database and flags new licenses, expired licenses, and status changes since the last run.
A single-state extraction starts at $199, depending on the state database complexity and the number of records. Multi-state recurring starts at $499 per month for up to 5 states with monthly refresh. National coverage scopes per engagement.
Yes. All three filters are configured during setup. License type filtering lets you isolate HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or any other classification the state uses. County filtering is available for states where the database includes county-level registration data (Florida does; not all states do). Expiration status filtering lets you pull only active licenses, exclude licenses expiring in the next 90 days, or specifically target recently expired licenses if your product helps contractors with renewal compliance.
Contractor databases have a structural duplicate problem: one business can hold multiple license types, and the state records each license as a separate row. Without deduplication you end up counting the same contractor two or three times. The pipeline deduplicates by business name and registered address, merging multiple license types into a single contractor record with a licenses array. For the Florida engagement this caught a 34% duplicate rate, meaning roughly one in three raw records was a duplicate of an already-seen contractor.
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