Verify Contractor Licenses in 11 US States with One API Call

Verify Contractor Licenses in 11 US States with One API Call If you build anything in insurance tech, background checks, credentialing, or construction management, you've probably hit this wall: verifying a contractor's license means scraping 11 different state websites, each with different formats, search flows, and data schemas. California uses CSLB. Texas has TDLR. Florida runs DBPR. Washington has L&I with 159K+ records. New York uses municipal open data. None of them agree on what a "license record" looks like. I needed this for a compliance project, so I built a single API that normalizes all of it. The Problem Here's what you're dealing with state by state: State Agency Records Format CA CSLB 300K+ HTML scraping TX TDLR 200K+ Search form FL DBPR 500K+ HTML table NY NYC Open Data 80K+ JSON API WA L&I (Socrata) 159K JSON API CT DCP 133K Socrata OR CCB 56K Includes bond/insurance CO DORA 70K Trade licenses IL IDFPR 400K+ Statewide IA DWD 17K Socrata DE DPOS 31K Socrata Each