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🏦 FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper

🚀 Collect broker and investment advisor profiles from FINRA BrokerCheck in minutes. Search by name, firm, CRD number, city, or state. Export employment history, regulatory actions, licensing, and disclosures. No coding, no FINRA account required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23 · 📊 50+ fields per broker · 🔍 Individual + firm search · 📋 Employment + disclosure history · 🚫 No auth required

The FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper collects broker and investment advisor data from FINRA's official BrokerCheck database, returning 50+ fields per record: personal information, CRD number, current and previous employment history, regulatory actions, disclosures, licensing details, exam history, and firm affiliations. Runs support up to 1,000,000 records on a paid plan.

The Actor supports two search modes: individual broker/advisor lookup and firm search. Filters include name query, firm name, firm CRD number, city, state, and a toggle for including previously registered individuals. The scraper hits FINRA's public API directly, the same data source that powers the BrokerCheck website.

📋 What the FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper does

Two search modes with geographic and firm filters:

• 👤 Individual search. Search by broker/advisor name, CRD number, or keyword.
• 🏢 Firm search. Search by firm name or firm CRD number to pull firm-level data.
• 📍 Geographic filters. City and state filters for individual searches.
• 🏢 Firm-level filters. Filter individuals by firm name or CRD number.
• 📋 Include previous registrations. Toggle to include brokers who are no longer actively registered.

Each record includes personal info (name, CRD, identifiers), current and previous employment with dates and firm names, regulatory disclosures, compliance history, licensing and exam details, and firm affiliation data.

💡 Why it matters: manually searching FINRA BrokerCheck one profile at a time is slow and doesn't scale. This Actor exports structured regulatory data at scale, ready for your compliance systems, due-diligence workflows, or research databases.

🎬 Full Demo

Watch this demo to see how to export FINRA broker data step by step.

⚙️ Input

Example: search for Morgan Stanley advisors in New York.

{
"searchType":"individual",
"firmName":"Morgan Stanley",
"state":"NY",
"maxItems":100
}

Example: firm search by name.

{
"searchType":"firm",
"query":"Goldman Sachs",
"maxItems":50
}

Example: only people who passed a specific exam (Series 79 — Investment Banking).

Return only individuals whose exam history includes the Investment Banking Registered Representative Examination (Series 79). FINRA's public API has no server-side exam filter, so the Actor fetches candidates from your search scope (query/firmName/state) and keeps only the ones holding the exam. Always pair the exam filter with a search scope so the run stays fast.

{
"searchType":"individual",
"query":"Goldman",
"examName":"Investment Banking Registered Representative Examination",
"includePrevious":true,
"maxItems":25
}

💡 You can also filter by series code ("examName": "Series 79") or pass several exams at once: "examNames": ["Series 79", "Series 7"] (matches anyone holding any of them). Narrow further by adding firmName or state. The matched exam appears in each record's examNames / examCategories arrays.

🌐 Enumerate the entire database + exclude prior runs

Need every individual in FINRA BrokerCheck who passed a given exam — without typing a query and running it letter by letter? Turn on enumerateAll. The Actor sweeps a list of query prefixes (a–z by default), and because FINRA's search refuses to page past a ~9,000-record window per query, it automatically expands any prefix that hits that cap into deeper prefixes (a → aa..az → aaa..aaz, up to 3 letters). This guarantees full coverage despite the window cap. Every unique CRD is collected, de-duplicated, and run through the same exam filter — only matches are saved.

Pair it with excludePriorRuns for incremental runs. The Actor stores every CRD it has already returned in a persistent named key-value store (seenStoreName, default finra-seen-crd) and skips those on the next run — so you can run repeatedly and only ever get new matching individuals, never duplicates across runs.

Example: pull EVERY Series 79 (Investment Banking) holder in the country, incrementally.

{
"enumerateAll":true,
"examNames":["Series 79"],
"includePrevious":true,
"excludePriorRuns":true,
"seenStoreName":"finra-seen-crd"
}

Run it once to collect the first batch; run the same input again to get only the next new matches (the previously-returned CRDs are skipped). Keep excludePriorRuns: true and the same seenStoreName across every incremental run. Omit maxItems (paid plan) to let it sweep the whole database; set a small maxItems plus a narrow seeds (e.g. ["aa"]) for a quick test.

⏱️ Heads up: a full a–z enumeration visits a large candidate set and fetches one detail request per candidate, so an unbounded whole-database run is long-running and best run on a paid plan. The exam filter is applied client-side (FINRA exposes exams only in the per-individual detail record), so most candidates are fetched and discarded — this is expected.

⚠️ Good to Know: the scraper hits FINRA's public BrokerCheck API directly. Results match what you see on the BrokerCheck website. For large batch searches, residential proxies are recommended to avoid rate limiting.

📊 Output

Each broker/advisor record contains 50+ fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema (key fields)

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 FINRA's BrokerCheck database contains records for over 600,000 currently registered brokers and 3,500 registered firms. Structured access to this data powers every compliance, due-diligence, and regulatory-research workflow.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Pick this Actor when you want BrokerCheck data on demand, at scale, without manual searches or enterprise compliance subscriptions.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose individual or firm search. Enter a name, firm, or CRD number. Set filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Weekly pulls keep your compliance monitoring system up to date.

🔌 Integrate with any app

FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get alerts on disclosure changes
• Airbyte - Pipe compliance data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh compliance data into your monitoring system, or alert your team in Slack.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more financial and regulatory data scrapers.

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FINRA or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available BrokerCheck data is collected.