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🌴 LA Business License Scraper

🚀 Export every active business registered with the City of Los Angeles complete with NAICS code, address, and council district.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 19 fields per record · 500,000+ registered businesses · City of Los Angeles

The LA Business License Scraper pulls the LA City Office of Finance active business tax registration list directly from the LA Open Data portal, surfacing every business that has filed for an LA tax registration certificate.

📋 What the LA Business Licenses Scraper does

• Pulls live records from the official open-data API in batches of up to 1,000 rows per request
• Lets you filter by the source's own native columns before download (no post-processing required)
• Returns one normalized JSON row per record with stable, predictable field names
• Pushes results to a clean Apify dataset that exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
• Auto-paginates so you can pull thousands of records in one run

💡 Why it matters: government open-data portals throttle, rate-limit, and break under heavy load. This actor wraps the official endpoint, handles pagination, normalizes nulls, and gives you a stable schema even when the source UI rearranges its dashboard.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon - GIF demo of the actor running in Apify Console.

⚙️ Input

{
"maxItems":100
}

{
"maxItems":500
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the source endpoint is a public government open-data API. Records reflect what the agency has published as of its most recent refresh cycle and may not be real-time.

📊 Output

Sample records

[
{
"imageUrl":null,
"title":"539090 FILMPRODUCTIONS",
"url":"https://data.lacity.org/Administration-Finance/Listing-of-Active-Businesses/6rrh-rzua",
"id":"0000727369-0001-8",
"location_account":"0000727369-0001-8",
"business_name":"539090 FILMPRODUCTIONS",
"dba_name":null,
"street_address":"7740 SIDEWALK 173RD STREET",
"city":"MIAMI",
"zip_code":"33157-",
"location_description":"7740 SIDEWALK 173RD 33157-",
"mailing_address":null,
"mailing_city":null,
"mailing_zip_code":null,
"naics":"512100",
"primary_naics_description":"Motion picture & video industries (except video rental)",
"council_district":"0",
"location_start_date":null,
"location_end_date":null,
"sourceUrl":"https://data.lacity.org/Administration-Finance/Listing-of-Active-Businesses/6rrh-rzua",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-25T17:54:47.705Z",
"error":null
},
{
"imageUrl":null,
"title":"KCB PARTNERSHIP",
"url":"https://data.lacity.org/Administration-Finance/Listing-of-Active-Businesses/6rrh-rzua",
"id":"0000114891-0001-2",
"location_account":"0000114891-0001-2",
"business_name":"KCB PARTNERSHIP",
"dba_name":null,
"street_address":"5541 LAUREL CANYON BLVD",
"city":"VALLEY VILLAGE",
"zip_code":"91607-2179",
"location_description":"5541 LAUREL CANYON 91607-2179",
"mailing_address":"17383 W SUNSET BLVD #A100",
"mailing_city":"PACIFIC PALISADES",
"mailing_zip_code":"90272-4181",
"naics":"531100",
"primary_naics_description":"Lessors of real estate (including mini warehouses & self-storage units)",
"council_district":"2",
"location_start_date":null,
"location_end_date":null,
"sourceUrl":"https://data.lacity.org/Administration-Finance/Listing-of-Active-Businesses/6rrh-rzua",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-25T17:54:47.759Z",
"error":null
}
]

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (free credits included)
2. Open the actor page
3. Set maxItems and any filters you need
4. Click Run
5. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Market intelligence

Track the volume, type, and geography of records over time to surface trends before competitors do.

Compliance and risk

Pull official records for due diligence, vendor screening, insurance underwriting, or KYC workflows.

Lead generation

Filter the feed to surface businesses or properties matching a target profile.

Reporting and BI

Pipe the dataset into BI tools for ongoing public-records dashboards.

🔌 Automating LA Business Licenses Scraper

Connect this actor to Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, n8n, Pipedream, or Google Drive through the standard Apify integrations to run the scraper on a schedule and push results downstream automatically.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Academics use this data for urban studies, public-health epidemiology, and policy analysis.

Personal

Curious citizens can audit their own neighborhood or block-level activity.

Non-profit

Civic-tech and accountability organizations track service delivery, equity, and government performance.

Experimentation

Data-science learners get a clean real-world dataset for ML practice.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste the URL of this page into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or GitHub Copilot and ask: "How would I use this scraper to build X?"

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🟦 Is this real-time? It pulls the most recent data the source agency has published. Refresh cadence depends on the agency (often nightly or weekly).

🟦 Do I need an API key? No. The source endpoint is public.

🟦 What if a filter returns zero rows? The actor pushes a single {error: ...} record explaining the empty result so your pipelines do not silently fail.

🟦 Can I run this on a schedule? Yes. Configure a schedule on the Apify Console for hourly, daily, or weekly runs.

🟦 Can I get more than 10 records? Upgrade to a paid plan. Free users get a 10-record preview.

🟦 What export formats are supported? CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, XML, RSS, and HTML from the dataset page.

🟦 Does this respect rate limits? Yes. The actor uses a single sequential pagination loop.

🟦 Will field names change? Field names are pinned to source API column names. If the source changes column IDs you may need an updated actor build.

🟦 Can I use this commercially? The source data is public-domain government information. Always re-read the source's terms of use for your specific commercial application.

🟦 What about privacy? This actor only returns data the agency has chosen to publish to the open-data portal. Records the agency suppresses are not included.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make · Zapier · Slack · Airbyte · GitHub Actions · Google Drive · Webhooks · REST API · n8n · Pipedream · Bubble · Retool · Power Automate · Airtable · Notion.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with LA Business Licenses or its publishing agency. Only publicly available data is collected.