State PE and RA License Scraper — Engineers and Architects

Scrape Professional Engineer (PE) and Registered Architect (RA) license records directly from US state boards — not from NCEES or NCARB, and not from a third-party aggregator. Phase 1 covers the five highest-volume states: California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois. Each handler queries the state board's own register or bulk export, so every record is authoritative.

States covered:

State	Source	Profession
California (CA)	DCA — search.dca.ca.gov	PE
Texas (TX)	TBPE bulk CSV roster	PE
New York (NY)	rosa V2 API (NYSED)	PE and RA
Florida (FL)	DBPR — myfloridalicense.com	PE
Illinois (IL)	IDFPR Socrata API	PE and RA

What does the State PE and RA License Scraper do?

For each selected state, the scraper connects to the state board's own data source — a Socrata API (IL), a bulk CSV download (TX), a public REST API (NY), or a public web form (CA, FL). Optional lastName and licenseStatus filters apply at the board level where supported; the scraper post-filters for boards that don't expose server-side filtering. All results land in a single normalized dataset regardless of source.

Example workflow: Active Texas and California PEs for outreach targeting

Run with profession: PE, states: ["TX", "CA"], licenseStatus: active to get a list of active engineers with firm name, business city, and expiration date. The output gives you everything you need to build a targeted outreach list without any enrichment step.

What data does it extract?

Field	Type	Description
profession	string	PE or RA
first_name	string	First name
middle_name	string	Middle name or initial
last_name	string	Last name
license_number	string	License number, unique within the issuing state
license_state	string	Issuing state (two-letter code)
discipline	string	PE discipline (civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, etc.)
license_status	string	Current status (Active, Inactive, Expired, Suspended, Revoked)
license_issue_date	string	Date the license was originally issued
license_expiration_date	string	License expiration or renewal date
firm_name	string	Employer or firm name
business_city	string	Business address city
business_state	string	Business address state
business_zip	string	Business address ZIP code
source_state_board	string	State board that issued the license
source_url	string	URL of the source record on the state board
disciplinary_actions	string	Pipe-delimited disciplinary actions (type|date|description)

How to use it

Active PEs across all five states:

{
  "profession": "PE",
  "states": ["CA", "TX", "NY", "FL", "IL"],
  "licenseStatus": "active",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Architects in New York and Illinois:

{
  "profession": "RA",
  "states": ["NY", "IL"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Name search for outreach targeting — Texas and California engineers:

{
  "profession": "PE",
  "states": ["CA", "TX"],
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
profession	string	PE	PE or RA
states	array	All five	Subset of CA, TX, NY, FL, IL
lastName	string	—	Last-name filter where the board supports name search
licenseStatus	string	all	active, inactive, suspended, revoked, or expired
maxItems	integer	10	Total record cap across all selected states

Use cases

• AEC staffing firms — Verify PE or RA credentials on candidate slates against the authoritative state board register before placing a candidate, not from a self-reported LinkedIn field.
• A/E insurance underwriters — Confirm license status, discipline, and renewal date before binding professional-liability coverage.
• Construction-tech CRMs — Enrich engineer and architect contacts with license expiration so expiring licenses drive a renewal workflow or outreach trigger.
• Procurement and prequalification — Validate that a subcontractor's team holds the PE licenses claimed on a qualifications submission.
• Compliance and audit teams — Cross-check active project rosters against expired or revoked licenses at the state board level.

FAQ

Does this pull from NCEES or NCARB? No. The actor queries each state board's own register directly — the California DCA, Texas TBPE, New York NYSED rosa API, Florida DBPR, and Illinois IDFPR Socrata endpoint. NCEES and NCARB record cross-matching is a planned future feature, not current capability.

Which states are in Phase 1? CA, TX, NY, FL, and IL. Additional states follow the same multi-handler pattern and can be added. Need PA, OH, WA, or GA? File a feature request.

Does the actor need proxies? No. All Phase 1 sources are public state registers that accept direct traffic at the volumes this actor produces.

What formats can I export to? Apify supports JSON, CSV, and Excel export from the dataset view.