Connecticut Business Search — Diversity Ownership Flags

Connecticut's registry is unusual: alongside the standard entity record it publishes self-reported diversity-ownership flags — woman-owned, veteran-owned, minority-owned, LGBTQI-owned and disability-owned. For anyone running a supplier-diversity programme that is a rare, structured, free source.

No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Business name
registrationNumber	Connecticut account number
status	Normalized status
statusRaw	The state's own status wording
legalForm	Business type
incorporatedOn	Date of registration
beganTransactingOn	Date the business began transacting in Connecticut
jurisdiction	State or territory of formation
address	Billing address
mailingAddress	Mailing address
city	Billing city
postalCode	Billing postcode
annualReportDueOn	Next annual report due date
isWomanOwned	Self-reported woman-owned flag
isVeteranOwned	Self-reported veteran-owned flag
isMinorityOwned	Self-reported minority-owned flag
isLgbtqiOwned	Self-reported LGBTQI-owned flag
isDisabilityOwned	Self-reported disability-owned flag
sourceUrl	Connecticut business records search

Every row also carries query (what you asked for), scrapedAt (ISO timestamp) and, when a lookup fails, error explaining why.

Example output

{
  "country": "US",
  "registry": "Connecticut Secretary of the State — Business Registry",
  "companyName": "PRICELINE.COM LLC",
  "registrationNumber": "0123456",
  "status": "active",
  "statusRaw": "Active",
  "legalForm": "Domestic Limited Liability Company",
  "incorporatedOn": "1998-07-22",
  "city": "NORWALK",
  "isWomanOwned": false,
  "isVeteranOwned": false,
  "sourceUrl": "https://service.ct.gov/business/s/onlinebusinesssearch"
}

Input

{
  "queries": ["Priceline","Stanley Black & Decker","Indeed"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "includeRaw": false
}

Input	What it does
queries	Business names (Priceline, Stanley Black & Decker) or numeric Connecticut account numbers.
maxResultsPerQuery	Caps how many rows one query may produce.
maxConcurrency	How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling.
includeRaw	Attaches the source's untouched record under raw, for fields this actor does not map.
requestDelayMs	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	Optional. The Socrata API is open and rarely needs a proxy.

What people use it for

• Supplier diversity programmes — the ownership flags are structured, free and rarely available anywhere else.
• Entity verification — confirm a Connecticut counterparty is registered and current.
• Annual-report monitoring — the due date tells you when an entity risks falling out of good standing.

Notes and limits

• Diversity-ownership flags are self-reported to the state, not certified. Treat them as a lead, not as certification.
• Records include expired name reservations as well as operating businesses; check statusRaw before treating a hit as a live company.

Where the data comes from

The Connecticut Secretary of the State publishes the business registry through the state Socrata open-data API with no key. Source: Connecticut Open Data — Business Registry

FAQ

Is this Connecticut business registry scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.004 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. The Connecticut Secretary of the State publishes the business registry through the state Socrata open-data API with no key.

What can I search by?

Both. A numeric query is looked up as an account number; anything else runs a contains-match on the business name.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. The Secretary of the State refreshes the dataset regularly.

How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (4 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original query and an error field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. Connecticut publishes the registry as open data; business filings are public records. Diversity-ownership flags are self-reported by the business itself.

Related actors

• New York Business Entity Search
• Texas Business Entity Search

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