Business Registrations
by Scrapebench API in Search & web
New and existing business entities from four state registries (CO, OR, NY, CT) in one schema, filterable by state, formation date, city, county and entity type. Nightly refresh of each state's open-data file covering the last 400 days of formations; a `since` date returns only what is new.
https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations- Price
- $0.06
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 92.3%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 616 ms
- 3.5 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 37 min ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations
Each call costs $0.06 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations
content-type: application/json
{
"entity_type": "LLC",
"since": "2026-10-15",
"states": [
"CO"
]
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
city | string or null | No | Case-insensitive substring of the city of the entity's principal address. Default: null. |
county | string or null | No | County name, e.g. 'Kings' or 'Kings County'. Only NY publishes a county, so this filter returns NY rows only. Default: null. |
entity_type | string or null | No | Normalised entity type: LLC, Corp, LP, Nonprofit or Other (LLPs, cooperatives and the rest). Default: null. |
name | string or null | No | Case-insensitive substring of the entity name. Default: null. |
since | string (date) or null | No | Only entities formed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Pass yesterday's date for the daily delta. Default: null. |
states | array of string | No | Registries to read: CO, OR, NY, CT. Default: all of them. |
status | string | No | Registry standing, normalised: active (incl. delinquent filings), inactive (dissolved, withdrawn, rejected, revoked ...) or any. One of: active, inactive, any. Default: "active". |
until | string (date) or null | No | Only entities formed on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Default: null. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 71 lines
{
"next_page": null,
"page": 0,
"page_size": 25,
"rows": [
{
"city": "Boulder",
"county": null,
"county_method": "none",
"entity_id": "20268078805",
"entity_key": "CO:20268078805",
"entity_type": "LLC",
"entity_type_raw": "DLLC",
"formation_date": "2026-11-01",
"jurisdiction": "CO",
"name": "Company 1485, LLC",
"principal_address": "750 37th St, Boulder, CO 80303",
"registered_agent": "JUDY ANN KREITH",
"registry_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do",
"scraped_at": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z",
"source_url": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/4ykn-tg5h",
"state": "CO",
"status": "active",
"status_raw": "Good Standing",
"zip": "80303"
},
{
"city": "Denver",
"county": null,
"county_method": "none",
"entity_id": "20268268771",
"entity_key": "CO:20268268771",
"entity_type": "LLC",
"entity_type_raw": "DLLC",
"formation_date": "2026-10-14",
"jurisdiction": "CO",
"name": "Oscar's Handyman Business LLC",
"principal_address": "4721 E Colorado Ave, Denver, CO 80222",
"registered_agent": "Registered Agents Inc",
"registry_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do",
"scraped_at": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z",
"source_url": "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/4ykn-tg5h",
"state": "CO",
"status": "active",
"status_raw": "Good Standing",
"zip": "80222"
},
{
"city": "FAIRFIELD",
"county": null,
"county_method": "none",
"entity_id": "3526961",
"entity_key": "CT:3526961",
"entity_type": "LLC",
"entity_type_raw": "LLC",
"formation_date": "2026-10-01",
"jurisdiction": "Connecticut",
"name": "KATHLEEN ANDREWS NURSING PLLC",
"principal_address": "63 VALLEY VIEW ROAD, FAIRFIELD, CT 06824",
"registered_agent": null,
"registry_url": "https://service.ct.gov/business/s/onlinebusinesssearch",
"scraped_at": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z",
"source_url": "https://data.ct.gov/resource/n7gp-d28j",
"state": "CT",
"status": "active",
"status_raw": "Active",
"zip": "06824"
}
],
"service": "business-registrations"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.06.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"entity_type":"LLC","since":"2026-10-15","states":["CO"]}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"entity_type":"LLC","since":"2026-10-15","states":["CO"]}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.06 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.06" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.06 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.scrapebench.dev%2Fv1%2Fbusiness-registrations&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"entity_type": "LLC",
"since": "2026-10-15",
"states": [
"CO"
]
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.06 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.06"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.scrapebench.dev/v1/business-registrations",
json={
"entity_type": "LLC",
"since": "2026-10-15",
"states": [
"CO",
],
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
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| 37 min ago | Passed | 402 | 922 ms | $0.06 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 702 ms | $0.06 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 614 ms | $0.06 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 250 ms | $0.06 |
| 21 h ago | Passed | 402 | 616 ms | $0.06 |
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| 27 h ago | Passed | 402 | 627 ms | $0.06 |
| 32 h ago | Passed | 402 | 696 ms | $0.06 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 580 ms | $0.06 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 575 ms | $0.06 |
| 46 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 127 ms | - |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 619 ms | $0.06 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 323 ms | $0.06 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 3.5 s | $0.06 |