US business licence data

Name: US business licence data
Creator: DataScoop
License: Public records, city open-data terms

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Every active business licence published by Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, on one schema: business and trade name, licence category, area, address, ZIP and the dates it was issued and expires. Pick a city, a category and an issue date, and have this week's new businesses in your spreadsheet in a minute, or pull them straight into your code or your AI agent. Business-level only: no individual licensees, no phone numbers.

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City Chicago ▾

Issued since 2026-08-01 ▾

Category Any ▾

new-business-licenses.csv

Sources: Chicago, NYC, San Francisco and Los Angeles open-data portals, public records. Full results with a free key.

Or pull it straight into your code or your agent

cURLJavaScriptPythonMCP (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)

# Business licences issued in Chicago since 1 August 2026, as CSV
curl "https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-business-licenses/query?\
  source=Chicago&issuedSince=2026-08-01&format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ds_your_key"

// # Business licences issued in Chicago since 1 August 2026, as CSV
const res = await fetch("https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-business-licenses/query?source=Chicago&issuedSince=2026-08-01", {
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer ds_your_key" }
});
const { rows, total, attribution } = await res.json();

# # Business licences issued in Chicago since 1 August 2026, as CSV
import requests
r = requests.get("https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-business-licenses/query",
                 params={"source":"Chicago","issuedSince":"2026-08-01"},
                 headers={"Authorization": "Bearer ds_your_key"})
rows = r.json()["rows"]

# Claude Code (one line; other clients on /agents)
claude mcp add --transport http datascoop https://datascoop.io/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ds_your_key"

# Your agent then calls
query_dataset({ dataset: "us-business-licenses", filters: {"source":"Chicago","issuedSince":"2026-08-01"} })

Everything you need on every row

Organisational fields only. No personal contact lists.

business nameDBA / trade namelicence categoryNAICSlicence numberstatusissued onstarted onexpires onareaaddresscityZIPlatitudelongitude

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City of Chicago Data Portal (Business Licenses, current active), NYC Open Data (DCWP Issued Licenses, business licences only), DataSF (Registered Business Locations, open locations) and City of Los Angeles Open Data (Listing of Active Businesses), each under its open-data terms. Business-level data only: individual licensees and phone numbers are never included. DataScoop is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these cities.

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