Secretary of State new business filings: get every new LLC and company as a list or API

Every US state publishes the companies formed in it, but each Secretary of State does it differently: a search form, an open-data table, a monthly file, or nothing at all. If you want the new business filings of several states in one clean list, every week, this Apify robot does it: one row per new company, with the same fields whatever the state.

You give it: the states you want (NY, CO, CT, TX, OR, PA, plus the city business-license lists of Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco), how many days back to look, and a maximum number of results.

It returns: one company per row (name, entity type such as LLC or corporation, filing date, address, city, ZIP code, activity with its NAICS code when the register publishes it), plus a free summary per state: how many companies were formed, split by entity type, the busiest cities, the newest and oldest filing date.

Who uses it: agencies and freelancers selling to new businesses (accounting, insurance, banking, web design, payroll, registered agent services), sales teams building lead lists, researchers counting business formation.

Where the data comes from

The robot reads the official sources: state open-data portals and Secretary of State registers, and the business-license datasets published by cities. Every row carries a source field with the register it came from, so you can check any company at the origin. Registers publish with different delays; a summary row says when a source is late.

Free options, and what the robot adds

If you only need one state, the free route is good. Most Secretary of State websites have a public business search where you can look a company up by name, and several states publish their register as an open-data table you can filter by date (New York, Colorado and Connecticut do, on their open-data portals). For one state and an occasional need, use those.

The robot becomes useful when you want:

• several states in one file, with one format;
• only the filings of the last days, again every week, without the ones you already saw;
• a ready summary per state;
• an API, a webhook or a Google Sheet instead of a web form.

It does not cover all fifty states: it reads the sources listed above.

Example: real output from November 7, 2026

Run on November 7, 2026 for New York, Colorado and Connecticut over the last 7 days, the robot returned company rows and one summary per state. New York’s summary for October 31 to November 7: 14 new companies, 12 LLCs and 2 corporations. A company row looks like this (name hidden here):

{
  "type": "company",
  "companyNumber": "CT-3546983",
  "name": "\u2026",
  "legalForm": "Limited liability company (LLC)",
  "entityType": "llc",
  "registeredOn": "2026-11-07",
  "activity": "Custom Computer Programming Services (NAICS 541511)",
  "city": "Trumbull",
  "postcode": "06611",
  "stateCode": "CT",
  "source": "Connecticut register (Secretary of the State)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-07T18:09:03.597Z"
}

How to get the list in 3 steps

1. Open the robot on Apify (a free account is enough).
2. Pick your states and the number of days back, for example {"daysBack": 7, "states": ["NY", "CO", "CT"], "maxItems": 100}.
3. Run it, then download CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it from code:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/euroscrape~us-new-companies/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"daysBack": 7, "states": ["NY", "CO", "CT"], "maxItems": 100}'

Schedule it every Monday and it will only return what is new, with an alert if you want one.

Price

$0.003 per new company delivered, plus $0.003 per run. 100 companies cost $0.303. Summaries are free. There is no subscription, and a free Apify account includes monthly credit for your first runs.

FAQ

Where can I see new business filings for my state? On the Secretary of State website (business search), or on the state open-data portal when it publishes the register as a table. For several states at once, use this robot.

How fast do new filings appear? It depends on the register: some publish daily, others weekly. Each row has the filing date, and the summary tells you the newest filing date it found.

Can I get a list of new LLCs by state? Yes. Choose the states and filter on the entityType field (llc, corporation).

Can I get new businesses in a Google Sheet? Yes. Export the dataset to Google Sheets from Apify. See the robot page.

Is it legal to use this data? The data is published by public registers. Check the terms of each source and the rules on marketing contact (CAN-SPAM, TCPA) before you reach out.

Related

• All US new-company filings: robot page and sample
• New businesses without a website, to find the ones that need a site
• UK companies: Companies House alternative

A robot from the EuroScrape collection.