Secretary of State API
Get business data from the Secretary of States, all via API.
If you have a business name or entity id, you can automate this collection of business data with the Secretary of State API. These tutorials can help you make it happen.
- Adding Officers to Pennsylvania
- Adding Officers to Illinois
- Getting great New Hampshire business leads
- Virginia business leads for pennies
- Getting interesting business data: Form 5500 and SOS API
- Florida Secretary of State business data via API
- Delaware Secretary of State business data via API
- How to use the Cobalt Int SDK with the Secretary of State API
- How to use Secretary of State API with long polling
- How to use the Secretary of State API, Updated May 2022
let url = `https://apigateway.cobaltintelligence.com/search?searchQuery=${encodeURIComponent(businessName)}&state=${state}`;
if (liveData) {
url += '&liveData=true';
}
const axiosResponse = await axios.get(url, {
headers: {
'x-api-key': this.apiKey
}
});
// This will take longer
if (axiosResponse.data?.retryId) {
// Handle retryId
}
return axiosResponse.data;
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In depth technical videos about how to scrape business data from various Secretary of State websites.

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- Adding Officers to Illinois
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- Getting officers and documents from Indiana’s Secretary of State
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- Scraping Maine Secretary of State, technical.
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