Find Newly Licensed Contractors in Oregon and Connecticut for Free (Python + State Open Data)
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New contractor businesses buy a lot in their first months: insurance, bonds, trucks, tools, software, accounting and supplies. Several states publish their contractor license data as free open data, updated daily, with no login and no scraping. This post shows how to pull every new contractor business licensed in the last 30 days in Oregon and Connecticut with one short Python script, using only official state APIs. Run on Oct 22, 2026, the script found: Oregon: 495 new contractor businesses