Florida Business API Docs

Welcome to the Florida Business API documentation.

Florida Business API is an independent data platform and is not affiliated with Sunbiz.org, the Florida Department of State, or the Florida Division of Corporations. All records are sourced from the public Florida Division of Corporations bulk feed; we mirror, index, and serve them through a stable REST + MCP surface so you do not have to scrape or parse Sunbiz yourself.

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• Authentication — Bearer token format, header conventions, key prefixes (fbapi_live_... / fbapi_test_...), and how to get a key from the account page.
• Errors — Standard error envelope, HTTP status codes, and special codes (rest_disabled, JSON-RPC -32004).
• Rate Limits — Per-tier monthly quotas, requests-per-minute, and the RateLimit-* response headers.
• Billing — Subscriptions, credit packs, overage billing at $5 per 1K credits, and how to find your balance.
• MCP for AI Agents — Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent to live Florida business records (8 tools). MCP is bundled with every paid plan (shared credit bucket); a standalone $5 MCP Starter add-on exists for MCP-only workflows.
• Webhooks — Webhook delivery format and HMAC signing (planned v2 shape).

Endpoints

All endpoints live under https://api.floridabusinessapi.com/v1 (the canonical base URL). If you prefer same-origin requests, the proxy https://floridabusinessapi.com/api/v1 mirrors the same routes.

Entities

• Search Entities — GET /api/v1/entities/search — fuzzy name + status + entity-type search ranked exact → prefix → trigram similarity.
• Get Entity by Document Number — GET /api/v1/entities/{document_number} — full record including principal/mailing address, registered agent, officers (no PII), and the 50 most-recent filings.

People & Agents

• Search Officers — GET /api/v1/officers/search — officer name + title search across every entity. Officer addresses are intentionally never returned (PII gate).
• Search Registered Agents — GET /api/v1/agents/search — registered agent search with linked-entity counts. RA business address is returned (it is the published commercial address, not PII).
• Search Addresses — GET /api/v1/addresses/search — entities by principal/mailing address.

Leads & Filings

• New-Business Lead Feed — GET /api/v1/leads/new-businesses — newly-registered businesses filtered by county, city, entity type, and filing-date range. Lead Feed tier subscribers can also fetch the enriched daily CSV.
• Daily Filings — GET /api/v1/filings/daily?date=YYYY-MM-DD — every filing event for a single day.
• Recent Filings — GET /api/v1/filings/recent — filing events across the last N days.

Account

• Account Usage — GET /api/v1/account/usage — current month consumption against your plan quota.

For AI agents

Building an agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, custom)? Point it at /llms.txt for a ~2 KB one-fetch onboarding summary, or /llms-full.txt for the verbose ingest-everything version. Both are generated from the canonical /docs/ source and stay in sync automatically. The machine-readable REST spec lives at /openapi.json, the plugin manifest at /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, and the MCP transport at /api/mcp (8 tools, same Authorization: Bearer fbapi_… header as REST).

FCRA Disclaimer

Florida Business API data is not a consumer report as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681). You may not use it to make decisions about credit, employment, insurance, housing, or any other purpose covered by the FCRA. See /legal/terms for the full acceptable-use policy.