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Search liquor licenses

GET/liquor_license

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
qstringoptionalFull-text search across the indexed fields of the record, including names (business, establishment, vendor, contractor) wherever the dataset carries them, e.g. q=brewery or q="Iron Hill". This is the name search: there is no separate name= parameter, and it works on every plan including free. It matches the BUSINESS or trade name, the address, city, county and licence/permit number. It does NOT match an owner, licensee or applicant's personal name: these datasets carry public business records only and never store an individual's name, so searching for a person returns nothing. Space-separated words require all terms (e.g. "wood panel"). Use OR to match any term ("wood OR panel OR acoustic"), quotes for exact phrases ("supply arrangement"), and a leading minus to exclude ("software -hardware").
license_typestringoptionalLiquor: filter by license type, substring match (e.g. Restaurant, Retail, Brewery). See /liquor_license/stats for values.
license_statusstringoptionalLiquor: filter by license status (e.g. Active). Exact, case-insensitive.
citystringoptionalFilter by city. For the US liquor/healthcare/storage-tank datasets this is a distinct filter (exact, case-insensitive). For all other datasets it is an alias for municipality.
countystringoptionalFilter by county. Exact, case-insensitive (liquor, healthcare, storage-tank).
statestringoptionalFilter by 2-letter US state code, e.g. FL, CA, TX (healthcare, liquor, storage-tank).
issued_afterstringoptionalFilter by issue date >= YYYY-MM-DD (issued_date). Aliases: date_from, date_after
issued_beforestringoptionalFilter by date <= YYYY-MM-DD. Aliases: date_to, date_before
sort_bystringoptionalSort field: published (publication_date, tenders only), date (event date; this is award_date for contracts/awards), value (the entity's value field), closing (closing_date for tenders)
sort_orderstringoptionalSort order: asc or desc
limitintegeroptional
offsetintegeroptional
cursorstringoptionalPagination cursor from next_cursor in a previous response. Use instead of offset for deep pagination.

Request

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY'
import requests

url = "https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license"
headers = {"x-rapidapi-host": "newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com", "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY"}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(resp.json())
const res = await fetch("https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license", {
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-host": "newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com",
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "x-rapidapi-host: newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com",
    "x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
]);
echo curl_exec($ch);
require "net/http"
require "uri"

uri = URI("https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-rapidapi-host"] = "newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com"
req["x-rapidapi-key"] = "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY"
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |h| h.request(req) }
puts res.body
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license", nil)
    req.Header.Add("x-rapidapi-host", "newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com")
    req.Header.Add("x-rapidapi-key", "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY")
    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.*;

HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com/liquor_license"))
    .header("x-rapidapi-host", "newliquorlicenses-us-liquor-license-data.p.rapidapi.com")
    .header("x-rapidapi-key", "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY")
    .build();
HttpResponse<String> res = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(res.body());

Response fields

One liquor_license record. Measured over 6,000 live records sampled across municipalities. Percentages say how often each field is populated: sources publish different columns, so a field missing from a given record is normal rather than an error.

FieldTypeDescription
addressstringPopulated in 99% of sampled records.
agencystringAlways present.
business_namestringPopulated in 94% of sampled records.
citystringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
countystringPopulated in 63% of sampled records.
expiry_datestringPopulated in 73% of sampled records.
fetched_atstringWhen Nimbus last ingested this record. Bookkeeping, not source data. Always present.
issued_datestringPopulated in 70% of sampled records.
license_numberstringPopulated in 97% of sampled records.
license_typestringPopulated in 80% of sampled records.
municipalitystringCity slug. Call /{entity_type}/coverage for every slug in this dataset. Always present.
record_idstringStable identifier for this record. Pass it to the /{entity_type}/{record_id} endpoint. Always present.
statestringAlways present.
statusstringPopulated in 97% of sampled records.
2 more fields published by only one or two cities

Present on under 10% of records. Useful when you are working with a specific city, not something to rely on across the dataset.

FieldTypePopulated
latnumber3.3%
lngnumber3.3%

Errors

Every error returns {"detail": "…"}, a sentence naming what was wrong and, where there is one, the fix.

StatusWhen
400The request is understood but cannot be served as asked, e.g. offset above 9500, or cursor combined with sort_by=value. The message names the fix.
403Missing or invalid API key.
404No such endpoint, or no record with that id.
422A parameter is invalid: an unknown city slug, an impossible date, a limit above 500, an unrecognised sort field, or a misspelled parameter name. The message names the parameter and, where there is one, the nearest valid value.
429Rate limit or plan quota exceeded.
500Unexpected server error.
504The query took too long. Narrow it with a municipality or a date range.
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