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How to verify electrical contractor licenses in Arkansas

Automated Arkansas lookups through TradesAPI are interrupted right now. You can still look up a license by hand on the state board portal, and the live status page shows when they're back. Once they are, one API call returns the license's status, expiration, and disciplinary history.

What you can verify

Trade: Electrical Contractor

Data source: Real-time portal check

Coverage: General, Electrical, Mechanical, Heavy Construction

Arkansas also supports name search. When you only have a contractor's name, the /search endpoint returns every matching license with full metadata, electrical contractor licenses included.

Looking for a different Arkansas trade, or the same trade in another state? See the full Arkansas license guide or the national Electrical Contractor lookup by state.

One call. The whole picture.

The /verify response is identical in shape across every state and trade, so your integration code never changes per jurisdiction:

{
  "valid": true,
  "name": "SAMPLE CONTRACTING LLC",
  "license_number": "SAMPLE-12345",
  "trade": "electrical",
  "expiration": "05/12/2027",
  "status": "Active",
  "state": "AR",
  "disciplinary_actions": [],
  "source_url": "http://aclb2.arkansas.gov/clbsearch.php",
  "cached": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-11-02T04:00:00Z"
}

Example response showing the normalized schema. Wire it up against deterministic fixtures in the sandbox at no credit cost.

Verify Arkansas electrical contractor licenses programmatically

# Verify a Arkansas electrical contractor license with one API call
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://www.tradesapi.com/verify?state=AR&license=SAMPLE-12345&trade=electrical"

The official Arkansas board portal is at http://aclb2.arkansas.gov/clbsearch.php. It's free to search electrical contractor licenses by hand. TradesAPI wraps it (and every other state) in one API so you don't maintain 51 different scrapers.

Frequently asked questions

How do I verify a Electrical Contractor license in Arkansas?

Call TradesAPI's GET /verify with state=AR, the license number, and trade=electrical to get a normalized result (valid/invalid, status, expiration, and any disciplinary actions) in one request. You can also search the official Arkansas board portal by hand.

What comes back for a Arkansas electrical contractor license?

The normalized /verify result: whether the license is valid, its current status and expiration date, and any disciplinary actions the Arkansas board publishes, in the same schema as every other state and trade.

Is Arkansas electrical contractor license data free to check?

The Arkansas board's public portal is free to search manually. TradesAPI adds a single normalized API across all 50 states plus DC, and every new API key includes 50 free verifications.