How do I verify a contractor license in Texas?

You can search the official Texas board portal by hand, or call TradesAPI's GET /verify endpoint with the state, license number, and trade to get back a normalized result — valid/invalid, status, expiration, and any disciplinary actions — in one request.

What contractor trades does Texas license?

TradesAPI covers these Texas trade types today: General Contractor, HVAC, Plumbing.

Is Texas contractor license data free to check?

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

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How to verify a contractor license in Texas

Check any Texas contractor license — status, expiration, and disciplinary history — through one normalized API, or look it up by hand on the state board portal.

Texas coverage: Operational · live status

What you can verify

Data source: data.texas.gov Socrata (daily)

Coverage: HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, Water Supply, Backflow, ~15 TDLR license types

Trade types

General ContractorHVACPlumbing

Texas also supports name search — when you only have a contractor's name, the /search endpoint returns every matching license with full metadata.

City-level licensing in Texas

Some Texas trades are licensed by the city, not the state board. We also cover municipal licensing in Dallas under the same normalized schema and the same /verify call.

One call. The whole picture.

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

GET /verify?state=TX&license=SAMPLE-12345&trade=general

{
  "valid": true,
  "name": "SAMPLE CONTRACTING LLC",
  "license_number": "SAMPLE-12345",
  "trade": "general",
  "expiration": "05/12/2027",
  "status": "Active",
  "state": "TX",
  "disciplinary_actions": [],
  "source_url": "https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/LicenseSearch/",
  "cached": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-06-22T05:14:00Z"
}

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

Verify Texas licenses programmatically

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

The official Texas board portal is at https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/LicenseSearch/ — free to search by hand. TradesAPI wraps it (and every other state) in one API so you don't maintain 51 different scrapers.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I verify a contractor license in Texas?: You can search the official Texas board portal by hand, or call TradesAPI's GET /verify endpoint with the state, license number, and trade to get back a normalized result — valid/invalid, status, expiration, and any disciplinary actions — in one request.
What contractor trades does Texas license?: TradesAPI covers these Texas trade types today: General Contractor, HVAC, Plumbing.
Is Texas contractor license data free to check?: The Texas board's public portal is free to search manually. TradesAPI adds a single normalized API across all 50 states plus DC — every new API key includes 50 free verifications.