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Verify Professional Licenses via API — Contractors, Nurses, and Healthcare Providers

Verify Professional Licenses via API — Contractors, Nurses, and Healthcare Providers

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Verify Professional Licenses via API — Contractors, Nurses, and Healthcare Providers If you're building a platform that connects people with licensed professionals — contractors, nurses, doctors — you eventually hit the same problem: how do you verify their license is real and active? Every state has its own licensing board with its own website, its own search interface, and its own data format. California's contractor board returns different fields than Florida's. New York's nurse lookup works completely differently from Texas. I built an API that unifies all of this behind a single REST interface. One call, structured JSON, real-time data from official state sources. The Problem With Manual Verification A typical home services marketplace needs to verify contractor licenses. Here's what that looks like without an API: User claims license #1096738 in California Your team manually goes to cslb.ca.gov Searches for the license number Copies the status, expiration date, business name Repe

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