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		12.4M US business registrations are free on state open-data portals (gist.github.com)
		4 points by chonghaoju 24 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

chonghaoju 24 days ago | [–]

Author here. The scraper is ~300 lines of Python stdlib. Happy to answer questions about the rate limits or the states I tried and couldn't get (Delaware was the most surprising — zero bulk access at any price)

michael-cfa 23 days ago | | [–]

Useful. Just tried.

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