How fresh is this data?
Update cadence for each state, and what "live" does and does not guarantee.
We query each state’s open-data API when you load a page. There is no import, no nightly job, no local database. But “live” has a precise meaning and a real limit.
What live guarantees
That what you see is what the state has published, right now. If the agency corrected a record this morning and pushed it, you get the correction.
What it does not guarantee
That the state’s published feed matches the state’s internal system. Every agency has a lag between an action being taken and the open-data extract being refreshed. That lag is theirs, not ours, and we cannot see it.
Observed cadence
- Texas TABC — the dataset’s own last-modified timestamp updates daily.
- New York SLA — daily. Three separate feeds for active, pending and inactive.
- Connecticut DCP — each record carries its own recordrefreshedon field, which we display on the licence page.
Our own caching
Individual licence lookups and search results are effectively uncached. Aggregate counts — the class and county breakdowns behind the browse pages — are cached at the edge for up to twelve hours, because recomputing them per request would hammer the state APIs for no benefit. A count may therefore be a few hours behind; an individual record is not.
For anything that matters
Verify with the issuing agency. Every page on this site links directly to the source dataset and the agency.