What's new at New Venue Data.

Every webhook delivery now ships with an X-New Venue Data-Signature header so you can cryptographically verify that a payload originated from us and was not tampered with in transit. Signing secrets are managed per endpoint from the dashboard.

• SHA-256 HMAC over the raw request body, with a timestamp to prevent replay attacks
• Rotate secrets with a 24-hour overlap window — no dropped events during a roll
• Copy-paste verification snippets for Node, Python, Go, and Ruby in the docs

Southwest Florida just got a lot sharper. Daily DBPR ingestion now extends across Collier and Sarasota counties, bringing full liquor and food-service license events to the Naples, Marco Island, and Sarasota markets.

• Backfilled 18 months of historical filings so trend analysis works from day one
• Brings the platform to 61 of 67 Florida counties under daily refresh SLAs

We replaced offset pagination with opaque, stable cursors across every collection endpoint. Cursors are immune to records shifting underneath you mid-scan, so large exports and incremental syncs stay consistent even as new filings land.

• Deterministic ordering with a next_cursor token — no more skipped or duplicated rows
• Offset pagination remains supported through the end of 2026 for a smooth migration

Food-service licenses now resolve into a richer, more granular event taxonomy so you can route the right signal to the right team. Seating-capacity changes and category reclassifications are now first-class events.

• seating_capacity_change, category_reclassification, and provisional_to_permanent
• Each event carries a typed diff payload showing the prior and current values

A rebuilt query layer and a warm regional cache cut tail latency dramatically. The read API now serves a p95 under 200ms and a p99 under 400ms for filtered license lookups, measured continuously from us-east.

• New columnar indexes on county, license_type, and event_date
• Edge-cached responses for unauthenticated coverage and status checks

The complete New Venue Data API is now described by a machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 document. Generate type-safe clients in your language of choice, import it into Postman or Insomnia, and stay in lock-step as the schema evolves.

• Hosted at /openapi.json and versioned alongside every release
• Fully typed request and response schemas, including webhook event envelopes

Stop building cron jobs around our API just to feed a spreadsheet. You can now schedule recurring CSV exports — daily, weekly, or monthly — delivered to a signed download URL or pushed straight to your S3 bucket.

• Filter exports by county, license type, and event class before they run
• Optional email notification with row counts when each export completes

Our entity-resolution engine now detects when a license changes hands and links the outgoing and incoming owners across filings. Transfers that previously surfaced as a cancellation followed by a new filing are correctly classified as a single ownership_transfer event.

• Resolves the prior_owner and new_owner entities on the same event record
• Eliminates the double-counting that inflated new-filing volumes in change-of-hands markets

Connect a Slack workspace and pipe live license events into any channel without writing a line of code. Build a filter once and let new restaurant and bar filings land in front of your sales team the moment they hit the state record.

• Per-channel filters by county, license type, and event class
• Rich message cards with the business name, address, and a deep link into the dashboard