# About qbcc — what this site is and is not

> Where the data comes from, what is deliberately left out, and who publishes this site.

## About this site

A search layer over one public register. Not the register itself, and not a substitute for it.

### The source

Everything here comes from the QBCC Licensed Contractors Register , published by the
Queensland Building and Construction Commission under
 CC-BY 4.0 .

⚠️ A note on how it was obtained, because it matters. The direct CSV
download returns an **HTTP 202 holding page** — no text, no
captcha, no external script — and keeps doing so. We did not try to get past
it. The **documented route works perfectly**: the portal's own
CKAN `datastore_search` API, paginated. That is the path the
publisher advertises, and it is the one we use.

This copy was collected on **2026-08-18**: 196,116 source
rows, 108,536 licences.

There is nothing new about this data. What did not exist is a way to search
it that a search engine can reach: the QBCC's own site has 1,008 pages in its
sitemap, all of them editorial, and **not one page per licensee**.
Its licence search runs on a separate application.

### What this site is not

- **Not the official register.** A licence can be suspended or
cancelled the day after our collection. For anything that matters, use the
 QBCC's own licence search .
- **Not a recommendation.** Holding a licence is the legal
minimum to do the work. It says nothing about whether the work will be any
good.
- **Not affiliated** with the QBCC or the Queensland
Government.
- **Not a broker.** Where this site invites you to describe a
job, it passes the requirement on. It does not quote, hold prices, or take a
booking.

### What is deliberately left out

The register publishes a full street address for every licensee.
**75.5% of licences belong to individuals** — sole
traders, whose registered address is normally their home.

The street address is dropped when the file is read, before anything reaches
a database. The finest location anywhere on this site — pages, search index,
result card, and the datasets we sell — is the **postcode**. The
name is published, because that is the question the QBCC tells homeowners to
ask; the address is not, because that is a different question nobody asked.

### Coverage

Queensland only. Every other state and territory licenses building work
separately, with its own numbering, and none of it is in this file. Some
Queensland licensees give an interstate address — that is why NSW and Victorian
postcodes appear.

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Página: https://qbcc.pages.dev/about/
Fonte: QBCC Licensed Contractors Register — Queensland Building and Construction Commission
Recolha: 2026-08-18