Search the Texas public state registry

Purpose

Search the Texas Comptroller public entity registry for one or more supplied name variants, preserve a full-page screenshot for each result, and return a structured extraction of the displayed registry results.

When to Use

Use when checking whether an entity name appears in Texas public state-registry records, especially when comparing multiple spelling, spacing, or punctuation variants.

Workflow

1. For a supplied {query}, construct the direct results URL https://comptroller.texas.gov/data-search/franchise-tax?name={encodeURIComponent(query)} and navigate to it. This avoids the homepage and native form interaction when the name can be passed in the name query parameter.
2. After the result page renders, save a full-page screenshot before changing the query. Include the query in the screenshot filename, such as texas-registry-{query-slug}.png.
3. On the loaded result page, run this evaluator to return the visible search form metadata and tabular registry results:

(() => {
  const text = (e) =>
    (e?.innerText || e?.textContent || "").replace(/\\s+/g, " ").trim();
  const visible = (e) =>
    !!e && !!(e.offsetWidth || e.offsetHeight || e.getClientRects().length);
  const controls = [...document.querySelectorAll("input,select,textarea,button")]
    .filter(visible)
    .map((e) => ({
      tag: e.tagName.toLowerCase(),
      type: e.type || null,
      name: e.name || null,
      id: e.id || null,
      value: e.value || "",
      label: (e.labels?.[0]?.innerText || "").trim(),
      text: text(e),
    }));
  const tables = [...document.querySelectorAll("table")]
    .filter(visible)
    .map((table) => ({
      caption: text(table.querySelector("caption")),
      headers: [...table.querySelectorAll("thead th, thead td, tr:first-child th")]
        .map(text)
        .filter(Boolean),
      rows: [...table.querySelectorAll("tbody tr, tr")]
        .map((tr) =>
          [...tr.querySelectorAll(":scope > th, :scope > td")]
            .map(text)
            .filter(Boolean),
        )
        .filter((r) => r.length),
    }))
    .filter((t) => t.rows.length || t.headers.length);
  return { url: location.href, title: document.title, controls, tables };
})();

4. Associate each screenshot and extracted result object with its submitted {query}; report no matches explicitly when the page shows no result rows.
5. If the direct URL does not render the expected result state, use the public fallback endpoint https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/search.do: enter {query} in the registry entity/name field and submit the native form, then screenshot and evaluate the resulting page. For multiple caller-supplied variants, repeat the process independently for each variant.

Site-Specific Gotchas

• The direct Comptroller results route is https://comptroller.texas.gov/data-search/franchise-tax?name={query}; URL-encode the supplied name, including spaces and punctuation.
• The useful fallback public search endpoint is on mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us, even though the task domain is comptroller.texas.gov; use it only if the direct query URL fails to produce the result state.
• Save a full-page screenshot after the result page has rendered and before changing the query, so the complete displayed result is auditable.
• The observed native form uses input#name and button#submitBtn when the fallback flow is required.
• Treat each spelling variant as a separate search and screenshot so punctuation and spacing differences remain auditable.
• The evaluator intentionally relies on semantic form and table elements because no durable result-row IDs were established; verify that a visible result table is present before interpreting rows as registry matches.
• Do not use a login or infer opaque entity identifiers from names.

Expected Output

For every {query}, return the submitted query, screenshot filename, the evaluator's {url, title, controls, tables} object, and a concise match/no-match summary based only on the displayed public results.