UK Companies House Scraper: New Companies & Company Data

Search the official UK Companies House register and get clean, flat company records: new incorporations, companies by industry (SIC code), location, name, status and type, or look up a list of company numbers. Every record includes SIC code descriptions and the registered office address; optionally add accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, charges, insolvency history and previous names.

No API key needed. The Actor uses the official Companies House API with its own key. You only pay per company returned.

What you can do with it

• Daily new-company leads: every new IT company in Manchester, every new restaurant in London, every new construction firm in Scotland, delivered each morning.
• Market sizing: how many active companies are in an industry, by town.
• KYB and enrichment: look up thousands of company numbers and get status, incorporation date, industry and filing deadlines.
• Distress signals: companies in liquidation or administration, or with overdue accounts.
• Feed an AI agent, CRM or spreadsheet with one consistent format.

Quick start

New software companies incorporated in the last 7 days:

{
  "sicCodes": ["62"],
  "incorporatedWithinDays": 7
}

Daily feed of new companies in a town

Schedule this every morning. You only get, and only pay for, companies you haven't received before.

{
  "sicCodes": ["56101", "56102"],
  "location": "Leeds",
  "incorporatedWithinDays": 3,
  "onlyNewCompanies": true,
  "monitoringList": "leeds-restaurants"
}

Look up company numbers with full details

{
  "companyNumbers": ["00445790", "04256886"],
  "includeProfileDetails": true
}

Step-by-step tutorial

Get every new UK company in your industry each morning: new software companies this week, then a daily lead feed (with a real example record).

Input

Field	What it does
sicCodes	SIC 2007 codes or prefixes: 62 covers 62011, 62012, 62020, 62030 and 62090.
incorporatedWithinDays	Only companies incorporated in the last N days.
location	Town, city or area in the registered office address.
nameContains / nameExcludes	Filter on the company name.
companyStatus	Default active. Also dissolved, liquidation, administration and more.
companyTypes	e.g. ltd, plc, llp.
incorporatedFrom / incorporatedTo, dissolvedFrom / dissolvedTo	Date ranges.
companyNumbers	Look up these companies instead of searching (up to 5,000 per run).
includeProfileDetails	Add accounts, confirmation statement, charges, insolvency and previous names (slower: one extra request per company).
onlyNewCompanies / monitoringList	Output only companies not returned in earlier runs under the same list name.
maxResults	Default 1,000; 0 means up to 100,000.

Big searches are read in incorporation-date ranges automatically, so you can collect more than the 10,000 results a single Companies House search allows.

Output

One record per company, always with the same fields. Missing values are null.

{
  "id": "gb-ch:15123456",
  "companyNumber": "15123456",
  "companyName": "EXAMPLE SOFTWARE LTD",
  "status": "active",
  "statusLabel": "Active",
  "statusDetail": null,
  "companyType": "ltd",
  "companyTypeLabel": "Private limited company",
  "companySubtype": null,
  "jurisdiction": "England/Wales",
  "incorporatedOn": "2026-09-01",
  "dissolvedOn": null,
  "sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"],
  "sicDescriptions": ["Business and domestic software development", "Information technology consultancy activities"],
  "registeredOffice": { "premises": "1", "addressLine1": "Example Street", "locality": "London", "postalCode": "EC1A 1AA", "country": "England", "...": "..." },
  "registeredOfficeText": "1 Example Street, London, EC1A 1AA, England",
  "hasCharges": false,
  "hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
  "accountsNextDue": "2028-06-01",
  "accountsLastMadeUpTo": null,
  "accountsOverdue": false,
  "confirmationStatementNextDue": "2027-09-14",
  "confirmationStatementOverdue": false,
  "previousNames": [],
  "detailLevel": "profile",
  "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15123456",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T12:00:00Z"
}

(Example values; real records come from the register.)

• detailLevel is search for search results and profile when profile details were added or numbers were looked up. Profile-only fields are null at the search level.
• sicCodes are strings: keep the leading zeros.

Each run also saves a RUN_SUMMARY record: the search parameters sent to Companies House, how many companies matched, how many were output or skipped as already seen, numbers not found, and API usage.

Personal data

This Actor returns company data only. It does not read directors, secretaries or people with significant control, so no personal details about individuals are output. The registered office is the company's official address as published on the public register.

Using it from an AI agent (MCP)

Works as a tool in Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients through Apify's MCP server. For example: "Use UK Companies House to list new cyber-security companies registered in Bristol this month."

Pricing

You pay per company returned, the same with or without profile details, with no monthly fee and no API key. Set a maximum charge on any run and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Good to know

• Companies House allows a set number of requests per minute, so profile details and company-number lookups run at about 100 companies a minute; searches without profile details are much faster (up to 5,000 companies per request). For very large or frequent jobs you can add your own free key in apiKey.
• New companies appear in search a day or so after incorporation.
• The register has no emails, phone numbers or websites.

Data source and licence

Data comes from the Companies House Public Data API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SIC descriptions come from Companies House's published code lists. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.

Support

Found a problem or want a field added? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.