UK Companies House Scraper: New Company Incorporations

Get newly incorporated UK companies as clean structured data: one record per company with company number, name, status, company type, incorporation date, registered office address (split into lines, town, postcode, postcode area and district) and SIC codes with their descriptions. Filter by incorporation date, SIC code, postcode area or district, company type and status.

Add your own free Companies House API key and you also get filing events: accounts filed, confirmation statements, new charges, registered office moves, share allotments, liquidation and insolvency notices, strike-off notices and more, with the form type and filing date.

Schedule it daily with Only records not seen in previous runs switched on to get just the companies or filings that are new since your last run.

What you get

Company records (recordType: "company"):

Field	Example
companyNumber, companyName	17490939, THROUGH THE VYNE LTD
companyStatus, companyStatusDetail, companyStatusLabel	active, active-proposal-to-strike-off, Active
companyType, companySubtype, companyTypeLabel	ltd, community-interest-company, Private Limited Company
incorporationDate, dissolutionDate	2026-09-30
addressLine1, addressLine2, postTown, county, country	Registered office address
postcode, postcodeArea, postcodeDistrict	M12 6AE, M, M12
registeredAddress	The full registered office address on one line
sicCodes, sicDescriptions	["62012"], ["Business and domestic software development"]
accountsCategory, accountsLastMadeUpDate, accountsNextDueDate	Accounts dates where published
confirmationStatementLastMadeUpDate, confirmationStatementNextDueDate	Confirmation statement dates
companyUrl	Link to the company on Companies House
isNew, firstSeenAt	Whether the record is new since the previous run with the same input
dataSource, dataAsOf	Which Companies House product the record came from, and its date

Filing records (recordType: "filing", API key needed):

Field	Example
filingType	AA, CS01, MR01, AD01, GAZ1, LIQ02
filingCategory	accounts, confirmation-statement, mortgage, address, gazette, insolvency
filingDate, actionDate	2026-10-20
filingDescription, filingDescriptionCode	Registered office address changed from ... on 20 October 2026
transactionId, filingUrl	Link to the filed document (PDF) where one exists
companyNumber, companyName, companyStatus, companyType, incorporationDate, postcode, sicCodes	The company the filing belongs to

The Output tab has two views: Companies and Filing events. A run report is saved in the key-value store as RUN_SUMMARY.

Two data sources: with or without an API key

	Without a key (default)	With your free API key
Source	Companies House Free Company Data Product, a monthly snapshot of every live UK company	Companies House Public Data API
Freshness	Updated monthly, within 5 working days of month end	Live, including companies registered today
"Last N days" counts back from	The snapshot date	Today
Dissolved companies	No (live companies only)	Yes
Filing events	No	Yes
Speed	10 seconds to about 2 minutes (it reads up to 7 large files)	Fast for daily windows; about 2 requests a second

Getting a key: register for free on the Companies House Developer Hub (developer.company-information.service.gov.uk), create an application and add a REST API key. Paste it into Your Companies House API key. The input field is secret: Apify stores it encrypted, and the Actor only sends it to the Companies House API. Each key may make 600 requests every 5 minutes, and the Actor paces itself to stay under that.

Who it is for

• Sales and business development teams prospecting new companies in their sector and region: new software companies in Manchester, new restaurants in Bristol, new holding companies anywhere.
• Accountants, banks, insurers and business service providers who want every new company in their patch, every day.
• M&A, investment and credit analysts watching filings for accounts, new charges, insolvency and strike-off notices across a list of companies.
• Researchers and journalists tracking company formation by sector and place.

Quick start

1. Click Start with no input. You get up to 1,000 UK companies incorporated in the last 30 days of the latest monthly snapshot.
2. Add filters, for example SIC code 62 (all computer programming and consultancy) and postcode prefix M (Greater Manchester).
3. Add your free API key for live data, and schedule a daily run with incorporatedWithinDays: 2 and onlyNew: true to get each day's new companies.
4. For filing events, set What to return to filings and either list the company numbers you want to watch, or let the Actor take companies from your search filters.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
mode	companies (one record per company) or filings (one record per filing event, needs a key)	companies
incorporatedWithinDays	Companies incorporated in the last N days. 0 means any date	30
incorporatedFrom, incorporatedTo	A fixed date range instead, YYYY-MM-DD	none
sicCodes	SIC 2007 codes or prefixes, for example 62012 or 62	all
postcodePrefixes	Postcode areas, districts or sectors: M, EC1, SW1A 1. EC1 also matches EC1A and EC1V; M1 does not match M14	all
companyTypes	Companies House type codes such as ltd, llp, plc, plus community-interest-company	all
companyStatuses	active, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement, insolvency-proceedings, dissolved	all
companyNumbers	Look up these companies (other company filters are then ignored). In filings mode, the companies to watch	none
filingCategories	Filings mode: accounts, confirmation-statement, mortgage, address, capital, gazette, insolvency, liquidation and more	all
filedWithinDays	Filings mode: filings made in the last N days. 0 means all	30
maxCompaniesForFilings	Filings mode without company numbers: how many companies from the search to check	100
apiKey	Your free Companies House REST API key (secret)	none
onlyNew	Only return companies or filings not returned by a previous run with the same filters	false
maxItems	Stop after this many records. 0 means no limit	1000

Example: every new tech company in London and Manchester, daily, with a key:

{
  "apiKey": "<your key>",
  "incorporatedWithinDays": 2,
  "sicCodes": ["62", "63"],
  "postcodePrefixes": ["EC", "WC", "E", "N", "M"],
  "onlyNew": true
}

Example: accounts, charges and insolvency events for a watch list:

{
  "apiKey": "<your key>",
  "mode": "filings",
  "companyNumbers": ["00445790", "SC123456"],
  "filingCategories": ["accounts", "mortgage", "insolvency", "liquidation", "gazette"],
  "filedWithinDays": 7,
  "onlyNew": true
}

Output example

{
  "recordType": "company",
  "companyNumber": "17490939",
  "companyName": "THROUGH THE VYNE LTD",
  "companyStatus": "active",
  "companyStatusDetail": null,
  "companyStatusLabel": "Active",
  "companyType": "ltd",
  "companySubtype": null,
  "companyTypeLabel": "Private Limited Company",
  "incorporationDate": "2026-09-30",
  "dissolutionDate": null,
  "postTown": "MANCHESTER",
  "postcode": "M12 6AE",
  "postcodeArea": "M",
  "postcodeDistrict": "M12",
  "sicCodes": ["62012", "70229", "73110", "73200"],
  "sicDescriptions": ["Business and domestic software development", "Management consultancy activities other than financial management", "Advertising agencies", "Market research and public opinion polling"],
  "accountsNextDueDate": "2028-06-30",
  "confirmationStatementNextDueDate": "2027-10-13",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17490939",
  "dataSource": "free-company-data-product",
  "dataAsOf": "2026-10-01",
  "isNew": true,
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-23"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event pricing, with platform usage included:

• $3.00 per 1,000 records (company-record event, $0.003 each). Company records and filing records are both charged as one company-record event.

You only pay for records saved to your dataset, so filters, onlyNew and maxItems keep costs down. A daily onlyNew run for one sector and region typically returns tens of records. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

How "only new" works

When onlyNew is on, the Actor remembers which company numbers (or filing transaction ids) it has already returned for this exact input in a key-value store in your account called agents001-uk-companies-house-feed-state. The next run only returns records that are not on that list. The first run returns everything that matches. Changing the filters starts a fresh history; adding or changing your API key does not. The store holds ids and dates only, and entries older than 400 days are removed.

With onlyNew off, the Actor does not open or update this store, so every record has isNew set to true. If a run stops with a message that it cannot open the store (for example because another Actor in your account already uses that name), enter a different name in State store name and run again.

Data source, licence and privacy

All data comes from Companies House, the UK registrar of companies, through its official Public Data API (with your key) or its Free Company Data Product (without a key). Companies House states that it "imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used", and its own material is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information from Companies House.

This Actor returns company-level data only. It never calls the officer or persons with significant control endpoints, never returns officer or PSC filings, drops "care of" address lines (which can name a person), and renders filing descriptions without any person's name. Some small companies use a home address as their registered office; that address is on the public register as the company's address. If you use the data for marketing, you remain responsible for complying with UK GDPR and PECR.

FAQ

Why do records without a key stop at the end of last month? The free snapshot is published monthly. Add your free API key for companies registered up to today.

How are records ordered without a key? The monthly snapshot is split into 7 files sorted by company name. The Actor reads them in order, sorts each file's matches newest first, and stops when maxItems is reached. With an API key, results come newest day first across the whole run.

Why is companyType empty for community interest companies without a key? The monthly snapshot labels them only as "Community Interest Company", so the Actor sets companySubtype to community-interest-company and leaves the base type empty. With a key, both are filled.

Can I get directors or shareholders? No. Officers and persons with significant control are individuals, so this Actor does not collect them.

Something looks wrong. What should I do? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run link and your input (leave out your API key).

Disclaimer

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Companies House or the UK Government. Check the official register before relying on any record.