🏛️ Companies House Scraper — New Companies & Directors UK (MCP)

The official UK Companies House register without an API key: search 5M+ companies by name, type, status, SIC codes, address, and incorporation / dissolution date windows — directors & PSCs included free (the leader charges +$0.002/officer). Monitor mode = daily new-incorporations feed. MCP-ready.

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✨ Why this one

Ingredient	What it means for you
🔒 Hard-to-get data	The official JSON API needs a key, quotas and an account. We read the public advanced search directly — no key, no auth, 100% legal register data. Fresh: ~2 000 new LTDs incorporated every day.
🛠️ Hardest problems, solved	20 678 rows in a 10-day window? The engine (same as our USAspending actor) paginates 100 pages and auto-splits the date window mid-flight. Officers blocks parsed per appointment.
⚙️ Automation	monitor mode + daily schedule = “the 1 837 companies incorporated yesterday, in your SIC filter” — the product formation agents & accountants pay real money for.
🧠 AI-agent pricing	Per-row events: $0.0008/company extracted. The cluster leader charges $0.004/company plus $0.002/officer. Same register, 5× cheaper, officers free.

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🚀 3 recipes that pay

#1 — New-incorporation leads (formation agents / accountants / insurers)

{ "mode": "monitor", "daysBack": 1, "companyType": "ltd", "status": ["active"], "requestDelaySecs": 1 }

→ Schedule at 07:00 daily → every morning, only NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE company numbers. Plug into Make/Zapier → Slack digest or CRM import.

#2 — Vertical prospect list (B2B sales)

{ "mode": "search", "sicCodes": ["62012"], "addressKeyword": "Manchester", "daysBack": 90, "includeOfficers": true, "maxProfiles": 50 }

→ Every software house incorporated in Manchester since last quarter, with director names.

#3 — KYC / AML checker (compliance)

{ "mode": "search", "companyNameIncludes": "HOLDINGS", "status": ["active", "liquidation"], "includePsc": true }

→ Status history + beneficial owners per hit.

MCP: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/companies-house-uk-scraper — Claude/ChatGPT can ask "any new care-homes companies this week?" themselves.

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🆚 Competition — why users switch here

Actor	30j users	Pricing	Monitor	Officers	Filters
scrapesage/companies-house-scraper (leader)	52	$0.004/company + $0.002/officer	❌	💸 paid extra	keyword/number
logiover/uk-companies-house-bulk	15	$0.0015/item	❌	❌	bulk dump
kaz_kakyo/uk-new-companies	2	$0.004–0.012/lead	❌	❌	date+SIC only
us	—	$0.0008/company, officers & PSC FREE	✅ KV dedup	✅ free	11 filters + window split

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📦 What each row contains

companyName · companyNumber · companyStatus · companyType · incorporatedDate (ISO) · registeredAddress · sicCodes[] · officers[] (name, role, appointedOn, dateOfBirth, nationality, occupation, address) · pscs[] (owners + nature of control) · profileUrl · isNew (monitor) · firstSeenAt.

No field named type (platform-safe), 8-digit company numbers verified.

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🧪 Input reference

Key	Default	What it does
mode	search	monitor = only new companies (KV companies-house-seen)
companyType	ltd	ltd/plc/llp/…/any
status	[active]	+ dissolved, liquidation, administration…
sicCodes	—	e.g. ["62012"] = software
addressKeyword	—	city / street / postcode fragment
companyNameIncludes / …Excludes	—	name filters
timeFrom / timeTo	rolling daysBack 30	full date window support
includeOfficers / includePsc	false	directors & owners, free
maxProfiles	100	polite cap on profile opens
maxResults / maxPages	500 / 100	caps; window auto-split beyond
requestDelaySecs	0.5	Gov.UK politeness
respectRobots / proxyConfiguration	true / —	standard empire options

Fair use — UK register data is public statutory data. For B2B outreach follow UK PECR rules; officer personal addresses are correspondence addresses, not home addresses. We honor robots.txt and rate-limit politely by default.

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💰 Pricing

• $0.001 actor start (1 GB)
• $0.0008 per company extracted — officers & PSCs cost $0.00 (always)

Rows	Cost
100 companies	~$0.08 (+ $0.40 at the leader)
1 000 + 200 director pages	~$0.80 (+ $4.40 at the leader)
Daily monitor digest (2 067 new)	~$1.65/run

Recurring note: run the monitor every morning for ~$1.65 — the exact same feed formation agents resell for £49/month.

Part of the AmyGraphics data empire — 21 public actors: jobs, real estate, tenders, conferences, trade shows & federal awards. Contact: morocco.uiux@gmail.com · apify.com/amygraphics