# UK Gazette Monitor: Insolvency & Official Notices (MCP) (`amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor`) Actor

The Gazette's official feed: winding-up petitions, liquidations, administrations, dissolutions & bankruptcies with court details — 550+ fresh insolvency notices every 2 days (verified). Corporate/personal code filters, date windows, full notice text. Monitor = daily distress radar. No key. MCP.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Zakaria el bouami](https://apify.com/amygraphics) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, MCP servers
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## ⚖️ UK Gazette Monitor: Insolvency & Official Notices (MCP)

> **The Gazette — the UK's official newspaper of record** — as a live data feed: winding-up petitions, liquidations, administrations, dissolutions, bankruptcies… **550+ fresh insolvency notices EVERY 2 days (verified 16–17/10/2026)**. **Monitor mode = "a creditor just petitioned to wind up THIS company" alerts, daily.** Official feed. No key. MCP-ready.

***

### ✨ Why this wins where ChatGPT can't

| Ingredient | Here |
|---|---|
| 🔒 **Hard-to-get, realtime** | The Gazette's own public JSON feed (`/insolvency/notice/data.json`) with publication-date windows — the same ledger credit agencies pay for. |
| 🛠️ **Hardest problems, solved** | DD/MM/YYYY server dates · 100-row paging · corporate (`24xx`) vs personal (`25xx`) notice-code separation client-side · HTML content already stripped for you. |
| ⚙️ **Automation = money** | `monitor` + daily schedule = a **winding-up-petition radar** for insolvency practitioners, credit teams and law firms — the exact trigger they prospect on. |
| 🧠 **AI-agent cheap** | $0.001 start + $0.001 per notice. A daily nationwide watch ≈ $0.25/day. |
| 🌍 **UK = the world's insolvency market** | UK company failures are a tracked trading signal for suppliers, factors and banks. |

> 💡 **Corporate vs personal, separated**: notice code prefixes — `24` = corporate insolvency events · `2443` = **winding-up petitions** (the hour it happens) · `25` = personal bankruptcies. Filter exactly the number you sell.

***

### 🚀 3 recipes that pay

#### #1 — Winding-up petition radar (insolvency practitioners & law firms)

```json
{ "mode": "monitor", "noticeCodePrefix": "2443", "daysBack": 2 }
```

→ New petitions as they're gazetted — prospect the debtor's lawyers & IPs before anyone else sees it.

#### #2 — Supplier credit watch (credit insurers & finance teams)

```json
{ "mode": "search", "keywords": "logistics", "daysBack": 7, "maxResults": 200 }
```

→ A week of insolvency events touching your industry keywords. Pipeline your export directly into credit limits.

#### #3 — Daily UK corporate distress digest (journalists & analysts)

```json
{ "mode": "monitor", "noticeCodePrefix": "24", "daysBack": 1, "maxResults": 300 }
```

→ Every corporate insolvency event in the official record — dissolutions, administrations, liquidators, final meetings.

**MCP**: `https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor` — *"any new winding-up petitions this week?"* answered with the official Gazette record.

***

### 📦 What each row contains

`noticeId` · `title` · `section` · **`noticeCode`** (corporate/personal taxonomy) · `personName` · `status` · `publishedISO`/`updatedISO` · **`contentText`** (full notice text: court name, proceedings number, hearing dates, solicitors, liquidators, IP details, petitioners…) · `url` (human page) · `apiUrl` (per-notice JSON-LD). Plus `eventKey`/`isNew`/`firstSeenAt`.

***

### 🆚 Competition

| Actor | Users | Monitor | The official feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| uk-gazette-probate-notices-scraper | 7 | ❌ probate only | ❌ |
| uk-the-gazette-corporate-insolvency-radar | 2 | ✅? | partial |
| **us** | — | ✅ KV dedupe, daily-ready | ✅ 555/2-days verified |

***

### 🧪 Input cheat-sheet

| Key | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| `section` | insolvency | insolvency / all-notices (server) |
| `daysBack` / `fromDate` | 2 | publication window |
| `noticeCodePrefix` | — | 24 / 2443 / 25 / 2509… (client) |
| `keywords` | — | industry/place/company text match |

**Fair use** — The Gazette offers this feed publicly; we pace requests politely and reuse the same query endpoints their own site does.

***

### 💰 Pricing

- **$0.001** actor start · **$0.001** per notice — full court details FREE

| Use case | Cost (us) |
|---|---|
| Daily UK insolvency digest | ~$0.25/day |
| Winding-up petitions only | ~$0.10/day |

**Part of the AmyGraphics data empire** — 32 public actors: enforcement & fines, disasters & relief money, recalls, tenders, registers, new companies, conferences, jobs & real estate. Contact: morocco.uiux@gmail.com · apify.com/amygraphics

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

search = window of notices. monitor = only notice IDs never returned before (KV dedupe) — schedule daily.

## `section` (type: `string`):

insolvency = corporate + personal insolvency events · all-notices = every Gazette notice.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Publication window ending today (server-side). Ignored if fromDate is set.

## `fromDate` (type: `string`):

Optional explicit window start, overrides daysBack.

## `toDate` (type: `string`):

Optional explicit window end (default: today).

## `noticeCodePrefix` (type: `string`):

24 = corporate insolvency · 2443 = winding-up petitions · 25 = personal insolvency · 2509 = bankruptcy orders. Keep e.g. '2443' for the pure petition radar.

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Client-side match on title, person name and notice text (e.g. 'logistics', 'Manchester', 'hotel').

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many notices.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Politeness pacing toward the official portal.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

NOT needed — official feed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "section": "insolvency",
  "daysBack": 2,
  "fromDate": "",
  "toDate": "",
  "noticeCodePrefix": "",
  "keywords": "",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "requestDelaySecs": 0.4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {}
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,amygraphics/uk-gazette-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/hP1h4SIaacLOm8eKi/builds/jKcz5psSBp3wbgjbj/openapi.json