UK Companies House Company Data Scraper (No Officers or PSCs)

Get UK company records from the official Companies House API as clean, structured data. Each record has status, type, incorporation and dissolution dates, the registered office, SIC codes with descriptions, accounts and confirmation-statement dates (including overdue flags), charge and insolvency flags, previous names, and optionally the filing history.

Company data, not people data. This Actor deliberately returns no officers and no persons with significant control (PSCs), and removes people's names from filing details. Some company fields can still identify a person, such as a one-person company's name or a registered office that is someone's home: see Your responsibilities (UK GDPR and PECR).

Price: $0.0025 per company, plus $0.0005 per filing-history row if you ask for filings.

What you can do with it

• Enrich a list of company numbers: status, SIC, address, and whether accounts are overdue.
• Size a market or study a sector: for example, how many active software companies (SIC 62012) were incorporated in Manchester this quarter, and how many have since been dissolved. You can also use it to research companies before a B2B deal. Many small companies are run by one person, so read Your responsibilities below before you contact anyone.
• Monitor compliance: find companies with overdue accounts or confirmation statements, charges, or insolvency history.
• Watch filing activity: the latest accounts, address changes and new charges for each company.

You need a free Companies House API key

Companies House requires a key for every API request. It's free and takes about 5 minutes:

1. Register at the Companies House Developer Hub.
2. Go to Your applications → Create an application → choose REST → API key.
3. Paste the key into the Your Companies House API key field. Apify stores it encrypted.

Try it first without a key: the prefilled example (company 00445790, Tesco PLC, no filing history) runs on our own key, so you can see the output before signing up. Any other input needs your key, and a run without one stops at once with a link to the free sign-up. No results are charged.

Each key allows 600 requests per 5 minutes. The Actor paces itself below that, so a run of 1,000 full profiles takes about 9–10 minutes. It's slower than a scraper, but it's official, stable and never blocked.

Input

Field	What it does
API key	Your own free key (see above).
Company numbers	Look up specific companies, e.g. 00445790, SC123456, OC301234. Short numbers are zero-padded.
Search: name contains / excludes	Advanced search on company name.
Search: status	active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, …
Search: company type	ltd, plc, llp, …
Search: SIC codes	e.g. 62012.
Search: incorporated from / to	Date range.
Search: location	Registered-office location text.
Max search results	Up to 5,000.
Fetch the full profile for search results	On by default. Adds accounts and confirmation-statement dates, flags and previous names (1 extra request per company, same price).
Include filing history	Most recent N filings (1–100), optionally by category.

Example: new software companies in Manchester, with their latest 5 filings:

{
  "apiKey": "<your key>",
  "sicCodes": ["62012"],
  "statuses": ["active"],
  "incorporatedFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "location": "Manchester",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "includeFilingHistory": true,
  "maxFilingsPerCompany": 5
}

Output

{
  "companyNumber": "00445790",
  "companyName": "TESCO PLC",
  "status": "active",
  "statusLabel": "Active",
  "type": "plc",
  "typeLabel": "Public limited company",
  "jurisdiction": "england-wales",
  "incorporatedOn": "1947-11-27",
  "dissolvedOn": null,
  "registeredOffice": { "addressLine1": "Tesco House, Shire Park", "locality": "Welwyn Garden City", "postalCode": "AL7 1GA", "country": "United Kingdom" },
  "sicCodes": [{ "code": "47110", "description": "Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating" }],
  "accounts": { "lastMadeUpTo": "2026-02-28", "nextDue": "2027-08-31", "overdue": false },
  "confirmationStatement": { "nextDue": "2027-06-14", "overdue": false },
  "hasCharges": true,
  "hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
  "previousNames": [],
  "filings": [
    { "date": "2026-06-20", "category": "accounts", "type": "AA", "description": "Group of companies' accounts made up to 28 Feb 2026" },
    { "date": "2026-05-02", "category": "officers", "type": "AP01", "description": "Appointment of [person removed] as a director on 1 May 2026" }
  ],
  "filingsTotal": 1432,
  "detailLevel": "full",
  "profileUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
  "source": "Companies House",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-18T06:00:00.000Z"
}

(Values are illustrative.) You can export it as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read it through the Apify API.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.0025 per company saved.
• $0.0005 per filing-history row (only when Include filing history is on).
• Apify's standard tiny start fee per run.

For example:

• 1,000 companies cost $2.50.
• 1,000 companies with 10 filings each cost $7.50.

Invalid or unknown company numbers are skipped and not charged. Set Max total charge to cap a run; the Actor stops cleanly and never delivers more than you paid for.

Privacy: what we leave out, on purpose

• No officers or PSCs. Those endpoints are never called.
• Filing descriptions are cleaned. Names of directors, secretaries, members and PSCs are replaced with [person removed]. Free-text legacy descriptions are dropped. A value that doesn't look like what it should be (a form code, jurisdiction, charge number, currency or amount) is shown as [removed], and a bad date as [date removed].
• Address changes show the postcode district only. In filing descriptions, old and new addresses become the first half of the postcode, e.g. "Registered office address changed from LS1 to YO1". Nothing else from the address is shown: no house number, street, town, PO box or care-of name. An overseas address shows only its country (if it ends with a country name we recognise); otherwise you get [address].
• Care-of names are removed. The separate "care of" field and service addresses are dropped. If the company wrote "C/O …", "FAO …" or "Attn …" into an address line, that part is removed; a line that is only care-of text is empty (null), and the other lines stay where they are.
• The registered office is kept. It's a public company attribute, though for very small companies it can be the director's home.

Your responsibilities (UK GDPR and PECR)

• You are the data controller for what you do with the output. Companies House says: "Once they hold your information, third-parties are responsible for making sure they comply with data protection law" (Your personal information on the Companies House register, GOV.UK).
• Some company data is personal data. The registered office of a small company is often someone's home, and some company names are a person's name (e.g. "JOHN SMITH LTD"). UK GDPR applies to these.
• Marketing by email or text: sole traders and some partnerships are treated as individuals under PECR. You can only email or text them if they have specifically consented or the "soft opt-in" applies (Business-to-business marketing, ICO).

Reliability

• Uses the official, versioned REST API: no HTML parsing and no blocking.
• Paces requests under the 600-per-5-minutes limit, waits for the window to reset on 429, and retries 5xx errors.
• Unknown company numbers are reported in the run's RUN_SUMMARY and not charged.
• A daily self-test checks live responses against a recorded baseline: expected fields, fill rates, and that no officer/PSC/person fields appear in the output. We fix breakages fast.

Is it allowed?

Yes. Companies House makes "all of the public data we hold on companies available free of charge… through our application program interface" (GOV.UK). Its staff have said Companies House "imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used"; you remain responsible for data-protection and other law (CH forum). This Actor is not affiliated with Companies House.

FAQ

Why do I need my own key? Companies House issues keys per application and limits each to 600 requests per 5 minutes. Your own key means your runs never compete with other users for that limit.

Can I get directors? No. That's deliberate: this Actor is for company-level data only.

Something's wrong? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. We aim to reply within 2 working days.