UK Companies House Search – Directors & Overdue Accounts

Export UK companies from the Companies House register in one run: filter by SIC code, town or postcode, status and incorporation date, or paste a list of company numbers / names. Every row can include accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, overdue flags, directors and persons with significant control (owners). No Companies House API key, no login.

$1.50 per 1,000 companies. Directors/PSC add-on +$1.50 per 1,000. Companies that are not found, fail, or are skipped by the overdue filter are free.

What people use it for

Job	Input
New-company leads (accountants, banks, insurers, web agencies)	incorporatedFrom: 2026-10-01, statuses: [active], optional location or sicCodes
Accountancy prospecting: companies with overdue accounts	sicCodes + location + onlyOverdue: true
Trade lists (e.g. every active roofer in Bristol)	sicCodes: ["43910"], location: "Bristol"
KYB / supplier checks on a client or supplier list	companyNumbers or companyNames + includeOfficers + includePscs
Dissolved / liquidation monitoring	statuses: ["liquidation"] or dissolvedFrom

Quick start

{
  "sicCodes": ["43910"],
  "location": "Bristol",
  "statuses": ["active"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Look up specific companies (leading zeros added for you, register URLs accepted):

{
  "companyNumbers": ["00445790", "SC123456"],
  "companyNames": ["Tesco PLC"],
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "includePscs": true
}

Real output (Tesco PLC, trimmed)

{
  "companyNumber": "00445790",
  "companyName": "TESCO PLC",
  "companyStatus": "Active",
  "companyType": "Public limited Company",
  "incorporationDate": "1947-11-27",
  "sicCodes": ["47110"],
  "sicDescriptions": ["Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating"],
  "registeredOfficeAddress": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA",
  "accountsNextMadeUpTo": "2027-02-26",
  "accountsNextDueBy": "2027-08-26",
  "accountsLastMadeUpTo": "2026-02-28",
  "accountsOverdue": false,
  "confirmationNextDueBy": "2027-07-02",
  "confirmationStatementOverdue": false,
  "anythingOverdue": false,
  "previousNames": [{ "name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED", "period": "27 Nov 1947 - 14 Dec 1981" }],
  "directors": "BETHELL, Melissa; BODSON, Bertrand Jean Francois; ...",
  "officers": [{ "name": "BETHELL, Melissa", "role": "Director", "status": "Active", "appointedOn": "2018-09-24", "nationality": "British", "countryOfResidence": "United Kingdom" }],
  "pscExemption": "From 18 June 2018 the company is exempt from the requirement to obtain information of its PSC because it has voting shares admitted to trading on a UK regulated market",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
  "status": "ok"
}

Search rows (without details) contain number, name, status, type, incorporation/dissolution date, SIC codes and registered office address. The Companies table view shows the key columns; export as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Pricing

Price update: from 7 Nov 2026 (06:30 UTC) the price per company rises from $0.0015 to $0.003 ($3 per 1,000 companies); officer and PSC lookups stay $0.0015. Apify gives users 14 days' notice. The prices below apply until then.

Event	Price	When
Company	$0.0015	Each company saved (search row or looked-up company, incl. accounts/confirmation details)
Officers / PSC add-on	$0.0015	Only if you tick directors and/or PSCs (charged once per company)
Not found / failed / skipped by onlyOverdue	$0

Worked examples: 1,000 active roofers in a county = $1.50. 500 companies with directors and owners = $1.50. 200 overdue-accounts leads found by scanning 2,000 companies = $0.30. Set Maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops cleanly at your limit.

Input reference

• sicCodes – 5-digit nature-of-business codes (e.g. 43910 roofing, 62020 IT consultancy, 69201 accounting, 56101 restaurants, 68209 letting).
• location – text in the registered office address (town, county, postcode district).
• statuses / companyTypes – Companies House values (active, dissolved, liquidation...; ltd, plc, llp...).
• incorporatedFrom/To, dissolvedFrom/To – YYYY-MM-DD.
• nameIncludes / nameExcludes – words in the company name.
• maxResults – up to 5,000 per search (the register's own export limit). For more, split by date range or location across runs.
• companyNumbers / companyNames / maxMatchesPerName – direct lookups.
• includeDetails – accounts + confirmation statement dates, overdue flags, previous names (free; always on for lookups).
• onlyOverdue – keep only companies Companies House marks Accounts overdue or Confirmation statement overdue.
• includeOfficers / onlyActiveOfficers / includePscs – people data (see privacy below).

FAQ

Do I need a Companies House API key? No. The Actor reads the public register website and its official advanced-search CSV export.

How fresh is the data? Live: every run reads the register at that moment.

Why are some fields empty? Overseas entities, LLPs and dissolved companies show fewer sections. PSC rows are empty for listed PLCs; the exemption reason is given in pscExemption.

Is this legal? The register is public information that Companies House publishes free for anyone to search. Officer and PSC names are personal data: you are responsible for using them lawfully (UK GDPR, PECR for marketing). To minimise personal data, this Actor does not collect dates of birth or home/correspondence addresses. Companies House does not verify everything filed, so check critical facts on the register page linked in companyUrl.

How fast? Search-only: thousands of rows in seconds (one CSV request). With details or people: about 3–10 companies per second, kept polite to the public service.

Something missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Feature requests get answered.