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UK Trade Credentials Verifier

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Checks a UK tradesperson or business against Gas Safe, NICEIC, FMB, TrustMark, and Companies House to confirm active licensing, registration and insurance status. From £0.007 per register match.

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from $12.00 / 1,000 multi-register verifications

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joseph fadero

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Inputs

Field	Default	Description
`businessName`	`C Smith Carpentry & Joinery Ltd`	UK tradesperson/business name. Real, currently-listed business (confirmed live on both Companies House and the FMB register during build) — used as the default so the Actor returns a real match with zero config.
`registrationNumber`	—	Companies House registration number, used instead of/alongside `businessName` for a direct Companies House lookup.
`checkSources`	all 5	Which registers to check: `gasSafe`, `niceic`, `fmb`, `trustmark`, `companiesHouse`.
`postcode`	—	Optional, disambiguates common business names in the output record (not currently used to filter FMB results, since FMB's name-search endpoint does not require it).

At least one of businessName or registrationNumber must be supplied, or the run fails clearly.

Outputs

One record per run, results holding one entry per checked register:

{
  "businessName": "C Smith Carpentry & Joinery Ltd",
  "postcode": null,
  "results": [
    { "source": "fmb", "status": "active", "registrationId": "c-smith-carpentry-joinery-ltd", "expiryDate": null, "detail": "..." },
    { "source": "companiesHouse", "status": "active", "registrationId": "15552718", "expiryDate": null, "detail": "..." },
    { "source": "gasSafe", "status": "unavailable", "registrationId": null, "expiryDate": null, "detail": "..." }
  ],
  "matchCount": 2,
  "registersChecked": 5,
  "companiesHouseStatus": "active",
  "incorporationDate": "2023-04-11",
  "sicCodes": ["43320"],
  "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-09-15T17:29:45.703Z",
  "chargedEvent": "multi-register-match"
}

status is one of active, lapsed, not-found, or unavailable (a source that could not be checked for a real, documented technical reason — see below).

Which registers actually work (honest status, confirmed live 2026-09-15)

Register	Status	Why
FMB (Federation of Master Builders)	Working	`GET https://www.fmb.org.uk/find-a-builder.html?name=<query>` returns real, server-rendered HTML with no auth or JS required. Confirmed live against a real search ("Smith" → 24 real results) and parsed with cheerio (`article.article-list-item .article-title-link` + `.article-teaser p`).
Companies House	Working (needs a free API key)	Official REST API (`api.company-information.service.gov.uk`), HTTP Basic auth with the API key as username. Reads the key from `COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY`. Get a free key at https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/. If the env var is unset, this source alone reports `unavailable` — it never crashes the run.
Gas Safe Register	`unavailable`	The entire site is behind Incapsula/Imperva bot-protection — confirmed live: every request (including a plain homepage GET with a real browser User-Agent) returns HTTP 403 with an Incapsula challenge page. Not solvable with HTTP + cheerio; would need a headless browser plus a residential proxy, which this Actor deliberately does not use.
NICEIC	`unavailable`	The public search widget on niceic.com embeds a separate legacy ASP.NET WebForms app (`proximity.niceic.com/mainform.aspx`). It's reachable over plain HTTP, but the search action is a stateful `__VIEWSTATE`/`__EVENTVALIDATION` postback AND the form carries a hidden `gRecaptchaResponse` field — confirming the real search is reCAPTCHA-gated server-side. Not solvable without a headless browser and CAPTCHA-solving.
TrustMark	`unavailable`	The whole site (including the tradesperson-search pages) is an Angular SPA shell (`<app-root>`, `ng-version`) with no server-rendered content. The compiled JS bundle (~3MB) was fetched and inspected live; it only exposes CMS/content API routes (`/api/news`, `/api/navigation`, `/api/businesses/NumberOfActiveBusinesses`, etc.) — no public, unauthenticated tradesperson-search endpoint could be found. Not solvable with HTTP + cheerio.

Each register is checked independently — one being down, blocked, or impractical never crashes or blocks the others. Small delays (400ms) are added between source checks to stay polite to these low-volume public sites.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

Event	Price	Trigger
Actor Start	$0.05	Charged once per run (built-in).
Business Checked No Match	$0.002	Zero requested registers returned a real match (built-in dataset-item event).
Single-Register Verification	$0.007	A real match on exactly 1 requested register.
Multi-Register Verification (primary)	$0.012	A real match on 2+ requested registers.
Companies House Enrichment	$0.004	`companiesHouse` was requested AND real incorporation/SIC data came back — stacks on top of whichever match event applies.

Notes

Pure HTTP + cheerio, no headless browser, no Dockerfile.
Set COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY as an environment variable on the Actor to enable Companies House lookups (free to obtain).

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