UK Gazette Insolvency Notices Scraper API: Winding-Up Petitions

UK insolvency notices and winding-up petitions as JSON in one call. The Gazette, the UK's official public record, publishes every insolvency notice as open data under the Open Government Licence (web pages, Atom and JSON feeds, and a linked-data record per notice); this Actor pages the feed, reads each record and returns one flat JSON row per notice:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data_daemon~uk-gazette-insolvency-notices/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"noticeTypes": ["2450"], "publishedWithinDays": 1, "maxItems": 100}'

$5 per 1,000 notices with structured details ($2 without), read live from The Gazette on every run. Checked on 5 November 2026: The Gazette published 161 winding-up petitions (notice code 2450), 102 winding-up orders (2452) and 37 administrator appointments (2410) from 29 October to 4 November 2026.

UK Gazette Insolvency Notices is a pay-per-result Apify Actor that returns The Gazette's insolvency notices as JSON, CSV or Excel: winding-up petitions and orders, administrations, liquidations and creditors' meetings, each with the company name and number, registered office and trading address, postcode, nature of business, who presented the petition (with a petitionerIsHmrc flag), court and case number, hearing date and the insolvency practitioner's or solicitor's firm and contact details as published in the notice. It is for insolvency practitioners and turnaround advisers, credit-risk, KYB and trade-credit teams, lenders and asset buyers, and data vendors. Price: $5 per 1,000 notices with structured details ($2 per 1,000 without); no login or proxy. In the week of 11 to 17 October 2026 The Gazette published 138 winding-up petitions and 43 administration appointments; HMRC presented 56% of the 620 petitions of the prior 30 days.

Around 140 winding-up petitions and 40+ administration appointments are published each week (138 and 43 in the week of 11–17 October 2026). HMRC presents about half of all petitions (56% of the 620 published in the 30 days to 17 October 2026). No login, no proxy. $5 per 1,000 notices including structured details, $2 per 1,000 without.

What teams run, and what it costs

You are	You schedule	Volume	Cost
Insolvency practitioner / turnaround adviser	New petitions (2450) daily, filtered to your region or target industries	~140 per week	~$3 per month
Credit-risk / KYB / trade-credit team	Petitions + administrations + liquidations daily, matched on company number against your customer list	~250 per week	~$5 per month
Lender / factoring / asset buyer	Administration appointments (2410) daily	~40 per week	under $1 per month
Data vendor / research	Back-fill a year of petitions	~7,000	~$35

Send results to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, Make, n8n or your CRM, or query through an AI agent ("which Manchester restaurants had HMRC winding-up petitions this week?").

Why use this instead of reading The Gazette

• Structured, joinable fields. Company number for Companies House, postcode, nature of business, petitioner, court, case number, practitioner firm. No copy-pasting notice text.
• Earlier than Companies House. Petitions are advertised before the hearing; the company record often changes weeks later.
• Any notice type, any date range. Petitions, winding-up orders, administrations, liquidator appointments, creditors' meetings, bankruptcy orders, or personal insolvency.
• Built for schedules. publishedWithinDays gives a rolling window, onlyNewSinceLastRun delivers only notices you have not received before, and skipped notices are never charged.
• Open Government Licence. Gazette notices are Crown copyright under OGL v3.0; company-level data can be reused with attribution (see "Licence and personal data" below).

From an AI assistant: add the MCP connector https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=data_daemon/uk-gazette-insolvency-notices in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code and ask for the data in plain words.

Input

{
    "service": "insolvency",
    "noticeTypes": ["2450"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 1,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "includeLinkedData": true,
    "maxItems": 40
}

Field	Description
service	insolvency (default), all-notices, wills-and-probate, companies.
noticeTypes	Gazette notice type codes (verified October 2026): 2450 petitions to wind up (companies), 2451 petitions to wind up (partnerships), 2452 winding-up orders, 2441 resolutions for winding up, 2432 and 2443 appointment of liquidators, 2442 meetings of creditors, 2433 notices to creditors, 2410 appointment of administrators, 2503 bankruptcy orders. Default ["2450", "2410"]; pass [] for every type in the section.
categoryCode	Optional category, e.g. G205000000 corporate insolvency, G206000000 personal insolvency.
text	Free-text search, e.g. Revenue and Customs for HMRC petitions, a company name, a town or a practitioner firm.
publishedWithinDays	Rolling window for schedules: only notices published in the last N days (UTC). 1 = since yesterday, 7 = the last week. Ignored when startPublishDate is set.
startPublishDate, endPublishDate	Fixed publication date range, YYYY-MM-DD.
sortBy	latest-date (default), oldest-date, relevance.
includeLinkedData	Fetch the structured record per notice (default on). Adds one notice-details event per notice where the record was retrieved.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Deliver only notices that earlier runs with the same search have not delivered. Skipped notices are not charged. Ids are kept for 180 days in a key-value store named uk-gazette-notices-state in your account.
stateName	Optional name for that memory; leave empty to derive it from the search, or set one per feed.
maxItems	Cap on delivered notices (default 40, about $0.20 with structured details at FREE prices).

Invalid values never fail a run: they are corrected or ignored with a warning in the log and in the OUTPUT summary.

Output

One item per notice. Example from a real run (17 October 2026):

{
    "noticeId": "5232599",
    "url": "https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5232599",
    "category": "Petitions to Wind Up (Companies)",
    "noticeCode": "2450",
    "published": "2026-10-17T00:10:08",
    "publishedDate": "2026-10-17",
    "companyName": "DURSLEY HOTEL LIMITED",
    "companyNumber": "10498473",
    "tradingAs": "Dursley Hotel Limited",
    "natureOfBusiness": "Public Houses and Bars",
    "principalTradingAddress": "13 Long Street, Dursley, GL11 4HL",
    "registeredOffice": "13 Long Street, Dursley, GL11 4HL",
    "postcode": "GL11 4HL",
    "courtName": "High Court of Justice",
    "caseNumber": "CR-2026-007272",
    "petitioner": "BRITISH GAS TRADING LIMITED",
    "petitionerIsHmrc": false,
    "petitionerAddress": "Millstream, Maidenhead Road, Windsor, SL4 5GD",
    "presentedBy": "Creditor",
    "dateOfPetitionPresentation": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00",
    "dateOfHearing": "Wednesday, 18-Nov-2026 10:30:00 UTC",
    "hearingDate": "2026-11-18",
    "placeOfHearing": "Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL",
    "dateToRequestAppearance": "Tuesday, 17-Nov-2026 16:00:00 UTC",
    "practitioners": [
        {
            "role": "solicitor",
            "name": "Sian Phillips",
            "firm": "WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (UK) LLP",
            "ipNumber": "SPP4/375936.07741",
            "telephone": "01752 67 7636",
            "address": "Ballard House, 26 West Hoe Road, Plymouth, PL1 3AE"
        }
    ],
    "practitionerFirm": "WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (UK) LLP",
    "summary": "In the High Court of Justice CR-2026-007272 In the matter of DURSLEY HOTEL LIMITED …",
    "hasDetails": true
}

Field	Notes
noticeId, url, category, noticeCode, published, publishedDate, summary, contentHtml	From the feed; always present.
companyName, companyNumber, tradingAs, natureOfBusiness, registeredOffice, principalTradingAddress, postcode	From the linked-data record (includeLinkedData). natureOfBusiness is the text the notice states, sometimes prefixed with the SIC code.
petitioner, petitionerIsHmrc, petitionerAddress, presentedBy	Petitions (2450, 2451). petitionerIsHmrc is true for HM Revenue and Customs.
courtName, courtDistrict, caseNumber	Petitions, winding-up orders, administrations and bankruptcy orders. Populated on about 9 in 10 petitions.
dateOfHearing, hearingDate, placeOfHearing, dateToRequestAppearance, dateOfPetitionPresentation	Petitions. hearingDate is the ISO date; dateOfHearing is the Gazette's own string. Scottish petitions usually have no hearing date.
dateOfAppointment, dateOfResolution, dateWoundUp, dateOfBankruptcyOrder, meetingTime, meetingLocation, typeOfLiquidation, appointedBy	Administrations, liquidations, orders and creditors' meetings, where stated.
practitioners[], practitionerFirm, contactEmail, contactTelephone	Administrators, liquidators, official receivers, trustees or the petitioner's solicitor: role, name, firm, IP number, email, telephone, address. Joint appointees are separate entries, one per person.
hasDetails, linkedData	Whether the structured record was retrieved, and the full linked-data subject so nothing is lost.

Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect via API, webhooks and Google Sheets. The Flat (CSV / Sheets) dataset view lists only flat fields, so spreadsheet exports keep one column per field. Field names are stable; they will not be renamed, so your Sheets, Zapier and Make mappings keep working.

Scheduling & automation

Daily feed of new petitions in four steps

1. Set noticeTypes to ["2450"] (or add "2410" for administrations), publishedWithinDays to 1 and tick Only new notices.
2. Click Save as task.
3. Open Schedules → Create schedule, pick Daily (for example 0 8 * * *, 08:00 UK time) and add the task.
4. Optional: in the task's Integrations tab add Google Sheets to append rows, Slack or email for a message per run, or a webhook to your backend. Make, Zapier and n8n all have an Apify module that starts the task and reads the dataset.

Each run remembers what it has already delivered for that search (stored in your own account) and charges only for new notices. The run's OUTPUT record says how many notices arrived, how many were skipped as already delivered, and how many have structured details, so a webhook or n8n flow can decide what to do without opening the dataset. Use stateName to keep several saved searches apart.

Watching specific companies rather than the whole feed? The open-source uk-insolvency-monitor template runs this Actor every morning from GitHub Actions and alerts you (GitHub issue, Slack, Telegram or Discord) when a company on your watchlist appears, matched by Companies House number.

One call from your own code (waits for the run and returns the items):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data_daemon~uk-gazette-insolvency-notices/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"noticeTypes":["2450"],"publishedWithinDays":1,"onlyNewSinceLastRun":true,"maxItems":500}'

The same endpoint works with the Apify client libraries for Python and JavaScript. For long back-fills use the asynchronous runs endpoint and fetch the dataset when the run finishes.

Pricing

Pay per event. Platform compute is included.

Event	Price	When it is charged
Notice	$0.002	Each notice saved to your dataset
Notice details	$0.003	Each notice whose structured linked-data record was retrieved (includeLinkedData, on by default)

That is $5 per 1,000 notices with structured details, or $2 per 1,000 without. Notices skipped by Only new notices are never charged, and a notice whose structured record could not be retrieved is charged as a notice only. A daily feed of new winding-up petitions costs around $3 a month; administrations alone, under $1.

Tips

• For HMRC petitions only, set text to Revenue and Customs (about half of all petitions), or filter on petitionerIsHmrc afterwards.
• Join companyNumber to Companies House or your CRM; filter postcode or natureOfBusiness for a region or industry.
• Back-fill with startPublishDate / endPublishDate and a high maxItems; the feed is sorted latest first. With structured details the Actor delivers about 1–2 notices per second (slower while The Gazette rate-limits), so the default 30-minute timeout fits roughly 1,000 notices: raise the run timeout for bigger back-fills, or split them into date windows. If a run nears its timeout it stops early, keeps every notice collected so far, finishes as succeeded and sets stoppedBeforeRunTimeout in OUTPUT.
• Keep includeLinkedData on for petitions, administrations and orders. Turn it off when you only need the notice text (for example creditors' meetings).
• The Gazette rate-limits bursts of structured-data requests. The Actor fetches them gently with retries; if the site still refuses them, the run finishes with the feed fields and reports detailsUnavailable in OUTPUT instead of failing.
• service: "wills-and-probate" reaches deceased-estates notices (personal data: reuse restrictions apply, see below).

FAQ

How much does it cost to monitor UK winding-up petitions?

$0.002 per notice plus $0.003 for the structured details record. About 140 petitions a week means roughly $3 a month for a daily feed with details.

Does it return only new notices?

Yes. Turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun; each run delivers only notices that earlier runs with the same search have not delivered, and the skipped ones are free.

Can I reuse the data commercially?

Gazette notices are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3.0, so company-level data can be reused with attribution. Personal data is excluded from the licence.

Which notice types are supported?

Any Gazette notice type code. The common corporate ones are 2450 petitions to wind up, 2452 winding-up orders, 2410 appointment of administrators, 2441 resolutions for winding up, 2432 and 2443 appointment of liquidators, 2442 meetings of creditors and 2433 notices to creditors.

Is there a data feed or API for UK winding-up petitions?

The Gazette publishes every insolvency notice in a public feed, with a structured record for each notice, but you have to page the feed, fetch each record and flatten it yourself. This Actor does that and returns one row per notice as JSON, CSV or Excel: company name and number, court and case number, petitioner, petition and hearing dates, practitioners and addresses. With Only new notices and a daily schedule it becomes a winding-up petitions data feed that delivers, and charges for, new notices only.

Do I need a proxy or login?

No. If The Gazette rate-limits the structured-data requests, the Actor switches to Apify datacenter proxy by itself.

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Support

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Licence and personal data

Gazette content is Crown copyright, reusable under the Open Government Licence v3.0 with attribution to The Gazette. The licence does not cover reuse of personal data; treat individual bankruptcies, probate notices and practitioner contact details in line with UK GDPR.