# Companies House UK Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🇬🇧🔎 (`delectable_incubator/companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape UK company data from Companies House 🇬🇧🔎 with a powerful business scraper. Extract company names, company numbers, incorporation dates, registered addresses, and profile URLs from keyword searches. Ideal for lead generation, business intelligence, and UK market research 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

<p align="center"> <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="Companies House UK Scraper" width="100%"> </p>

---

###  📊 Companies House UK Scraper 🇬🇧🏢🔎

The Companies House UK Scraper is a powerful and scalable Apify Actor designed to extract structured company listings directly from the official UK Companies House registry.

It enables business intelligence, lead generation, compliance research, company verification, market analysis, and structured dataset creation from one of the largest public company databases in the United Kingdom.

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or more Companies House search keywords and the scraper handles everything automatically.

✅ Extracts structured company listings from Companies House

✅ Supports multiple search keywords

✅ Handles pagination automatically

✅ Applies max_items limits per keyword

✅ Collects company registration metadata

✅ Extracts incorporation dates and addresses

✅ Captures previous company names when available

✅ Generates clean and structured datasets

✅ Ready for business intelligence & analytics workflows

✅ Export-ready output format

---

### 📊 Data Extracted

🏢 Company Listing Information

| Field               | Description                                |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| 🏢 `companyName`    | Official company name                      |
| 🆔 `companyNumber`  | Unique Companies House registration number |
| 📅 `incorporatedOn` | Company incorporation date                 |
| 📍 `address`        | Registered office address                  |
| 🔁 `previousNames`  | Historical company names                   |
| 🧾 `metaLine`       | Additional listing metadata                |
| 🔗 `companyUrl`     | Direct Companies House profile URL         |

---

### 🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Configure Input  

Provide one or more Companies House search keywords:

````

{
"keywords": \[
"technology",
"fintech",
"healthcare"
],
"maxitems": 50
}

```

2️⃣ Run the Actor

• Loads company listings for each keyword

• Automatically paginates search results

• Extracts structured company data

• Collects incorporation and address metadata

• Stops when maxitems is reached per keyword

• Detects and stops after consecutive empty pages


3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML


---

### ⚙️ Input Configuration

#### 📥 Input Example

```

{
"keywords": \[
"technology",
"fintech",
"healthcare"
],
"maxitems": 50
}

```



#### Input Fields

| Field      | Type    | Description                                        |
| ---------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| `keywords` | array   | List of Companies House search keywords            |
| `maxitems` | integer | Maximum number of companies to extract per keyword |

---


### 📤 Output Example

```

{
"companyName": "BETTERLIFE WELLNESS LTD",
"companyNumber": "16088551",
"incorporatedOn": "19 November 2024",
"address": "4 Butler Close, Whitnash, Leamington Spa, England, CV31 2DJ",
"previousNames": \[
"HEALTH AND WELLNESS LTD"
],
"metaLine": "16088551 - Incorporated on 19 November 2024",
"companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16088551"
}

````

---

### 📊 Output explanation

| Use Case                      | Description                               |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| 🏢 Business Intelligence      | Build structured UK company datasets      |
| 📊 Lead Generation            | Discover companies in targeted sectors    |
| 📈 Market Research            | Analyze company formation trends          |
| 🔎 Compliance & Due Diligence | Verify official company registration data |
| 🤖 CRM & Automation Pipelines | Feed company data into analytics systems  |

---

### 🌍 Why Use This Scraper? 

🚀 Extract Companies House listings at scale

📊 Clean and structured business datasets

🏢 Track newly registered UK companies

🌍 Analyze companies across industries and regions

⚡ Fully automated pagination & extraction

🧲 Ideal for lead generation and compliance workflows

🤖 Automation-ready for analytics pipelines

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Companies House or the UK Government.

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay per events subscription model**.

You only pay for **successful runs**.

💳 **Price:** $1.49 / 1000 results

---

### Related Actors 

If you're interested in other Company Leads, Business Intelligence, Jobs, or Research scraping solutions, explore more tools:

(Coming soon)

---

### 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a 5-star rating if you like this tool

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape

Built for scalable web data extraction & automation

Contact for custom scraping solutions or enterprise requests via Apify or by email.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

List of keywords to search on Companies House. One search is run per keyword — pagination is handled automatically.

Examples:
• business
• health
• tech london
• renewable energy

Each keyword maps to:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=<keyword>
## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of company records to collect per keyword.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "health",
    "technology"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "health",
        "technology"
    ],
    "maxitems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost").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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "health",
        "technology",
    ],
    "maxitems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "health",
    "technology"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "gLSlfwOrQtXplh2f9"
    },
    "servers": [
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            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
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                "tags": [
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                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
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                "parameters": [
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
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                }
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                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
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            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-companies-house-uk-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
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                "type": "object",
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                    "maxitems"
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                "properties": {
                    "keywords": {
                        "title": "Search Keywords 🏢",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of keywords to search on Companies House. One search is run per keyword — pagination is handled automatically.\n\nExamples:\n• business\n• health\n• tech london\n• renewable energy\n\nEach keyword maps to:\nhttps://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=<keyword>",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxitems": {
                        "title": "Maximum Companies per Keyword 📄",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of company records to collect per keyword.",
                        "default": 50
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
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                                "type": "string"
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                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
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                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
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                            "containerUrl": {
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```