🇬🇧 United Kingdom Company Registry Scraper — Companies House

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Search United Kingdom companies by name and get the full company record — identity and legal status (active, liquidation, insolvency, struck off) — straight from the official Companies House. Every result carries legal form, registered address, incorporation date, activity and VAT where the registry publishes them. Batch dozens in one run. Rich JSON, no API key. Think of it as Pappers, but for United Kingdom.

High-volume name search: this actor reads the public registry portal. For heavy name-search volume, enable the Apify Proxy option to avoid IP rate-limits. Single lookups work without it.

What it does

• Search by name (mode=search) → matching companies, each enriched to a full record (legal form, registered address, incorporation date, activity, VAT) — not just a name. Set richResults: false for a fast, lightweight candidate list instead.
• Lookup by ID (mode=lookup) → one full company by its company number.
• Normalized status → legal status is mapped to one vocabulary so you can compare companies across every country in this scraper family.
• Batch → pass a queries list to resolve many companies in a single run.

Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "Tesco",
  "richResults": true,
  "maxResults": 10
}

Output (rich record per company)

Field	Meaning
siren	Local registration identifier (company number)
nom_complet	Company name
statut	Legal status (normalized)
forme_juridique	Legal form
adresse_siege	Registered address
date_creation	Incorporation date
activite_libelle / activite_principale	Activity (label / code)
tva_intracommunautaire	VAT number (where published)
en_procedure_collective	true if in a collective/insolvency procedure

Field availability depends on what the Companies House publishes for free; the actor returns every field the source exposes.

Use cases

• KYC / compliance — verify a counterparty is active and not in insolvency.
• B2B prospecting & lead gen — build clean company lists with official identifiers.
• CRM / data enrichment — append legal name, status, address, activity, VAT.
• Supplier & partner vetting — flag liquidation / struck-off before you sign.

Related company registry scrapers

Same actor family, other countries — search by name, get the full record:

• France — Pappers / Sirene (SIREN/SIRET)
• Netherlands — KVK Handelsregister
• Italy — Registro Imprese
• Switzerland — Zefix
• Belgium — BCE / KBO

→ Browse them all: search "company registry scraper" on the Apify Store.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or account? No. The actor reads the official public Companies House; just run it.

How fresh is the data? It is fetched live from the registry at run time, so it reflects the current public record.

Can I look a company up by its company number? Yes — set mode: lookup and pass the company number in query (or a list in queries).

Is this legal? It reads only public official-registry information and degrades gracefully (no result rather than an error) when the source is unavailable.

How am I charged? Pay-per-event, per resolved query — one search (which can return many enriched rows) or one lookup. not_found / no_results are not charged.

Source & legality

Data comes from the official Companies House (United Kingdom), a public source. The actor reads only public information and never bypasses authentication or paywalls.

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