# UK Companies House Scraper: Directors, Leads & Emails (`euroscrape/uk-companies`) Actor

Scrape the UK Companies House register by SIC code, location, incorporation date and status. Get company profiles, directors and officers, and optionally the website, emails and phones. No 10,000-result cap. Monitor new incorporations and changes.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/euroscrape/uk-companies.md
- **Developed by:** [EuroScrape](https://apify.com/euroscrape) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.80 / 1,000 companies

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

## UK Companies House Scraper: Directors, Leads & Emails

Build **UK B2B lead lists** from the official Companies House register. Filter by industry (SIC code), location, incorporation date, status and company type. For every company you get its full profile, directors and officers, accounts and confirmation-statement dates. Optionally, the Actor also finds the **company's own website, emails and phone numbers**.

No API key and no Companies House account needed.

### ✨ Why this Actor

| | |
|---|---|
| 🌐 **Websites, emails & phones** | Other Companies House scrapers stop at the register. This one also finds each company's own website and extracts its emails, phones and social links. A site is marked `verified_company_number` when it shows the company number (UK law requires it). It is marked `probable` when the domain and the page both match the company's full name, or the domain and the registered postcode. Billed only when a website is found. |
| ♾️ **No 10,000-result cap** | Companies House search stops at 10,000 results. The Actor splits large searches by incorporation date automatically, so you can export a whole industry. |
| 🆕 **New-incorporation feeds** | `incorporatedInLastDays: 7` combined with a schedule gives you a weekly list of brand-new companies in your sector and area, the classic lead source for accountants, banks, insurers and web agencies. |
| 🔔 **Change monitoring** | Get alerted when a company changes status (for example into liquidation), name, registered office, SIC codes, active directors or accounts, with before/after values. |
| 🧾 **Clean data** | ISO dates, postcodes extracted, SIC codes with descriptions, an overdue-accounts flag, charges and insolvency flags, directors split into first and last names, and identity-verification status. |
| ⚖️ **Balanced results** | With several SIC codes, results are interleaved between them, not all from the first code. |

### 🎯 Use cases

- **Prospecting**: every active plumbing and heating company in Manchester, with director names, website, email and phone.
- **New business leads**: IT consultancies incorporated in London in the last 7 days, delivered every Monday.
- **Credit and KYC monitoring**: get notified when a client or supplier's status, directors or registered office changes.
- **Market research**: how many companies in a SIC code were incorporated or dissolved in a region and period.

### 🚀 Examples

**Plumbers & heating engineers in Manchester, with contacts:**

```json
{ "sicCodes": ["43220"], "location": "Manchester", "findContacts": true, "maxItems": 300 }
```

**Weekly feed of new IT companies in London (schedule weekly):**

```json
{ "sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"], "location": "London", "incorporatedInLastDays": 7, "monitorName": "new-it-london", "monitorChanges": false }
```

**Watch your own list of companies for changes (schedule daily):**

```json
{ "companyNumbers": ["00445790", "SC123456"], "monitorName": "my-suppliers" }
```

### 📦 Output (a real company; person names hidden here)

```json
{
  "companyNumber": "08552457",
  "name": "APG PLUMBING & HEATING LTD",
  "status": "active",
  "companyType": "Private limited Company",
  "incorporatedOn": "2013-05-31",
  "ageYears": 13,
  "registeredOffice": "21 Woods Lane, Dobcross, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, OL3 5AL",
  "postcode": "OL3 5AL",
  "sicCodes": [
    {
      "code": "43220",
      "description": "Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation"
    }
  ],
  "accounts": {
    "nextMadeUpTo": "2026-05-31",
    "nextDueBy": "2027-02-28",
    "lastMadeUpTo": "2025-05-31",
    "overdue": false
  },
  "confirmationStatement": {
    "nextDueBy": "2027-06-14",
    "lastDated": "2026-05-31"
  },
  "previousNames": [],
  "hasCharges": false,
  "hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
  "officersCount": 2,
  "activeDirectors": [
    "…"
  ],
  "officers": [
    {
      "role": "Director",
      "birthMonth": "1989-08",
      "appointedOn": "2013-06-21",
      "nationality": "British",
      "countryOfResidence": "England",
      "identityVerification": "verified",
      "status": "active",
      "name": "…"
    }
  ],
  "website": "https://apgplumbingheating.co.uk/",
  "websiteConfidence": "probable",
  "primaryEmail": "info@apgplumbingheating.co.uk",
  "emails": [
    "info@apgplumbingheating.co.uk"
  ],
  "phones": [
    "+44 1617265142",
    "+44 7582227153",
    "+44 7852227153"
  ],
  "socials": {
    "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/www.apgplumbers.co.uk",
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/apgplumbingandheating/"
  },
  "contactsSource": "domain_match",
  "links": {
    "companiesHouse": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08552457",
    "officers": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08552457/officers"
  }
}
```

### 🌐 How contact enrichment works

1. We guess the likely domains from the company name (`.co.uk`, `.com`, `.uk`, with and without "and", "ltd" and hyphens) and keep only those that exist.
2. We read the home page, the legal, terms and privacy pages, and the contact page.
3. We keep the site if it shows the company number (`verified_company_number`), or if both the domain and the page match the full company name, or if the domain and the registered postcode match (`probable`). Otherwise we return nothing rather than a wrong site.

In our tests on established plumbing and heating companies in Leeds and Manchester, **about 1 in 5 to 1 in 3** companies received a website. Most had an email and a phone. Brand-new companies rarely have a website yet.

### 💰 Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Company (profile + officers) | **$4 / 1,000 companies** |
| Website + contacts found (only when found) | **$25 / 1,000 enriched companies** |
| Run start | $0.003 |

### ❓ FAQ

- **Is this legal?** Companies House data is public. Officer names and months of birth are personal data: use them in line with UK GDPR and PECR, for example B2B outreach with a legitimate interest and an easy opt-out.
- **Which location does the filter use?** The registered office address. It's often an accountant's office, so a company may trade elsewhere.
- **Why do monitoring runs take longer?** To detect changes, every company matching your filters is re-checked. Keep monitored searches focused, for example with a SIC code plus a location, or with `incorporatedInLastDays`.

*Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Not affiliated with Companies House.*

### ⭐ Your feedback

If this Actor saves you time, a short review on Apify Store helps other users find it. Missing a field, a country or a filter? Say it in your review: the most requested features are added first.

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# Actor input Schema

## `sicCodes` (type: `array`):

5-digit UK SIC 2007 codes, e.g. 43220 (plumbing & heating), 62020 (IT consultancy), 56101 (restaurants). Each code is searched separately and results are merged.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Town, county or postcode in the registered office address, e.g. "Leeds", "Manchester", "SW1".

## `companyNameIncludes` (type: `string`):

Optional word(s) the company name must contain.

## `companyNameExcludes` (type: `string`):

Optional word(s) to exclude from company names.

## `incorporatedInLastDays` (type: `integer`):

Shortcut for new-business feeds, e.g. 7. Overrides "Incorporated from".

## `incorporatedFrom` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD.

## `incorporatedTo` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD.

## `dissolvedFrom` (type: `string`):

Only for dissolved companies.

## `dissolvedTo` (type: `string`):

Only for dissolved companies.

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

Default: active companies only.

## `companyTypes` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all types.

## `subtypes` (type: `array`):

Optional.

## `companyNumbers` (type: `array`):

Enrich your own list: one Companies House number per line (e.g. 00445790, SC123456). Other filters are then ignored.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

No 10,000 cap: large searches are split automatically by incorporation date.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

SIC descriptions, accounts & confirmation statement dates (incl. overdue flag), previous names, charges and insolvency flags.

## `includeOfficers` (type: `boolean`):

Name, role, appointment/resignation dates, month of birth, nationality, country of residence, occupation, identity verification status.

## `maxOfficersPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Large PLCs can have hundreds of past officers.

## `findContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Find the company's own website, check it against the company number or the full company name, then extract emails, phones and social links. Billed only when a website is found.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Name this search and schedule it: each run then returns only NEW companies matching your filters and companies whose key data CHANGED (status, name, registered office, SIC, active directors, accounts, type), with before/after values. The first run is the baseline.

## `monitorChanges` (type: `boolean`):

If off, the monitor only reports new companies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sicCodes": [
    "43220"
  ],
  "location": "Leeds",
  "statuses": [
    "active"
  ],
  "maxItems": 15,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "maxOfficersPerCompany": 50,
  "findContacts": false,
  "monitorChanges": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Profile, directors and filing dates.

## `contacts` (type: `string`):

Website, emails and phones.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Counters for this run (items found, output, errors).

# 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 = {
    "sicCodes": [
        "43220"
    ],
    "location": "Leeds",
    "maxItems": 15
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("euroscrape/uk-companies").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 = {
    "sicCodes": ["43220"],
    "location": "Leeds",
    "maxItems": 15,
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sicCodes": [
    "43220"
  ],
  "location": "Leeds",
  "maxItems": 15
}' |
apify call euroscrape/uk-companies --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,euroscrape/uk-companies"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FLAf1LqHChsR7BQC0/builds/93XAizB8fumexGxTN/openapi.json