Company Registry & Filings Aggregator

Collect normalized, entity-level company registry and public filing data from official APIs. This Actor is designed for KYC checks, supplier due diligence, market research, finance research, compliance workflows, and business intelligence pipelines that need company facts without collecting personal contact data.

The default source is US SEC EDGAR, which works without an API key. UK Companies House is also supported when you provide your free Companies House API key.

Supported Sources

Source	Coverage	API key required	What it returns
US SEC EDGAR	US public companies	No	Company identity, CIK, tickers, exchanges, SIC data, fiscal year end, and recent filings.
UK Companies House	UK registered companies	Yes	Company profile, status, type, jurisdiction, registered office, accounts dates, confirmation statement dates, and filing history.

This Actor uses official read-only JSON APIs only. It does not use browser scraping, and it does not call Companies House officers or persons-with-significant-control endpoints. Direct SEC CIK results are saved only when the SEC response contains company or issuer evidence; individual-only SEC filers are excluded.

What It Extracts

• Source and search query
• Company number or SEC CIK
• Company name, status, type, jurisdiction, incorporation date
• SIC codes and descriptions where available
• Registered office address for Companies House records
• Tickers, exchanges, state of incorporation, fiscal year end for SEC records
• UK accounts and confirmation statement dates where available
• Recent filing metadata and document URLs
• Source URL, attribution, and scrape timestamp

SEC ownership-oriented forms (3, 4, 5, 144, Schedule 13D/G, and amendments) are excluded from recentFilings to keep output focused on company/entity-level filings.

Use Cases

• KYC checks and entity verification
• Supplier and customer due diligence
• Public-company filing monitoring
• Market research and company list enrichment
• Finance, compliance, and business intelligence workflows
• CRM enrichment with official company identifiers and source URLs

Quick Start

SEC EDGAR company lookup, no API key required:

{
  "sources": ["sec_edgar"],
  "query": "Microsoft",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "secUserAgent": "CompanyRegistryFilingsAggregator/1.0 contact@example.com"
}

Direct SEC CIK lookup:

{
  "sources": ["sec_edgar"],
  "ciks": ["0000789019"],
  "maxResults": 1,
  "secUserAgent": "CompanyRegistryFilingsAggregator/1.0 contact@example.com"
}

UK Companies House lookup with your API key:

{
  "sources": ["companies_house"],
  "companyNames": ["Tesco"],
  "maxResults": 5,
  "companiesHouseApiKey": "YOUR_COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY"
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
sources	array	["sec_edgar"]	Official APIs to query: sec_edgar, companies_house, or both.
query	string	Microsoft	Company name, ticker, or broad search term.
companyNames	string array	empty	Up to 50 company names or tickers to search. Duplicate terms are removed case-insensitively.
companyNumbers	string array	empty	Up to 1000 direct UK Companies House company numbers. companies_house must be selected.
ciks	string array	empty	Up to 1000 direct SEC CIK identifiers. Values are validated and padded to 10 digits.
maxResults	integer	10	Maximum clean records to save, from 1 to 1000.
companiesHouseApiKey	secret string	empty	Free Companies House API key, required only when companies_house is selected.
secUserAgent	string	CompanyRegistryFilingsAggregator/1.0 contact@example.com	SEC requires an application identity and contact email. Replace the placeholder with a monitored email for production use. Line breaks are rejected.
proxyConfiguration	object	no proxy	Not required for official JSON APIs, included for Apify compatibility.

Output Overview

Each dataset item represents one official company/entity record.

Records are deduplicated by source + entityId before billing. Source and filing URLs must use the matching official HTTPS host, and nested officer, director, PSC, email, phone, contact, and birth-date fields are blocked before output.

Field group	Important fields
Source context	source, query, sourceUrl, attribution, scrapedAt
Company identity	entityId, companyName, status, entityType, jurisdiction, incorporationDate
UK Companies House fields	registeredAddress, accountsNextDue, accountsLastMadeUpTo, confirmationStatementNextDue, confirmationStatementLastMadeUpTo, dissolutionDate
SEC EDGAR fields	tickers, exchanges, stateOfIncorporation, fiscalYearEnd, sicCodes
Filing metadata	lastFilingDate, recentFilings.formType, recentFilings.filingDate, recentFilings.accessionNumber, recentFilings.documentUrl

Sample Output

{
  "source": "sec_edgar",
  "query": "Microsoft",
  "entityId": "0000789019",
  "companyName": "MICROSOFT CORP",
  "status": null,
  "entityType": "public_company",
  "jurisdiction": "US SEC",
  "incorporationDate": null,
  "sicCodes": ["SIC:7372", "SIC_DESCRIPTION:Services-Prepackaged Software"],
  "registeredAddress": null,
  "tickers": ["MSFT"],
  "exchanges": ["Nasdaq"],
  "stateOfIncorporation": "WA",
  "accountsNextDue": null,
  "accountsLastMadeUpTo": null,
  "confirmationStatementNextDue": null,
  "confirmationStatementLastMadeUpTo": null,
  "dissolutionDate": null,
  "fiscalYearEnd": "0630",
  "lastFilingDate": "2026-04-24",
  "recentFilings": [
    {
      "formType": "10-Q",
      "filingDate": "2026-04-24",
      "accessionNumber": "0000950170-26-000000",
      "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000095017026000000/example.htm"
    }
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=789019&owner=exclude",
  "attribution": "SEC EDGAR public company submissions data.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-14T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event pricing.

Event	When charged	Price
apify-actor-start	When the Actor starts; one event per GB of memory, minimum one	$0.00005
company-record-scraped	Each clean company/entity record saved to the dataset	$0.004

Each unique company record is saved and charged atomically. Empty searches and failed records are not billed, and later sources stop when the user's spending limit is reached.

Reliability And API Limits

• Requests time out after 20 seconds and retry only network failures, 408, 425, 429, and 5xx responses. Permanent 4xx errors are not replayed.
• SEC requests are paced below the official 10 requests-per-second fair-access ceiling, and the ticker/company index is downloaded only once per run.
• Companies House requests are paced for its default 600 requests per 5 minutes allowance. Company search pagination is capped at 10 pages.
• When both sources are selected, the result budget reserves capacity for each source and reallocates unused capacity to later sources.
• A Companies House profile remains usable when only its optional filing-history request fails; the run logs a warning and saves the profile without filings.
• A successful no-match response finishes with zero records. Partial source failures finish with warnings when another official request succeeds. If every official API operation fails, the run fails clearly instead of presenting a misleading healthy empty dataset.

Tips For Better Results

• Start with SEC EDGAR because it does not require an API key.
• Use exact tickers such as MSFT or direct CIKs when you want precise SEC records.
• Use direct Companies House company numbers when you need exact UK entities.
• Replace the default SEC User-Agent contact email before production or scheduled use.
• Keep maxResults small for first runs, then increase it after checking the output.

Known Limits

• UK Companies House requires companiesHouseApiKey or the COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY environment variable.
• SEC company search uses the SEC ticker/company index, so private companies without SEC records will not appear.
• SEC direct CIK lookups that represent individual-only filers are intentionally skipped.
• Recent filings are capped to the latest 10 filing records per company.
• SEC ownership-oriented forms and Companies House officer/PSC data are intentionally excluded.
• A Companies House registered office is an official entity field, but some companies use a residential location as that office. Treat address data accordingly.

Attribution

Companies House data: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

SEC EDGAR data is sourced from public SEC submissions endpoints. Follow SEC fair access rules and provide an application name plus a monitored contact email in secUserAgent.

Responsible Use

This Actor is intended for lawful collection of publicly available information only. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with the source website's terms, robots.txt, applicable privacy laws, including India's DPDP Act, and all local regulations.

Do not use this Actor to collect, store, sell, or misuse personal data without a lawful basis. The Actor author is not responsible for misuse by end users.

License

Apache-2.0