# Company Enrichment by Domain: Verified on Official Registers (`fetchgrove/website-company-verifier`) Actor

Give a company website and get the legal entity behind it: the company number from the site's own legal pages, confirmed on the official UK, Norway, Finland, France or Ireland register, with status, incorporation date, industry codes and evidence. Company-level only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fetchgrove/website-company-verifier.md
- **Developed by:** [fetchgrove](https://apify.com/fetchgrove) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.20 / 1,000 company confirmed on a registers

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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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Company Enrichment by Domain: Verified on Official Registers

Give it a list of company websites and get, for each one, the legal entity behind the site: the company number or VAT number the site itself discloses, confirmed on the official company register, with the page and the sentence it came from.

Company-level data only. No directors, owners, contact names, emails or phone numbers, even when the page shows them.

### What you get for each website

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| Identifiers found | UK company number `09263424`, SIREN `433115904`, Norwegian organisation number `918713867`, Finnish Business ID `2905040-7`, German register number `HRB 24498` (with its court), VAT numbers |
| Evidence | the page URL and the sentence around each number, plus the legal name stated next to it |
| Company | register, number, name, legal form, status, incorporation date, industry codes, town and postcode district, link to the register page |
| Match confidence | `exact`, `probable`, `conflict` or `unverified`, with the reason in plain words |
| Registers checked | which register was asked about which number, and what it said |

### How the match is decided

- **exact**: the register's name for the number equals the legal name the site states.
- **probable**: the same name apart from the legal form ("Vipps MobilePay" and "VIPPS MOBILEPAY AS"), or the register's name matches the domain.
- **conflict**: the site states a number the register does not have, or names a different company next to it than the register does.
- **unverified**: there was nothing to confirm with: no number on the site, a number from a country whose register has no free lookup (Germany), or the register could not be reached.

It never guesses silently: every row says why.

### Registers it checks

| Country | Register | Numbers it reads on the site |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Companies House | company number (also Scottish, Northern Irish and LLP numbers) |
| France | Sirene, through the French business directory | SIREN, SIRET, French VAT number |
| Norway | Brønnøysund Register Centre | organisation number |
| Finland | Finnish Patent and Registration Office | Business ID (Y-tunnus), Finnish VAT number |
| Ireland | Companies Registration Office open data | company number |
| Germany | none (no free lookup) | Handelsregister number and court, VAT number: reported, not confirmed |

VAT numbers of other countries are reported as found and are not checked against a VAT register.

### Use it for

- **Supplier and customer checks**: who really runs this website, and is that company active?
- **Lead lists**: turn a list of websites into registered companies with industry codes and location.
- **Data cleaning**: attach the official company number to the domains in your CRM.
- **AI agents**: a structured, evidence-backed answer to "which company is behind this site?".

### How to use it

1. Add websites or domains, one per line (`octopus.energy`, `https://www.vipps.no/`).
2. Run it. Each website becomes one row you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the API.

Leave the input empty and it checks one example site, so you can see the output first.

### Input example

```json
{
  "domains": ["octopus.energy", "kahoot.com", "scaleway.com"],
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 6
}
```

### Output example

Real output for one website (shortened):

```json
{
  "domain": "kahoot.com",
  "identifiersFound": [
    {
      "type": "no-org-number",
      "value": "997770234",
      "country": "NO",
      "pageUrl": "https://trust.kahoot.com/privacy-policy/",
      "snippet": "“ Kahoot! ” means Kahoot! AS, organization number 997 770 234",
      "statedName": "Kahoot! AS"
    }
  ],
  "company": {
    "register": "no-brreg",
    "number": "997770234",
    "name": "KAHOOT! AS",
    "legalForm": "AS",
    "status": "active",
    "incorporatedOn": "2011-12-15",
    "sicOrActivityCodes": ["62.100"],
    "registeredArea": "OSLO 0160",
    "registerUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/997770234"
  },
  "matchConfidence": "exact",
  "matchReason": "The register name \"KAHOOT! AS\" equals the name stated on the site (\"Kahoot! AS\")",
  "sourcesChecked": [{ "register": "no-brreg", "number": "997770234", "result": "found" }],
  "pagesChecked": ["https://kahoot.com/", "https://trust.kahoot.com/terms-and-conditions/", "https://trust.kahoot.com/privacy-policy/"]
}
```

### Pricing

You pay only for rows with something in them.

| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Company confirmed on a register (exact or probable match) | $0.006 each ($6 per 1,000) |
| Identifiers found, but no register could confirm them | $0.002 each |
| Run start | $0.00005 per run (5 cents per 1,000 runs) |

Websites with no identifier, websites that cannot be reached and failed rows are free. The example run is free.

Free Apify plan: up to 25 websites per run.

### Good to know

- **What it reads**: the public homepage and at most five more public pages per site (legal notice, imprint, terms, privacy, about, contact), found through the site's own links or the usual addresses. It stops as soon as it has a number a register can confirm. No browser, no logins, no cookies.
- **Polite by design**: robots.txt is respected, including its crawl delay, and requests to one site are spaced out. Sites that block automated visitors are reported as such and never worked around.
- **Sites that build their footer in the browser** may show nothing to read; those rows come back without identifiers, free of charge.
- **People are never returned**: snippets stop before names of directors or contacts, and a register entry that belongs to a sole trader (a person) is left out.
- **Addresses**: only the town and postcode district of the registered office, never street lines.
- **Speed**: a few seconds per site; sites that ask for a crawl delay take longer.

### Data sources and licences

- Companies House: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Brønnøysund Register Centre: contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene.
- Finnish Patent and Registration Office: open data, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
- France: Sirene data from INSEE, through the French business directory service of the French government, under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0. Each row is read live; the register's own update date applies.
- Ireland: contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence (Companies Registration Office open data).

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Companies House, Brønnøysundregistrene, the Finnish Patent and Registration Office, INSEE, the Companies Registration Office or any government. Data is provided as published, without warranty; check the official register before relying on it for a legal or financial decision.

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# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Company websites, as bare domains (octopus.energy) or URLs (https://www.vipps.no/). Each becomes one row. Duplicates are removed; a value that is not a public domain returns a free error row. If empty, the run checks one example site (starlingbank.com), free of charge.

## `maxPagesPerDomain` (type: `integer`):

Pages read on each site, homepage included (1-6). The actor stops early once it has found a number a register can confirm.

## `companiesHouseApiKey` (type: `string`):

Your own free Companies House API key, if you want UK look-ups to use your own rate limit. Leave empty to use the actor's key.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "starlingbank.com",
    "vipps.no",
    "scaleway.com"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 6
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per website: the identifiers it discloses and the company the register confirms.

# 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 = {
    "domains": [
        "starlingbank.com",
        "vipps.no",
        "scaleway.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fetchgrove/website-company-verifier").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 = { "domains": [
        "starlingbank.com",
        "vipps.no",
        "scaleway.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fetchgrove/website-company-verifier").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 '{
  "domains": [
    "starlingbank.com",
    "vipps.no",
    "scaleway.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call fetchgrove/website-company-verifier --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fetchgrove/website-company-verifier"
        }
    }
}
```

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/HegG1UzvSzqFqtQ0N/builds/jyGHJW01AGaA4l44v/openapi.json