EU/UK Company Registry Lookup

Searches official company registries by name and returns a unified record: registration number, status, registered address, incorporation date. Sources:

• France — recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr (the French government's public company registry API — Sirene data). Free, no API key, always queried when jurisdiction is ALL or FR.
• UK — api.company-information.service.gov.uk (Companies House, the UK's official company registry). Free, but requires an API key you register yourself at developer.company-information.service.gov.uk. Without a key, the UK source is skipped and a warning says so — the run still succeeds with France-only results.

What this does NOT do

• No login, no cookies, no browser automation, no scraping of any login-walled or personal site.
• No personal data about private individuals. Registry records are public company-of-record data (company name, registration number, registered address, incorporation date); officer names, when present in a registry's public output, are public-record data about a person's role at a company, not private personal data.
• Only two jurisdictions today: France and UK. It does not cover Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, or any other EU state — those either require a paid API or don't expose a comparable free public API as of this writing. Do not assume EU-wide coverage.
• Fuzzy/partial name matching quality depends entirely on each registry's own search — this Actor does not do its own fuzzy matching or ranking beyond what the source API returns.

Output

One dataset item per run:

{
  "query": { "companyName": "Danone", "jurisdiction": "ALL" },
  "results": [
    {
      "sourceJurisdiction": "FR",
      "sourceRegistry": "recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr",
      "name": "DANONE",
      "registrationNumber": "552032534",
      "status": "active",
      "registeredAddress": "59-61 RUE LA FAYETTE 75009 PARIS",
      "incorporationDate": "2025-08-19",
      "officers": []
    }
  ],
  "warnings": ["UK skipped: no Companies House API key provided."],
  "errors": [],
  "success": true
}

success: false means every requested jurisdiction failed or was skipped — check errors and warnings before trusting an empty results array as "no company found."

Pricing

Pay-per-event, using Apify's two built-in events only: a small per-run start fee (apify-actor-start) plus $0.50 per 1,000 dataset items (apify-default-dataset-item). This Actor pushes exactly one dataset item per run (an object containing all matched companies from every queried jurisdiction), so in practice this is a flat per-run price, not a per-result or per-jurisdiction price — see the Actor's Store listing for the current exact amounts.

Corrected 2026-07-28: an earlier version of this code also called a custom charge event per jurisdiction queried (fr-registry-queried, uk-registry-queried). Those events were never registered in the monetization setup, so Apify silently ignored them — they charged nothing. Rather than register them now (which would add an undisclosed price increase on top of what was shown to users at publish time), the dead calls were removed so the code matches the price actually charged.