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UK GOV Companies Register Scraper (Search: Companies & Officers)

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The UK Companies Scraper extracts structured search results directly from the official UK hamber of Commerce search platform:

👉 https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

It allows you to search both companies and officers (directors / individuals) and retrieve structured registry data at scale using automated pagination and browser-based scraping.

This Actor is designed for lead generation, compliance checks, KYC enrichment, and UK company intelligence workflows.

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Overview

This scraper performs keyword-based searches on the Companies House website and iterates through paginated results using Playwright automation.

It supports:

• Company search results (registered entities)
• Officer search results (individuals linked to companies)
• Automatic pagination across result pages
• Structured parsing of listing cards
• Robust handling of dynamic DOM rendering
• Cookie banner bypass (automated dismissal)

⚠️ Important Platform Limitation (READ CAREFULLY):
Chamber of Commerce search results are limited to 50 pages (~1000 entries per query).

If your dataset appears incomplete or capped, you should refine your search term (e.g. narrower keywords, location-specific terms, or company name fragments). This is necessary to bypass platform-side result truncation.

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Features

• Search UK Camber of Commerce database by keyword
• Extract company records (name, number, status, address)
• Extract officer records (appointments, birth info, associated entities)
• Fully automated pagination handling
• Automatic cookie banner handling
• Direct links to official company/officer pages
• Structured normalization of meta fields
• Configurable max pages per run
• Resilient scraping with error handling per card

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SEO Keywords

UK Companies House scraper, Chamber of Commerce, UK business registry scraper, Companies House API alternative, UK company search tool, officer lookup UK, director search scraper, UK business intelligence, company number lookup UK, Apify Companies House scraper, UK KYC data extraction, UK corporate registry dataset

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Input

The Actor accepts the following input parameters:

Key	Type	Description	Default	Required
search_term	String	Company or officer name to search	"McDonalds London"	Yes
result_type	String	Type of results: companies, officers, all	"all"	No
max_pages	Integer	Maximum number of pages to scrape	50	No

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Example Input

{
  "search_term": "McDonalds",
  "result_type": "companies",
  "max_pages": 3
}

Example Output (companies)

{
    "search_type": "companies",
    "name": "Company name",
    "company_number": "Official Companies House number",
    "status": "Company status (e.g. active, dissolved)",
    "address": "Registered address",
    "meta": "Raw metadata string",
    "link": "Direct profile URL"
}

Example Output (officers)

{
    "search_type": "officers",
    "name": "Officer name",
    "appointments": "Number or summary of appointments",
    "birth_info": "Birth year / partial DOB info",
    "address": "Registered address",
    "meta": "Raw metadata string",
    "link": "Direct officer profile URL"
}