🇨🇦 CAHawk — Canada Federal Company Data Scraper (Corporations Canada)

One name or corporation number in → official Corporations Canada data out: status, registered address, business number, director limits, full annual-return filing history, and every filing activity (incorporation, amendments, arrangements) on record — plus a compliance grade (A-D) based on how current the company's federal filings actually are.

Real, official, free source (no key, no login, no proxy)

Data comes straight from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's own "Search for a Federal Corporation" system — the exact same public tool at ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy that a human would click through by hand, just automated:

1. Search — name or corporation number → matching corporation(s).
2. Detail — official JSON record per match: name (+ former names), address, business number, director min/max, annual-return history, filing-activity history.

Ambiguous names return EVERY match — never a guess

Searching "Shopify" finds 6 real, distinct companies (SHOPIFY INC., Shopify Commerce Inc., Shopify Quebec Inc., …) — CAHawk returns all of them, each as its own row with its own full record. Guessing which one you meant and silently returning only that one is exactly the class of bug this avoids by design.

What you get, per company

{
  "corporation_id": "4261607",
  "name": "SHOPIFY INC.",
  "former_names": [],
  "status": "Active",
  "governing_act": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
  "entity_type": "CBCA (for-profit)",
  "address": { "street": "151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor", "city": "OTTAWA", "province": "ON", "postal_code": "K2P 2L8", "country": "CA" },
  "business_number": "847871746",
  "director_min": 1,
  "director_max": 10,
  "annual_returns": [ { "year": "2025", "meeting_date": "2025-06-17", "type": "Distributing corporation" }, ... ],
  "last_annual_return_year": "2025",
  "recent_activities": [ { "activity": "Incorporation", "date": "2004-09-28" }, { "activity": "Amendment", "date": "2022-06-28" }, ... ],
  "compliance_score": 90,
  "compliance_grade": "A - Current & compliant"
}

Honest scope

Only covers federally incorporated companies (Canada Business Corporations Act, Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, Canada Cooperatives Act, Boards of Trade Act). Most small Canadian businesses are incorporated provincially (Ontario, BC, Alberta, …) and are not in this federal registry — an honest gap, not a guess. Provincial registries are a separate data source each, out of scope for this actor.

Who needs this

KYB / AML compliance teams · B2B sales & lead-gen (Canada market) · investors & VCs doing DACH-style due diligence on Canadian targets · accountants & lawyers verifying a counterparty's federal standing · anyone who needs to know "is this Canadian company actually active and filing on time".

Use cases

Counterparty due diligence before signing a contract · lead lists of active Canadian corporations by name · compliance/KYB checks · monitoring a portfolio company's filing status · finding a company's registered address / business number for invoicing.

Legal

Reads only the same public, free, official government data any citizen can look up by hand at Corporations Canada's own website — no login, no scraping-behind-auth, no rate-limit abuse (light concurrency by default).

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Also known as / search terms

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Install / run

$apify call cahawk --input '{"queries": ["Shopify", "426160-7"]}'