# CAHawk — Canada Federal Company Data (Corporations Canada) (`inexhaustible_glass/cahawk`) Actor

Look up any Canada federally-incorporated company by name or corporation number. Official Corporations Canada data: status, address, business number, directors, annual-return filing history & compliance grade. Free source, no API key. Canada company search / KYB / due diligence / B2B leads.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/inexhaustible\_glass/cahawk.md
- **Developed by:** [Hitman studio](https://apify.com/inexhaustible_glass) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
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## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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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

## 🇨🇦 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

```json
{
  "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).

***

#### Also known as / search terms

Canada company search, Canadian business registry, Corporations Canada search, federal
corporation lookup, CBCA search, Canada company lookup, Canada business number lookup, BN
lookup Canada, Canada KYB, Canada KYC, Canada due diligence tool, Canada company data API,
Canadian corporation status check, Canada company verification, ISED corporation search,
Canada company registry scraper, Canada business lead generation, Canadian company
directors search, Canada annual return filing check, federal incorporation lookup, Canada
company compliance check, corporation number lookup Canada, business number search Canada,
Canada company database, scrape Canadian companies, Canada B2B leads.

### Install / run

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

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One or more company names (e.g. "Shopify") or exact federal corporation numbers (e.g. "426160-7"). A name that matches multiple companies returns EVERY match as its own row, in full — never a guessed 'best' one.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many queries to process in parallel. Higher is faster but hits Corporations Canada's server harder — 3 is a polite, reliable default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "Shopify",
    "Royal Bank of Canada",
    "426160-7"
  ],
  "concurrency": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `companies` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "Shopify",
        "Royal Bank of Canada"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("inexhaustible_glass/cahawk").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 = { "queries": [
        "Shopify",
        "Royal Bank of Canada",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("inexhaustible_glass/cahawk").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "Shopify",
    "Royal Bank of Canada"
  ]
}' |
apify call inexhaustible_glass/cahawk --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/0N7l3ErQZ4AEbR2kZ/builds/Whk8xzSaY8atH5An9/openapi.json