🇬🇧 UK Companies House Scraper (UKHawk)

Scrape UK Companies House data: company name, status, incorporation date, SIC codes, registered address, risk score — plus four deep, opt-in data sets most UK scrapers don't have: directors/officers, real beneficial owners (PSC), charges & mortgages (the UK equivalent of a US UCC filing), and filing history with direct links to the original PDFs.

Keywords: UK companies house scraper · uk company data · director search · beneficial owner / PSC search · UCC-equivalent UK charges · company status · UK B2B leads · due diligence · KYB · AML.

Use cases

• B2B prospecting & lead generation in the UK
• Due diligence, KYB, AML & compliance (real beneficial ownership, not just directors)
• Lenders / MCA brokers targeting companies with active secured charges
• Company & competitor research, with the actual filed documents

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["Monzo"], "includePSC": true, "includeCharges": true }

All four deep-data options (includeOfficers, includePSC, includeCharges, includeFilingHistory) default to off — turn on only what you need.

What you get

Core (always included): company name, number, status, type, incorporated/dissolved dates, registered address, SIC codes + auto industry classification, risk score/grade, new-company flag, previous company names (real due-diligence signal — verified live: NatWest Group PLC's real 3-name history back to 1968), and computed accounts_overdue / confirmation_statement_overdue flags.

includePSC — Persons with Significant Control (real example, live):

{
  "name": "Mr Olulana Kayode Ogebule",
  "correspondence_address": "79 Wilton Rd Gloucester, Wilton Road, Gloucester, GL1 5NL",
  "notified_on": "2019-05-15",
  "date_of_birth": "September 1976",
  "nationality": "Nigerian",
  "country_of_residence": "United Kingdom",
  "nature_of_control": ["Ownership of shares – 75% or more", "Right to appoint or remove directors"]
}

Public companies are legally exempt from PSC disclosure — you get an honest psc_exempt_reason, never a guess.

includeCharges — Charges & mortgages (real example, live):

{
  "description": "Account security agreement",
  "created_on": "2009-11-04", "delivered_on": "2009-11-06",
  "status": "Outstanding",
  "persons_entitled": ["Deutsche Bank Ag", "Rbs Aerospace Limited"],
  "particulars": "Right title benefit and interest in and to the account…"
}

"Outstanding" = an active secured loan (a live lead); "Satisfied" = paid off.

includeFilingHistory — every filing + a working link to the original PDF:

{ "date": "2019-09-24", "type": "GAZ2(A)", "description": "Final Gazette dissolved…",
  "document_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/.../document?format=pdf&download=0" }

Companies House's own "View PDF" button resolves to a pre-signed AWS URL valid for only ~60 seconds — this actor stores the stable redirect link instead, which keeps generating a fresh valid PDF link every time it's opened, indefinitely.

includeOfficers: name, role, correspondence address, appointed/resigned dates, nationality, country of residence. (Personal email/phone are not published by law.)

Why it's reliable

Every per-company fetch is wrapped so one company's unexpected page structure can never take down a multi-hundred-company run — it comes back as an honest per-item error instead.

Legal

100% public Companies House data, no login, no paywall, no anti-bot bypass.

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Also known as / search terms

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