# UK Companies House Filing Deadline Brief (`jpmarketdata/uk-companies-house-filing-deadline-brief`) Actor

Check exact UK company numbers for public register status and displayed accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, with clear attention labels.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jpmarketdata/uk-companies-house-filing-deadline-brief.md
- **Developed by:** [h ichi](https://apify.com/jpmarketdata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 filing deadline brief createds

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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## UK Companies House Filing Deadline Brief

For an exact UK company number, return a one-row status and displayed filing-date brief for supplier monitoring. A procurement user can ask: Is this known supplier active, and are its next accounts or confirmation statement due soon? This is a register snapshot, not a legal compliance, credit, fraud or transaction recommendation.

### Input

Supply one to three exact eight-character `companyNumbers`, including leading zeroes. Eight digits and official two-letter/six-digit forms are accepted only after exact page identity validation. `dueSoonDays` defaults to 30 and accepts 1–60 calendar days. The default input contains two active test companies.

### Output

One row per exact company with its public name and status; displayed next accounts and confirmation due dates; signed calendar days until each date; per-date `past_due`, `due_soon`, `not_due` or `unknown`; and overall `inactive`, `past_due`, `due_soon`, `clear` or `unknown`. Date fields are omitted when not shown. Dissolved is `inactive` even with no future due dates. An active company with either missing deadline is `unknown`, never `clear`. A past date describes the current page, not proof a filing was not submitted. `Source: Companies House public register` appears in each row.

Status handling follows the [official Companies House status labels](https://github.com/companieshouse/api-enumerations/blob/master/constants.yml#L2437-L2479): exact `Active` uses the due-date classifications; `Dissolved`, `Converted / Closed`, `Closed`, and `Removed` are `inactive`; recognized liquidation, receivership, administration, voluntary arrangement, insolvency, open and registered states are `unknown` for overall attention. A known status detail such as `Active — Active proposal to strike off` is also `unknown`. An unrecognized status or detail is a source-structure failure and produces no charged row.

### Limits

At most three public company-overview GETs plus one robots GET per run, with two seconds between company pages, 1 MiB/page, 30 seconds/request, and 256 MB memory. No browser, proxy, paid API, login or cookie. A 404, challenge, 429, identity mismatch, malformed required status or date, timeout, or size breach fails explicitly before delivery/charge.

### Privacy

Only company-level identity/status and displayed next dates are read into the output. Officers, people with significant control, registered-office addresses, filing prose, documents, contacts and raw HTML are excluded.

### Price

One primary `filing-deadline-brief-created` event at $0.01 per delivered company decision row. No start or secondary charge; at most three rows cost $0.03. A failed source yields no paid row.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyNumbers` (type: `array`):

One to three exact eight-character Companies House numbers, preserving leading zeroes. Accept eight digits or two uppercase letters and six digits.

## `dueSoonDays` (type: `integer`):

Classify a displayed due date within this many calendar days as due\_soon.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyNumbers": [
    "00445790",
    "00519500"
  ],
  "dueSoonDays": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "companyNumbers": [
        "00445790",
        "00519500"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jpmarketdata/uk-companies-house-filing-deadline-brief").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 = { "companyNumbers": [
        "00445790",
        "00519500",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jpmarketdata/uk-companies-house-filing-deadline-brief").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 '{
  "companyNumbers": [
    "00445790",
    "00519500"
  ]
}' |
apify call jpmarketdata/uk-companies-house-filing-deadline-brief --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jpmarketdata/uk-companies-house-filing-deadline-brief"
        }
    }
}
```

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/hd1Jh3olgWDgLCZB3/builds/hm3OCZYbkf51F5vXd/openapi.json