UK Bankruptcy & Insolvency Register Scraper

Search the Individual Insolvency Register — the Insolvency Service's statutory record of England & Wales bankruptcies, Debt Relief Orders and IVAs. Returns name, date of birth, address, postcode, insolvency type, court, dates, restrictions and the insolvency practitioner's contact details, in structured JSON.

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UK Individual Insolvency Register Scraper Features

• Searches by name and returns every matching case — bankruptcy, Debt Relief Order, IVA, and any active restrictions order or undertaking (BRO/BRU/DRRO/DRRU)
• Extracts 20+ fields per case: personal details, court, case number, dates, status, insolvency practitioner and firm, official receiver office
• Ships with a bundled library of 150+ common UK surnames for a broad sweep out of the box. No search terms required to get started
• Also takes your own list of names for a targeted lookup instead of a broad sweep
• Returns trading names and former names where the register publishes them

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Who Needs UK Insolvency Register Data?

• Lenders and BNPL underwriters — flag applicants with an active bankruptcy or DRO before approving credit
• Landlords and letting agents — run an adverse-credit check on a prospective tenant before signing a lease
• Recruiters — undischarged bankrupts are barred from certain regulated roles (FCA-approved persons, gambling licences, security work); check before you place someone
• Debt-purchase and recovery firms — confirm a debtor's insolvency status and discharge date before pursuing a claim
• KYC and onboarding teams — append an adverse-flag to a UK individual's file, or pair it with company officer data to catch a director who is also an undischarged bankrupt

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How UK Individual Insolvency Register Scraper Works

1. Give it a name, or don't — leave searchTerms empty and it works through its own list of common UK surnames.
2. It searches the register for each name and pulls every matching case.
3. For each case, it opens the case detail page and pulls the full record — dates, court, status, restrictions, insolvency practitioner.
4. You get back a clean, deduplicated dataset. Run it again with a resumeCursor if a big sweep needs more than one pass.

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Input

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "searchTerms": ["Smith", "Patel"]
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of records to return.
searchTerms	array	—	Exact names to search — matches forename, surname, alias or trading name. Leave empty to sweep the bundled surname library instead.

Leave searchTerms empty for a broad register sweep. Set it to specific names — ["Smith"], ["Patel", "Jones"] — for a targeted lookup, the same way you'd use any of the single-name bankruptcy checkers, just with the option to check several names in one run.

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UK Individual Insolvency Register Scraper Output Fields

{
  "case_id": "750021289",
  "full_name": "Hannah Marie Smith - Bankruptcy",
  "first_name": "Hannah Marie",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "alias_names": "hannah smith",
  "date_of_birth": "21/05/1997",
  "postcode": "DH6 5HY",
  "last_known_address": "1 Front Street, Croxdale, Durham, United Kingdom, DH6 5HY",
  "occupation": "self-employed",
  "insolvency_type": "Bankruptcy",
  "case_number": "5179188/2026",
  "court": "Office of the Adjudicator",
  "insolvency_date": "22/01/2026",
  "discharge_date": "22/01/2027",
  "status": "Currently Bankrupt : Automatic Discharge will be 22/01/2027",
  "restrictions_type": null,
  "restrictions_start": null,
  "restrictions_end": null,
  "insolvency_practitioner": null,
  "ip_firm": null,
  "official_receiver_office": "Official Receiver North-East",
  "case_url": "https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/eiir/case-details/1/false/750021289/1201617125/U21pdGg",
  "query_term": "Smith",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-20T19:48:16.545Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
case_id	string	Unique case identifier on the register.
full_name	string	Full name as published (occasionally includes a case-type suffix from the source, e.g. "- Bankruptcy").
first_name	string	Forename(s).
last_name	string	Surname.
alias_names	string	Former names and trading names, semicolon-separated where more than one is published.
date_of_birth	string	Date of birth, where published.
postcode	string	Postcode from the last known address.
last_known_address	string	Full last known address.
occupation	string	Occupation, where published.
insolvency_type	string	Bankruptcy, Debt Relief Order, Individual Voluntary Arrangement, or a restrictions order/undertaking.
case_number	string	Court case number and year, where the case type has one (IVAs are not court cases and have none).
court	string	Court handling the case, where applicable.
insolvency_date	string	Order, acceptance or arrangement date depending on case type.
discharge_date	string	Discharge or completion date, where the case has reached that stage.
status	string	The register's own status text — includes suspended-discharge and moratorium detail.
restrictions_type	string	The restriction type (BRO/BRU/DRRO/DRRU), where the case is a restrictions case.
restrictions_start	string	Restriction accepted/start date.
restrictions_end	string	Restriction end date.
insolvency_practitioner	string	Named insolvency practitioner, where one is assigned.
ip_firm	string	The practitioner's firm.
official_receiver_office	string	Official Receiver or Insolvency Service office handling the case.
case_url	string	Direct link to the case on the register.
query_term	string	The search term that surfaced this record.
scraped_at	string	When this record was collected.

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Resuming a large crawl

Every run emits a resumeCursor in its Output. If a large crawl stops before it finishes — because it hit maxItems, your spend cap (maxTotalChargeUsd), or was aborted — start a new run with the same input plus that resumeCursor to continue from where it left off. The crawl resumes from the queued work the previous run didn't reach.

• You are not re-charged for records the earlier run already delivered.
• Resume within your account's run-retention window — on the free tier, roughly your 10 most recent runs. Once the source run is pruned, its resumeCursor is no longer valid.
• resumeCursor is opaque — supply it unmodified.

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FAQ

How do I check if someone is bankrupt in the UK?

UK Individual Insolvency Register Scraper searches the Insolvency Service's own register by name and returns every matching case — bankruptcy, Debt Relief Order or IVA — with dates, court and status. No account or API key required.

What data can I get from the Individual Insolvency Register?

Case type, dates, court, discharge status, restrictions, the assigned insolvency practitioner and firm, and the individual's last known address, postcode, date of birth and occupation where the register publishes them.

Can I search more than one name in a single run?

Yes. Pass an array to searchTerms — ["Smith", "Patel", "Jones"] — and it works through all of them in one run, deduplicating any case that turns up under more than one name.

Does this cover Scotland or Northern Ireland?

No. The Individual Insolvency Register covers England & Wales only; Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate insolvency registers.

Do I need an account or API key?

No. Point it at a name — or leave searchTerms empty — and it returns register data.

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Need More Features?

Need a different name list, additional fields, or a similar register for another jurisdiction? File an issue or get in touch.

Why Use UK Individual Insolvency Register Scraper?

• Bulk, not single-lookup — checks a list of names in one run instead of one search at a time
• Fields that decide the answer — most bankruptcy checkers stop at "yes/no"; this one returns the restrictions type and window, the practitioner and firm, and the discharge date — the details that determine whether a hit actually disqualifies someone
• Works with no setup — no account, no API key, no name required to start; the bundled surname library gets you a broad sweep on the default input alone