Australia New Companies Feed: ASIC Weekly Registrations

Get every newly registered Australian company from the official ASIC Company Dataset (published weekly on data.gov.au): company name, ACN, ABN (when issued), company type, class, sub class, status, registration date and an ABN Lookup link. Optionally add deregistrations, name changes, strike-off actions and new external administrations (receivership / liquidation / administration), all in one clean schema. Filter by company type, sub class or name keyword, drop superannuation trustee companies, and schedule it with "new since last run" mode to get only companies you have not seen.

Uses the free official ASIC bulk file (CC BY 3.0 AU): no API key, no login, no scraping of ASIC Connect search pages.

Who it's for

• Accountants, bookkeepers and tax agents: every new Pty Ltd needs a first BAS, tax return and ASIC annual review. Get a weekly list of new companies to reach first.
• Business banks, payment providers, insurers, payroll / HR and accounting SaaS: reach new businesses in the first weeks, when they pick providers.
• B2B sales teams and agencies (web, branding, signage, fit-out, telecom, merchant services): new-company trigger lists by keyword ("solar", "construction", "cafe", "health").
• Credit, risk, KYC and collections teams: weekly lists of companies newly in external administration, under strike-off action or deregistered, plus name changes to keep customer records current.
• Brand protection and journalists: watch new registrations and renames that contain a brand or keyword; track business formation in Australia.

What you get

Each record is one company event:

• Event: newRegistration, deregistration, nameChange, strikeOffAction or externalAdministration, with the event date.
• Identity: current company name, former names (name changes), ACN (or ARBN for registered bodies), ABN (formatted too) when issued.
• Type: company type (APTY proprietary, APUB public, FNOS foreign, RACN registered body, CCIV), class (limited by shares / guarantee ...), sub class (proprietary, super trustee, non-profit, listed ...) with plain-English labels and isSuperannuationTrustee / isNonProfit flags.
• Status and dates: status code and label, registration date, deregistration date, current-name start date, previous state of registration.
• Link to the company's record on the government's ABN Lookup.

Entity-level only: the ASIC company register contains companies and registered bodies only (no sole traders), and the bulk file has no officeholder names, addresses, phones or emails. Proprietary companies named only after a person (e.g. "J SMITH PTY LTD") are dropped by default.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free and run the default input {}: the 30 newest company registrations in the latest weekly snapshot (person-named companies excluded).
2. Narrow it down, for example new solar / energy companies, no super-fund trustees, last 4 weeks:

{ "nameKeywords": ["solar", "energy", "battery"], "excludeSuperannuationTrustees": true, "daysBack": 28, "maxItems": 200 }

3. For alerts, set "mode": "sinceLastRun" and schedule the Actor weekly (Wednesday, after ASIC's Tuesday upload). Each run returns only records you have not received before (per stateKey).

More recipes

• New public companies and not-for-profits: { "companyTypes": ["APUB"], "daysBack": 14, "maxItems": 500 }
• Distress watch: { "eventTypes": ["externalAdministrations", "strikeOffs"], "maxItems": 5000 }
• Renames this week: { "eventTypes": ["nameChanges"], "maxItems": 2000 }
• New foreign companies registering in Australia: { "companyTypes": ["FNOS"], "daysBack": 60, "fullScan": true }

Input

Field	Default	Description
eventTypes	["newRegistrations"]	also deregistrations, nameChanges, strikeOffs, externalAdministrations (these scan the full ~400 MB file: about 2 minutes at the default 512 MB, faster with more memory)
mode	window	window = stateless lookback; sinceLastRun = only records not delivered before (per stateKey)
daysBack	7	event-date window (1-365 days) ending on the newest registration date in the snapshot
companyTypes	all	APTY, APUB, FNOS, RACN, CCIV (or proprietary, public, foreign)
subClasses	all	ASIC codes such as PROP, PSTC, PNPC, ULST, ULSN, LIST
nameKeywords / excludeNameKeywords	none	name contains any / none of these
excludeSuperannuationTrustees	false	drop super-fund trustee companies
onlyWithAbn	false	keep only records that already have an ABN
excludePersonNamedCompanies	true	drop "FIRSTNAME SURNAME PTY LTD"-style names
autoExtend	true	widen a short window (narrow filters) by up to 28 days
fullScan	false	scan the whole file for new registrations (catches rare out-of-sequence ACNs/ARBNs)
maxItems	30	max records per run
stateKey	default	separate saved state per saved search

Output (example, real records from the 26 Oct 2026 snapshot)

[
  {
    "eventType": "newRegistration",
    "eventDate": "2026-10-26",
    "name": "GRAIL SOCIETY PTY LTD",
    "previousNames": [],
    "acn": "703560543",
    "arbn": null,
    "abn": null,
    "abnFormatted": null,
    "companyType": "APTY",
    "companyTypeLabel": "Australian proprietary company",
    "companyClass": "LMSH",
    "companyClassLabel": "Limited by shares",
    "subClass": "PROP",
    "subClassLabel": "Proprietary other",
    "status": "REGD",
    "statusLabel": "Registered",
    "registrationDate": "2026-10-26",
    "deregistrationDate": null,
    "currentNameStartDate": null,
    "previousStateOfRegistration": null,
    "isSuperannuationTrustee": false,
    "isNonProfit": false,
    "modifiedSinceLastReport": true,
    "snapshotDate": "2026-10-26",
    "abrUrl": "https://abr.business.gov.au/Search/ResultsActive?SearchText=703560543",
    "source": "ASIC Company Dataset (data.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU)",
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-11-01T05:03:22.176Z"
  },
  {
    "eventType": "nameChange",
    "eventDate": "2026-10-26",
    "name": "CEDARS CRUST PTY LTD",
    "previousNames": [
      "BARRY'S LAWN-MOWING & MAINTENANCE PTY LTD"
    ],
    "acn": "694972515",
    "arbn": null,
    "abn": "82694972515",
    "abnFormatted": "82 694 972 515",
    "companyType": "APTY",
    "companyTypeLabel": "Australian proprietary company",
    "companyClass": "LMSH",
    "companyClassLabel": "Limited by shares",
    "subClass": "PROP",
    "subClassLabel": "Proprietary other",
    "status": "REGD",
    "statusLabel": "Registered",
    "registrationDate": "2026-02-04",
    "deregistrationDate": null,
    "currentNameStartDate": "2026-10-26",
    "previousStateOfRegistration": null,
    "isSuperannuationTrustee": false,
    "isNonProfit": false,
    "modifiedSinceLastReport": false,
    "snapshotDate": "2026-10-26",
    "abrUrl": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=82694972515",
    "source": "ASIC Company Dataset (data.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU)",
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-11-01T05:03:22.176Z"
  }
]

A run summary is saved to the OUTPUT record: snapshot date, windows, counts by event, company type and date, rows scanned and records dropped by each filter.

Data source, timing and fair use

• ASIC Company Dataset on data.gov.au, published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia. Source: ASIC (data.gov.au). This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by ASIC or the Australian Government.
• ASIC uploads a fresh snapshot every Tuesday (Australian time). Records are therefore up to a week old; the newest day in a snapshot is partial. ASIC Connect has real-time data if you need it.
• New registrations are read from the end of the file (it is sorted by ACN and ACNs are issued in sequence), usually 2-5 MB in one or two requests. Other event types (and fullScan) download the full ~400 MB file with a few parallel range requests and parse 4.4 million rows: about 2 minutes at 512 MB (CPU-bound; give the run 1-2 GB memory to speed it up).
• strikeOffs and externalAdministrations use the snapshot's "modified since last report" flag (the status changed since the previous weekly upload), so their event date is the snapshot date.
• Deregistered companies stay in the dataset for about a year.

Pricing

Pay per event (Apify takes care of billing; you only pay for what is delivered):

Event	Price	Charged
apify-actor-start	$0.005	once per run
company-record	$0.003	per company record delivered

A default test run (30 companies) costs about $0.095. A weekly keyword alert (~20 matches/week) costs about $0.065/week. The full national firehose (~5,500 new companies per week) costs about $16.50/week. maxItems and Apify's max cost per run cap your spend; the Actor stops delivering when your budget is reached, so you are never charged for more than you set. No separate platform-usage charges: compute is included in the event prices.

FAQ

Why do many new companies have no ABN? ABNs are applied for separately at the Australian Business Register, usually days or weeks after ASIC registration. Use onlyWithAbn to keep only those that already have one, or re-check later via abrUrl.

Why are there no directors, addresses or contact details? The ASIC bulk dataset does not include them, and this is an entity-level feed by design. Officeholder and address extracts are paid products on ASIC Connect.

How fresh is the data? Weekly. ASIC uploads every Tuesday; run the Actor on Wednesday for the newest week.

Can I backfill? Yes: daysBack up to 365 with a higher maxItems (only companies still in the current snapshot are included).

What is a superannuation trustee company? A company set up only to act as trustee of a (self-managed) super fund (sub class PSTC). They are a large share of new registrations but rarely trade; drop them with excludeSuperannuationTrustees.