GLEIF Company Registry Scraper

Searches the Global LEI Index — the open company register published by GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation — and returns one flat record per legal entity. Around 3.1 million active entities worldwide, sourced from national business registers through GLEIF's accredited Local Operating Units. Search by company name or free text, narrow by country and entity status, and get the legal name, previous names, legal form, entity and registration status, the home business register plus the entity's registration number in it, jurisdiction, legal and headquarters addresses, BIC, and the matching OpenCorporates company id. No account or key of any kind is needed.

Input

Field	Default	Description
search_terms	(empty)	Comma-separated company names or keywords, e.g. solar, wind. Empty pages through entities with no name filter.
search_field	legal_name	legal_name matches the registered legal name only; fulltext matches anywhere in the record, including previous names and addresses — more results, looser.
countries	(empty)	Comma-separated ISO-3166 alpha-2 codes of the entity's legal address, e.g. DE, NL, GB. Empty searches worldwide.
entity_status	ACTIVE	ACTIVE for entities that still exist, INACTIVE for dissolved or merged ones, ANY for both.
max_results	25	Maximum records to return (1–1000).
proxyConfiguration	Optional	Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results.

Output

Each result is one legal entity:

{
    "lei": "RCGZFPDMRW58VJ54VR07",
    "name": "SALESFORCE, INC.",
    "other_names": "SALESFORCE.COM, INC.",
    "entity_status": "ACTIVE",
    "entity_category": "GENERAL",
    "legal_form_code": "XTIQ",
    "jurisdiction": "US-DE",
    "registration_authority_id": "RA000602",
    "registration_number": "2991326",
    "legal_address": "C/O THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, CORPORATION TRUST CENTER, 1209 ORANGE ST",
    "legal_city": "WILMINGTON",
    "legal_region": "US-DE",
    "legal_country": "US",
    "legal_postal_code": "19801",
    "hq_address": "Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission St.",
    "hq_city": "San Francisco",
    "hq_region": "US-CA",
    "hq_country": "US",
    "hq_postal_code": "94105",
    "creation_date": "1999-02-03T00:00:00Z",
    "registration_status": "ISSUED",
    "initial_registration_date": "2012-06-06T15:51:00Z",
    "last_update_date": "2025-10-22T08:45:46Z",
    "next_renewal_date": "2026-10-27T19:05:27Z",
    "managing_lou": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
    "bic": "SFDCUS6SXXX",
    "opencorporates_id": "us_de/2991326",
    "opencorporates_url": "https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/2991326",
    "gleif_url": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/RCGZFPDMRW58VJ54VR07",
    "raw": { ... }
}

raw keeps the original structured payload for the entity — including its event history, other addresses and any BIC, MIC or S&P identifier mappings — so nothing is lost.

Notes

• Runs with empty input — returns recently published active entities. No API key or account is required.
• This is registry data: legal identity, registration numbers and registered addresses. It does not carry work email addresses, direct-dial phone numbers, website domains, headcount or job titles, and no field is guessed or inferred.
• Coverage is limited to entities that hold an LEI, which is mandatory for entities trading in financial markets and voluntary otherwise — strongest for financial institutions, funds, listed companies and mid-to-large private companies, thin for small local businesses.
• Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results.