🔎 UK Gambling Business Licence Roster

One gambling_business_record per licensed business — Account Number and Licence Account Name — the two source columns plus provenance, sold honestly as a roster. No invented licence detail.

One structured registry_record per record from the Gambling Commission official business-licence-register businesses CSV (~2,664 accounts, robots allows all). Public, logged-out, robots-honoured.

Output is one gambling_business_record row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one registry record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.02 per registry record). Source: www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run 8oE5HoHe1sPSxq6Rc on build 0.1.4 (2026-09-18), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

account_number	licence_account_name
67583	1st Class Bet Ltd
31091	2 Fat Ladies Leisure Limited
54620	20Shots Limited
67529	312 Investments Limited
39430	32Red Limited
66806	36Gaming Limited
53858	4 The Company Limited
56709	49’s Limited

The run finished with the status message: CAPPED: delivered 50 of 51 unique rows (maxRecords=50). billable=50

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string) — e.g. gambling_business_record
• account_number (string/null) — e.g. 67583
• licence_account_name (string/null) — e.g. 1st Class Bet Ltd
• source (string/null) — e.g. uk-gambling-business-licence-roster
• release_date (string/null) — null in every sample row
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-register-busine
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-18T05:52:47Z
• terminal (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• reported_total (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• raw_seen (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• duplicates (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• unique_found (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• delivered (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• scope (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• note (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row

What you get

One registry_record per entity, deduplicated on the source-native id. Fields the source does not publish are honest null. A run_receipt row carries the source URL, any reported total, and the delivered/duplicate counts.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "maxRecords": 50
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 50 × $0.02 registry_record = $1.02 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.12 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.02).

3. A full-size run

{
  "maxRecords": 10000
}

Up to 10000 rows (the schema default for maxRecords) — about $200.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 10000 × $0.02) if the source has that many.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 8oE5HoHe1sPSxq6Rc, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "gambling_business_record",
  "account_number": "67583",
  "licence_account_name": "1st Class Bet Ltd",
  "source": "uk-gambling-business-licence-roster",
  "release_date": null,
  "source_url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-register-businesses.csv",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-18T05:52:47Z"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk — endpoints: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-register-businesses.csv. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. robots.txt is read first and a disallowed path is never fetched. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent.

Charging. Each registry record is charged at the moment it is pushed (registry_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

How this differs from the licence-check actor

This actor is the full monthly account-roster refresh: every licensed gambling business in one pull. The existing uk-gambling-operator-licence-check answers a single-operator question against the same register (is operator X licensed, and what are its details). Different job, same source — this one sells the whole roster, that one answers a lookup.

How it behaves

The official CSV is fetched and its two-column header validated. maxRecords caps the count. Duplicates, outages, and schema drift charge nothing.

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Registry Record (registry_record)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.01

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 registry records: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.02 = $0.18
• 25 registry records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.02 = $0.52
• 100 registry records: $0.02 start + 100 × $0.02 = $2.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 4096 MB.

Yield on the sample run: CAPPED: delivered 50 of 51 unique rows (maxRecords=50). billable=50. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, keeps to the source's robots rules (checked on every run), identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 10000). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other company registry checks actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source and honours its robots rules; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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