🔔 UK Licensed Sponsor Register (Workers)

Each record carries the organisation, town/city, county, licence type & rating, and immigration route from the newest official CSV, with the register's release date stamped on every row.

One structured sponsor_record per row of the Home Office official versioned CSV of every organisation licensed to sponsor Worker and Temporary Worker visas. The actor discovers the newest official CSV asset on the GOV.UK publication page, validates its headers, and delivers one record per row. Public, logged-out, robots-honoured.

Output is one sponsor_record row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one sponsor record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.02 per sponsor record). Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, www.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 VF5DKatqncfXlUtKH on build 0.1.8 (2026-09-18), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

organisation	town_city	county	type_rating	route	release_date
AaruvikA Limited	Edinburgh		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
ALT	Glasgow		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
Asian African Foods Ltd	London		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
BOLTWHIZ LIMITED	Dunfermline	Scotland	Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
Bossmans Retail Abergavenny Ltd	Abergavenny		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
BRANOS OXFORD LTD T/A LILO	Oxford		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
BRITANNIA BUSINESS CONSULTING LIMITED	London		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17
Brooke Healthcare Ltd	Nottingham		Worker (A rating)	Skilled Worker	2026-09-17

The run finished with the status message: CAPPED: delivered 50 of 142287 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. sponsor_record
• organisation (string/null) — e.g. AaruvikA Limited
• town_city (string/null) — e.g. Edinburgh
• county (string/null) — e.g. Scotland
• type_rating (string/null) — e.g. Worker (A rating)
• route (string/null) — e.g. Skilled Worker
• source (string/null) — e.g. uk-licensed-sponsor-register
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-17
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabca4c0420ac660805f9ae/SP_-_Wor
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-18T05:45:48Z
• terminal (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• csv_url (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

What you get

One sponsor_record per row, deduplicated on the source-native id. Fields the register does not publish for a row are honest null. A run_receipt row carries the release date, the exact CSV asset URL, and the delivered/duplicate counts. Raise maxRecords for the full register.

⚙️ 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 sponsor_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": 5000
}

Up to 5000 rows (the schema default for maxRecords) — about $100.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5000 × $0.02) if the source has that many.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run VF5DKatqncfXlUtKH, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "sponsor_record",
  "organisation": "AaruvikA Limited",
  "town_city": "Edinburgh",
  "county": null,
  "type_rating": "Worker (A rating)",
  "route": "Skilled Worker",
  "source": "uk-licensed-sponsor-register",
  "release_date": "2026-09-17",
  "source_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabca4c0420ac660805f9ae/SP_-_Worker_and_Temporary_Worker_Web_Register_-_2026-09-17.csv",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-18T05:45:48Z"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, www.gov.uk — endpoints: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/. 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 sponsor record is charged at the moment it is pushed (sponsor_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

How it behaves

The publication page and CSV asset are fetched only if robots allows. A missing asset, a header drift, or an empty official file stops the run loudly and charges nothing. maxRecords caps the count.

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
Sponsor Record (sponsor_record)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.01

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 sponsor records: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.02 = $0.18
• 25 sponsor records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.02 = $0.52
• 5000 sponsor records: $0.02 start + 5000 × $0.02 = $100.02

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 142287 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 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, www.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 (assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, www.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 5000). 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 NexGen Watch actors actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, www.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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