Company Registry Lookup: Companies House (UK), Spain, France, Finland, Norway

Company lookup from five official registers, starting with UK Companies House: one actor, the same core fields (ID, name, legal form, status, address, dates, source link, credit) across five official company registers, all read from the governments' own open data:

Country	Source	What you get	Look up by	Feed
United Kingdom	Companies House Public Data API	Current record: company number, type, status, registered office, SIC codes, previous names, accounts and confirmation-statement dates, latest 25 filings; officers on request. Needs your own free API key	Name, company number (00445790, SC045551)	Companies incorporated on each day
Spain	BORME, the Mercantile Registry's gazette (BOE)	Filing history: incorporations, officer changes, capital, address, dissolutions	Name, registry sheet (M 672338)	Filings by publication date and province
France	API Recherche d'entreprises (INSEE Sirene + INPI RNE)	Current record: SIREN, legal form, status, head office, NAF code, VAT number, size band, officers	Name, SIREN or SIRET	Not available (the API has no date filter)
Finland	PRH open data (Finnish Trade Register)	Current record: Business ID, form, status, address, TOL code, website, earlier and auxiliary names	Name, Business ID (0112038-9)	Companies registered on each day
Norway	Brønnøysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret)	Current record: org. number, form, status, address, capital, industry, employees, purpose, roles	Name, organisation number	Entities registered on each day

Try it in one click: the input is prefilled with the latest Spanish filings, capped at 20 companies (about 5 cents). For an instant lookup, try {"country": "NO", "companies": ["Equinor"]}: a few seconds, under a cent.

How to look up a company in 3 steps

1. Choose the country: United Kingdom, Spain, France, Finland or Norway.
2. Enter company names or registry IDs (a UK company number, a SIREN, a Business ID, an organisation number), or leave it empty for a feed of new companies in a date range.
3. Click Start. Download the table as CSV, Excel or JSON, or schedule it daily for new companies.

UK company lookup: Companies House API

Look up any UK company by name or number ({"country": "GB", "companies": ["Tesco", "SC045551"]}), or get every company incorporated on a day (a few thousand a weekday) with SIC codes and registered office. The UK needs your own free Companies House API key, entered in Companies House API key. Getting one takes about five minutes, with no payment and no ID check:

1. Create a Companies House account at https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/signin.
2. At https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/ choose Your applications → Create an application (environment Live), then Create new key with client type API key (the REST key). Leave restricted IPs empty, since Apify's IPs change.
3. Paste the key into the actor input. It is stored as a secret and sent only to Companies House.

How much does a company registry lookup cost?

$2 per 1,000 company records, so Apify's $5 monthly free credit covers about 2,500 companies. Details by country are under Pricing (all countries) below.

Spain (BORME)

Look up Spanish companies and their full registry history from the BORME, Spain's official gazette of the Mercantile Registry (Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil). You get new companies, appointments and resignations, changes of address, name, purpose and capital, mergers, dissolutions, extinctions and insolvency, each with its publication date, registry details and a link to the official source. Search by company name or registry sheet, or get a daily feed of new Spanish companies by province.

The data comes from the BOE's open-data service, not from a third-party directory, so nothing blocks it and nothing goes stale. No login, no proxies, no browser.

What you get

• Company records: current name, earlier names, legal form (SL, SA, SLU...), registry ID, status (active, dissolved, extinct, insolvency) as of the latest filing found, registered address, business purpose, share capital, incorporation date, and every filing found in the date range.
• Filing history: each publication with its acts, parsed into fields: incorporation (start date, purpose, address, capital), capital increases and reductions (amount and resulting capital), changes of address, name and purpose, dissolution reason, and the positions appointed, removed or re-elected (role and count).
• Feeds: every filing in a date range, optionally only certain acts (e.g. only new companies, only dissolutions) and certain provinces. Schedule it daily for a lead list of companies founded yesterday.
• Source on every row: BORME reference, link to the BOE text page and the official PDF, and the credit line the BOE's reuse terms require.
• Complete and checked. BORME numbers its entries consecutively through each day's issue, so a day's count can be checked independently. On live test days from 2009, 2012, 2017 and 2026, the actor read exactly as many entries as the numbering says (1,267 to 2,914 a day). Every entry had a registry sheet; on the 2012 to 2026 days fewer than 0.1% lacked a full registry ID (2% on the 2009 day, see below).

How to use it

1. Leave Companies to look up empty for a feed, or enter names (Reveni SL) or registry IDs (M 672338).
2. Set the date range (7 days, 3 months, 2026-01-01) and, for long ranges, the provinces.
3. Optionally keep only some acts (e.g. New companies), choose one row per company or one row per filing, and run.

Example: new companies in Madrid and Barcelona this week

{
    "dateFrom": "7 days",
    "regions": ["28", "08"],
    "actTypes": ["incorporation"],
    "outputMode": "companies"
}

Example: a company's history

{
    "companies": ["Reveni SL", "M 672338"],
    "dateFrom": "2015-01-01",
    "regions": ["28"]
}

A company found by name is followed by its registry ID from then on, so later filings are found even after it changes its name. Use the registry ID to find filings from before a rename.

Example: dissolutions and insolvencies, all of Spain, yesterday

{
    "dateFrom": "yesterday",
    "dateTo": "yesterday",
    "actTypes": ["dissolution", "extinction", "insolvency"],
    "outputMode": "filings"
}

Output example

One company (officers off, the default):

{
    "country": "ES",
    "companyId": "VI 23266",
    "companyName": "BAT BATEAN, S.L.",
    "legalForm": "SL",
    "previousNames": [],
    "status": "active",
    "region": "Araba/Álava",
    "address": "C/ ALDABE, Nº 34 1º DCHA 01012 (VITORIA-GASTEIZ)",
    "postalCode": "01012",
    "city": "VITORIA-GASTEIZ",
    "purpose": "La organización, promoción y contratación de conciertos musicales, festivales musicales y otros espectáculos...",
    "capital": 3000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "incorporationDate": "2026-09-25",
    "firstFilingDate": "2026-10-02",
    "lastFilingDate": "2026-10-02",
    "filingsCount": 1,
    "filings": [
        {
            "region": "Araba/Álava",
            "publishedDate": "2026-10-02",
            "registrationDate": "2026-09-25",
            "filingId": "BORME-A-2026-191-01#439821",
            "actTypes": ["Constitución", "Nombramientos"],
            "acts": [
                {
                    "type": "Constitución",
                    "category": "incorporation",
                    "fields": {
                        "startOfOperations": "2026-09-16",
                        "purpose": "La organización, promoción y contratación de conciertos musicales...",
                        "address": "C/ ALDABE, Nº 34 1º DCHA 01012 (VITORIA-GASTEIZ)",
                        "capital": 3000
                    },
                    "text": "Comienzo de operaciones: 16.09.26. Objeto social: ... Capital: 3.000,00 Euros"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Nombramientos",
                    "category": "appointment",
                    "fields": {},
                    "text": null,
                    "positions": [{ "role": "Adm. Solid.", "count": 2 }]
                }
            ],
            "registryData": { "seccion": "8", "hoja": "VI 23266", "inscripcion": "1" },
            "sourceUrl": "https://www.boe.es/diario_borme/txt.php?id=BORME-A-2026-191-01",
            "sourcePdfUrl": "https://www.boe.es/borme/dias/2026/10/02/pdfs/BORME-A-2026-191-01.pdf"
        }
    ],
    "attribution": "Basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (https://www.boe.es)"
}

With One row per filing, each row is one filing with companyName, companyId and legalForm added (a filing's registrationDate is the date the registry inscribed it). The run summary (OUTPUT in the key-value store) lists the pages read, any that failed, counts, and the source and licence.

Act categories for filtering: incorporation, appointment, resignation, revocation, re-election, address-change, name-change, purpose-change, bylaws-change, capital-increase, capital-reduction, sole-shareholder, merger, demerger, transformation, dissolution, extinction, insolvency, registry-closure, registry-reopening, correction, other. The original Spanish act name is always in type.

Personal data (GDPR)

BORME publishes the names of directors, attorneys, auditors, liquidators and sole shareholders. They are public by law, but they are still personal data under the GDPR and Spain's LOPDGDD, and the BOE's reuse terms require full compliance with both. So by default this actor:

• reports positions as role and count only, without the names of natural persons;
• keeps the names of companies that hold positions (a parent company as sole shareholder, an audit firm), because those are not personal data;
• withholds the free text of acts that can name people (corrections, insolvency notices, "other" acts);
• skips filings about sole traders (where the registered name is a person's).

Include officer names turns this off. Use it only if you have a lawful basis to process those names, typically legitimate interests with a documented balancing test (for example know-your-business checks or credit risk), and only for that purpose: you become the controller of what you do with them, including people's rights to object and to erasure. Don't use them for unsolicited marketing to individuals. This actor never enriches people: it doesn't look up emails, phone numbers or profiles. This is not legal advice.

Source, licence and attribution

Data: BORME section A ("Actos inscritos"), published by the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado at boe.es, read through its open-data index and its public text pages. The BOE's reuse conditions allow commercial reuse with credit. Every row carries the credit line "Basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado". If you republish the data, keep that credit and a link to https://www.boe.es.

This actor extracts and restructures the published text. Its output is not an official publication and is not endorsed by the BOE; only the BORME published at boe.es is official and authentic. Fields such as status and category are this actor's reading of the acts. Documents that boe.es withdraws in its robots.txt are skipped and listed in the run summary.

Good to know

• No tax ID (CIF/NIF). BORME does not print it. Companies are identified by their registry sheet (M 672338 = Madrid registry, sheet 672338), which is unique and stable for the life of the company.
• History from 2009. Some 2009 pages print sheets without the registry letters; those filings keep the sheet number in registryData.hoja but get no companyId.
• Status reflects the filings found. A company with no status-changing act in the range shows unknown. Widen the range for a fuller picture.
• Business purpose may be cut off. The BORME itself shortens long purposes; the text is as published.
• Speed. A province takes one page per publication day; all of Spain is up to 45 pages a day. A week of new companies in Madrid takes about 10 seconds; a week of all of Spain a few minutes. A run reads up to 15,000 pages (about 15 months of all of Spain, or decades of one province).
• Name searches read the whole range. BORME is a gazette, not a search engine, so a name search reads every page in the date range. Measured on Apify:
  • All of Spain: about 1 minute and 150 pages per week of range, so about 5 minutes and $0.06 per month in registry pages (about 600 pages at $0.10 per 1,000). A year is about an hour and $0.70.
  • One province: about 1 minute and 21 pages per month of range ($0.002); 9 months of Madrid took 8 minutes.
  • So for a long search, choose the province where the company is registered. The log says up front how many publication days it will read and roughly how long that takes. If a name is not found, the status says so and names the dates searched.
• Gentle on the source. At most about 3 requests a second to boe.es, honouring robots.txt and backing off on errors.

France, Finland, Norway and the United Kingdom (register records)

These registers publish each company's current record rather than a gazette of filings, so a row is one company as the register holds it today. Every row has the same fields across these countries:

companyId (SIREN, Business ID, organisation number or UK company number), companyName, previousNames, legalForm (SAS, OY, AS...), legalFormName, legalFormCode, status (active, in-liquidation, insolvency, extinct, unknown) and statusDetail (the register's own words, e.g. Cessée, Ceased, Konkurs), address, postalCode, city, region, purpose, capital, currency, incorporationDate, registrationDate, closedDate, industryCode, industry, website, employees, positions, sourceUrl (the registry's public page), apiUrl, details (fields only that country has) and attribution.

How to use it

• Look up companies: choose the country and enter names or IDs. A name is searched in the register, then kept when it matches exactly (legal form, accents and punctuation ignored; earlier names and trade or auxiliary names count) or, with Name contains these words, when the words appear in the name. A name search reads up to 200 results in France and 1,000 in Finland and Norway; the run summary flags a query that had more (use the ID or more words).
• Feed of new companies (Finland, Norway): leave Companies to look up empty and set the date range. You get every company registered on each day of the range, newest day first. Finland lists companies entered in the Trade Register; Norway lists every entity entered in the Central Coordinating Register (companies, associations, foundations...). France's API has no date filter, so a French feed is not possible.
• Provinces, acts and one row per filing apply to Spain only; they are ignored (and named in the summary) for the other countries.

Examples

{ "country": "FR", "companies": ["Danone", "552120222"] }

{ "country": "NO", "dateFrom": "7 days", "maxResults": 1000 }

{ "country": "GB", "companies": ["Tesco", "SC045551"] }

Output example (Norway, officers off)

{
    "country": "NO",
    "companyId": "923609016",
    "companyName": "EQUINOR ASA",
    "legalForm": "ASA",
    "legalFormName": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
    "previousNames": ["STATOIL ASA", "STATOILHYDRO ASA", "Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s"],
    "status": "active",
    "statusDetail": "Registrert (registered)",
    "address": "Forusbeen 50, 4035 STAVANGER",
    "city": "STAVANGER",
    "capital": 5976872600,
    "currency": "NOK",
    "incorporationDate": "1972-09-18",
    "registrationDate": "1995-03-12",
    "industryCode": "06.100",
    "industry": "Utvinning av råolje",
    "website": "www.equinor.com",
    "employees": 21272,
    "positions": [
        { "role": "Daglig leder", "count": 1 },
        { "role": "Styremedlem", "count": 8 },
        { "role": "Revisor", "count": 1, "entities": ["ERNST & YOUNG AS (976389387)"] }
    ],
    "sourceUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
    "attribution": "Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene"
}

Checked against the source

A live check pages through whole days of the Finnish and Norwegian feeds: the rows plus the sole traders left out equal the register's own count for the day (Finland 163 and 122, Norway 478 and 328 on 29 Sep and 1 Oct 2026), with unique IDs and every registration date on that day. Known companies are found by ID and by exact name in all three countries.

Good to know

• France: non-diffusible companies are not in the API. Status is INSEE's: extinct means cessée (ceased). industry is empty (the API gives the NAF code, industryCode, without its label); capital and purpose are not in the API. details has the VAT number, size band, number of establishments, latest turnover and net result when published, and the date of last update.
• Finland: the open data has no officers, no sole traders, and no phone numbers or emails. extinct covers Ceased and Removed from register; bankruptcy and re-organisation are insolvency, liquidation is in-liquidation. details has the EUID, parallel and auxiliary names, situations and the registers the company is entered in (VAT, employer, prepayment...).
• Norway: companies registered before 1995 show the 1995 transfer as registrationDate; incorporationDate is the founding date. Deleted entities are not returned by the API. Phone numbers and emails are never output. Roles (positions) are read for lookups only (one extra request per company), not for feeds.
• United Kingdom: country is GB (UK also works). A UK lookup reads the company's profile and its latest 25 filings (details.filingHistory: registrationDate, filingId, form type, category, description in words, sourcePdfUrl, the free PDF), so it is 2 to 3 requests per company. details also has every SIC code with its label, previous names with their dates, accounts and confirmation-statement dates (and whether they are overdue), jurisdiction, and whether the company has charges or an insolvency history. UK dissolved (struck off) is extinct; liquidation is in-liquidation; administration, receivership, voluntary arrangements and insolvency proceedings are insolvency. Capital and purpose are not in the API (capital is null). The feed lists every company incorporated on each day (UK: a few thousand a weekday), with SIC codes, but without filings. Companies House allows 600 requests per 5 minutes, so UK runs keep to under 2 requests a second and at most 3,000 requests a run (about 1,000 company lookups). The limit is per key, and you use your own key, so it is yours alone. A UK run without a key stops at once with a message saying how to get one. A name search reads at most the first 500 results (5 pages), most relevant first.
• Speed: a lookup takes a second or two per company; a day of the Finnish or Norwegian feed takes a few seconds.

Personal data for France, Norway and the United Kingdom

France's officers (dirigeants) and Norway's roles name natural persons, and both registers include sole traders (France: entrepreneurs individuels; Norway: enkeltpersonforetak, ENK), whose record is a person's. By default the actor reports positions as role and count only, keeps companies that hold positions (an audit firm, a parent company), and skips sole traders (counted in the run summary). French sole traders who opposed the diffusion of their data (statut_diffusion "P") are always skipped. Birth dates are never output. Include officer names turns the names and sole traders on; the GDPR guidance in the Spain section applies the same way.

United Kingdom: officers are not read at all unless Include officer names is on. With it on, positions lists the current officers by role (directors, secretaries, LLP members...), with the names of people and of corporate officers. Officer addresses, dates of birth, nationality, occupation and country of residence are never output, and people with significant control (PSCs) are not read. In filing descriptions, people's names (Appointment of (withheld) as a director) appear only with officers on. The UK register has no sole traders.

Pricing (all countries)

Pay per result: $2.00 per 1,000 company records (one row per company, with all its filings) or $1.00 per 1,000 filings (one row per filing), plus $0.10 per 1,000 registry pages read (one province, one day), which only matters for long name searches. Pages that fail are not charged. Runs stop at 100 results unless you raise maxResults (0 = no limit). For scale: a week of all filings across Spain touches about 11,000 companies (about $22); new companies only (act type: incorporation) is roughly 2,400 a week.

For France, Finland and Norway, a company record is charged per row, and a registry page per API request (one search page, one ID lookup, or one Norwegian roles request). A day of the Norwegian feed is about 300 company rows and 5 requests.

Sources, licences and attribution (France, Finland, Norway, United Kingdom)

• France: API Recherche d'entreprises (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr), run by the French government (DINUM) on INSEE's Sirene register and INPI's national company register (RNE), under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0. Credit on every row: "Source : API Recherche d'entreprises (data.gouv.fr), données Insee Sirene et INPI RNE, Licence Ouverte 2.0"; the date of last update is in details.lastUpdated.
• Finland: Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) open data, avoindata.prh.fi, under CC BY 4.0. Credit on every row: "Source: Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH), avoindata.prh.fi, CC BY 4.0". The data has been restructured (fields renamed and combined). This actor is not a PRH service and does not use PRH or YTJ logos.
• Norway: Brønnøysund Register Centre, Enhetsregisteret open API, under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0. Credit on every row: "Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene". Only the open API is used, never the access-controlled endpoints.
• United Kingdom: Companies House, Public Data API. Companies House sets "no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used" (Companies House data products); its content is under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Credit on every row: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Companies House)". You remain responsible for data protection law when you use officer names.

If you republish the data, keep the credit line. The output is restructured by this actor; it is not an official publication and is not endorsed by any of these registries. Requests are kept to about 3 a second per registry (France allows 7; the UK under 2), and the actor waits when a registry asks it to slow down.

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FAQ

Is this an official Companies House service? No. It reads Companies House's official Public Data API with your own free key, and the other registers' official open data. It is not affiliated with any of these registries.

Why does the UK need my own API key? Companies House gives every key its own rate limit (600 requests per 5 minutes). With your own key that limit is yours alone, and the key costs nothing. A UK run without one stops at once with the steps to get one.

Can I get directors' names? Only with Include officer names on (UK, France, Norway). Off by default. Dates of birth are never output, and neither are UK officers' addresses.

Can I get a list of new companies every day? Yes, for the UK, Norway and Finland (companies registered each day) and Spain (BORME filings, filtered to New companies). Leave Companies to look up empty and schedule it daily.

Use it from an AI agent or the API

• Minimal input: {"country": "FR", "companies": ["Danone"], "maxResults": 3}. Set maxResults to cap the work and the cost (default 100).
• Cost: $0.002 per company record or $0.001 per filing, plus $0.0001 per registry page read. Failed pages are free. 100 Spanish filings ≈ $0.10.
• Run time (our runs): France 3 s, Norway 7 s, Finland about 28 s for a name lookup; Spain 4–6 s for two provinces' filings over 14 days; 85–90 s for a Spanish name search over the default 7 days (it reads every province's daily bulletin, so longer ranges take longer).
• Results: the default dataset (companies or filings); the run summary is the OUTPUT record in the key-value store. Every row type uses the same keys: country, companyId, companyName, legalForm, region, sourceUrl/attribution; company rows (every country) also share previousNames, status, address, postalCode, city, purpose, capital, currency, incorporationDate; dates are YYYY-MM-DD.
• Works over the Apify MCP server (search-actors, then call-actor).

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