🏢 ABR Australian Business Register Scraper

🚀 Look up Australian businesses in seconds. Pull official records for 7M+ entities from the Australian Business Register: ABN status, entity type, GST registration, state, postcode, trading and historical names. No API key, no registration, no manual lookups.

The ABR Australian Business Register Scraper taps the official abr.business.gov.au register and returns 17 structured fields per record, including ABN, ABN status with effective date, entity name and type code, ACN where applicable, GST registration with effective date, state and postcode, plus arrays of business names, trading names, and historical names. The register is the authoritative source of business identity in Australia and is maintained by the Australian Taxation Office.

The Actor supports two lookup modes: bulk ABN lookup for enrichment of known identifiers, and business-name search for discovery. It covers every entity in the register, from sole traders and partnerships through to companies, trusts, and superannuation funds.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
B2B sales & marketing teams, lead-gen vendors, KYC/AML analysts, accountants, fintech compliance teams, journalists	CRM enrichment, KYC verification, GST status checks, supplier due diligence, business directory building, sanctions screening prep

📋 What the ABR Scraper does

Two lookup workflows in a single run:

• 🆔 ABN lookup. Submit a list of 11-digit ABNs and receive the full register record for each one.
• 🔍 Name search. Submit a business name and the Actor finds every matching ABN, then fetches the full record for each match.
• 📑 Names expansion. Each record carries business names, trading names, and historical names as separate arrays.
• 📍 Location capture. State and postcode parsed from the registered address.
• ⚖️ GST and status flags. Current ABN status, status-effective date, GST registration flag, and GST-effective date.

Each record includes identity (ABN, ACN, entity name and type code), status (current/cancelled, effective date), tax registration (GST status and date), location (state, postcode), and every name the entity has ever traded under.

💡 Why it matters: the ABR is the single source of truth for B2B sales, KYC, and procurement in Australia. Building your own lookup means writing an HTML parser, handling form submissions, and respecting rate limits. This Actor handles all of that and returns clean structured records.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abn, abnStatus, abnStatusFrom, abrUrl, addressPostcode, addressState, businessNames, entityName, entityType, entityTypeCode, gstFrom, gstRegistered, historicalNames, matchScore, scrapedAt, tradingNames. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ABR Australian Business Register Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick ABN Lookup mode (with a list of ABNs) or Name Search mode (with a business name), plus maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Australian Business Register, the Australian Taxation Office, or the Australian Government. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available business register data is collected.

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