🏛 Kentucky Business Registry Scraper

🚀 Export Kentucky business entities in seconds. Name, organization number, status, standing, type, dates, principal office, registered agent, officers and annual reports for entities in the official Kentucky Secretary of State database, with no account and no API key.

The Kentucky Secretary of State runs the Business Entity Search at sosbes.sos.ky.gov. This Actor searches it by entity name or organization number and returns one flat row per entity, with the principal office, registered agent, officers and annual reports when you ask for details.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sales and lead generation teams	Find registered Kentucky companies and confirm they are active
Lawyers and paralegals	Find the registered agent and principal office of a Kentucky company
Banks, KYC and compliance teams	Check existence, status and standing of a counterparty
Journalists and researchers	See who is listed on a Kentucky company profile
Insurance and credit teams	Verify business details before underwriting
Data teams	Seed or refresh a company table for Kentucky

📋 What the Kentucky Business Registry Scraper does

💡 Why it matters: a company name alone proves nothing. The Secretary of State profile shows whether the entity exists, how it stands, and who is listed on it.

• Searches the official Kentucky Business Entity Search.
• Two search types: entity name and organization number.
• Returns status, standing, entity type and formation date.
• Optional detail pass adds the principal office, registered agent, officers and directors, and annual report history.
• Writes an unbilled error row when the registry refuses or finds nothing.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

📊 Output

Every row is one Kentucky business entity. Kentucky does not offer search by registered agent or officer. Filed document images are not returned.

Field	Type	Description
🏢 corporateName	string	Legal name of the entity as the registry prints it
🧾 corporationType	string	Entity type, for example corporation or LLC
🔢 documentNumber	string	Kentucky organization number
📅 dateFiled	string	Formation or registration date as the registry prints it
📍 state	string	State or jurisdiction of formation
🚦 status	string	Registry status of the entity
✅ standing	string	Standing shown by the registry, for example G - Good
📬 principalAddress	object	Principal office address: street, city, state, zip
🧑‍💼 registeredAgent	object	Registered agent: name and address
👥 officers	array	Officers and directors listed on the profile: title, name and address
📑 annualReports	array	Annual report years and filing dates
🔗 detailUrl	string	Link to the entity profile on sosbes.sos.ky.gov
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the extraction
❌ error	string	Error message on a failed row, null on a real record

Real records from a run:

[
  {
    "corporateName": "CHURCHILL DOWNS INCORPORATED",
    "corporationType": "Kentucky Corporation",
    "documentNumber": "0009274",
    "dateFiled": "2/17/1937",
    "state": "KY",
    "status": "A - Active",
    "standing": "G - Good",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "600 N. HURSTBOURNE PKWY, SUITE 400",
      "city": "LOUISVILLE",
      "state": "KY",
      "zip": "40222"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "CT CORPORATION SYSTEM",
      "address": "306 W. MAIN STREET, SUITE 512, FRANKFORT, KY, 40601"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "Officer",
        "name": "Marcia A. Dall",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Officer",
        "name": "William C. Carstanjen",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Officer",
        "name": "William E. Mudd",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Karole Lloyd",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Douglas Grissom",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Paul C. Varga",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Andrea Carter",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Daniel P. Harrington",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "R. Alex Rankin",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "William C. Carstanjen",
        "address": ""
      }
    ],
    "annualReports": [
      {
        "year": "2026",
        "filedDate": "3/27/2026"
      }
    ],
    "detailUrl": "https://sosbes.sos.ky.gov/BusSearchNProfile/Profile.aspx/?ctr=51859",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T22:07:20.135Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "corporateName": "CHURCHILL DOWNS AUXILIARY TO POST NO. 2921 LADIES AUXILIARY TO THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES, INC.",
    "corporationType": "Kentucky Corporation",
    "documentNumber": "0428228",
    "dateFiled": "2/7/1997",
    "state": "KY",
    "status": "A - Active",
    "standing": "G - Good",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "2902 SOUTH 7TH ST",
      "city": "LOUISVILLE",
      "state": "KY",
      "zip": "40216"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "MARIE WINBURN",
      "address": "2902 SOUTH 7TH ST, LOUISVILLE, KY, 40216"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "President",
        "name": "Stasia Williams",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Secretary",
        "name": "JoAnn Clark",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Treasurer",
        "name": "MARIE WINBURN",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Vice President",
        "name": "MELODY WEBB",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "JENNIFER BANTA",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "JoAnn Clark",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Vivian McCauley",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "MARIE WINBURN",
        "address": ""
      }
    ],
    "annualReports": [
      {
        "year": "2026",
        "filedDate": "3/3/2026"
      }
    ],
    "detailUrl": "https://sosbes.sos.ky.gov/BusSearchNProfile/Profile.aspx/?ctr=330419",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T22:07:21.312Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "corporateName": "CHURCHILL DOWNS CALIFORNIA COMPANY",
    "corporationType": "Kentucky Corporation",
    "documentNumber": "0474648",
    "dateFiled": "5/24/1999",
    "state": "KY",
    "status": "I - Inactive",
    "standing": "G - Good",
    "principalAddress": {
      "street": "700 CENTRAL AVENUE",
      "city": "LOUISVILLE",
      "state": "KY",
      "zip": "40208"
    },
    "registeredAgent": {
      "name": "REBECCA C. REED",
      "address": "700 CENTRAL AVENUE, LOUISVILLE, KY, 40208"
    },
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "Secretary",
        "name": "Rebecca C Reed",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Treasurer",
        "name": "Michael W Anderson",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "President",
        "name": "Steven P Sexton",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Rebecca C Reed",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Robert L Evans",
        "address": ""
      },
      {
        "title": "Director",
        "name": "Steven P Sexton",
        "address": ""
      }
    ],
    "annualReports": [
      {
        "year": "2007",
        "filedDate": "6/14/2007"
      }
    ],
    "detailUrl": "https://sosbes.sos.ky.gov/BusSearchNProfile/Profile.aspx/?ctr=372556",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T22:07:21.929Z",
    "error": null
  }
]

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Official source. Every row comes from sosbes.sos.ky.gov.
• Agent, officers and annual reports. All on the row with details on.
• Status and standing. Both on every row.
• Honest limits. Name and number search only, and the README says so.
• Clean tables. Fixed column order, ready for CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

	This Actor	Multi-state registry scrapers	Manual lookups
Kentucky official source	✅ SOS database	Sometimes	✅
Search by name and number	✅	Name only	✅ one at a time
Registered agent and principal office	✅ with details	Rare	✅ one at a time
Officers and annual reports	✅ with details	Rare	✅ one at a time
Search by agent or officer	❌ not offered	Varies	❌
Bulk export to CSV, Excel, JSON	✅	✅	❌

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts get $5 in free credit: sign up here.
2. Open the Kentucky Business Registry Scraper and click Try for free.
3. Choose the search type, then type the entity name (or part of it) or the organization number.
4. Set the maximum number of businesses you want.
5. Keep Include full details on if you need the registered agent, officers and annual reports, or turn it off for a faster list.
6. Click Start and watch the run log.
7. When the run finishes, open the Storage tab and download CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or pull the same rows through the Apify API.

💼 Business use cases

Lead generation

Search a company name and keep only active entities in good standing.

Counterparty checks

Confirm a Kentucky entity exists and see its status and standing.

Legal and service of process

Pull the registered agent and its address.

Compliance monitoring

Read the annual report history to see whether filings are current.

🔌 Automating Kentucky Business Registry Scraper

• Make and Zapier: run the Actor on a schedule and push new entities into a CRM or a spreadsheet.
• Slack: post an alert when a watched business changes status.
• Airbyte: sync the dataset into a warehouse and join it to your own customer data.
• GitHub Actions: run weekly and commit the CSV so a status history builds itself.
• Google Drive: drop each export into a shared folder for the compliance team.
• Apify Scheduler: run daily, weekly or hourly with no external tooling at all.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: study formation trends and entity types in Kentucky.
• Journalism: check who stands behind a company named in a story.
• Personal: confirm that a contractor or a landlord is registered and in good standing.
• Non-profit: verify the legal status of partner organizations.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant:

I am using the Kentucky Business Registry Scraper on Apify. It returns fields such as corporateName, documentNumber, status, standing, registeredAgent, officers and annualReports. Help me design a workflow that checks a list of Kentucky supplier names against the registry and flags the ones that are not in good standing.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔎 Which searches does it support?

Entity name and organization number.

🌐 Which registry does it read?

The Kentucky Secretary of State Business Entity Search at sosbes.sos.ky.gov.

📍 Why are some columns empty?

Addresses, agent, officers and annual reports come from the profile page and need full details on.

📅 What date format is used?

The registry format, kept as printed.

🔑 Do I need an account or API key for the registry?

No. The Actor reads the public Kentucky registry. There is nothing to sign up for and no key to paste.

🧾 Is this personal data?

The Actor returns business entity records as the registry publishes them: legal name, ID, status, addresses of the business and its registered agent. It does not look anyone up elsewhere and adds nothing to what the registry prints. Use the data in line with the privacy and marketing laws that apply to you.

📦 How many records can I export?

As many as the registry returns for the search, up to 1,000,000 on a paid plan. Free accounts are limited to 10 records per run.

🔀 Can the same entity appear twice?

Not within one run for searches that list entities. Rows are deduplicated on the registry identifier where the registry lists several rows per entity.

🌐 Do I need a proxy?

The default is Apify Proxy with a United States exit, which is enough in most cases. If the registry refuses it, the Actor retries from a residential US exit on its own.

🛑 What happens when the registry does not answer?

The Actor writes one error row that says what went wrong and does not charge for it. A run that finds nothing says so on a row instead of finishing silently empty.

💰 What am I charged for?

One result per business record delivered. Error rows and empty searches are not charged. The price per result is on the Pricing tab of the Actor page.

📤 Which formats can I export?

CSV, Excel, JSON and XML from the Storage tab, or through the Apify API.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Every run writes to an Apify dataset you can read over the REST API, stream into a webhook, or export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML. Apify's integrations cover Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Google Sheets and plain HTTP webhooks, so the rows land wherever your team already works.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Kentucky Secretary of State. It collects only publicly available data.