# UK Companies House: Company Search, Directors, Owners (`pushbuild/uk-companies-house`) Actor

Search the official UK company register: company profiles, status, SIC codes, registered address, accounts and confirmation deadlines, directors and persons with significant control. Find newly incorporated companies by area and industry.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pushbuild/uk-companies-house.md
- **Developed by:** [Pushbuild Data](https://apify.com/pushbuild) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 companies

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## UK Companies House: Company Search, Directors, Owners

Search the official UK company register (Companies House) and get clean company records.

- **Look up companies** by company number: profile, status, SIC codes, registered office, previous names, accounts and confirmation statement deadlines, charges and insolvency flags.
- **Directors and owners**: current officers (role, appointment date, nationality, occupation) and persons with significant control (natures of control).
- **Lead lists**: filtered search by name, town or postcode, status, company type, SIC code and incorporation or dissolution date range. For example, every IT consultancy (62020) incorporated in Manchester last month.
- **Name search** ranked by relevance.

### Output

One record per company: `companyNumber`, `companyName`, `status`, `type`, `incorporatedOn`, `dissolvedOn`, `sicCodes`, `address`, `postalCode`, `locality`, `url`; with details also `previousNames`, `nextAccountsDue`, `accountsOverdue`, `officers`, `significantControl` and optionally `recentFilings`.

### Pricing

Charged per company returned.

### Source

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, from the Companies House public data API. Personal data is limited to what Companies House publishes on the public register (day of birth is not included).

# Actor input Schema

## `companyNumbers` (type: `array`):

Look up these companies directly, e.g. 00445790. When set, the search fields below are ignored.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Free-text company name search ranked by relevance (up to 1,000 results).

## `nameIncludes` (type: `string`):

Filtered search: company name contains this text.

## `nameExcludes` (type: `string`):

Filtered search: company name does not contain this text.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Town, city or postcode of the registered office, e.g. Leeds or M1.

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

e.g. active, dissolved, liquidation, administration.

## `companyTypes` (type: `array`):

e.g. ltd, plc, llp, private-limited-guarant-nsc.

## `sicCodes` (type: `array`):

Industry codes, e.g. 62020 (IT consultancy), 56101 (restaurants).

## `incorporatedFrom` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. Use with Incorporated to for new-company lead lists.

## `incorporatedTo` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD.

## `dissolvedFrom` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD.

## `dissolvedTo` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch profile, directors and owners for every search result (slower). Always on for company numbers.

## `includeOfficers` (type: `boolean`):

Current officers with role, appointment date, nationality and occupation.

## `includeResignedOfficers` (type: `boolean`):

Also list officers who have resigned.

## `includeOwners` (type: `boolean`):

Current persons with significant control and their natures of control.

## `includeFilings` (type: `boolean`):

The 25 most recent filings.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum companies returned.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "tesco",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "includeResignedOfficers": false,
  "includeOwners": true,
  "includeFilings": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "tesco"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pushbuild/uk-companies-house").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "query": "tesco" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pushbuild/uk-companies-house").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "tesco"
}' |
apify call pushbuild/uk-companies-house --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pushbuild/uk-companies-house"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/dgmczZg3BHqhSs9Qy/builds/9ZHAVWxA8TCfT52Qb/openapi.json