Companies House Registry Watch — UK company data scraper (officers, PSC, new incorporations)

Search the UK Companies House register by company name, company number, SIC code, postcode / location and incorporation date, and get clean JSON with officers and persons with significant control (PSC). Uses the official Companies House API (no HTML scraping, no login, no proxies), so results are complete, fresh and reliable. No API key needed on your side. Pay per result.

Typical uses: UK company research, KYB / due diligence, lead lists by SIC code and area, tracking newly incorporated companies, spotting overdue accounts, feeding CRMs and AI agents.

What you get

For each company: number, name, status, type, incorporation date, SIC codes, registered office address, next accounts due and overdue flag, next confirmation statement due, and a link to the public register page. Optionally officers (name, role, appointed / resigned dates, month-year of birth as published, nationality, country of residence, occupation) and PSC (name, kind, natures of control).

{
  "companyNumber": "12345678",
  "name": "EXAMPLE SOFTWARE LTD",
  "status": "active",
  "type": "ltd",
  "incorporationDate": "2024-03-12",
  "sicCodes": ["62012"],
  "registeredAddress": { "address_line_1": "1 Example Street", "locality": "London", "postal_code": "SW1A 1AA" },
  "accountsNextDue": "2026-12-31",
  "accountsOverdue": false,
  "confirmationStatementNextDue": "2026-03-26",
  "officers": [{ "name": "DOE, Jane", "role": "director", "appointedOn": "2024-03-12", "dobMonthYear": "1985-06" }],
  "psc": [{ "name": "Jane Doe", "kind": "individual-person-with-significant-control", "naturesOfControl": ["ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent"] }],
  "sourceUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12345678"
}

How to use

1. Choose an input: a company name search, a list of company numbers, or filters (SIC codes, postcode / location, incorporated from / to, status).
2. Tick Include officers and Include PSC if you need people data.
3. Set Max companies and run. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from the API / MCP.

Monitor mode (new incorporations): tick Monitor mode, save the run as a Task, and schedule it (daily or weekly). The Actor remembers the companies it has already returned for that task and outputs only new ones (isNew: true). Combine with SIC codes and a location to watch, for example, every new software company registered in Manchester.

Pricing (pay per result)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.0005 per run
Company record	$0.003
Officer	$0.0015
PSC record	$0.0015
New company (monitor mode)	$0.01 per delta

Example: 1,000 companies with officers (average 2 per company) ≈ $3 + $3 = $6. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, so you can try it at no cost.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Notes
searchQueries	string[]	company name search
companyNumbers	string[]	exact numbers, e.g. SC000001
sicCodes	string[]	advanced search filter
postcodePrefix	string	location filter, e.g. SW1A or Leeds
incorporatedFrom / incorporatedTo	date	YYYY-MM-DD
status	enum	any, active, dissolved, liquidation, administration
includeOfficers / includePSC	boolean	charged per person record
monitorMode	boolean	only new companies since the last run of the task
maxItems	integer	1 to 10,000

Data source, licence and personal data

• Data comes from the official Companies House API. This Actor is unofficial and not affiliated with Companies House.
• Licence and attribution. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House, Crown copyright. Companies House imposes no rules on how public register information is used, but you are responsible for complying with applicable data protection, copyright and other legislation. If you republish data obtained through this Actor, keep this attribution and the link to the licence; each record also carries a sourceUrl pointing to the official register page.
• Officers and PSC are personal data published on a statutory public register. This Actor copies them as published and adds nothing (no emails, no phone numbers, no profiling, no person lookup). Under GDPR / UK GDPR you are the controller of your own use; keep a lawful basis, do not use the data for unsolicited marketing to individuals, and honour deletion requests.
• The Actor respects the Companies House rate limit (600 requests per 5 minutes) and never accesses the website itself.

FAQ

Is this the same as the Companies House website? Same register, same data, but structured, filterable, exportable and automatable.

Why not use the API directly? You would need to register an application, handle pagination, rate limiting, retries, three endpoints per company and data normalisation. Here you get one call and clean JSON.

Can I search by director name? No. Person lookup is deliberately not offered.

Can I get accounts, filings or charges? Not yet. Open an issue if you need them; the register exposes them and they can be added.

Something is missing or broken? Use the Issues tab of this Actor; replies are usually within a few days.