ABN Lookup – Australian Business Search

Search the public ABN Lookup register by business name or ABN and get clean, structured JSON for every Australian Business Number found: legal entity name, entity type, ABN status, GST registration, location, registered business names, trading names and ACN.

What you get

{
  "abn": "88000014675",
  "abnFormatted": "88 000 014 675",
  "entityName": "WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED",
  "entityType": "Australian Public Company",
  "abnStatus": "Active",
  "abnStatusFrom": "1999-11-01",
  "gstRegistered": true,
  "gstFrom": "2000-07-01",
  "gstStatus": "Registered from 01 Jul 2000",
  "state": "NSW",
  "postcode": "2153",
  "businessNames": [{ "name": "Woolworths Business", "from": "2026-09-15" }],
  "tradingNames": [{ "name": "WOOLWORTHS", "from": "2000-07-03" }],
  "acn": "000014675",
  "dgrStatus": "Not entitled to receive tax deductible gifts",
  "abnLastUpdated": "2026-09-15",
  "query": "woolworths",
  "queryType": "name",
  "matchedName": "WOOLWORTHS",
  "matchedNameType": "Business Name",
  "searchScore": 99,
  "url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=88000014675",
  "source": "abr.business.gov.au",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T01:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Verify a supplier or customer's ABN, legal name and GST status before paying an invoice
• Build B2B lead lists of Australian businesses by name keyword and state
• Enrich CRM records with entity type, ACN, postcode and registered business names (KYB)
• Bulk-check a list of ABNs for cancelled or non-GST-registered entities
• Give AI agents a reliable "look up this Australian business" tool

Input

Field	Notes
names	Business, entity or trading names to search, one query each (default ["woolworths"])
abns	ABNs to fetch directly; spaces are fine, invalid checksums are skipped
activeOnly	Only active ABNs in name searches (default true)
state	Keep only name-search results in ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC or WA
maxResultsPerQuery	Max ABN records per name searched, 1–200 (default 20)

Pricing

Pay only for what you use: US$0.005 per run + US$0.001 per result (about US$1 per 1,000 results). The free Apify plan's monthly credits cover thousands of results, so you can try it at no cost.

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Notes

Each name search returns up to 200 best-matching names from ABN Lookup; one record is returned per unique ABN (the first matching name is kept in matchedName). Records are fetched politely at about one request per second, so 100 results take roughly two minutes. state and postcode are the main business location as published (street addresses are not public). Trading names are historical: the register stopped updating them in 2012. Data comes from the public ABN Lookup website; this Actor is not affiliated with the Australian Business Register or the Australian Taxation Office.