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UK Companies House Scraper: Company Search & Profiles API

UK Companies House Scraper: Company Search & Profiles API

UK companies from the official Companies House API with your free key: search by name, status, type, SIC code, date or location, or look up company numbers. Profile, registered office, accounts and confirmation statement dates, SIC codes, filings and charges. No officers or PSCs; pay per company.

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Get UK companies from Companies House, the official register of every company in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This Companies House scraper reads the register's public data API with your own free API key, so it is fast, complete and does not break when a web page changes. Each company comes back as one flat row: name, number, status, type, incorporation date, SIC codes, registered office, accounts and confirmation statement deadlines, previous names, and optionally the latest filings, charges and insolvency cases, as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Look up company numbers, search by name, or run the advanced search: name contains or excludes, status, company type, SIC codes, incorporation and dissolution dates, registered office location. Schedule it with Only new rows to get a daily feed of newly registered companies in your sector and region for the price of the new rows.

Input form of UK Companies House Scraper: Company Search & Profiles API

What you get

One row per company, the same columns whatever way the company was found:

  • Company: number, name, status and status detail, type and subtype, jurisdiction, incorporation and dissolution dates, link to the company page; codes come with their official labels
  • Activity: SIC codes with the official descriptions
  • Registered office: one-line address plus premises, lines, town, county, postcode, country, PO box, and the in-dispute and undeliverable flags; the care-of line is dropped
  • Accounts: accounting reference date, next accounts due and made up to, overdue flag, last accounts type and period
  • Confirmation statement: next due, last made up to, overdue flag
  • History: previous names with the dates they changed, last full members list, charges and insolvency flags, community interest company flag
  • Overseas and branch companies: registry country and name, registration number, legal form, governing law, business activity, parent company of a UK establishment
  • Optional, when switched on: the latest filings (date, category, type, official description, pages), charges (totals plus a list with status, dates, description and particulars) and insolvency cases (type and dates)
  • Run data: how the company was selected, the search it came from, and whether the full profile was read

Why this actor

  • Official API, your own key: the free Companies House API key goes into a secret field, Apify stores it encrypted, and the actor sends it only to api.company-information.service.gov.uk. No scraping of web pages, no proxies, no CAPTCHAs.
  • Three ways in: company numbers or links, name searches, and the advanced search with every filter the register offers, including SIC prefixes (62 covers all computer programming and consultancy codes) and dates such as 30 days.
  • Nearly 80 flat fields with stable names, labels next to every code, booleans as booleans, dates in ISO format.
  • Count before you pay: Count only shows how many companies match and what they would cost; nothing is delivered.
  • People are never requested: no officers, no persons with significant control, no disqualifications, no practitioners, no persons entitled under a charge. You pay per delivered company, with a charge cap.
  • Protects your key: 600 requests per five minutes is the register's limit; the default pace stays under it, and the first 429 ends the run instead of hammering the API.

How to use it

  1. Open the Actor and fill in Companies House API key (the other fields are optional filters).
  2. Set Maximum companies to a small number for a first try (the default is a safe start).
  3. Optional: tick Count only and start once. You get the number of matching rows and the estimated cost, for free (only the start event is charged). Untick it to get the data.
  4. Click Start. The status line shows progress; the run stops cleanly at your limit or at the charge limit you set in the run options.
  5. Open the Dataset tab and download JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or send the rows to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, n8n or Zapier with the Integrations tab.
  6. To run it on a schedule, use Schedules in Apify Console and turn on Only new rows since the last run below: every run then costs only the new rows, and a webhook URL tells you when something new came in.

Input

FieldWhat it does
apiKeyYour free Companies House API key (see FAQ), stored encrypted, used only against the register's API
companyNumbersCompany numbers or links to company pages, one per line (00445790, SC123456, 445790 is padded to 8 characters)
searchNames, maxResultsPerNameFree-text name searches as on the register's search box, with the number of hits to keep per name
nameIncludes, nameExcludesAdvanced search: words the company name must contain or must not contain
statuses, types, subtypesActive, dissolved, liquidation, administration and the other statuses; company types such as ltd, plc, llp, overseas-company; subtypes such as community interest companies
sicCodesSIC codes or prefixes (62012, 6201, 62, 62.01); prefixes expand to every code below them
incorporatedFrom, incorporatedTo, dissolvedFrom, dissolvedToDate ranges: 2026-10-01, yesterday, 30 days, 6 months
locationTown, county or postcode area of the registered office, as on the register's advanced search
maxItems, includeProfileHow many companies to deliver; read the full profile for each company (needed for accounts, confirmation statement, previous names and SIC descriptions when searching)
includeFilingHistory, maxFilings, includeCharges, includeInsolvencyAdd the latest filings, the charges and the insolvency cases to each row (one extra request each, per company)
countOnly, onlyNew, stateName, notifyUrl, notifyWhenEmptyCount only (deliver nothing); see Automation below
requestIntervalMsPause between requests, 600 ms by default; the register allows 600 requests per five minutes per key

The three selection methods can be combined in one run: numbers are fetched first, then name searches, then the advanced search. A company that appears twice is delivered once.

Example: active private limited companies in London that write software and were incorporated in the last month, with full profiles.

{
"apiKey": "YOUR_COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY",
"statuses": ["active"],
"types": ["ltd"],
"sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"],
"location": "London",
"incorporatedFrom": "30 days",
"includeProfile": true,
"maxItems": 500
}

Output

78 fields per row. Empty values are null, never missing, so CSV and Excel columns are stable.

FieldTypeExample
idstring00445790
urlstringhttps://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/…
companyNumberstring00445790
companyNamestringTESCO PLC
statusstringactive
statusLabelstringActive
statusDetailstringactive-proposal-to-strike-off
statusDetailLabelstringActive proposal to strike off
typestringplc
typeLabelstringPublic limited company
subtypestringcommunity-interest-company
subtypeLabelstringCommunity Interest Company (CIC)
jurisdictionstringengland-wales
jurisdictionLabelstringEngland/Wales
incorporatedOnstring1947-11-27
dissolvedOnstringDissolved on
sicCodesarray["47110"]
sicDescriptionsarray["Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tob…
registeredOfficestringTesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1GA, …
registeredOfficePremisesstringTesco House
registeredOfficeLine1stringShire Park, Kestrel Way
registeredOfficeLine2stringAddress line 2
registeredOfficeLocalitystringWelwyn Garden City
registeredOfficeRegionstringHertfordshire
registeredOfficePostcodestringAL7 1GA
registeredOfficeCountrystringEngland
registeredOfficePoBoxstringPO box
registeredOfficeInDisputebooleanFalse
registeredOfficeUndeliverablebooleanFalse
hasChargesbooleanTrue
hasInsolvencyHistorybooleanFalse
hasBeenLiquidatedbooleanFalse
isCommunityInterestCompanybooleanFalse
canFilebooleanTrue
accountsReferenceDatestring28-02
accountsNextDuestring2026-08-31
accountsNextMadeUpTostring2026-02-28
accountsOverduebooleanFalse
lastAccountsMadeUpTostring2025-02-22
lastAccountsTypestringgroup
lastAccountsTypeLabelstringGroup
lastAccountsPeriodStartstring2024-02-25
lastAccountsPeriodEndstring2025-02-22
confirmationStatementNextDuestring2026-08-01
confirmationStatementLastMadeUpTostring2025-07-18
confirmationStatementOverduebooleanFalse
previousNamesarray["TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY"]
previousNamesCountinteger1
previousNameChangesarrayPrevious names with dates
lastFullMembersListDatestringLast full members list date
externalRegistrationNumberstringExternal registration number
foreignRegistryCountrystringOverseas registry country
foreignRegistryNamestringOverseas registry name
foreignRegistrationNumberstringOverseas registration number
foreignLegalFormstringOverseas legal form
foreignGovernedBystringOverseas governing law
foreignBusinessActivitystringOverseas business activity
branchParentCompanyNumberstringParent company number (branch)
branchParentCompanyNamestringParent company name (branch)
branchBusinessActivitystringBranch business activity
partialDataAvailablestringPartial data note
matchedPreviousNamestringPrevious name that matched the search
sourcestringadvanced-search
searchQuerystringcompany_status=active&sic_codes=62012&location=London
profileLoadedbooleanTrue
filingsCountinteger312
filingsarrayLatest filings (date, category, type, description, pages)
lastFilingDatestring2026-09-30
lastFilingDescriptionstringConfirmation statement made on 2026-09-18 with no updates
chargesTotalinteger3
chargesSatisfiedinteger2
chargesPartSatisfiedinteger0
chargesOutstandinginteger1
chargesarrayCharges (code, status, dates, description)
insolvencyStatusarrayInsolvency status (with insolvency on)
insolvencyCasesCountinteger0
insolvencyCasesarrayInsolvency cases (number, type, dates)
scrapedAtstringScraped at

Example rows

Two real rows from a run (long texts shortened here, complete in the dataset):

[
{
"id": "00445790",
"url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
"companyNumber": "00445790",
"companyName": "TESCO PLC",
"status": "active",
"statusLabel": "Active",
"statusDetail": null,
"statusDetailLabel": null,
"type": "plc",
"typeLabel": "Public limited company",
"subtype": null,
"subtypeLabel": null,
"jurisdiction": "england-wales",
"jurisdictionLabel": "England/Wales",
"incorporatedOn": "1947-11-27",
"dissolvedOn": null,
"sicCodes": [
"47110"
],
"sicDescriptions": [
"Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating"
],
"registeredOffice": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1GA, United Kingdom",
"registeredOfficePremises": null,
"registeredOfficeLine1": "Tesco House, Shire Park",
"registeredOfficeLine2": "Kestrel Way",
"registeredOfficeLocality": "Welwyn Garden City",
"registeredOfficeRegion": null,
"registeredOfficePostcode": "AL7 1GA",
"registeredOfficeCountry": "United Kingdom",
"registeredOfficePoBox": null,
"registeredOfficeInDispute": false,
"registeredOfficeUndeliverable": false,
"hasCharges": false,
"hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
"hasBeenLiquidated": false,
"isCommunityInterestCompany": null,
"canFile": true,
"accountsReferenceDate": "26-02",
"accountsNextDue": "2027-08-26",
"accountsNextMadeUpTo": "2027-02-26",
"accountsOverdue": false,
"lastAccountsMadeUpTo": "2026-02-28",
"lastAccountsType": "group",
"lastAccountsTypeLabel": "Group",
"lastAccountsPeriodStart": "2025-02-27",
"lastAccountsPeriodEnd": "2026-02-28",
"confirmationStatementNextDue": "2027-07-02",
"confirmationStatementLastMadeUpTo": "2026-06-18",
"confirmationStatementOverdue": false,
"previousNames": [
"TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY",
"TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED"
],
"previousNamesCount": 2,
"previousNameChanges": [
{
"name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY",
"from": "1981-12-14",
"until": "1983-08-25"
},
{
"name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED",
"from": "1947-11-27",
"until": "1981-12-14"
}
],
"lastFullMembersListDate": "2013-06-07",
"externalRegistrationNumber": null,
"foreignRegistryCountry": null,
"foreignRegistryName": null,
"foreignRegistrationNumber": null,
"foreignLegalForm": null,
"foreignGovernedBy": null,
"foreignBusinessActivity": null,
"branchParentCompanyNumber": null,
"branchParentCompanyName": null,
"branchBusinessActivity": null,
"partialDataAvailable": null,
"matchedPreviousName": null,
"source": "number",
"searchQuery": null,
"profileLoaded": true,
"scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T06:26:54.596Z",
"filingsCount": 8372,
"filings": [
{
"date": "2026-09-16",
"category": "capital",
"subcategory": null,
"type": "SH03",
"description": "Purchase of own shares.",
"descriptionCode": "capital-return-purchase-own-shares",
"pages": 4,
"paperFiled": true
},
{
"date": "2026-08-26",
"category": "capital",
"subcategory": null,
"type": "SH06",
"description": "Cancellation of shares. Statement of capital on 2026-07-07",
"descriptionCode": "capital-cancellation-shares",
"pages": 4,
"paperFiled": true
},
{
"date": "2026-08-26",
"category": "capital",
"subcategory": null,
"type": "SH06",
"description": "Cancellation of shares. Statement of capital on 2026-06-30",
"descriptionCode": "capital-cancellation-shares",
"pages": 4,
"paperFiled": true
},
"… 2 more"
],
"lastFilingDate": "2026-09-16",
"lastFilingDescription": "Purchase of own shares.",
"chargesTotal": 9,
"chargesSatisfied": 7,
"chargesPartSatisfied": 0,
"chargesOutstanding": 2,
"charges": [
{
"code": null,
"number": 9,
"status": "outstanding",
"createdOn": "2009-11-04",
"deliveredOn": "2009-11-06",
"satisfiedOn": null,
"description": null,
"particulars": null
},
{
"code": null,
"number": 8,
"status": "outstanding",
"createdOn": "2009-11-04",
"deliveredOn": "2009-11-06",
"satisfiedOn": null,
"description": null,
"particulars": null
},
{
"code": null,
"number": 7,
"status": "fully-satisfied",
"createdOn": "2009-03-27",
"deliveredOn": "2009-03-27",
"satisfiedOn": "2009-11-25",
"description": null,
"particulars": null
},
"… 6 more"
],
"insolvencyStatus": [],
"insolvencyCasesCount": 0,
"insolvencyCases": []
},
{
"id": "00048839",
"url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00048839",
"companyNumber": "00048839",
"companyName": "BARCLAYS PLC",
"status": "active",
"statusLabel": "Active",
"statusDetail": null,
"statusDetailLabel": null,
"type": "plc",
"typeLabel": "Public limited company",
"subtype": null,
"subtypeLabel": null,
"jurisdiction": "england-wales",
"jurisdictionLabel": "England/Wales",
"incorporatedOn": "1896-07-20",
"dissolvedOn": null,
"sicCodes": [
"64191"
],
"sicDescriptions": [
"Banks"
],
"registeredOffice": "1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP",
"registeredOfficePremises": null,
"registeredOfficeLine1": "1 Churchill Place",
"registeredOfficeLine2": null,
"registeredOfficeLocality": "London",
"registeredOfficeRegion": null,
"registeredOfficePostcode": "E14 5HP",
"registeredOfficeCountry": null,
"registeredOfficePoBox": null,
"registeredOfficeInDispute": false,
"registeredOfficeUndeliverable": false,
"hasCharges": false,
"hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
"hasBeenLiquidated": false,
"isCommunityInterestCompany": null,
"canFile": true,
"accountsReferenceDate": "31-12",
"accountsNextDue": "2027-06-30",
"accountsNextMadeUpTo": "2026-12-31",
"accountsOverdue": false,
"lastAccountsMadeUpTo": "2025-12-31",
"lastAccountsType": "group",
"lastAccountsTypeLabel": "Group",
"lastAccountsPeriodStart": "2025-01-01",
"lastAccountsPeriodEnd": "2025-12-31",
"confirmationStatementNextDue": "2026-11-15",
"confirmationStatementLastMadeUpTo": "2025-11-01",
"confirmationStatementOverdue": false,
"previousNames": [
"BARCLAYS BANK PLC",
"BARCLAYS BANK LIMITED",
"BARCLAY & COMPANY LIMITED"
],
"previousNamesCount": 3,
"previousNameChanges": [
{
"name": "BARCLAYS BANK PLC",
"from": "1982-02-15",
"until": "1985-01-01"
},
{
"name": "BARCLAYS BANK LIMITED",
"from": "1916-02-17",
"until": "1982-02-15"
},
{
"name": "BARCLAY & COMPANY LIMITED",
"from": "1896-07-20",
"until": "1916-02-17"
}
],
"lastFullMembersListDate": "2012-08-31",
"externalRegistrationNumber": null,
"foreignRegistryCountry": null,
"foreignRegistryName": null,
"foreignRegistrationNumber": null,
"foreignLegalForm": null,
"foreignGovernedBy": null,
"foreignBusinessActivity": null,
"branchParentCompanyNumber": null,
"branchParentCompanyName": null,
"branchBusinessActivity": null,
"partialDataAvailable": null,
"matchedPreviousName": null,
"source": "number",
"searchQuery": null,
"profileLoaded": true,
"scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T06:26:31.297Z"
}
]

Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Dataset tab, or read through the Apify API.

Results of UK Companies House Scraper: Company Search & Profiles API in the Apify dataset view

Pricing

Pay per result. You pay for each company delivered to your dataset, nothing else: no subscription, no minimum, no charge for rows your filters drop or for the requests behind them.

Your Apify planPrice per 1,000 rowsPrice per row
Free plan$3.00$0.003
Starter plan$2.67$0.00267
Scale plan$2.33$0.00233
Business plan and above$2.00$0.002

Example: 1,000 companies cost $3.00 on the Free plan and $2.00 on the Business plan. The Apify platform usage of a run (compute, storage) is small for this actor — well under one cent per 1,000 rows — and is billed by Apify separately, as for every Actor. A start event of $0.00005 is charged once per run (Apify default). Cap your spend: set Maximum total charge in the run options. The actor stops cleanly when the cap is reached and you keep everything delivered until then. The run summary (RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store) says why a run stopped. Check before you pay: turn on Count only to see how many rows match and what they would cost at your tier. That run delivers nothing and costs only the start event.

Automation: only new rows, notifications, schedules

Only new rows since the last run. Turn on onlyNew and the actor remembers every company it delivered to you (in a key-value store named rowcraft-uk-companies-house-scraper-state in your Apify account). The next run with the same stateName skips what you already have and you pay only for new rows. The first run delivers everything that matches. Use a different stateName for each schedule or search so they keep separate memories.

Notification when the run ends. Put a webhook address in notifyUrl and the actor sends one JSON POST with the number of new rows, links to the dataset (JSON and CSV) and the run. It works out of the box with Slack and Discord incoming webhooks (the message is in text and content), with Make, n8n and Zapier catch hooks, and with your own endpoint. By default it is sent only when there is at least one new row; notifyWhenEmpty sends it every time.

Schedules. Create a schedule in Apify Console (hourly, daily, weekly or cron) with onlyNew on. A daily schedule gives you a feed of new companies for the price of the new rows only.

Integrations. Send the results to Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, Google Drive, Airtable or any webhooks from the Integrations tab of the Actor, with no code. Apify also offers native actions for Make, n8n and Zapier.

API, SDKs and AI agents. Every run is available through the Apify API and the official JavaScript and Python clients; the Actor can also be called by AI agents through the Apify MCP server. The example input in the API tab is a working call.

Count only. countOnly returns the number of matching companies and the estimated cost without delivering anything, so you can size a job before paying for it.

Use cases

  • New-company feeds: every company incorporated this week in your sector (SIC codes) and region, delivered daily to a sheet, a CRM or Slack.
  • Lead lists for B2B services: accountants, insurers, banks, software vendors and agencies that sell to new or growing companies; filter by type, age, activity and location.
  • Supplier and customer checks: status, age, accounts deadlines and overdue flags, charges and insolvency history for a list of company numbers.
  • Portfolio monitoring: re-run on your company numbers with Only new rows switched off and compare status, filings and charges with last week.
  • Research and journalism: companies by SIC code, postcode area and date range, dissolved companies in a period, overseas companies with UK establishments.

What this actor does not do

  • Deliver directors, secretaries, persons with significant control, disqualifications, insolvency practitioners, persons entitled under a charge, e-mail addresses or phone numbers: these endpoints and fields are never requested.
  • Deliver the documents themselves (accounts PDFs, filed forms); each filing row carries the official description and page count, and the company page is linked.
  • Work without a key: the register's API requires a free API key, which the customer creates in the Companies House Developer Hub (see FAQ).
  • Use the streaming API or the document API; log in to WebFiling; solve CAPTCHAs or use proxies.

Limits and fair use

  • The register allows 600 requests per five minutes per key and answers 429 beyond that. The default pause of 600 ms between requests keeps a run under the limit; the shortest allowed is 500 ms. The first 429 ends the run, the rows delivered so far are kept and the run summary says stoppedByRateLimit.
  • The advanced search returns up to 500 companies per request and the actor pages through it until maxItems or the last result; the run summary reports the total under totalMatching. Very broad filters can mean tens of thousands of companies, and past 10,000 results the register's paging is not documented, so narrow the filters (dates, location, SIC codes) for big lists. Name searches return up to 1,000 hits per name.
  • One request per company for the full profile, plus one each for filings, charges and insolvency when switched on. 1,000 companies with profiles are about 1,000 requests, roughly ten minutes at the default pace.
  • A company number that does not exist is reported in the run summary under missingNumbers and is not charged. An invalid key stops the run with a clear message and nothing is charged beyond the start event.
  • Dates and times follow the register (Europe/London); the run summary carries the counts, the pages read and the warnings.

Data source

The data comes from the Companies House Public Data API, the official interface of the UK register operated by Companies House, an executive agency of the UK Government. Each row links to the company's page on Find and update company information. The register is public by law (Companies Act 2006): Companies House makes the data available for use and re-use, including commercially, and places no restrictions of its own on how it is used; the customer remains responsible for complying with data protection law. Companies House's own material is Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence. SIC codes follow the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007. Rowcraft is independent and not affiliated with Companies House or the UK Government; the names belong to their owners.

Privacy: no personal data

Rowcraft actors are built not to collect personal data:

  • Only the company profile, search, filing history, charges and insolvency endpoints are called. The officers, persons with significant control, disqualified officers and appointments endpoints are never requested, so no director, secretary or owner ever reaches the dataset.
  • Inside the endpoints that are used, fields about people are dropped before the row is saved: the care-of line of the registered office, the persons entitled under a charge, the insolvency practitioners, and the names in filing descriptions (an appointment filing reads Appointment of [name removed] as a director).
  • E-mail addresses, phone numbers and mailto: or tel: links that appear inside free text are removed before the row is saved.

You are responsible for using the data in line with the law that applies to you, including the UK GDPR when a row concerns a sole trader or an individual's company.

Other Rowcraft actors

All Rowcraft actors read official or public sources, deliver flat rows without personal data and support only-new runs and notifications:

FAQ

Where do I get the API key, and is it free? From the Companies House Developer Hub: sign in with a Companies House account, open Your applications, create an application for the live environment, then Create new key with client type API key. The key is free and is shown once; paste it into apiKey. The same key can be reused in every run and every schedule.

Is my key safe in the actor? apiKey is a secret input field: Apify stores it encrypted and hides it in the run's input view. The actor sends it only to api.company-information.service.gov.uk as HTTP basic authentication, which is how the register expects it. Rowcraft never sees it.

Why are there no directors or owners? Rowcraft actors deliver data about companies, not about people. Officers, persons with significant control, disqualifications and appointments are separate endpoints that the actor never calls, and the people-related fields inside the endpoints it does call are removed. The company page linked in every row shows them on the register itself.

What is the difference between a name search and the advanced search? searchNames works like the search box on the register: free text, matches on current and previous names, relevance order, up to 1,000 hits per name. The advanced search uses the filters (nameIncludes, statuses, types, sicCodes, dates, location) and is the right tool for lists such as "active software companies in Manchester incorporated this year".

How do SIC codes work here? A five-digit code is used as is; a shorter prefix expands to every five-digit code that starts with it (62 covers all computer programming, consultancy and related activities, 6201 the two programming codes). Dots are ignored, so 62.01 works too. Each row carries the codes and their official descriptions.

Which date formats are accepted? ISO dates (2026-10-01), today, yesterday, and relative periods such as 7 days, 3 weeks, 6 months, 2 years. The register's own dates come back as YYYY-MM-DD.

What happens when the rate limit is hit? The register allows 600 requests per five minutes per key. The actor paces itself under that limit and, if a 429 still arrives, stops immediately, keeps what it has delivered and marks stoppedByRateLimit in the run summary. Repeatedly ignoring 429 can get a key blocked, which is why the actor does not retry.

Can I get dissolved companies? Yes: put dissolved in statuses and, if you want a period, set dissolvedFrom and dissolvedTo. Dissolved companies come back with whatever the register still shows for them.

What about overseas companies and UK establishments? Company types such as overseas-company and uk-establishment are supported; the rows carry the foreign registry, registration number, legal form, governing law and, for establishments, the parent company. Their numbers start with FC or BR.

What does Count only do? It asks the register how many companies match (numbers, name searches and advanced search combined) and writes the count, with the cost at your plan, into the run summary. Nothing is delivered and only the start event is charged.

Can I pay only for new companies? Yes. Turn on Only new rows since the last run: the actor remembers what it delivered to you and later runs with the same state name deliver (and charge) only the new rows.

How do I get the results into Slack, Google Sheets, Make, n8n or Zapier? Use the Integrations tab of the Actor for the data, and the notifyUrl field for a message when a run ends (Slack and Discord webhooks work directly; catch hooks of Make, n8n and Zapier too).

Can I call it from code or from an AI agent? Yes: through the Apify API, the JavaScript and Python clients, and the Apify MCP server. The API tab shows a working example with the input of this Actor.

Is it legal to use this data? The actor reads the official API described in the Data source section and delivers company and job data without personal data. The licence of the source is described above. How you use the data is your responsibility under the law that applies to you.

Does it collect personal data? No. Contact persons, e-mails and phone numbers are removed and fields about people are never requested. See the Privacy section.

The run finished with 0 rows. Did I pay? No: with no rows delivered nothing is charged apart from the start event. Check the run summary (RUN_SUMMARY) for warnings, widen the filters, or run with Only new rows off if everything matching was already delivered to you.

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