UK Insolvency & Bankruptcy Notices Scraper (The Gazette)

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns:

{
  "noticeId": "4871126",
  "noticeCode": "2503",
  "noticeType": "Bankruptcy Orders",
  "insolvencyCategory": "Personal",
  "subjectName": "Smith Philip Alan George",
  "companyName": null,
  "companyNumber": null,
  "tradingAs": null,
  "natureOfBusiness": null,
  "individualName": "Smith Philip Alan George",
  "individualDateOfBirth": "1983-10-01",
  "court": "Office of the Adjudicator",
  "caseNumber": "5170540",
  "caseYear": "2025",
  "petitionerName": null,
  "practitionerName": "T Keller",
  "practitionerType": null,
  "practitionerFirm": null,
  "practitionerEmail": null,
  "practitionerPhone": "0300 6780 016",
  "practitionerAddress": null,
  "practitionerPostcode": null,
  "noticeDated": null,
  "dateOfBankruptcyOrder": "2025-04-15",
  "dateOfAppointment": "2025-04-16",
  "typeOfPetition": "Debtor's",
  "edition": "London",
  "issueNumber": "64715",
  "pageNumber": "8770",
  "status": "published",
  "publicationDate": "2025-04-23T10:10:53",
  "summary": "…",
  "latitude": 51.41742,
  "longitude": -0.739316,
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4871126",
  "source": "The Gazette (UK official public record)",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-06T16:08:48.265Z"
}

The most complete UK insolvency notices scraper available. It returns every party The Gazette prints on each insolvency and bankruptcy notice, plus derived fields like the corporate-vs-personal category and a single-line practitioner address, and gives you seven filters to target exactly the notices you need.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor searches the official UK insolvency notice feed published by The Gazette, applies the filters you pass as input (notice type, name or keyword, edition, date range, postcode radius), reads the linked structured data behind each matching notice, and writes one normalized record per notice to the run's dataset. Each record identifies the company or individual affected, the company number where corporate, the court and case, the petitioner where named, and the appointed insolvency practitioner with firm, phone, email and address when The Gazette prints them, plus edition, issue and page. Corporate and personal insolvencies are labelled in insolvencyCategory. Missing source values are returned as null.

Data covers the London (England and Wales), Edinburgh (Scotland) and Belfast (Northern Ireland) editions of The Gazette, the UK's official public record. It includes winding-up petitions and orders, liquidator, administrator and trustee appointments, bankruptcy orders, creditor meetings, notices to creditors and dividend notices.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns up to 4 bankruptcy-order notices mentioning "SMITH".

{
  "noticeCategory": "bankruptcy_orders",
  "keywords": ["SMITH"],
  "maxNotices": 4,
  "radiusMiles": 10
}

Every field is optional. With an empty input the actor returns the most recent insolvency notices of all types. Each keyword runs its own search in the same run, so you can monitor a list of companies at once.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
noticeCategory	enum	no	all	Notice type to filter to. One of all, winding_up_petitions, winding_up_orders, appointment_of_liquidators, resolutions_for_winding_up, bankruptcy_orders, appointment_of_administrators, appointment_of_trustees, meetings_of_creditors, notices_to_creditors, notices_of_intended_dividends, dismissal_of_winding_up.
keywords	string[]	no	(none)	One or more company names, individual names or keywords, for example ["SMITH"] or a list of firms you monitor. Each term runs a separate search in the same run.
noticeTypeCodes	string[]	no	(none)	Power-user override: exact Gazette notice-type codes, for example 2450 (winding-up petitions), 2503 (bankruptcy orders), 2432 (appointment of liquidators). Overrides noticeCategory when set.
editions	string[]	no	(all)	Keep only these editions: London, Edinburgh or Belfast. Leave empty for all.
startDate	string	no	(empty)	Include notices published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
endDate	string	no	(empty)	Include notices published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
postcode	string	no	(empty)	Restrict to notices near this UK postcode, for example EC3V 3ND. Use with radiusMiles.
radiusMiles	integer	no	10	Search radius in miles around postcode (1 to 100).
maxNotices	integer	no	30	Maximum number of notices to collect.

Filters combine with logical AND. Use noticeTypeCodes only when you need codes not covered by noticeCategory.

Output reference

One dataset item per insolvency notice. Types: string, number, or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
noticeId	string	The Gazette notice ID, unique per notice.
noticeCode	string	Gazette notice-type code, for example 2503 for a bankruptcy order.
noticeType	string	Human-readable notice type, for example Bankruptcy Orders.
insolvencyCategory	string	Corporate, Personal, or null when neither can be determined.
subjectName	string	Company name if corporate, else the individual, else the printed subject title.
companyName	string	Registered company name for corporate insolvencies, else null.
companyNumber	string	Companies House number for corporate insolvencies, else null.
tradingAs	string	Trading name of the company when given, else null.
natureOfBusiness	string	Business activity of the company when given, else null.
individualName	string	Debtor name for personal insolvencies, else null.
individualDateOfBirth	string	Debtor date of birth (YYYY-MM-DD) when published, else null.
court	string	Court or adjudicator handling the case.
caseNumber	string	Court or case reference number.
caseYear	string	Year of the case.
petitionerName	string	Party that filed the petition when named, else null.
practitionerName	string	Appointed insolvency practitioner, trustee or receiver.
practitionerType	string	Practitioner role when stated, else null.
practitionerFirm	string	Firm the practitioner belongs to, else null.
practitionerEmail	string	Practitioner contact email when printed, else null.
practitionerPhone	string	Practitioner contact phone when printed, else null.
practitionerAddress	string	Single-line practitioner postal address, else null.
practitionerPostcode	string	Practitioner postcode, else null.
noticeDated	string	Date the practitioner dated the notice (YYYY-MM-DD), else null.
dateOfBankruptcyOrder	string	Date of the bankruptcy order (YYYY-MM-DD) when applicable, else null.
dateOfAppointment	string	Date of appointment (YYYY-MM-DD) when applicable, else null.
typeOfPetition	string	Petition type, for example Debtor's, else null.
edition	string	Gazette edition: London, Edinburgh or Belfast.
issueNumber	string	Gazette issue number the notice appeared in.
pageNumber	string	Page number within the issue.
status	string	Notice status, for example published.
publicationDate	string	Publication timestamp of the notice.
summary	string	Notice content summary from the feed (up to 1200 characters), or null.
latitude	number	Latitude tied to the notice location, or null.
longitude	number	Longitude tied to the notice location, or null.
noticeUrl	string	Direct link to the notice on thegazette.co.uk.
source	string	Always The Gazette (UK official public record).
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
error	string	Present only on a failed run; a single item with this field is written instead of notices.

Example output record

Real record from a live run (input {"noticeCategory":"bankruptcy_orders","keywords":["SMITH"],"maxNotices":4}):

{
  "noticeId": "4871126",
  "noticeCode": "2503",
  "noticeType": "Bankruptcy Orders",
  "insolvencyCategory": "Personal",
  "subjectName": "Smith Philip Alan George",
  "companyName": null,
  "companyNumber": null,
  "tradingAs": null,
  "natureOfBusiness": null,
  "individualName": "Smith Philip Alan George",
  "individualDateOfBirth": "1983-10-01",
  "court": "Office of the Adjudicator",
  "caseNumber": "5170540",
  "caseYear": "2025",
  "petitionerName": null,
  "practitionerName": "T Keller",
  "practitionerType": null,
  "practitionerFirm": null,
  "practitionerEmail": null,
  "practitionerPhone": "0300 6780 016",
  "practitionerAddress": null,
  "practitionerPostcode": null,
  "noticeDated": null,
  "dateOfBankruptcyOrder": "2025-04-15",
  "dateOfAppointment": "2025-04-16",
  "typeOfPetition": "Debtor's",
  "edition": "London",
  "issueNumber": "64715",
  "pageNumber": "8770",
  "status": "published",
  "publicationDate": "2025-04-23T10:10:53",
  "summary": "…",
  "latitude": 51.41742,
  "longitude": -0.739316,
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4871126",
  "source": "The Gazette (UK official public record)",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-06T16:08:48.265Z"
}

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~uk-gazette-insolvency-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"noticeCategory":"bankruptcy_orders","keywords":["SMITH"],"maxNotices":25}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~uk-gazette-insolvency-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"noticeCategory":"appointment_of_administrators","startDate":"2026-01-01","maxNotices":100}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/uk-gazette-insolvency-scraper \
  --input '{"noticeTypeCodes":["2450"],"postcode":"EC3V 3ND","radiusMiles":25}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per notice returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors, the actor writes a single item with an error field and does not charge for it. Runs that match nothing cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run. Upgrade for a higher maxNotices.
• Practitioner enrichment. Each notice is enriched from its linked structured data, so runs read more than one page per notice. Some older notices omit practitioner contact fields; those are returned as null.

FAQ and troubleshooting

How do I monitor a list of specific companies? Put each company or individual name in the keywords array. Every term runs a separate search in the same run, so one run covers your whole watchlist.

How do I get only corporate insolvencies, or only personal? Filter by noticeCategory (for example winding_up_orders for companies, bankruptcy_orders for individuals), then read the insolvencyCategory field on each record to confirm.

Why are the practitioner email or firm fields null? The Gazette does not print those on every notice, especially older bankruptcy orders handled by the Adjudicator. Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

What is the difference between noticeCategory and noticeTypeCodes? noticeCategory maps friendly labels to the underlying Gazette codes. noticeTypeCodes lets you pass exact codes directly and overrides the category when set.

Can I limit results to one nation of the UK? Yes. Set editions to ["London"] for England and Wales, ["Edinburgh"] for Scotland, or ["Belfast"] for Northern Ireland.

Is this an official Gazette tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with The Gazette or the UK Insolvency Service. It reads only notices The Gazette publishes as the official public record. Use it in accordance with the Gazette terms.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with The Gazette or the UK Insolvency Service. Accesses only publicly available official notices. Use in accordance with the Gazette terms.