Canada Business Registry Scraper - Companies & Leads

Search Canada's official business registries in one run and get clean rows for every company: legal name, registry, status, business number (BN), corporation number, entity type, city, province and incorporation date. One search covers eight registries - federal Corporations Canada plus Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. Built on the official government API - no key, no browser, no proxy.

What you get per company

Field	Meaning
name / alternateName	Legal name and registered alternate name
registrySource / registryName / jurisdiction	Which registry the record comes from
businessNumber	CRA business number (BN) where the registry publishes it
registryEntityId / alternateId	Corporation / entity number in that registry
entityType / mrasEntityType	Business corporation, sole proprietorship, partnership...
status / statusDate / statusNotes	Active or Inactive, with the date
incorporationDate	Date incorporated / registered
city / province / country	Registered-office location
homeJurisdictionName / homeJurisdictionRegistry	Home jurisdiction for extra-provincial registrations
registryUrl	Direct Corporations Canada profile link for federal records

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["Shopify", "plumbing"], "registrySources": ["CC", "ON"], "statuses": ["Active"] }

• Search queries - company names, keywords, or business/corporation numbers, one per line.
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record.
• Registries - limit to any of the eight participating registries. Statuses - Active / Inactive.
• Max companies bound the run. Output fields trim every record to the columns you need.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the official Canada's Business Registries federated search API - public, keyless, no anti-bot. Searches that return nothing bill $0, and rows dropped by your registry/status filters are never charged.

Honest limits

• Coverage is the 8 participating registries (federal CC + ON, QC, BC, AB, MB, SK, NS - measured live). New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland and the territories do not publish into the federated search.
• businessNumber appears only where the source registry publishes it - federal records carry it consistently; some provincial records omit it. It reflects the registry's own data, not a scraping gap.
• Registry-office address granularity varies by registry - city/province are the reliable fields.
• No director names or filing documents - the federated search returns the registry index record; use the registryUrl for the full federal corporation profile.

Pricing

$0.002 per company on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only companies actually saved are billed; empty searches and filtered-out rows cost nothing.

Output views

• Companies - name, status, registry, entity type, city, province, business number, incorporation date.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can verify a Canadian counterparty's registration, find every province a brand is registered in, or pull a lead list for a keyword in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.