Canada Business Registry Scraper - Companies & Leads

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Canada's Business Registries" is referenced only to describe the public data source this Actor collects from.

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.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/canada-business-registry-scraper').call({
    "searchQueries": [
        "Shopify"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 25
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape Canada's Business Registries? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See Data & lawful use and the Disclaimer below.

Data & lawful use

The source is an official public register, published so that anyone can consult it. Records can name individuals (directors), so the output may contain personal data even though it is public. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis, honour access and deletion requests, and respect the register's own reuse conditions, which can restrict marketing or commercial use.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Canada's Business Registries" is referenced only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the public data source this Actor collects from. This Actor is not an official product or service of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) and is not authorised or certified by it. It collects only publicly available records; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the source's own terms of use or reuse conditions.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.