Australian Business Register Search (ASIC Business Names + ABN)

Search the official Australian Business Names Register in bulk — 3.2 million+ business and trading names registered with ASIC — by name keyword or by ABN. No API key, no login, no scraping of fragile pages: this actor reads the government open-data feed on data.gov.au directly and returns clean, structured JSON.

Give it a list of searches and it paginates the register for each one, so you can pull hundreds or thousands of matching businesses in a single run.

What you can do with it

• Lead lists by keyword — every registered business with "plumbing", "coffee roasters", "physiotherapy", "mortgage broker" in its name, with registration dates.
• ABN → trading names — give an 11-digit ABN and get every business name registered to that company (e.g. Woolworths Group's ABN returns BIG W, FOOD FOR LESS, Everyday Money and dozens more).
• Due diligence / KYB — check whether a business name is currently Registered or Deregistered, and when it was registered or cancelled.
• Market research — count and list active businesses in a niche or region.

Data fields you get

Field	Description
businessName	The registered business / trading name
status	Registered (active) or Deregistered (cancelled)
abn	The 11-digit Australian Business Number the name is held under
registrationDate	Date the business name was registered (DD/MM/YYYY)
cancellationDate	Date it was cancelled, if deregistered
stateOfRegistration	State of registration (e.g. NSW), when present
stateNumber	Legacy state registration number, when present
registerName	Source register (BUSINESS NAMES)
abnLookupUrl	Deep link to the official ABN Lookup page for that ABN
matchType	name for keyword matches, abn for ABN lookups
query	The input search that produced this row

Input

queries is a list. Any 11-digit number is treated as an ABN (spaces and punctuation are ignored). Anything else is a full-text name search.

{
    "queries": ["coffee roasters", "88000014675", "plumbing"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
    "statusFilter": "all"
}

• queries — business-name keywords and/or ABNs. Each is searched separately.
• maxResultsPerQuery — cap on rows returned per search (1–10000). The actor paginates automatically until it hits this number or runs out of matches.
• statusFilter — all, Registered (active only), or Deregistered only.

Output sample

Each result is one row in the dataset:

{
    "query": "88000014675",
    "matchType": "abn",
    "businessName": "BIG W",
    "status": "Registered",
    "abn": "88000014675",
    "registrationDate": "02/08/2004",
    "cancellationDate": null,
    "stateOfRegistration": "NSW",
    "stateNumber": "BN98077735",
    "registerName": "BUSINESS NAMES",
    "recordId": 329174,
    "abnLookupUrl": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=88000014675"
}

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed only for each business-name record returned. Searches that return no matches are not charged.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The ASIC Business Names Dataset published as open data on data.gov.au (the Australian Government open-data portal), licensed Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia. ASIC refreshes it daily.

Is this the same as the ABN Lookup / Australian Business Register? It is the companion Business Names register. Every row includes the ABN the name is held under, plus a direct link to that ABN's official ABN Lookup page for full entity details (entity type, GST status, etc.).

Do I need an API key or ABR GUID? No. This source is fully public.

Can I search by ABN? Yes — enter the 11-digit ABN and you get every business name registered to it.

Is personal data included? No. This is business-level register data only — business names, statuses, dates and ABNs. No individual/natural-person records.