UK Gazette Insolvency Scraper: Winding-Up & Liquidations

A feed of UK company insolvency notices from The Gazette: winding-up petitions and orders, administrations and liquidations (see the availability note below).

Who it's for

• Credit controllers checking whether customers or suppliers are in insolvency
• Insolvency practitioners, asset buyers and lawyers looking for new cases
• Journalists and analysts tracking UK business failures by area or sector

Sample output

noticeTypeLabel	companyName	companyNumber	publishedDate	postcode
Creditors' voluntary liquidation	HIMALAYAN RESTAURANT LTD	12484472	2026-10-20	GU15 2QN
Creditors' voluntary liquidation	HIMALAYAN RESTAURANT LTD	12484472	2026-10-20	GU15 2QN
Creditors' voluntary liquidation	CORNWALL HOTELS LTD	15119977	2026-10-20	TR10 9EP

Real rows from a test run (shortened; the full output has more fields).

Price per 1,000 results

Main event: notice-row at $0.003 each, so 1,000 results = $3.00. Other events: new-notice $0.01 each (only charged when that row type is output). See the Pricing tab for the current prices.

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "noticeTypes": [
    "winding_up_petitions",
    "winding_up_orders",
    "administrations",
    "liquidations_cvl"
  ],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxResults": 30
}

A daily feed of UK company insolvency notices from The Gazette, the official public record. Covers winding-up petitions, winding-up orders, administrations, creditors' voluntary liquidations (CVL), members' voluntary liquidations, receiverships and dismissed petitions. Each notice comes with the company name and number, the insolvency practitioner, the postcode, the court case number, the hearing date and the notice URL. Run new_notices on a schedule to get only the notices published since your last run. No key, no login.

Mode	What you get
🔎 search	Notices in a date range, filtered by type, keyword, company name and postcode area
🔔 new_notices	Only notices not seen in previous runs. Ideal as a daily distress-alert feed

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⚠️ Availability: The Gazette may refuse cloud access

The Gazette (thegazette.co.uk) currently answers HTTP 403 (access refused) to requests from the Apify cloud. When that happens the run stops with a clear error, outputs nothing and charges nothing for results. This is an access restriction on The Gazette's side. Its fair use policy forbids attempts to bypass access restrictions, so this actor deliberately does not use proxies, disguised headers or any other workaround. It uses only The Gazette's official public notice feed (/all-notices/notice/data.json, allowed by robots.txt) with a 10-second crawl delay and an identifiable User-Agent. If runs keep failing with this message, the data is not currently available to cloud tools. The Gazette's official data services are the supported route for bulk or commercial access.

What you get

• One row per Gazette insolvency notice: notice type, company name and company number, publication date, court case number, hearing date, postcode and notice URL
• Winding-up petitions and orders, administrations, CVLs, MVLs, receiverships and dismissed petitions
• Optional full-notice text parsing for insolvency practitioner names, registered office postcode and hearing date
• A direct Companies House link for every company
• A new_notices monitor that returns only notices published since your last run

Who uses it

• Credit controllers and trade-credit insurers: spot customers facing a winding-up petition before an order is made.
• Insolvency practitioners, turnaround advisers and asset buyers: a daily list of new administrations and liquidations by region.
• Lenders, factoring and invoice-finance firms: monitor portfolio and debtor risk.
• Journalists and analysts: track insolvencies by sector and area.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Mode	search	or new_notices
Notice types	["winding_up_petitions","administrations"]	Defaults: petitions, orders, administrations, CVLs
Days back / From / To	7	Publication date
Keyword	construction	Gazette full-text search
Company name contains	["limited"]
Postcode areas	["M","LS","EC1V"]
Fetch full notice text	false	Adds IP names, registered office postcode and hearing date (10 s per notice)
Look up missing company numbers	true	When the feed excerpt has no (or a cut-off) company number, reads it from the notice page. 10 s each, max 20 per run by default
Max results	30

Example output (real sample)

noticeTypeLabel	companyName	companyNumber	publishedDate	postcode
Creditors' voluntary liquidation	HIMALAYAN RESTAURANT LTD	12484472	2026-10-20	GU15 2QN
Winding-up petition	MY BUILDER GROUP LTD	13059359	2026-10-20	HA9 6PL
Winding-up order	COURIER SOLUTIONS EDINBURGH LIMITED	SC660367	2026-10-20	DD1 4QB

Output

{
  "noticeId": "5234170",
  "noticeTypeLabel": "Creditors' voluntary liquidation",
  "companyName": "HIMALAYAN RESTAURANT LTD",
  "companyNumber": "12484472",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-20",
  "courtCaseNumber": null,
  "hearingDate": null,
  "postcode": "GU15 2QN",
  "insolvencyPractitionerName": "Zain Iqbal",
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5234170",
  "companiesHouseUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12484472"
}

Pricing (pay per event)

In plain words: $3 per 1,000 notices in search mode, and $10 per 1,000 new notices in monitor mode. A daily UK-wide winding-up feed typically costs well under $1 a day.

Event	Price
notice-row: each notice in search mode	$0.003
new-notice: each new notice in new_notices mode	$0.01

Notes

• Polite by design: The Gazette's robots.txt asks for a 10-second crawl delay. We honour it, fetch 100 notices per request, respect any 429 Retry-After, and send an identifiable User-Agent. If The Gazette refuses access (HTTP 403) the run stops; no workaround is attempted.
• Strike-off notices are not included. The Gazette publishes them only as bulk supplement lists, not as data notices. Use our UK Companies House feed for dissolutions.
• Personal bankruptcies are off by default because they are personal data. When enabled, only the name, date and URL are output.
• Petitioners' personal details are never output.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The Gazette (thegazette.co.uk), the UK's official public record for insolvency notices.

How quickly do notices appear? As soon as The Gazette publishes them. Schedule new_notices daily to catch petitions before winding-up orders are made.

Can I filter by region? Yes. Use postcode areas (e.g. M, LS, EC1V), or a keyword search.

Are personal bankruptcies included? Not by default. When enabled, only the name, date and URL are output.

Is it legal to use? Yes. Gazette notices are public and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The actor honours the site's crawl delay and fair use policy, and never works around an access block.

Contains public sector information from The Gazette, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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