UK Companies House Scraper: New Companies by SIC Code

UK Companies House Scraper: new UK companies by SIC code, incorporation date and location

A fast, cheap Companies House API alternative for new-business lead lists. Export UK companies straight from the Companies House register, filtered by SIC code, incorporation date (e.g. companies incorporated in the last 7 days), registered-office location, company name, status and company type. One run returns up to 5,000 companies (in our test runs: 200 rows in about 8 s, 500 rows across 3 SIC codes in about 30 s). No Companies House API key, no login, no proxy. $1.50 per 1,000 companies.

Built for accountants, banks, insurers, payroll and web agencies prospecting newly incorporated companies, analysts tracking incorporations by sector, and KYB teams pre-checking company status.

What this Companies House scraper does (and doesn't)

Price	$1.50 per 1,000 companies, pay per result, no subscription
How it gets data	Companies House's own "Advanced company search" CSV export, one export per SIC code (no page-by-page crawling)
Filters	SIC code, incorporation date or last N days, registered-office town/county/postcode, company name contains / excludes, status, company type
API key	Not needed
Personal data	None: company-level only, registered office reduced to postcode and country
Not included	Directors, officers, PSCs, filing history, accounts, emails

If you need directors and PSCs, use a full-profile scraper. If you need lists of companies to prospect or count, this is what it's built for.

Sample output (real run, default input: software companies incorporated in the last 7 days)

Company	Number	Incorporated	Primary SIC	Postcode district
HORNECRAFT LTD	17526830	2026-10-17	62012 Business and domestic software development	WC2H
KITWRITE STUDIO LTD	17526785	2026-10-17	62012 Business and domestic software development	SW15
CONEST LABS LIMITED	17526770	2026-10-17	58290 Other software publishing
LIGHT IS A WAVE LTD	17526851	2026-10-17	58210 Publishing of computer games
TRIDENT LABS LTD	17526762	2026-10-17	58290 Other software publishing

One full row:

{
  "companyNumber": "17526830",
  "companyName": "HORNECRAFT LTD",
  "status": "active",
  "companyType": "ltd",
  "companyTypeLabel": "Private limited company",
  "companySubtype": null,
  "incorporatedOn": "2026-10-17",
  "ageDays": 0,
  "dissolvedOn": null,
  "registeredOn": "2026-10-17",
  "sicCodes": [
    "62012"
  ],
  "sicDescriptions": [
    "Business and domestic software development"
  ],
  "primarySicCode": "62012",
  "primarySicDescription": "Business and domestic software development",
  "postcode": "WC2H 9JQ",
  "postcodeArea": "WC",
  "postcodeDistrict": "WC2H",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17526830"
}

Ready-made example inputs (copy into the Input JSON tab)

New restaurants and cafés in London, last 30 days

{"sicCodes": ["56101", "56102", "56103"], "location": "London", "daysBack": 30, "maxItems": 200}

New property / real-estate companies in Manchester this month

{"sicCodes": ["68100", "68209", "68320"], "location": "Manchester", "daysBack": 30, "maxItems": 200}

Construction companies now in liquidation, incorporated since 2020 (insolvency watch)

{"sicCodes": ["41201", "41202", "43999"], "statuses": ["liquidation"], "incorporatedFrom": "2020-01-01", "maxItems": 500}

Daily feed of new software companies (schedule daily, send to Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook)

{"sicCodes": ["62012", "62020", "58290"], "daysBack": 1, "maxItems": 1000}

AI startups incorporated since September

{"companyNameIncludes": "ai", "incorporatedFrom": "2026-09-01", "maxItems": 500}

Common SIC codes: 62012 software development, 62020 IT consultancy, 70229 management consultancy, 47910 online retail, 56101 restaurants, 68100 buying and selling real estate, 41100 property development, 43210 electrical installation, 86900 health care, 96020 hairdressing.

Use cases

• New-company leads: every company registered this week in your target SIC codes and area. Reach new businesses before your competitors do.
• Market monitoring: count incorporations per SIC code, town and month.
• Competitor / sector watch: companies whose name includes a keyword (e.g. "ai", "solar", "care").
• Insolvency watch: companies in liquidation or administration in your sector.
• CRM feed: schedule it daily with daysBack: 1 and push new rows to HubSpot, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
sicCodes	["62012","62020"]	5-digit SIC 2007 codes
daysBack	7	Incorporated in the last N days
incorporatedFrom / incorporatedTo	2026-09-01	Exact dates instead of daysBack
companyNameIncludes / companyNameExcludes	ai	Words in / not in the company name
location	Manchester	Registered-office town, county or postcode
statuses	["active"]	Default active. Also dissolved, liquidation, administration...
companyTypes	["ltd"]	ltd, plc, llp...
maxItems	50	Newest first, up to 5,000

Output fields

companyNumber, companyName, status, companyType, companyTypeLabel, companySubtype, incorporatedOn, ageDays, dissolvedOn, registeredOn, sicCodes, sicDescriptions, primarySicCode, primarySicDescription, postcode, postcodeArea, postcodeDistrict, country, companyUrl.

sicCodes lists every SIC code the company registered (up to 4). country is the country written in the registered office address (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or United Kingdom); when the address leaves it out but has a valid UK postcode it is United Kingdom. Postcode fields are null only when the address is empty or Companies House holds a malformed postcode.

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read through the API.

Use from an AI agent (API or MCP)

Add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=sefran1/uk-companies-house-search to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client, then ask e.g. "List new restaurants incorporated in Leeds in the last 30 days". Or call the API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sefran1~uk-companies-house-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"sicCodes":["56101"],"daysBack":30,"location":"London","maxItems":500}'

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0015 per company ($1.50 per 1,000), platform usage included. No subscription. A search that finds nothing finishes with an empty dataset and costs only the tiny start fee. Example: 2,000 new companies = $3.

FAQ

Is this a Companies House API alternative? Yes. It uses the public Companies House advanced search export, so you don't need to register for an API key or handle rate limits.

How fresh is the data? Each run reads the live register at run time, so a company shows up as soon as Companies House lists it in its search (our default-input sample included companies incorporated that same day).

Can I get directors or emails? No. This Actor returns company-level data only, on purpose (no personal data).

Several SIC codes at once? Yes. Companies House searches one SIC code at a time, so the Actor runs one export per code, merges them and removes duplicates.

More than 5,000 results? Companies House caps one export at 5,000 rows per SIC code; split by date range (e.g. one run per month).

Privacy, data source and limits

• Company-level data only. No officers, directors or persons with significant control. The registered office is reduced to postcode and country, because many small companies use a home address.
• Source: the public Companies House register, via the "Advanced company search" export on find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House register information is public and free to reuse; check the official record before relying on a result.
• Companies House exports at most 5,000 matches per search. Split large searches by date range.
• Not affiliated with Companies House.