Companies House Scraper: New UK Companies & Directors

What does Companies House Scraper do?

Companies House Scraper exports UK company data from the official Companies House register into a spreadsheet or JSON. Build lists of newly incorporated UK companies by industry (SIC code), town or postcode and incorporation date, or look up companies by company number, Companies House URL or name. Optionally add directors and officers and persons with significant control (PSC / beneficial owners). Turn on Only new and schedule it for daily new-company alerts.

• Uses the official Companies House Public Data API, not page scraping, so data is structured and stable.
• No Companies House API key needed (ours is built in). You can add your own free key to use your own rate-limit quota.
• Pay per company: US$2 per 1,000 companies, US$4 per 1,000 with directors and/or owners, plus US$0.01 per run. The prefilled "Try for free" run (25 new software companies) costs US$0.06.
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML, or push to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier or Make with Apify integrations and the Apify API.

Who uses Companies House data like this?

• B2B sales and lead generation: every new IT consultancy, restaurant, builder or e-commerce company registered in Manchester this week, with registered office address and directors. Typical buyers: accountants, banks, insurers, web and marketing agencies, payroll and office suppliers, formation agents.
• Daily new-company alerts: a saved search runs every morning and returns only companies you haven't seen before.
• KYC, due diligence and supplier checks: look up a list of company numbers or names and get status, accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, overdue flags, insolvency history, charges, directors and beneficial owners.
• Market research: count company formations by SIC code, region and month.
• CRM enrichment: add the official company number, status, SIC industry and address to company names you already have.

How to get a list of newly registered companies in the UK

1. Click Try for free. The form is prefilled with SIC codes 62012 and 62020 (software development and IT consultancy), incorporated in the last 7 days, 25 results.
2. Change the SIC codes (prefixes work: 62 = all IT, 5610 = restaurants and takeaways, 41 = building construction) and optionally a Location (town, county or postcode area).
3. Turn on Include directors & officers and/or Include beneficial owners (PSC) if you need people as well as companies.
4. Click Start. Results appear in the Companies view; switch to Directors & owners or Filing status for other columns.
5. For daily alerts: turn on Only companies not returned before, set a State key (e.g. manchester-restaurants), choose Baseline only for the first run if you don't want the backlog, and add a daily Schedule in Apify.

Apify's free plan includes US$5 of monthly credit to spend in Apify Store: roughly 2,400 basic company records or 1,200 records with directors.

Input examples

Lead list: new software companies in London, last 7 days, with directors:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "sicCodes": ["6201", "62020"],
  "location": "London",
  "incorporatedWithinDays": 7,
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Daily alert: new restaurants and takeaways in Manchester (schedule daily):

{
  "mode": "search",
  "sicCodes": ["5610"],
  "location": "Manchester",
  "incorporatedWithinDays": 3,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "firstRunBehavior": "baselineOnly",
  "stateKey": "manchester-restaurants",
  "maxResults": 0
}

Company lookup with directors and beneficial owners (KYC):

{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "companies": ["00445790", "SC123456", "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC300000", "Rolls-Royce Holdings plc"],
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "includePSC": true
}

Features

Feature	Details
Search filters	SIC codes or prefixes (62 = all IT, 6201 = 62011 + 62012), location (town, county, postcode area), incorporated date range or "last N days", status, company type and subtype, name includes/excludes, dissolved date range
Lookup	Company numbers (445790 is padded to 00445790, plus SC, NI and OC prefixes), Companies House URLs, or company names (best match or top N)
Industry names	Every SIC code comes with its official description
Full profile	Accounts next due / last made up to, accounts type, confirmation statement due, overdue flags, charges, insolvency history, previous names
Directors & officers	Active (or all) officers with role, appointment date, nationality, occupation, country of residence, month/year of birth, service address, plus a ready-to-use directorNames column
Beneficial owners (PSC)	Individuals and corporate owners, natures of control, ownership band (>25-50%, >50-75%, 75-100%), corporate registration numbers, plus a pscNames column
Only new	Remembers what each saved search has returned. An optional silent baseline on the first run means you only pay for companies registered afterwards
Rate-limit safe	Stays under Companies House's 600 requests per 5 minutes and automatically waits and retries if limited

Output: Companies House data fields

One item per company. Views: Companies, Directors & owners and Filing status.

{
  "companyNumber": "15998877",
  "companyName": "BYTEFORGE SOLUTIONS LTD",
  "companyStatus": "active",
  "companyType": "ltd",
  "dateOfCreation": "2026-10-14",
  "companyAgeDays": 7,
  "sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"],
  "sicDescriptions": ["Business and domestic software development", "Information technology consultancy activities"],
  "addressLine1": "71-75 Shelton Street",
  "locality": "London",
  "postalCode": "WC2H 9JQ",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "fullAddress": "71-75 Shelton Street, London, Greater London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15998877",
  "directorNames": "SMITH, Jane Alice; PATEL, Ravi",
  "officers": [{ "name": "SMITH, Jane Alice", "role": "director", "appointedOn": "2026-10-14", "nationality": "British", "occupation": "Software Engineer", "countryOfResidence": "England", "birthMonth": 3, "birthYear": 1988, "active": true }],
  "pscNames": "Mrs Jane Alice Smith",
  "personsWithSignificantControl": [{ "name": "Mrs Jane Alice Smith", "kind": "individual", "ownershipBand": "75-100%", "naturesOfControl": ["ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent", "voting-rights-75-to-100-percent"], "notifiedOn": "2026-10-14", "active": true }],
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-21T08:00:00.000Z"
}

A run summary (results, total matches, skipped already-seen companies, not-found lookups and API stats) is saved as OUTPUT in the run's key-value store.

How much does it cost to scrape Companies House?

Pay per company delivered. Platform compute is included:

Event	Price
Run start	US$0.01
Company (search or lookup, incl. full profile)	US$0.002 (US$2 per 1,000)
Enriched company (with directors and/or owners)	US$0.004 (US$4 per 1,000)

Example	Cost
"Try for free" prefilled search (25 companies)	US$0.06
1,000 new UK companies, basic records	US$2.01
1,000 new UK companies with directors (and/or owners)	US$4.01
Daily alert returning 20 new companies with directors	US$0.09/day, about US$2.70/month
Alert day with no new companies, or a baseline run	US$0.01

Set Max cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly at your budget. In Only new mode, already-seen companies are free.

Speed

Companies House allows 600 API requests per 5 minutes per key. Search results come 5,000 per request, so plain lead lists are fast (thousands of companies in seconds). Each company with directors or owners adds 1–2 requests, so large enriched runs go at about 1 company per second. If you have your own key, put it in Companies House API key to use your own quota.

Notes and limits

• Large searches: Companies House only pages through the first 10,000 results of a query. The Actor splits the incorporation date range into smaller slices, so you can still get every match. Results are newest incorporations first by default.
• Location is a text match on the registered office address, which is often an accountant's or formation agent's address rather than the trading address.
• Personal data: officer and PSC data is public under the Companies Act 2006, but it is still personal data under UK GDPR. Use it lawfully. For direct marketing, follow PECR and give people a way to opt out. Full dates of birth and residential addresses are never available through the public API.
• Data © Crown copyright, from Companies House, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.

FAQ

Do I need a Companies House account or API key?

No. Optionally, add your own free key from the Companies House developer hub to get your own rate-limit quota.

How is this different from the Companies House API?

It uses the official API, but handles the parts you would otherwise code yourself: SIC prefixes, date slicing past the 10,000-result paging limit, rate-limit backoff, joining officers and PSC onto each company, deduplicated daily alerts, and flat CSV/Excel export.

How is this different from Companies House advanced search?

The free advanced company search is great for one-off checks, but it downloads only the first 5,000 results as CSV and has no directors or owners in the export. This Actor accepts several SIC codes and prefixes in one run, gets every match past the 10,000-result limit, adds directors and PSC, and can run on a schedule returning only new companies.

How is this different from the Companies House bulk data download?

Companies House's free bulk Company data product is a monthly snapshot of basic company details, without directors. This Actor queries the live register, so companies incorporated today can appear, and directors/PSC can be included.

How fresh is the data?

Live. Each run queries the Companies House API directly; in testing, companies incorporated the same day were returned.

Can I get emails or phone numbers?

No. Companies House does not publish them.

Can I use it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent?

Yes. Use the Apify API or client libraries (see the API tab), or the Apify MCP server so AI assistants can call it as a tool.

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