UK Companies House Company Profiles, Filings and New Companies

What it does: returns UK company data from the official Companies House register as flat JSON records. Look up companies by company number, find them by name, or list them by incorporation date, SIC industry code, registered-office town or postcode, status and company type (for example, every software company incorporated in Manchester last week). Each full profile has the company's status, legal form, incorporation and dissolution dates, SIC codes with their descriptions, registered-office town and postcode, accounts and confirmation-statement dates, overdue flags, charges, insolvency history and previous names. Add recent filings to get dates, form types, readable descriptions and a link to each document's PDF.

Why use it: it reads the Companies House public data API, so there is no website scraping to break, and it uses its own API key, so you don't need to register for one. Codes are turned into readable labels (company type, SIC description, filing description), and nested fields are flattened so the results drop straight into a spreadsheet.

Use cases

• Find newly incorporated companies. A daily or weekly list of companies registered in your industry or area, for lead generation, market research or supplier onboarding.
• Company checks and KYB. Confirm a supplier or customer exists, is active, and is up to date with its accounts and confirmation statement before you sign or pay.
• Monitor a portfolio. Re-run a list of company numbers on a schedule to catch status changes, overdue accounts, new charges, insolvency or a change of name.
• Enrich a CRM or spreadsheet. Add the legal name, status, SIC industry, incorporation date and town to a list of company numbers.
• Feed AI agents and automations. Plain JSON records with readable labels, ready for Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack alerts or an LLM.

Input

Look up company numbers (with the 10 most recent filings):

{
  "companyNumbers": ["00445790", "14122311"],
  "filingsPerCompany": 10,
  "filingCategories": ["accounts", "confirmation-statement"]
}

List new companies by date and industry:

{
  "incorporatedFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "incorporatedTo": "2026-10-07",
  "sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"],
  "location": "Manchester",
  "companyStatuses": ["active"],
  "companyTypes": ["ltd"],
  "fullProfiles": false,
  "maxItems": 500
}

• companyNumbers: Companies House numbers, e.g. 00445790 or SC123456. Leading zeros may be left out. Always returns full profiles.
• searchQuery: company name words. Used alone, it runs the register's name search (best matches first). With any filter below, it matches companies whose name contains these words.
• incorporatedFrom, incorporatedTo: incorporation date range, YYYY-MM-DD.
• sicCodes: UK SIC 2007 codes; a company matches if it has any of them.
• location: town, city or postcode area of the registered office, e.g. Leeds or LS1.
• companyStatuses: e.g. active, dissolved, liquidation, administration. Empty = any.
• companyTypes: e.g. ltd, plc, llp. Empty = all.
• fullProfiles (default false): search results carry name, number, status, type, incorporation date, SIC codes and town/postcode. Turn on to fetch the full profile (accounts, confirmation statement, charges, insolvency, previous names) and filings for each match.
• filingsPerCompany (0–100, default 0) and filingCategories: recent filings to add to each full profile.
• maxItems (default 100): stop after this many companies.

You can combine company numbers and a search in one run; each company is returned once.

Output

One record per company. A real full profile (fetched 2026-10-14, filings shortened):

{
  "company_number": "00445790",
  "company_name": "TESCO PLC",
  "company_status": "active",
  "company_status_detail": null,
  "company_type": "plc",
  "company_type_label": "Public limited company",
  "subtype": null,
  "jurisdiction": "england-wales",
  "date_of_creation": "1947-11-27",
  "date_of_cessation": null,
  "sic_codes": ["47110"],
  "sic_descriptions": ["Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating"],
  "registered_office": { "locality": "Welwyn Garden City", "region": null, "postal_code": "AL7 1GA", "country": "United Kingdom" },
  "registered_office_is_in_dispute": false,
  "undeliverable_registered_office_address": false,
  "accounts_last_made_up_to": "2026-02-28",
  "accounts_last_type": "group",
  "accounts_next_due": "2027-08-26",
  "accounts_next_made_up_to": "2027-02-26",
  "accounts_overdue": false,
  "accounting_reference_date": "26-02",
  "confirmation_statement_last_made_up_to": "2026-06-18",
  "confirmation_statement_next_due": "2027-07-02",
  "confirmation_statement_overdue": false,
  "has_charges": false,
  "has_insolvency_history": false,
  "has_been_liquidated": false,
  "is_community_interest_company": false,
  "previous_company_names": [
    { "name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY", "effective_from": "1981-12-14", "ceased_on": "1983-08-25" },
    { "name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED", "effective_from": "1947-11-27", "ceased_on": "1981-12-14" }
  ],
  "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
  "source": "profile",
  "filings": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-16",
      "category": "capital",
      "subcategory": null,
      "form_type": "SH03",
      "description_code": "capital-return-purchase-own-shares",
      "description": "Purchase of own shares.",
      "pages": 4,
      "transaction_id": "MzU0MzY3ODg5MGFkaXF6a2N4",
      "document_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790/filing-history/MzU0MzY3ODg5MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0"
    }
  ],
  "filings_total": 8372,
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-14T04:25:03.512Z"
}

A search result (without fullProfiles) has the same field names but only company_number, company_name, company_status, company_type, company_type_label, date_of_creation, date_of_cessation, sic_codes, sic_descriptions, registered_office, url, source: "search" and fetched_at. A real one from a search for software companies incorporated 1–7 October 2026:

{
  "company_number": "17494124",
  "company_name": "GOBI RXSPORT LTD",
  "company_status": "active",
  "company_type": "ltd",
  "company_type_label": "Private limited company",
  "date_of_creation": "2026-10-01",
  "date_of_cessation": null,
  "sic_codes": ["46499", "47640", "47910", "62012"],
  "sic_descriptions": [
    "Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) not elsewhere classified",
    "Retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles",
    "Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet",
    "Business and domestic software development"
  ],
  "registered_office": { "locality": "London", "region": null, "postal_code": "WC2H 9JQ", "country": "United Kingdom" },
  "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17494124",
  "source": "search",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-14T04:26:26.402Z"
}

FAQ

How do I get Companies House data as JSON or CSV without an API key? Run this Actor with company numbers or search filters. It calls the Companies House API with its own key, and results land in an Apify dataset that you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel or read through the Apify API.

How do I get a list of newly incorporated UK companies? Set incorporatedFrom and incorporatedTo to the days you want, and optionally sicCodes, location and companyStatuses: ["active"]. For a daily feed, schedule the Actor every day with yesterday's date in both fields.

How do I check whether a UK company's accounts are overdue? Look the company up by number. accounts_overdue and confirmation_statement_overdue are the register's own flags, and accounts_next_due is the deadline.

How do I search companies by SIC code? Put the codes in sicCodes, e.g. ["62012"] for business and domestic software development. Each record also returns all of the company's SIC codes with descriptions.

Can I get a company's filing history and accounts PDFs? Set filingsPerCompany (up to 100 newest filings) and, if you like, filingCategories such as ["accounts"]. Each filing has a document_url that opens the PDF on the Companies House website when a document is available.

Does it return directors, shareholders or addresses? No. It returns company-level data only. Officers and persons with significant control are never requested, the registered office is given as town, region, postcode and country without the street address, and names and addresses inside filing descriptions are replaced with [name withheld] / [address withheld]. The official register page is linked from every record (url).

Is this an official Companies House product? No. It uses the Companies House public data API. Companies House is credited as the source; this Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.005 per run (start).
• $0.003 per company returned, so $3 per 1,000 companies, with or without filings.

You only pay for companies returned. Company numbers that are not on the register are free and listed in the run log. Set a maximum charge per run in Apify to cap spend.

Limits

• Speed and rate limit. Searches return up to 100 companies per API call (1,560 matches took 13 seconds in a test run). Full profiles need one API call per company (two with filings); 12 profiles with filings took 23 seconds in a test run. The Companies House rate limit (600 requests per 5 minutes) is shared by all users of this Actor; when it is reached, the run waits and continues, and stops early after a few waits.
• A filtered search (dates, SIC, location, status, type) returns at most 10,000 matches; narrow the dates for more. A name search alone returns the register's best matches only.
• Search results don't carry accounts or filing data; use fullProfiles for that.
• Name search results don't include SIC codes (sic_codes is empty); filtered searches and full profiles do.
• Fields are present only when Companies House holds them; for example, newly incorporated companies have no accounts filed yet, and overseas entities and some company types have no SIC codes.
• Registered offices are returned without street-level lines (see FAQ).
• Data is as current as the Companies House register at the time of the run.
• Source: Companies House public register, via the Companies House API. Code descriptions come from Companies House's published enumerations (Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). Not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.