New Companies Feed – UK & France Business Registrations

A daily or weekly list of newly registered companies from the official registers: UK Companies House, and France's BODACC + SIRENE. Each company comes with its registration number, registration date, status, industry code, registered address, directors and a link to the register. Optionally, the company's own website, email and phone, verified.

No account or API key needed. $1.50 per 1,000 companies, directors included, no start fee.

Who is it for?

• Accountants and bookkeepers: a Monday list of new limited companies in your postcode area, to offer year-end accounts, payroll or VAT help.
• Banks, insurers, office and coworking providers: new companies in your area within days of registration.
• Web, design and marketing agencies: new local businesses that will need a website, a logo or SEO.
• B2B sales: new companies in one industry (IT, construction, restaurants...) and one region, with a director to contact.
• Researchers and journalists: count new companies by area, industry and week.

What you get, and how fresh it is

Country	Register	A company appears in the feed	Filters
United Kingdom	Companies House	By incorporation date, usually the day after it is registered	SIC 2007 codes, postcode, town, status
France	BODACC creation notices + SIRENE	By BODACC publication date, about 9-11 days after registration (the publication is the first public record)	NAF/APE codes, département, region, postcode, town, status

This is a daily batch feed, not a real-time stream. No free register publishes a complete real-time list of new companies without an account. Run it once a day or once a week, and use Continue from the last run so no day is missed.

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Fill in the form. Open the Input tab. Under Countries, keep United Kingdom or add France. To get one area, type a postcode area in Postcode starts with, for example LS for Leeds.
2. Press Start. A run of 100 companies usually takes under a minute.
3. Get your list. In the Output tab, the Companies table can be exported to CSV or Excel (Export > Companies view > CSV) and opened in Google Sheets or Excel.

Input examples

Newly registered UK companies (saved task)

New active UK companies of the last 7 days in IT, accountancy and advertising, in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham (examples/task-uk-new-companies.json):

{
    "countries": ["GB"],
    "startDate": "7 days",
    "companyStatuses": ["active"],
    "sicCodes": ["62", "69201", "73110"],
    "postcodePrefixes": ["M", "LS", "B"],
    "includeOfficers": true,
    "maxItems": 1000
}

New French companies (saved task)

New companies published in BODACC over the last 7 days in Paris, Hauts-de-Seine and Rhône, in IT and consulting (examples/task-fr-new-companies.json):

{
    "countries": ["FR"],
    "startDate": "7 days",
    "frDateBasis": "published",
    "frDepartments": ["75", "92", "69"],
    "nafCodes": ["62", "70.22Z"],
    "includeOfficers": true,
    "maxItems": 500
}

To save either one as a task: on the Actor page, fill the form with these values, then click Save as a new task.

Daily monitoring, nothing missed, nothing twice

Schedule this once a day (examples/task-daily-monitoring.json):

{
    "countries": ["GB", "FR"],
    "incremental": true,
    "lookbackDays": 3,
    "feedName": "uk-fr-daily",
    "startDate": "3 days",
    "companyStatuses": ["active"],
    "maxItems": 5000
}

How it works:

• The first run reads from Start date.
• Each later run starts where the previous run of the list uk-fr-daily was complete, minus 3 look-back days. The look-back catches companies a register lists a day late.
• Companies already delivered are skipped and not billed.
• A run that fails, or that stops at Max companies, does not move the checkpoint past the days it did not finish. The next run picks them up.

To set it up: Schedules > Create new, daily at 07:00 for example, Add Actor (or the saved task), and paste the input. For an email, Slack or webhook message after each run, open the Actor's Integrations tab.

More filters

Goal	Fields
New UK software companies in Manchester	Countries: United Kingdom. Postcode starts with: M. UK industry codes: 62.
New accountancy firms in London EC	Postcode starts with: EC. UK industry codes: 69201.
New companies in Bordeaux / Gironde	Countries: France. France: départements: 33.
New restaurants in Lyon	Countries: France. Towns or cities: Lyon. France: industry codes: 56.
Include companies already closed	Company status: empty (all), or pick Dissolved / Inactive.
Historical backfill of 2025	Start date 2025-01-01, End date 2025-12-31 (up to 366 days per run; for France add a département filter).

Industry codes. UK (SIC 2007): Companies House list. Common codes: 62 IT, 69201 accountants, 73110 advertising, 56101 restaurants, 41202 house building, 68 property. France (NAF rev. 2): INSEE list. Common codes: 62 IT, 56 restaurants, 47 shops, 43 building trades, 70.22Z consulting. Holding companies (70.10Z) and property companies (68, SCI) are a large share of new French companies.

Postcode or town? For an area, use Postcode starts with. Letters only means the whole postcode area: B is Birmingham, not Bath (BA) or Bristol (BS). In the UK, Towns or cities goes to the Companies House search, which matches any part of the address. So Manchester can also return a company on "Manchester Road" in another town.

Output

Real rows from a test run on 2026-10-23.

The Companies view:

Company name	Registered on	Status	Industry	Town	Postcode	Directors	Website	Email
STUDIO TWO DIGITAL LIMITED	2026-10-22	active	62012 Business and domestic software development	Bedford	MK43 9LL	2 directors	studiotwodigital.co.uk	hello@studiotwodigital.co.uk
FRAMITALENT	2026-10-13	active	70.22Z Conseil pour les affaires et autres conseils de gestion	PARIS	75008	ORLIQUA GROUP (Président de SAS)

One French row as JSON (every field; a company is its president, so no private person is shown):

{
    "companyId": "FR:131471922",
    "companyName": "FRAMITALENT",
    "country": "FR",
    "registrationNumber": "131471922",
    "registrationDate": "2026-10-13",
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-22",
    "companyStatus": "active",
    "companyStatusRaw": "A",
    "companyType": "Société par actions simplifiée (à associé unique)",
    "industryCode": "70.22Z",
    "industryDescription": "Conseil pour les affaires et autres conseils de gestion",
    "industries": [{ "code": "70.22Z", "label": "Conseil pour les affaires et autres conseils de gestion" }],
    "activityDescription": "Conseil et assistance opérationnelle aux entreprises et organisations publiques ou privées, ...",
    "registeredAddress": "BUREAU 326 59 RUE DE PONTHIEU 75008 PARIS",
    "street": "59 RUE DE PONTHIEU",
    "city": "PARIS",
    "postalCode": "75008",
    "region": "Île-de-France",
    "department": "75",
    "addressCountry": "FR",
    "officers": [{ "name": "ORLIQUA GROUP", "role": "Président de SAS", "appointedOn": null, "isCorporate": true }],
    "officersStatus": "found",
    "website": null,
    "publicEmail": null,
    "phone": null,
    "enrichment": {
        "status": "not-requested",
        "method": null,
        "confidence": null,
        "verifiedBy": null,
        "website": null,
        "emails": [],
        "phones": [],
        "sourceUrls": [],
        "checkedAt": null
    },
    "source": "bodacc+sirene",
    "sourceUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/131471922",
    "sourceNoticeUrl": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:A202602032633",
    "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-10-23T06:19:09.000Z",
    "amended": false,
    "amendmentNoticeUrl": null,
    "collectedAt": "2026-10-23T20:44:29.247Z"
}

The UK row, from a run with Find website, email and phone on. Register fields are like the French row (no publicationDate, department or notice link). The directors' names are replaced here:

{
    "companyId": "GB:17535291",
    "companyName": "STUDIO TWO DIGITAL LIMITED",
    "registrationDate": "2026-10-22",
    "industryCode": "62012",
    "industries": [
        { "code": "62012", "label": "Business and domestic software development" },
        { "code": "73110", "label": "Advertising agencies" }
    ],
    "registeredAddress": "109 Stewartby Way Bedford England MK43 9LL",
    "region": "England",
    "officers": [
        { "name": "<director 1 as registered>", "role": "Director", "appointedOn": "2026-10-22", "isCorporate": false },
        { "name": "<director 2 as registered>", "role": "Director", "appointedOn": "2026-10-22", "isCorporate": false }
    ],
    "officersStatus": "found",
    "website": "https://studiotwodigital.co.uk",
    "publicEmail": "hello@studiotwodigital.co.uk",
    "phone": "+441234814955",
    "enrichment": {
        "status": "found",
        "method": "domain-guess+site-verification",
        "confidence": "high",
        "verifiedBy": "registry-number",
        "website": "https://studiotwodigital.co.uk",
        "emails": ["hello@studiotwodigital.co.uk"],
        "phones": ["+441234814955"],
        "sourceUrls": ["https://studiotwodigital.co.uk/"],
        "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T20:45:49.105Z"
    },
    "source": "companies-house-website",
    "sourceUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17535291",
    "sourceUpdatedAt": null
}

Fields

Unknown values are always null.

Field	Meaning
companyId	GB: or FR: plus the number. Stable across runs: use it to deduplicate.
registrationNumber	UK company number, French SIREN (9 digits).
registrationDate	UK incorporation date; France immatriculation date (else the SIRENE creation date). A calendar date as the register prints it. France sometimes republishes an older company (after a move or a transfer), so a few French rows show an older date.
publicationDate	France: the BODACC publication day, which the date filter uses by default.
companyStatus / companyStatusRaw	active, inactive (liquidation, administration...), dissolved, or unknown (France, SIRENE lookup failed). The raw word is the register's own.
industryCode / industryDescription / industries	Main code and label; industries lists every code (UK companies can list up to 4).
registeredAddress, street, city, postalCode, region, department, addressCountry	Registered office. UK without an API key: the town is sometimes missing from the address line.
officers	Directors / managers: name, role, UK appointment date. Never dates of birth, nationality or home addresses.
officersStatus	found, none-listed (the register lists none), not-requested (Include directors off), not-published (French sole trader or unit that opted out of publication), lookup-failed (the request failed; the row is still delivered and charged). officers is null for the last three.
website, publicEmail, phone	Shortcuts to the first verified values of enrichment; null otherwise.
enrichment	Contact lookup, kept apart from the register data. status: found (email or phone found, charged), website-only, not-found, not-requested, skipped (charge limit too low), error. confidence: high when the company number is printed on the site, medium when the exact name is in the site title and the postcode or town matches.
source	companies-house-website, companies-house-api, bodacc+sirene, or bodacc (SIRENE lookup failed).
sourceUrl, sourceNoticeUrl	Company page on the register; France: the BODACC creation notice.
sourceUpdatedAt	France: when SIRENE last changed the record (UTC). UK: null, because Companies House publishes no update time in its search.
amended, amendmentNoticeUrl	France: a correction (rectificatif) of the creation notice was published, and its data was applied.
collectedAt	When the row was produced (UTC).

The Contacts view lists the lookup results with confidence. The Source and freshness view lists provenance per row. The run's RUN-SUMMARY record (Storage tab) lists what was found, removed (and why), retried and charged.

UK: no-key mode and API-key mode

	No key (default)	Companies House API key
Source	Public Companies House website: advanced search CSV, then one officers page per company	Official Companies House Public Data API
Setup	Nothing	Free account and REST key. Paste it in Companies House API key (Advanced), or set the secret environment variable COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY on your copy of the Actor (input field wins)
Published limit	None. In our tests the site blocked an IP for a few minutes after ~400 page requests in a few minutes	600 requests per 5 minutes per key. Going over gives HTTP 429 for the rest of the window; Companies House may ban keys that keep exceeding it
Actor pace	1.2 requests/s	1.8 requests/s
1,000 companies with directors	~16 minutes, measured (one officers page per company)	~10 minutes, estimated (one officers request per company). Not tested live yet
1,000 companies without directors	Under a minute (a few CSV downloads)	Under a minute (one search request per 5,000 companies)
Address	One line from the CSV; the locality is sometimes missing	Structured address with locality
Coverage	Same register, same companies	Same register, same companies

With either mode, directors cost one request per company, so throughput has a ceiling. A key raises it and makes it predictable, but not unlimited. If a block outlasts the Actor's pauses (30 s to 4 min), the remaining rows are delivered with officersStatus: "lookup-failed" and the status message gives the count. A wrong key stops the run at the start, before anything is billed.

How much does it cost?

Pay per result. No start fee, no monthly fee.

• Company: $0.0015 each ($1.50 per 1,000). Directors / managers are included in this price, with no extra charge.
• Contact found: $0.004 each ($4 per 1,000), only when an email or phone was found on the company's verified website.

Example	Cost
100 companies	$0.15
1,000 companies	$1.50
1,000 UK IT companies with contact search (about 12% had a contact in our test)	$1.50 + 125 × $0.004 = $2.00
Daily feed of ~150 local companies, no contact search	about $0.23 a day

Never charged: companies removed by your filters, repeats, companies you already received, and runs where the registers could not be reached. A company whose director or SIRENE lookup failed is still delivered, with those fields empty, and charged. Platform compute is included in the price.

Integrations and API

API: run and get the rows in one call (good for runs under about 5 minutes):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/superxcoder~new-companies-feed/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countries":["GB"],"startDate":"yesterday","endDate":"yesterday","sicCodes":["62"],"maxItems":200}'

Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('superxcoder/new-companies-feed').call({
    countries: ['GB', 'FR'],
    incremental: true,
    feedName: 'crm-sync',
    maxItems: 5000,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const c of items) console.log(c.companyId, c.companyName, c.registrationDate, c.postalCode);

Keep the token in an environment variable or header, never in the URL.

• Make, Zapier, n8n: use the Apify app or node, Run an Actor, pick superxcoder/new-companies-feed, then add a step that reads the dataset items and a Google Sheets or CRM step. Use companyId as the unique key.
• AI assistants (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=superxcoder/new-companies-feed as a connector.

Known limits

• Not real time. UK: incorporations appear the next day. France: about 9-11 days after registration (BODACC publication), and BODACC data is about a day behind.
• France covers businesses registered in the RCS (companies and registered traders). Micro-entrepreneurs and artisans outside the RCS, associations and liberal professions are not in BODACC, so they are not in this feed. French sole traders are off by default (personal data).
• France with a NAF filter is slower. BODACC has no industry code, so every new company is looked up in SIRENE (about 5 per second). A département or region filter makes it much faster.
• UK without an API key uses the public Companies House website, which blocks an IP for a few minutes after roughly 400 page requests in a few minutes (our observation; no limit is published). So the Actor reads at most 1.2 pages per second. Directors need one page per company: 1,000 companies with directors take about 16 minutes (measured 15.5 minutes on 2026-10-23, every row with its directors). If Companies House still blocks, the Actor waits it out with growing pauses (30 s to 4 min). If the block lasts longer, the remaining rows are delivered with officersStatus: "lookup-failed" and the status message says how many. Turn Include directors off for large runs, or add a free Companies House API key (Advanced section), which uses the official API and its published limit (600 requests per 5 minutes).
• One UK day can return at most 5,000 companies per search. Larger days are split by company type; a warning names any companies still missing. (A whole UK day is about 2,300 companies.)
• Contacts: most brand-new companies have no website yet. In our 2026-10-23 test, 5 of 40 new UK IT companies (12%) had a verified email or phone; earlier tests found under 2% for shops, trades and property. Emails are only those printed on the company's own verified website. They are never guessed or built from a pattern.
• Up to 366 days per run. Split longer backfills into yearly runs.
• UK sourceUpdatedAt is always null (not published by the register).

FAQ

Is it legal to use this data? The register data is published under open licences: the UK Open Government Licence v3 and the French Licence Ouverte 2.0. Directors come with name, role and (UK) appointment date only. French units that opted out of public listing get no names. Emails and phones come from the companies' own public websites. If you use the list for marketing, you are responsible for GDPR / UK GDPR and direct-marketing rules. A spreadsheet cell that would start with =, +, - or @ is prefixed with ' so it cannot run as a formula.

Why did I get no results? The status message says whether the register returned nothing for those days (weekends, bank holidays, BODACC not publishing) or your filters removed everything, and how many each filter removed. UK industry codes work only for the UK and NAF codes only for France.

Why are most UK companies from yesterday? Without incremental mode, the newest companies come first and the run stops at Max companies. Raise the limit, or use Continue from the last run, which reads the oldest days first.

Do I need a Companies House API key? No; see UK: no-key mode and API-key mode. A key mainly helps when you need directors for many UK companies per run.

Sources and licences

Source	Gives	Licence
Companies House advanced search, or the Companies House API with your key	UK companies, SIC codes, addresses, officers	Open Government Licence v3
BODACC via bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com	French creation notices and their corrections	Licence Ouverte 2.0
SIRENE via recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr	NAF code, status, legal form, officers, update time	Licence Ouverte 2.0

API input names: countries, startDate, endDate, maxItems, companyStatuses, includeOfficers, matchContacts, postcodePrefixes, locations, sicCodes, frDepartments, frRegions, nafCodes, frDateBasis (published / registered), includeSoleTraders, onlyNew, incremental, lookbackDays, feedName, companiesHouseApiKey, maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration. Dates accept YYYY-MM-DD, today, yesterday or relative values such as 7 days. The names from version 0.1 (incorporatedFrom, incorporatedTo, activeOnly) still work.