# UK Company Data — Companies House Profiles, Officers & Filings (`jdepablos/companies-house-feed`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jdepablos/companies-house-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [Juan de Pablos](https://apify.com/jdepablos) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 company profile delivereds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UK Company Data — Companies House Profiles, Officers & Filings

**Run a KYC-grade check on any UK company in one call**: official profile, active directors, beneficial owners (PSC), registered charges and recent filings — as clean JSON with verifiable **risk flags** (overdue accounts, insolvency history, outstanding charges, dissolved status).

Data comes straight from the official [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/) register (the UK company registry), not from a stale third-party database.

### What you get per company

```json
{
    "companyNumber": "SC327000",
    "companyName": "BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC",
    "status": "active",
    "type": "plc",
    "incorporatedOn": "2007-09-25",
    "companyAgeYears": 18.8,
    "registeredOffice": "The Mound, Edinburgh, EH1 1YZ, Scotland",
    "sicCodes": ["64191"],
    "accounts": { "nextDue": "2027-06-30", "lastMadeUpTo": "2025-12-31", "overdue": false },
    "confirmationStatement": { "nextDue": "2027-05-20", "overdue": false },
    "officers": [{ "name": "...", "role": "director", "appointedOn": "2024-01-15" }],
    "officersCount": { "active": 14, "total": 71 },
    "personsWithSignificantControl": [{ "name": "HBOS PLC", "kind": "corporate-entity-person-with-significant-control", "naturesOfControl": ["ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent"] }],
    "charges": { "total": 29, "outstanding": 16, "satisfied": 13 },
    "recentFilings": [{ "date": "2026-05-19", "category": "confirmation-statement", "description": "confirmation statement with no updates — made up date: 2026-05-06" }],
    "totalFilings": 312,
    "riskFlags": ["outstanding-charges:16"],
    "source": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC327000"
}
```

### Use cases

- **KYC / vendor onboarding** — verify a counterparty exists, is active, and who controls it.
- **Credit checks** — overdue accounts, outstanding charges and insolvency history in one field (`riskFlags`).
- **Watchlists** — pass up to 50 company numbers per run and schedule it daily; diff `recentFilings` to catch new appointments, resignations, charges or insolvency events.
- **Lead enrichment** — SIC codes, age, registered office and officer names for UK B2B prospecting.

### Input

Company **numbers** (`"00502851"`, `"SC327000"`) or **names** (`"Greggs"`) — names are resolved through the official search (best match wins, alternatives logged). Toggle `includeOfficers`, `includePsc`, `includeCharges` and `filingsLimit` to trim the report.

Bring your own free API key (optional `apiKey` input) to use your own rate limit — otherwise the built-in shared key is used.

### Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged only for **profiles actually delivered**. Companies not found and failed lookups are never charged.

### Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works out of the box with Apify's MCP server. Point your agent to:

```
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=jdepablos/companies-house-feed
```

Ask things like *"Run a risk check on Greggs plc"* or *"Which of these 20 suppliers have overdue accounts?"*.

### FAQ

**Is this data legal to use?** Yes — Companies House data is UK public register data, free to reuse (including commercially).

**How fresh is it?** Live: every run queries the official API at request time. Filings appear here as soon as Companies House registers them.

**Scotland / Northern Ireland companies?** Yes — all UK registers (prefixes SC, NI, OC for LLPs, etc.).

**What does `riskFlags` contain?** Only verifiable register facts: `accounts-overdue`, `confirmation-statement-overdue`, `insolvency-history`, `outstanding-charges:N`, `status:dissolved`, `undeliverable-registered-office`, `no-active-officers`. No opinions or scores — you decide the policy.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Company numbers (e.g. "00502851") or names (e.g. "Greggs") — names are resolved via the official search, best match wins. Up to 50 per run.

## `query` (type: `string`):

One company number or name — convenience alternative to `companies` for single lookups.

## `includeOfficers` (type: `boolean`):

Active directors and secretaries with role and appointment date.

## `includePsc` (type: `boolean`):

Persons with significant control (beneficial owners) and their natures of control.

## `includeCharges` (type: `boolean`):

Registered charges (mortgages/debentures): total, outstanding and satisfied counts.

## `filingsLimit` (type: `integer`):

How many recent filings to include per company (0 disables filings).

## `apiKey` (type: `string`):

Bring your own free API key from developer.company-information.service.gov.uk to use your own rate limit (600 req/5 min). Leave empty to use the built-in shared key.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "00502851",
    "Tesco"
  ],
  "includeOfficers": true,
  "includePsc": true,
  "includeCharges": true,
  "filingsLimit": 10
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "00502851",
        "Tesco"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jdepablos/companies-house-feed").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": [
        "00502851",
        "Tesco",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jdepablos/companies-house-feed").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "00502851",
    "Tesco"
  ]
}' |
apify call jdepablos/companies-house-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jdepablos/companies-house-feed",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/55FGIq8FKdEdjH6Ui/builds/BZkOQga85QkJOHh6I/openapi.json