Company Registry Search API - legal entities, officers and filings

Company Registry Search API turns official company registers from 140+ jurisdictions into a clean, structured export. Search companies or officers by name and filters, and export legal-entity records - registered name, company number, jurisdiction, incorporation date, status, type and registered address - as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Bring your own API token and pay only for the records you keep.

Why use this actor?

• Official registry data - records sourced from government company registers, not scraped web pages.
• 140+ jurisdictions - search a single country, a single jurisdiction (for example a US state), or across the whole world.
• Companies and officers - look up legal entities, or search directors, secretaries and agents by name and position.
• Rich filters - jurisdiction, country, company type, current status and incorporation-date range, all as proper fields.
• Pay per result - you are charged only for the records actually returned, up to 10,000 per run.
• No proxies, no blocks - data comes through a stable API, so runs are fast and reliable.

Use cases

• KYC and KYB - verify legal entities and their officers against official registers.
• Due diligence - confirm incorporation date, status and jurisdiction before doing business.
• Compliance and AML - screen counterparties and beneficial owners at scale.
• Lead and account research - build company lists filtered by jurisdiction, type or status.
• Data enrichment - append official company numbers and registry links to your records.

Input

Configure everything from the visual editor - every filter is a proper field, no code needed. Example JSON input:

{
  "searchType": "companies",
  "query": "acme",
  "jurisdictionCode": "gb",
  "currentStatus": "Active",
  "incorporationDateFrom": "2015-01-01",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "apiKey": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}

Search officers instead:

{
  "searchType": "officers",
  "query": "jane smith",
  "position": "director",
  "jurisdictionCode": "gb",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "apiKey": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}

Output

One clean JSON object per company:

{
  "name": "ACME TRADING LIMITED",
  "company_number": "01234567",
  "jurisdiction_code": "gb",
  "company_type": "Private Limited Company",
  "current_status": "Active",
  "incorporation_date": "2015-03-11",
  "dissolution_date": null,
  "registered_address_in_full": "1 Example Street, London, EC1A 1AA",
  "profile_url": "https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/01234567",
  "registry_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01234567"
}

Do I need an API key?

Yes. This actor calls a company-registry API on your behalf, which requires your own API token. Sign up self-serve for one of the provider's API plans to get a token, paste it into the input, and run. Your token is stored securely and never logged.

Pay per result

You pay only for the records the actor actually returns - no subscriptions, no minimums. Set Maximum results to cap each run's spend exactly.

FAQ

What is the Company Registry Search API?

It is a legal-entity data API built on official company registers from more than 140 jurisdictions worldwide. It lets you search companies and officers by name and filters and returns structured records - company number, jurisdiction, incorporation date, status, type and registered address. This actor runs that search and exports the matches as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Can I search company officers as well as companies?

Yes. Set Search type to officers to search directors, secretaries and agents by name, and optionally filter by position and jurisdiction. Set it to companies for legal-entity search.

What filters can I use?

For companies: a search term, jurisdiction code, country code, company type, current status, an incorporation-date range and an active/inactive filter. For officers: a search term, position and jurisdiction. Sort by relevance, incorporation date or when records were added or updated.

How many results can I get per run?

Up to 10,000 records per run, paged automatically at 100 per page (the registry allows up to 100 pages per query). For larger sets, split the search by jurisdiction, status or incorporation-date range across multiple runs.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is pay-per-result: a small fixed amount per record returned, plus standard Apify platform usage, plus your own API usage against your token. A run that returns nothing costs almost nothing.

Can I run this on a schedule?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run it daily or weekly and connect the dataset to Zapier, Make, n8n, webhooks or the API to push new or updated records into your CRM, KYC pipeline or data warehouse.

Is this legal?

The actor returns official company-registry data retrieved through a licensed API using your own credentials. It focuses on company-level and officer registration data published by government registers.

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Support and feedback

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