# HK Companies Registry — 公司註冊 API (`nexgendata/hk-companies-registry`) Actor

Search the Hong Kong Companies Registry. Clean JSON for analysts and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/hk-companies-registry.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 hong kong companies registry records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

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# README

## HK Companies Registry

Search the Hong Kong Companies Registry. Built for analysts, researchers, fintech builders and AI agents.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per record (full output has 6 fields):

- `company_name` — Company name
- `company_number` — Company number
- `company_type` — Company type
- `status` — Status
- `incorporation_date` — Incorporation date

**Pricing:** $0.10 per record (Pay-Per-Event) — about **10 records per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull Hong Kong Companies Registry records on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Look up a Hong Kong company by number and return its status and type.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### ⏰ Run on a schedule

This is a monitoring play — schedule a recurring pull:

```json
{
  "limit": 50
}
```

### 繁體中文說明

本 Actor 提供香港公司註冊處的公司登記資料（公司名稱、編號、類型、狀態），輸出為整潔的 JSON，適用於分析師、量化研究人員、金融科技開發者及 AI 代理程式。按「公司記錄」計費（每美元約 10 筆），並支援定時執行——可每日或每週自動抓取香港公司註冊查詢，是持續監控型的資料來源。

### 🔗 Related HK / Taiwan actors

**Territory data suite:** [HKEX Announcements](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hkex-news-announcements), [HKEX IPO Calendar](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hkex-ipo-calendar), [HK SFC Enforcement](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hk-sfc-enforcement-tracker), [Hang Seng Screener](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hkex-hang-seng-stock-screener)

**Cross-market hubs:** [APAC Disclosure Monitor](https://apify.com/nexgendata/apac-disclosure-monitor), [APAC IPO Calendar Sweep](https://apify.com/nexgendata/apac-ipo-calendar-sweep)

***

*Data from public Hong Kong / Taiwan sources.*

# Actor input Schema

## `company_name` (type: `string`):

Live company-name search against the official Hong Kong Companies Registry (DATA.GOV.HK). Prefix / begins-with match on the full live register of local companies. Works for English or Traditional Chinese names. Example: 'HSBC', 'China', 'Standard Chartered', '滙豐'. Either company\_name or brn is required.

## `brn` (type: `string`):

Exact-match lookup by Business Registration Number against the live register. Searches local companies first, then the non-Hong Kong (foreign) company register. Example: 'C1572528' or '67535478'. Takes precedence over company\_name when both are provided.

## `enrich_lei` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, each result is enriched with its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and legal-entity status from the free CC0 GLEIF API, joined on the BRN. Only entities that hold an LEI (typically larger firms) are matched; others are returned with null LEI fields. This is enrichment only — never fabricated.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on total companies returned in this run (1-500). Each company is one dataset row. Pricing applies per real data row returned ($0.10/company). Empty/guidance results are never charged.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "company_name": "HSBC",
  "enrich_lei": true,
  "limit": 5
}
```

# 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 = {
    "company_name": "HSBC",
    "brn": "",
    "enrich_lei": true,
    "limit": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/hk-companies-registry").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 = {
    "company_name": "HSBC",
    "brn": "",
    "enrich_lei": True,
    "limit": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/hk-companies-registry").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 '{
  "company_name": "HSBC",
  "brn": "",
  "enrich_lei": true,
  "limit": 5
}' |
apify call nexgendata/hk-companies-registry --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2DUpfJQAKZTqbjLud/builds/A34mFIEgxk1VV3xMq/openapi.json