UK Companies House — Company, Officers & Filing History
Look up any UK company on the official Companies House register: status, registered office, SIC codes, accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, plus officers, filing history and people with significant control. Rows the register could not return are reported as not_found, never dropped.
UK Companies House — Company, Officers & Filing History returns 5 documented output fields, including address, postcode, record_type, limitation and status. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 1 runs are recorded on Apify.
- 5
- Output fields
- 5
- Inputs
- 1
- Run
- 2026-10-16
- Last run
01 — output
What it returns
Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.
| Field | Type | What it holds | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| address | string | number | boolean | array | objectnull | Street address as published. | [] |
| postcode | string | number | boolean | array | objectnull | Postcode as recorded for this row. | [] |
| record_type | stringnull | Discriminator for this record kind. | change |
| limitation | integernull | Limitation as recorded for this row. | |
| status | stringnull | Outcome for this row — for example found, not_found, needs_credentials or blocked. | ok |
02 — sample
One record
Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.
{
"address": "[]",
"postcode": "[]",
"record_type": "change",
"limitation": "",
"status": "ok"
}03 — input
What you give it
| Input | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| companies | arrayoptional | Company numbers (e.g. 00000006, or SC123456) or registered names (e.g. Tesco PLC). A number is looked up directly; a name is searched and the top match is used. |
| apiKey | stringoptional | Secret — supply your own value. |
| include | arrayoptional | The company profile is always fetched. Add any of: officers, filings, psc (people with significant control) — one comma-free entry each. Anything unrecognised is ignored. Each costs one more API call per company. |
| maxCompanies | integeroptional | Hard limit on how many entries are looked up. Enforced exactly — the first N are taken, in the order you gave them. |
| requestsPerMinute | integeroptional | How fast to call the register. Companies House allows 600 requests per 5 minutes; the default stays well inside that. Raise it only if you know why. |
04 — run
Run UK Companies House on your own input
It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.
05 — questions
Asked before running it
5 of 5 fields described
- What does UK Companies House — Company, Officers & Filing History return?
- It returns 5 documented output fields: address, postcode, record_type, limitation and status. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value.
- What input does UK Companies House — Company, Officers & Filing History take?
- All 5 inputs are optional and ship with usable defaults, so it runs as-is. They are listed with their types below.
- Does UK Companies House — Company, Officers & Filing History need an API key or login?
- Yes — apiKey is marked secret and must be supplied by you. Nothing else in the input schema needs credentials.
- How do I run UK Companies House — Company, Officers & Filing History?
- It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.