New UK Companies Scraper

New UK Companies Scraper: every Companies House incorporation, day by day

Pick the days you want and get every company Companies House registered on them: name, number, status, type and subtype, incorporation date, the SIC codes with their descriptions, and the full registered office address with the postcode split out.

Read this before you schedule it: today's list is never finished. Companies keep being registered all day, so a range that ends today gives you a partial day. End at yesterday if you want complete ones.

🏛️ What New UK Companies Scraper does

It reads the Companies House register itself, the public one at find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk, day by day. No API key, no registration, no login.

Two ways to say which days. Set incorporatedFrom and incorporatedTo for an exact range, or leave the first empty and use lastDays for the last N full days ending yesterday. lastDays: 1 is yesterday only, which is what a daily schedule wants.

Then narrow it. SIC code is the useful one: 62012 for software development, 43210 for electrical installation. You can also filter on words in the company name, on the registered office address, on company type, subtype and status, and on a dissolution date.

Rows come back in Companies House's own order within each day, which is not by company number.

📥 What you give it

{
  "lastDays": 1,
  "sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"],
  "location": "Manchester",
  "maxCompanies": 500
}

location matches the whole address, county included, which is Companies House's own behaviour, not ours. Ask for Manchester and Salford companies turn up too. That is usually what people want, but it is worth knowing before you treat the column as a town filter.

Each SIC code is a separate search, on each day. Three codes over seven days is 21 searches. It is not a reason to avoid them, just the reason the run takes longer.

📤 What you get back

A real row, from run jb2htQM003m2P78jJ:

{
  "companyName": "ROUTE TO TRANSMISSION CIC",
  "companyNumber": "17429167",
  "status": "Active",
  "companyType": "Private limited by guarantee without share capital",
  "companySubtype": "Community Interest Company (CIC)",
  "incorporationDate": "2026-09-01",
  "dissolutionDate": null,
  "sicCodes": ["85590", "85600", "88990", "94990"],
  "sicDescriptions": [
    "Other education n.e.c.",
    "Educational support services",
    "Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.",
    "Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c."
  ],
  "registeredOfficeAddress": "2 Shaftesbury Waye, Hayes, England UB4 0HL",
  "postcode": "UB4 0HL",
  "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17429167"
}

🧾 Reading the output

The dataset holds companies and nothing else. No refusal rows and no blank lines. A run with no dates at all returns one labelled sample row, which is not charged.

Everything about the run is in a key-value record called RUN_REPORT:

The status message on the run says the same thing in one sentence, starting with the result.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open New UK Companies Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Set Last days to 1 for yesterday, or pick a range with the two date fields. 3. Add SIC codes, Registered office address contains or a name filter to narrow it. 4. Set Maximum companies, keeping it low on the first run. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$3.70 per 1,000 companies. The same rate on every Apify plan, with no volume tiers.

One charge per company row. A company that matches two of your SIC codes is returned and charged once. Anything your filters drop, anything outside your dates, a repeat seen while a live day shifted underneath the run, and the sample row are all uncharged.

💡 What people use it for

• A daily feed of new companies in one trade, using lastDays: 1 and a SIC code on a schedule.
• Territory lists for a local service business, using location and the postcode column.
• Counting formations by SIC code or by month, as a market signal.
• Finding community interest companies as they register, for grant and charity work.
• Enriching a prospect list with the registered number and the official address.

🚧 What it does not do

• No officers, no persons with significant control, no accounts, no filing history. This is the

incorporation record, not the whole company file.

• No contact details. The registered office address is an address for post, and it is very often

an accountant's or a formation agent's.

• Today is always incomplete, and reading a live day can mean a company appears twice or slips

past as the pages shift under the run. Repeats are dropped and never charged.

• One SIC code per search, so 20 codes is the cap and each one costs another pass per day.
• A day with more than 10,000 incorporations cannot be read in full, because the register stops

paging there. The report says how many were out of reach. The busiest day seen had 3,466.

• Dissolved dates only narrow your incorporation days. There is no dissolved-only search, and

the register lists dissolutions from 2010 onwards.

• **A company dissolved in your window and restored since comes back with its current status and no

dissolution date**, because the results page does not carry the old one.

• Name filters are whole words, as the register applies them.
• The address is one string. Only the postcode is split out.
• It is deliberately unhurried. Requests go out about one a second, so a full weekday takes

around three minutes and a 50,000-company run closer to forty.

🧭 Which company scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Companies House API key? No. This reads the public register, so there is nothing to apply for and no quota to run out of.

How do I run it every morning? Set lastDays to 1 and schedule it. That gives you yesterday, complete, with no date arithmetic to maintain.

Where do I find a SIC code? They are the UK's five-digit trade codes, the same ones a company picks when it registers. 62012 is software development.

Why did I get Salford companies in a Manchester search? Because the register matches your words against the whole address, county included. Filter the rows on postcode if you need it tighter.

Why are the rows not in company-number order? They come back in Companies House's order within each day, which is not numeric. With a row limit, "the first N" means its first N.

Is this legal? The register is published by the UK government for anyone to search. Rows carry a company's registered address, which can be a person's home, so data-protection law still applies to what you do next. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a fair start, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the run ID and the dates and filters you used, and paste the RUN_REPORT record: it carries a line for every day and SIC code the run searched.