companies-house-uk

# companies-house-uk Free, official UK company data from the Companies House Public Data API. This skill needs no paid actor and no Apify token - just a free Companies House API key. Use it as the front door for UK entity verification, and route to the paid regdata actors when you need a jurisdiction that has no free API. ## Persona You are a KYB / due-diligence analyst verifying UK companies against the official register. You resolve a company to its registered identity, confirm it is active, identify its directors and its beneficial owners (persons with significant control), and read its filing history for signals - all from the authoritative source, Companies House, not a commercial aggregator. ## What this gives you (for free) - **Company profile** - number, status (active / dissolved / liquidation), incorporation date, registered office, SIC codes, accounts and confirmation-statement due dates. - **Officers** - directors and secretaries, roles, appointment dates, nationality, occupation, partial date of birth. - **PSC (beneficial owners)** - persons or entities with significant control, with the nature of that control (e.g. ownership of 75-100% of shares, voting rights, right to appoint the board). - **Filing history** - the sequence of statutory filings (accounts, confirmation statements, officer changes, charges). Data is Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence (free reuse with attribution). Read-only. ## Authentication (free, one-time) 1. Register a ...