UK Companies House Scraper: Directors & Financials in 2026

The register every UK company answers to

Every UK limited company files with Companies House: its registered address, its directors, the people with significant control over it, and its annual accounts. The register is public by design, which makes it the reference for checking who runs a UK company, who owns it and whether it is still trading.

It is built for one lookup at a time, though, and balance-sheet figures sit in filed accounts, not in a column you can sort.

What you can extract

This Actor is an enricher: give it a company number or name, get one record per company:

Identifiers: company number, name, status, type
Address: registered address, locality, region, postcode, country
Activity: SIC codes with labels
Dates: incorporation and cessation
Officers: name, role, appointment date, nationality, residence, occupation, month and year of birth
Persons with significant control: name, natures of control, notification date, nationality
Financials: cash, net worth, total current assets and liabilities, with change percentages
Financial history: five years of cash, net worth, assets and liabilities
Accounts: next due date, overdue flag, last accounts date
Links: Companies House and CompanyCheck URLs

The technical challenge

Identifier hygiene: company numbers have 8 digits, so 445790 must become 00445790, and Scottish and Northern Irish companies carry prefixes such as SC.
Name ambiguity: a name search returns a list (10 by default, up to 50); a number returns exactly one company.
Financial coverage: micro entities, dormant and newly incorporated companies may have no financial data, and banks can file in non-standard formats.

DIY or a ready-made Actor?

Companies House runs an official public data API, free once you register for an API key. For registry records alone (profiles, officers, persons with significant control), it is the right tool, if you build and maintain the client yourself; see our API vs web scraping comparison.

The gap is financials: the API does not hand you cash or net worth as fields. Our UK Companies House scraper merges Companies House API data with financial figures from CompanyCheck (cash, net worth, current assets and liabilities, five-year history and change percentages) into one record tagged with its data sources. Input is a company number or name, singly or as a batch list; no API key to supply, proxies included, about 1-3 seconds per company. Pay-per-result at about $0.007 per company.

A practical workflow

Clean your identifiers: pad numbers to 8 digits, keep prefixes, use names only where numbers are missing.
Enrich in batches: up to 50 companies per run through the batch list.
Score: rank on cash, net worth and their change percentages; flag overdue accounts and non-active statuses.
Go wider: outside the UK, North Data gives the same profile-and-officer view across European registries; for startups, Dealroom’s legal entity data can supply the Companies House number.

Use cases that pay off

Prospect qualification: financial health before outreach.
Due diligence: status, directors and shareholders checked against the register.
KYC and compliance: persons with significant control identified per company.
Market research: competitors’ financial trends over five years.
Lead enrichment: official UK company fields on top of your CRM.

The legal boundaries

A public register: Companies House publishes this data so it can be checked.
Officers and PSCs are people: names, nationality and month and year of birth are personal data under UK GDPR; process them with a lawful basis and minimize retention.
Not an audit: financial figures depend on what each company files; read the accounts themselves before a lending or investment decision.