Lookup companies-house · register by COMPANY-NUMBER
https://api.latinfo.dev/gb/companies-house/register/company-number/{company-number}
A company registration with published category and SIC attributes. Coverage: Corporate bodies in the Companies House basic-data product. Lookup by company-number as a string, preserving leading zeros. Accepted syntax and normalization are defined by the contract below. This dataset does not supply officers, shareholders or beneficial owners. Returns one record. Import time is not observation time; inspect freshness headers.
Contrato de la fuente
- Publicador
- Companies House, United Kingdom
- Cobertura
- Corporate bodies in the Companies House basic-data product.
- Qué representa un registro
- A company registration with published category and SIC attributes.
- Identificador
- Lookup by company-number as a string, preserving leading zeros. Accepted syntax and normalization are defined by the contract below.
- Patrón admitido
^[A-Z0-9]{8}$- Cantidad de registros
one- Licencia
- No se ha verificado el permiso de reutilización. El acceso público no equivale a una licencia de reutilización.
Limitaciones conocidas
- This dataset does not supply officers, shareholders or beneficial owners.
Contrato de la fuente para agentes · Documentación de la fuente
Parámetros
company-numberstringpathobligatorioCOMPANY-NUMBER in the source's normalized format. Keep identifiers as strings; preserve leading zeros.
Example: 00445790
Ejemplo de solicitud
curl https://api.latinfo.dev/gb/companies-house/register/company-number/00445790 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LATINFO_API_KEY"
Respuestas
200Published source records. Missing data is not a clearance or a negative finding.
Encabezados de la respuesta
X-Latinfo-Imported-AtImport time, not the date of the government observation.
X-Source-Updated-AtPublisher update time, when known.
X-Latest-Observation-AtLatest date in returned records, when known.
X-Freshness-Statusstring
CURRENT · DELAYED · STALE · UNKNOWNX-Credits-CostActual credits charged for this request.
X-Source-GenerationOpaque immutable source generation. Follow the guarded next-page Link when collecting a history.
application/jsonCampos de la respuesta
company-number string obligatorioLookup by company-number as a string, preserving leading zeros. Accepted syntax and normalization are defined by the contract below.
legal_name string obligatorioRegistered name published by the authority.
status string obligatorioPublisher status; not a Latinfo risk rating.
company_category string obligatorioCompanies House corporate-body category.
incorporation_date string obligatorioPublished incorporation date date. Format: DD/MM/YYYY.
sic_code_1 string obligatorioFirst SIC code and description as published.
sic_code_2 string obligatorioSecond SIC code and description, if supplied.
sic_code_3 string obligatorioThird SIC code and description, if supplied.
sic_code_4 string obligatorioFourth SIC code and description, if supplied.
Esquema de respuesta
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"company-number": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Lookup by company-number as a string, preserving leading zeros. Accepted syntax and normalization are defined by the contract below."
},
"legal_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Registered name published by the authority.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Publisher status; not a Latinfo risk rating.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
},
"company_category": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Companies House corporate-body category.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
},
"incorporation_date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Published incorporation date date. Format: DD/MM/YYYY.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "date"
},
"sic_code_1": {
"type": "string",
"description": "First SIC code and description as published.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
},
"sic_code_2": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Second SIC code and description, if supplied.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
},
"sic_code_3": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Third SIC code and description, if supplied.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
},
"sic_code_4": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Fourth SIC code and description, if supplied.",
"x-latinfo-meaning": "text"
}
},
"required": [
"company-number",
"legal_name",
"status",
"company_category",
"incorporation_date",
"sic_code_1",
"sic_code_2",
"sic_code_3",
"sic_code_4"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}400Invalid identifier or query. Correct the input before retrying.
401Missing or invalid API key. Authenticate before retrying.
404No published record, or identifier outside the legal-entity scope. Not proof that the company does not exist.
429Rate or credit limit exceeded. Inspect the response and rate-limit headers before retrying.
503Source unavailable. Report unavailable, not an empty result.
Ejemplo JSON
Ejemplo ilustrativo del esquema. No es una respuesta en vivo.
{
"company-number": "string",
"legal_name": "string",
"status": "string",
"company_category": "string",
"incorporation_date": "string",
"sic_code_1": "string",
"sic_code_2": "string",
"sic_code_3": "string",
"sic_code_4": "string"
}Procedencia y limitaciones
La cobertura varía por país y fuente pública. Un campo ausente no demuestra que el hecho no exista. Los registros públicos pueden tener retrasos o errores; revisa la evidencia y la fecha de la fuente antes de usar un resultado.