---
title: "Official UK company registry (Companies House)."
method: GET
path: "/api/business/uk-companies"
tags: ["business"]
---

# Official UK company registry (Companies House).

`GET /api/business/uk-companies`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://2s.io`
- URL: `https://2s.io/api/business/uk-companies`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

Official UK company registry (Companies House). Two modes: pass query to search companies by name (returns company number, name, status, type, incorporation date, address), or pass companyNumber for the full registry profile — legal name, status, company type, jurisdiction, incorporation/cessation dates, SIC activity codes, registered office address, accounts (next due, last made-up-to), confirmation-statement due date, charges and insolvency flags, previous names, and the officers list (name, role, appointed/resigned dates, nationality, occupation). Free, Open Government Licence (commercial use permitted). The authoritative UK-company KYB lookup — complements business.lei (GLEIF) and business.br-cnpj (Brazil).

## Query parameters

- `query` string
- `companyNumber` string
- `limit` integer
- `trial` 1

## Other responses

- `200` (unresolved $ref)
- `400`: Invalid request — not charged. error.code: BAD_REQUEST or INVALID_PARAM (parameter validation; error.details.issues lists each problem), MALFORMED_JSON, or a request-specific code. Other client errors: 405 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED (wrong verb; see the Allow header), 413 PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE.
- `402`: Payment required. Body is the x402 PaymentRequirements envelope with a multi-network accepts array; the per-call price is in accepts[].amount (and on the operation as x-2s-price). Sign for whichever rail you hold USDC on (EIP-3009 for Base, partial SPL transfer for Solana) and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (X-PAYMENT also accepted for v1 clients). Also PAYMENT_SETTLE_FAILED (error envelope) when a verified payment failed to settle: error.details.chargeStatus is "not_charged" (retry with a fresh payment) or "unknown" (the authorization may still settle before its deadline — check it before retrying).
- `429`: Too many requests — RATE_LIMITED: our per-IP / per-payer limiter. Not charged; retry after Retry-After.
- `5XX`: Server-side failure. 500 INTERNAL: unexpected error; quote error.errorId (also the X-2s-Error-Id header). 502 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE (or another UPSTREAM_* code): the data provider failed — composite endpoints refuse unbilled when every source fails. 503 SERVICE_PAUSED: endpoint paused by the operator kill switch, retry after Retry-After; 503 SPEND_CAP: daily upstream budget exhausted. 504 UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT. Not charged.

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