Return the current legal status of a UK company from the Companies House register — active
Return the current legal status of a UK company from the Companies House register — active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement and others — with status detail, cessation date, a derived is_active (true for the live-on-the-register statuses active, open and registered) and a derived is_striking_off for an active company with a proposal to strike off. One call, one authoritative register answer. Use when: Is this UK company still active?
3000 (raw units)
price
1
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-08-27
updated
Provider
api-staging.eckari.com · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:84532",
"payTo": "0x7c0Ba1d16322Ee426D6508a74b571Dd73A5a35DA",
"asset": "0x036CbD53842c5426634e7929541eC2318f3dCF7e",
"amount": "3000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 60
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"pathParams": {
"company_number": "00445790"
},
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"data": {
"company_name": "TESCO PLC",
"company_number": "00445790",
"date_of_cessation": null,
"is_active": true,
"is_striking_off": false,
"status": "active",
"status_detail": null
},
"meta": {
"capability": "company.uk.status",
"freshness": "live",
"source": "companies_house",
"version": "3.0.0"
}
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"routeTemplate": "/v1/companies/uk/:company_number/status",
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"pathParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"company_number": {
"description": "Companies House company number, also called the company registration number (CRN), e.g. 00445790, SC123456, NI000001, BR008975. The identifier itself is 1-8 letters/digits; surrounding whitespace is ignored (which is why maxLength is 10), but the value must not contain internal spaces. Short numeric values are zero-padded to 8 characters. A whitespace-only or over-long value is rejected as INVALID_INPUT before any payment or upstream call.",
"maxLength": 10,
"minLength": 1,
"pattern": "^\\s*[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8}\\s*$",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"company_number"
],
"type": "object"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"payment-identifier": {
"info": {
"required": false
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"id": {
"maxLength": 128,
"minLength": 16,
"pattern": "^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$",
"type": "string"
},
"required": {
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"required"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://api-staging.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/:company_number/status" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://api-staging.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/:company_number/status");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://api-staging.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/:company_number/status")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
Everything on this page is also available as clean JSON at /resources/5372.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.