# Canada Company Data — Federal & BC Corporation Search (`foxlabs/canada-company-data`) Actor

Search Canadian federal corporations by name or number. Returns corporation status, registered office, directors, and governing legislation from ISED Corporations Canada.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/canada-company-data.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 7 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Canada Company Data — Corporations Registry 🇨🇦

**foXLabs Americas company-registry series:** [Brazil](https://apify.com/foxlabs/brazil-company-data) · [Mexico](https://apify.com/foxlabs/mexico-denue-company-data) · [Colombia](https://apify.com/foxlabs/colombia-company-data) · [Peru](https://apify.com/foxlabs/peru-company-data)

🎉 Turn the Canadian corporations registries into clean, structured company data — no login, no API key, one row per entity, with the corporation number, status, jurisdiction and address.
Built for B2B sales, lead generation, KYB / compliance and market-research teams.

### 🔍 What is the Canada Company Data — and when should you use it?

Give this actor company names or Canadian corporation numbers and it returns matching companies from the Canadian federal and provincial corporations registries (open data) — as clean, deduplicated rows you can filter, export or feed to an AI agent. Every run reads the source live.

**Use it when you need:** a company list for outreach; a quick profile before a call; or a starting point for account research.

**Use something else when:** you need firmographics the registry doesn’t hold (revenue, headcount, website, email) — pair this with an enrichment actor from [Fox Labs](https://apify.com/foxlabs).

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

**Already on the Apify MCP server?** Ask for this Actor by name: `foxlabs/canada-company-data`.

**Your agent can pay for its own runs.** This Actor is pay-per-event with agentic payments, so an agent can discover it, run it and settle the bill over **x402 (USDC on Base)** or **Skyfire** — no Apify account or API token of its own. Billing is the same either way: per delivered record, never for errors.

Otherwise paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

```
I want to pull Canada company records using the Apify Actor `foxlabs/canada-company-data`.
Input: `companyNames`, `corporationNumbers`, `category`, `province` and more — see the Input table below. `maxResults` caps how many results are returned.
Start with: {"companyNames":["Shopify","Lululemon"],"maxResults":100}
Ask me what to look up, run the Actor, then summarise the rows as a table.
```

The machine-readable API, MCP config and OpenAPI definition live at `apify.com/foxlabs/canada-company-data.md`.

### 📋 Overview

Everything you need to turn the Canadian federal and provincial corporations registries (open data) into clean, structured data — in one actor, with no login, cookies or API key.

**Why teams pick this actor:**

- ✅ **Whole registry, one call** — name or ID in, matching companies out.
- 🧹 **No empty-promise columns** — only fields this registry actually fills; degenerate columns are removed.
- 🔗 **Stable identifiers** — every row carries the source's own IDs, ready to join across runs and to other Fox Labs actors.
- 💰 **Per-row pricing** — a minimal price per delivered row, no subscription.
- 🤖 **Agent-ready** — MCP + x402 agentic payments.

### ✨ Features

- 🔍 **Name or ID lookup** — relevance-ranked name search or exact registry-ID lookup.
- 🏢 **Full entity profile** — status, legal form, formation date, address and the registry’s own contact fields.
- 🧹 **Clean schema** — deduplicated camelCase rows, ready for CSV/Excel/JSON.

### 🎬 Quick Start

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~canada-company-data/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"companyNames":["Shopify","Lululemon"],"maxResults":100}'
```

### 🚀 Getting Started (3 steps)

1. **Choose your targets** — company names or Canadian corporation numbers.
2. **Set the cap** — `maxResults` limits how many results are returned.
3. **Run and export** — get a clean dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### 📥 Input

```json
{"companyNames":["Shopify","Lululemon"],"maxResults":100}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `companyNames` | array | Search by company name across Federal + BC registries. Substring match (e.g. "Shopify" finds Shopify Inc.). |
| `corporationNumbers` | array | Federal corporation number (e.g. 8660115) or BC registration number. Most precise lookup. |
| `category` | string | Browse/list federal corporations by organisation TYPE. The federal open data has no industry/NAICS codes, so this is the corporate form. Works without a… |
| `province` | string | Filter federal results to a province/territory. Use with Category to browse (e.g. all not-for-profits in Ontario), or alongside a name search. |
| `jurisdiction` | string | Which registry to search. Federal = Corporations Canada (CBCA). BC = British Columbia (OrgBook). Both = merge. Category/Province browse is federal only. |
| `includeInactive` | boolean | Federal: also stream the dissolved/inactive corporations file (larger, slower). BC already excludes historical. |
| `bcBusinessNumber` | boolean | For BC results, make one extra OrgBook call per company to retrieve the 9-digit business number (the search result alone rarely includes it). Turn off for… |
| `maxResults` | integer | Hard cap on records (1–50000). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy. Datacenter is fine — official open-data sources don't block. |

### 📤 Output

One row per result, saved to the dataset. Every row carries `scrapedAt`. Lookups that cannot be completed are reported in the run log rather than silently dropped.

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `jurisdiction` | Jurisdiction of formation |
| `corporateName` | Corporate Name |
| `corporateNameSecondary` | Corporate Name Secondary |
| `corporationNumber` | Corporation Number |
| `businessNumber` | Business Number |
| `governingLegislation` | Governing Legislation |
| `status` | `active` / `inactive` / `dissolved` |
| `anniversaryDate` | Anniversary Date |
| `yearOfLastFiling` | Year Of Last Filing |
| `lastAnnualMeeting` | Last Annual Meeting |
| `street` | Street |
| `city` | City |
| `province` | Province |
| `country` | Country |
| `postalCode` | Postal code |
| `directorsMin` | Directors Min |
| `directorsMax` | Directors Max |
| `source` | Source |
| `sourceUrl` | Public registry URL for the record |

### 💼 Use cases

**1. Canada B2B lead lists** — active Canadian corporations by name.
*Input:* name searches. *Output:* entities + jurisdiction + address. *Use:* a ready sales list.

**2. Federal vs provincial** — separate federal and provincial incorporations.
*Input:* name searches. *Output:* jurisdiction. *Use:* segment the market.

**3. KYB / due diligence** — verify a Canadian corporation by number.
*Input:* the number or name. *Output:* the canonical registry record. *Use:* confirm existence and status.

### 🔗 Integration

**JavaScript / Node.js**

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/canada-company-data').call({"companyNames":["Shopify","Lululemon"],"maxResults":100});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);
```

**Python**

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('foxlabs/canada-company-data').call(run_input={"companyNames":["Shopify","Lululemon"],"maxResults":100})
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)
```

Written for `apify-client` 3 for Python, where `call()` returns a run object; with version 1 or 2 it returns a dict — write `run['defaultDatasetId']` there.

**Automation (n8n / Zapier / Make):** schedule or webhook → HTTP request to the actor API with your input → handle the JSON dataset → push to a sheet, CRM or dashboard.

### 📊 Pricing

Pay-per-event: **per delivered record**. Empty or failed lookups are never billed. [View current pricing.](https://apify.com/foxlabs/canada-company-data)

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need an account, login or API key?** No. This reads the Canadian federal and provincial corporations registries (open data).

**What do I search by?** Company names or Canadian corporation numbers.

**How current is the data?** Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the registry.

**Why are firmographics like revenue or website missing?** A public business registry doesn’t hold them; we don’t ship empty columns. Pair with an enrichment actor from Fox Labs.

**Can I export to CSV / Excel / JSON?** Yes — directly from the Apify dataset.

### 🐛 Troubleshooting

- **Fewer rows than expected** — raise `maxResults`, or refine the input.
- **A name returns an unexpected entity** — it matched a similar registered name; search the exact registry ID.
- **No rows for a name** — try the entity’s exact legal name or its registry ID.

### ⚖️ Is it legal to scrape this data?

This actor reads a public government business registry published as open data. Results can still contain personal data (e.g. a registered agent’s name); personal data is protected by the GDPR and similar laws, so only process it with a legitimate basis. See Apify’s blog post on the legality of web scraping.

### 🤝 Support & contact

- 🌐 **Website:** [data.foxlabs.com.tr](https://data.foxlabs.com.tr)
- 📧 **Email:** info@foxlabs.com.tr
- 🐛 **Issues:** open a ticket in the Actor’s **Issues** tab
- 🧰 **More clean B2B data actors:** [Fox Labs on Apify](https://apify.com/foxlabs)

### Changelog

#### 0.1.27 — 2026-10-08 — README: the Python example works with the current Apify client

- The README's Python example read the results with `run['defaultDatasetId']`. With the current Apify client for Python (version 3) `call()` returns a run object, not a dict, and that line raised `TypeError: 'Run' object is not subscriptable` — after the run itself had finished. The example now reads `run.default_dataset_id`; with client version 1 or 2, keep `run['defaultDatasetId']`. Checked with apify-client 3.2.1, 2.5.1 and 1.12.2.
- No code, output field or pricing change.

#### 0.1.26 — 2026-09-20 — README examples corrected against the real input schema

- **The README's code examples did not match this Actor.** They used `queries` and `maxResultsPerQuery` — keys that do not exist in this Actor's input schema — with a placeholder value, and the input table listed those same phantom fields. Anyone who copied the AI-agent, cURL, JavaScript or Python example got a failing run. Every example now uses the real schema and matches the Console prefill: `{"companyNames":["Shopify","Lululemon"],"maxResults":100}`
- The input table is regenerated from `input_schema.json`, so it lists the fields the Actor actually accepts.
- Removed claims carried over from the same generator template where present: "formation / status monitoring", "a canonical registry record for KYB and due diligence", "every row carries `query`", and `industry` described as a NACE code.
- No code, output field or pricing change.

#### 0.1 — 2026-09-07

- **Enabled AI-agent payments (x402) + rebuilt the README to the full standard** (What-is / when, AI-agents + x402 agentic payments + MCP, Overview, Features, Use cases, Integration, FAQ, Troubleshooting, Support & contact).

#### 0.0

- Initial release: data from the Canadian federal and provincial corporations registries (open data) by name or registry ID.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/foxlabs/canada-company-data/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `companyNames` (type: `array`):

Search by company name across Federal + BC registries. Substring match (e.g. "Shopify" finds Shopify Inc.).

## `corporationNumbers` (type: `array`):

Federal corporation number (e.g. 8660115) or BC registration number. Most precise lookup.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Browse/list federal corporations by organisation TYPE. The federal open data has no industry/NAICS codes, so this is the corporate form. Works without a name/number — combine with Province to narrow. Federal only.

## `province` (type: `string`):

Filter federal results to a province/territory. Use with Category to browse (e.g. all not-for-profits in Ontario), or alongside a name search.

## `jurisdiction` (type: `string`):

Which registry to search. Federal = Corporations Canada (CBCA). BC = British Columbia (OrgBook). Both = merge. Category/Province browse is federal only.

## `includeInactive` (type: `boolean`):

Federal: also stream the dissolved/inactive corporations file (larger, slower). BC already excludes historical.

## `bcBusinessNumber` (type: `boolean`):

For BC results, make one extra OrgBook call per company to retrieve the 9-digit business number (the search result alone rarely includes it). Turn off for faster, lighter BC runs.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on records (1–50000).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy. Datacenter is fine — official open-data sources don't block.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyNames": [
    "Shopify",
    "Lululemon"
  ],
  "corporationNumbers": [],
  "category": "any",
  "province": "any",
  "jurisdiction": "both",
  "includeInactive": false,
  "bcBusinessNumber": true,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companyNames": [
        "Shopify",
        "Lululemon"
    ],
    "corporationNumbers": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/canada-company-data").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "companyNames": [
        "Shopify",
        "Lululemon",
    ],
    "corporationNumbers": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/canada-company-data").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companyNames": [
    "Shopify",
    "Lululemon"
  ],
  "corporationNumbers": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call foxlabs/canada-company-data --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,foxlabs/canada-company-data"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/MtuvJeojWBcCfuywX/builds/L3f26jXrDVqpYcrE6/openapi.json