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# Search for a company

## Company Search

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `/api-company-search`

Perform a registry search if you only have either a Company's Name or Registration Number, to retrieve the missing information and/or confirm the details match what is present on the relevant registry.

| Name          | Value                 |
| ------------- | --------------------- |
| Content-Type  | `multipart/form-data` |
| Authorization | `Bearer YOUR_TOKEN`   |

**Body**

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th width="165">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>companyName</code></td><td>string</td><td>The entity's legal name </td></tr><tr><td><code>registrationNumber</code></td><td>string</td><td>The entity's registration, or company number. e.g ACN/ABN for AUS </td></tr><tr><td><code>country</code> </td><td>string</td><td>The entity's country of incorporation. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3">ISO-3166 3 char</a>)  <mark style="color:red;">(required).</mark> </td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Request

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```sh
curl --location 'https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-company-search' \
--form 'companyName="Acme Pty Ltd"' \
--form 'registrationNumber="123456789"' \
--form 'country="AUS"' \
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Node.js" %}

```javascript
var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var data = new FormData();
data.append('companyName', 'Acme Pty Ltd');
data.append('registrationNumber', '123456789');
data.append('country', 'AUS');

var config = {
  method: 'post',
maxBodyLength: Infinity,
  url: 'https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-company-search',
  headers: { 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Javascript" %}

```javascript
var form = new FormData();
form.append("companyName", "Acme Pty Ltd");
form.append("registrationNumber", "123456789");
form.append("country", "AUS");

var settings = {
  "url": "https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-company-search",
  "method": "POST",
  "timeout": 0,
  "processData": false,
  "mimeType": "multipart/form-data",
  "contentType": false,
  "data": form
};

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-company-search")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
form_data = [['companyName', 'Acme Pty Ltd'],['registrationNumber', '123456789'],['country', 'AUS']]
request.set_form form_data, 'multipart/form-data'
response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

url = "https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-company-search"

payload={'companyName': 'Acme Pty Ltd',
'registrationNumber': '123456789',
'country': 'AUS'
}

files=[

]
headers = {}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload, files=files)

print(response.text)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Response**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200" %}

```json
example for AUS companies:

{
    "results": [
        {
            "abn": "123456789",
            "acn": "123456789",
            "registeredName": "Acme Pty Ltd",
            "status": "Registered",
            "location": "VIC 3000",
            "entityType": "Australian Private Company",
            "tradingNames": [
                "ACME PTY LTD",
                "ACME MANUFACTURING PTY LTD"
            ]
        }
     ]
}



example for non-AUS companies:

{
    "results": [
        {
            "name": "ACME",
            "registrationCode": "123456789",
            "countryCode": "FR"
        }
   ]
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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