/cac/companies

POST /api/cac/companies

Price: 1 credit

Get a Nigerian business's record from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) registry by its registration number (RC, BN, IT or partnership number). Returns the approved name, RC number, internal company id, classification, nature of business, registration date, status and the FIRS Tax Identification Number (TIN). If the same number exists under more than one classification, pass classification to disambiguate.

How to use it

Look up one Nigerian business by its CAC registration number (e.g. '148500', accepts 'RC148500'/'BN...'). Returns one item with name, rc_number, company_id, classification, nature_of_business, registration_date, status and tin (FIRS Tax ID). If a number is shared across classifications, pass classification (e.g. COMPANY) to pick the right one. To find a registration number by company name, use cac/companies/search.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• company_number string required — CAC registration number (RC, BN, IT or partnership number) (examples: "148500", "71242")
• classification string nullable — Disambiguate when the same number exists under multiple classifications (one of: "ALL", "BUSINESS_NAME", "COMPANY", "INCORPORATED_TRUSTEE", "LIMITED_PARTNERSHIP", "LIMITED_LIABILITY_PARTNERSHIP")

Response

• @type string (default: "CacCompany")
• name string required
• rc_number string nullable
• company_id integer nullable
• classification string nullable
• classification_id integer nullable
• nature_of_business string nullable
• registration_date string nullable
• status string nullable
• tin string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No business found for the given registration number Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.