/dc/companies/search

POST /api/dc/companies/search

Price: 10 credits

Search Washington DC business entities in the DLCP corporate registry by name or Initial File No., with optional filters for legal form, registry status, Domestic or Foreign registration, registered agent name, business address city, state, postal code and country, and effective-date range. Returns matching entities with Initial File No., name, legal form, registration region, status, effective date, registered agent name and business address.

How to use it

Search Washington DC business entities. Pass count plus any of: name (an entity name or Initial File No., matched by starts_with/contains/exact via match), entity_type, status, region, agent_name, city, state, zip, country, formation_start_date/formation_end_date (YYYY-MM-DD), sort_by and sort_order. The match mode applies to name, agent_name, city and zip; state and country are always matched exactly. Returns items with id and entity_number (both the Initial File No.), name, legal_form, region, status, effective_date, agent_name and address. Returns an empty list when nothing matches. Use entity_number or id with dc/companies for the full record.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)
• name string nullable — Entity name or Initial File No. to match (examples: "WASHINGTON"; minLength: 1)
• match string — How the text filters are matched (default: "contains"; one of: "starts_with", "contains", "exact")
• entity_type string nullable — Legal form filter (one of: "domestic_act_of_congress_corporation", "domestic_business_corporation", "domestic_general_cooperative_association", "domestic_limited_cooperative_association", "domestic_limited_liability_company", "domestic_limited_liability_partnership", "domestic_limited_partnership", "domestic_nonprofit_corporation", "domestic_statutory_trust", "foreign_act_of_congress_corporation", "foreign_business_corporation", "foreign_general_cooperative_association", "foreign_limited_cooperative_association", "foreign_limited_liability_company", "foreign_limited_liability_partnership", "foreign_limited_partnership", "foreign_nonprofit_corporation", "foreign_statutory_trust")
• status string nullable — Registry status filter (one of: "active_in_good_standing", "active_not_in_good_standing", "cancelled", "consolidated", "converted", "dissolved", "domesticated", "merged", "revoked", "terminated", "withdrawn")
• region string nullable — Whether the entity is registered in DC or in another jurisdiction (one of: "domestic", "foreign")
• agent_name string nullable — Registered agent name filter (examples: "C T CORPORATION SYSTEM"; minLength: 1)
• city string nullable — Business address city filter (examples: "Washington"; minLength: 1)
• state string nullable — Business address state or territory code filter (examples: "DC"; minLength: 1)
• zip string nullable — Business address postal code filter (examples: "20003"; minLength: 1)
• country string nullable — Business address country code filter (examples: "USA"; minLength: 1)
• formation_start_date string nullable — Earliest effective date, YYYY-MM-DD (examples: "2020-01-01")
• formation_end_date string nullable — Latest effective date, YYYY-MM-DD (examples: "2020-12-31")
• sort_by string nullable — Field to sort results by (one of: "name", "effective_date", "entity_number", "entity_type", "status", "agent_name")
• sort_order string — Sort direction (default: "asc"; one of: "asc", "desc")

Response

• @type string (default: "DcCompanySearchItem")
• id string required
• entity_number string nullable
• name string required
• legal_form string nullable
• region string nullable
• status string nullable
• effective_date string nullable
• agent_name string nullable
• address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "DcAddress")
  • street string nullable
  • street2 string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • province string nullable
  • zip string nullable
  • postal_code string nullable
  • country string nullable
  • county string nullable
  • full 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 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed 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.