/iowa/companies

POST /api/iowa/companies

Price: 20 credits

Get an Iowa business entity by its business number from the Iowa Secretary of State business registry: legal name, status, entity type, state of incorporation, chapter, effective/filing/expiration dates, registered agent and principal-office addresses, the entity's names (legal, former and fictitious/DBA names), officers, stock classes and full filing history with document links.

How to use it

Get one Iowa business entity by its business number. Returns one item with business_number, legal_name, status, legal_form (e.g. 'Legal', 'Fictitious name'), state_of_inc, chapter, effective_date, filing_date, expiration_date, registered_agent and principal_office (name + address fields), names (legal/former/fictitious), officers (name, address, type, is_director), stock (class, series, authorized_shares) and filings (cert_no, document_url, page_count, filing_date, description). Use iowa/companies/search to find the business_number by name.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• business_number string required — Iowa business entity number (examples: "96828", "315700", "51094"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "IowaCompany")
• business_number string required
• legal_name string required
• status string nullable
• legal_form string nullable
• state_of_inc string nullable
• chapter string nullable
• is_modified boolean nullable
• expiration_date string nullable
• effective_date string nullable
• filing_date string nullable
• registered_agent object nullable
  • @type string (default: "IowaCompanyAddress")
  • address_type string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • address1 string nullable
  • address2 string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip string nullable
• principal_office object nullable
  • @type string (default: "IowaCompanyAddress")
  • address_type string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • address1 string nullable
  • address2 string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip string nullable
• names array
  • @type string (default: "IowaCompanyName")
  • cert_no string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • status string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • is_modified boolean nullable
• officers array
  • @type string (default: "IowaCompanyOfficer")
  • name string nullable
  • address1 string nullable
  • address2 string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • is_director boolean nullable
• filings array
  • @type string (default: "IowaCompanyFiling")
  • cert_no string nullable
  • document_url string nullable
  • page_count integer nullable
  • filing_date string nullable
  • effective_date string nullable
  • description string nullable
• stock array
  • @type string (default: "IowaCompanyStock")
  • type string nullable
  • stock_class string nullable
  • series string nullable
  • authorized_shares 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 — Entity not found (no entity exists for this business 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.