/massachusetts/companies

POST /api/massachusetts/companies

Price: 10 credits

Get a Massachusetts business entity's registry record from the Secretary of the Commonwealth Corporations Division by its Identification Number: exact name, previous name and change date, entity type, current and old ID numbers, Massachusetts organization/registration date, jurisdiction of formation (state, country, date) for foreign entities, fiscal year months, principal and mailing addresses, registered agent (name and address), officers and directors (title, name, address), authorized stock classes, publicly-traded and other flags, and comments.

How to use it

Look up one Massachusetts business by its 9-digit Identification Number (e.g. '710415188'; shorter inputs are left-padded to 9 digits). Returns one item with id_number, old_id_number, name, previous_name, legal_form (e.g. 'Foreign Corporation', 'Domestic Profit Corporation', 'Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC)'), organization_date, jurisdiction_state/country/date (foreign entities), principal_address, mailing_address, registered_agent, officers (officers and directors of a corporation), stocks (authorized share classes of a corporation), is_publicly_traded and comments. To find an Identification Number by company name, use massachusetts/companies/search; for the filing history use massachusetts/companies/filings.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• id_number string required — Massachusetts business Identification Number (9 characters; usually 9 digits, sometimes a letter prefix, e.g. L86001411 for a limited partnership) (examples: "710415188", "043200369", "L86001411")

Response

• @type string (default: "MassachusettsCompany")
• id_number string required
• old_id_number string nullable
• name string nullable
• previous_name string nullable
• previous_name_date string nullable
• legal_form string nullable
• organization_date string nullable
• organization_date_label string nullable
• revival_date string nullable
• last_date_certain string nullable
• jurisdiction_state string nullable
• jurisdiction_country string nullable
• jurisdiction_date string nullable
• fiscal_month_current string nullable
• fiscal_month_previous string nullable
• principal_address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MassachusettsAddress")
  • street string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip string nullable
  • country string nullable
• mailing_address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MassachusettsAddress")
  • street string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip string nullable
  • country string nullable
• registered_agent object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MassachusettsAgent")
  • name string nullable
  • street string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip string nullable
  • country string nullable
• officers array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "MassachusettsOfficer")
  • name string nullable
  • address string nullable
• stocks array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "MassachusettsStock")
  • stock_class string nullable
  • par_value string nullable
  • authorized_count string nullable
  • authorized_value string nullable
  • issued_count string nullable
• is_publicly_traded boolean nullable
• has_consent boolean nullable
• has_confidential_data boolean nullable
• is_merger_allowed boolean nullable
• is_manufacturing boolean nullable
• comments 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 Identification 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.