/south_carolina/companies/search

POST /api/south_carolina/companies/search

Price: 1 credit

Search South Carolina business entities in the Secretary of State Business Entities Online registry by business name. Returns matching entities with name, entity type, status, incorporation date and jurisdiction. Use the guid with south_carolina/companies for the full entity record.

How to use it

Search South Carolina business entities by business name. Pass query, count, and optionally search_type (begins_with, contains, exact_match). Returns a list of items, each with guid (the lookup key for south_carolina/companies and south_carolina/companies/filings), name, legal_form (e.g. Corporation, Limited Liability Company, Limited Partnership), status (e.g. Good Standing, Dissolved, Forfeited, Reserved), incorporation_date (M/D/YYYY), jurisdiction (state of incorporation) and matched_name_status (set when the row matched on an assumed/associated name rather than the legal name). Returns an empty list when nothing matches.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string required — Business name to search by (examples: "WALMART", "Smith", "Carolina Holdings"; minLength: 1; maxLength: 175)
• search_type string — How to match the query against the name (default: "contains"; one of: "begins_with", "contains", "exact_match")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "SouthCarolinaCompanySearchItem")
• guid string required
• name string required
• legal_form string nullable
• status string nullable
• incorporation_date string nullable
• jurisdiction string nullable
• matched_name_status 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.