/west_virginia/companies/search

POST /api/west_virginia/companies/search

Price: 10 credits

Search West Virginia businesses in the Secretary of State registry by name or by registered agent / officer name. Returns matching entities grouped as organizations, trade names (DBA), name changes and registrations/reservations, each with organization id, name, type, effective/established/termination dates, termination reason, charter and class.

How to use it

Search West Virginia businesses by name (provide name) or by registered agent / officer (provide agent); use % as a wildcard in name. Returns a list of items, each with org_id, group (organization, dba, name_change or registration), name, matched_agent (the agent/officer that matched, set only for agent searches), org_type (e.g. C, LLC, LP, LLP, VA, UNA, TN for trade names), effective_date, established_date, termination_date, termination_reason, charter (Domestic/Foreign) and org_class. Use the org_id with west_virginia/companies for full details.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• name string — Business name keyword (use % as a wildcard) (default: ""; examples: "Walmart")
• agent string — Registered agent or officer name keyword (default: ""; examples: "John Smith")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "WestVirginiaCompanySearchItem")
• org_id string required
• group string required
• name string nullable
• matched_agent string nullable
• org_type string nullable
• effective_date string nullable
• established_date string nullable
• termination_date string nullable
• termination_reason string nullable
• charter string nullable
• org_class 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.