regdata_nigeria_cac
Search the official Nigerian CAC registry by entity name or RC/BN/IT number. Get registration details, classification, business nature, and status, including verified not-found answers.
Instructions
Nigeria CAC Company Registry Scraper. Search the official Nigerian CAC register by entity name or RC/BN/IT number. Returns registered name, registration number, classification, nature of business and status for companies, business names and incorporated trustees. A verified "not found in the register" is a real answer. Advanced fields beyond this schema are also accepted (regdata_describe lists them).
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| maxItems | No | Optional cap on billed dataset items returned. | |
| companyNames | No | One or more entity names to search, each looked up separately. Matching is the register's own name-similarity search, so partial names work: 'DANGOTE' returns every entity whose name contains it. Broad terms hit the register's 50-result ceiling - see Max results per query. | |
| statusFilter | No | Keep only entities in these registry statuses. Leave empty to export every match, which is the safer default for screening - an INACTIVE or DISSOLVED counterparty is usually the finding you most want to see, not one to filter away. | |
| nameMatchMode | No | How closely an entity name must answer a name query. The register's search matches on single common words, so a search for a company that does NOT exist still returns a full page of unrelated entities - 'NOTAREALFIRM LIMITED' returns 49 results purely because they contain 'LIMITED'. 'Relevant' (default) drops rows that share nothing but boilerplate with your query. 'Strict' keeps only rows containing every identifying word. 'All' returns the register's raw output, including the noise. Registration-number lookups are exact and are never affected by this. | relevant |
| maxResultsPerQuery | No | Maximum records to export per query. The register itself returns at most 50 matches and provides no pagination, so 50 is the ceiling here too - a broader term cannot be paged through. To reach matches beyond the ceiling, narrow the name or search by registration number. | |
| registrationNumbers | No | One or more registration numbers, each looked up separately. Accepts any format: 'RC 71242', 'RC-71242' or just '71242'. Include the prefix to restrict the classification - RC = company, BN = business name, IT = incorporated trustees. A bare number matches those digits across ALL THREE classifications, which is deliberate: the same digits genuinely exist as different entities (RC 71242 and IT 71242 are unrelated organisations). |