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# Search company

Searches for a company by name and incorporation country and returns a list of matching companies and [summary details](#the-company-summary-object).

To retrieve all available data for a given company, use the [get company details](/documentation/api-reference/tools/company-search/get-company-details.md) endpoint.

### URL

<mark style="color:green;">**POST**</mark> `https://api.complycube.com/v1/lookup/companies`

### Headers

<table><thead><tr><th width="287">Name</th><th width="93">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>Authorization</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The API <code>live</code> or <code>test</code> key.</td></tr><tr><td><code>Content-Type</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The content-type must always be set to <code>application/json</code>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Body

<table><thead><tr><th width="286">Name</th><th width="94">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>companyName</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The incorporation name of the company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>incorporationCountry</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The company's incorporation country. This will be the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2">two-letter country ISO code</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Example request

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.complycube.com/v1/lookup/companies \
     -H 'Authorization: <YOUR_API_KEY>' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
               "companyName": "Stripe Payments Europe Limited",
               "incorporationCountry": "IE"
        }'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Node.js" %}

```javascript
const { ComplyCube } = require("@complycube/api");

const complycube = new ComplyCube({ apiKey: "<YOUR_API_KEY>" });

const client = await complycube.lookup.searchCompany({
  companyName: "Stripe Payments Europe Limited",
  incorporationCountry: "IE"
});
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### The Company summary object

<table><thead><tr><th width="278.3923420878289">Attribute</th><th width="96.32306065248454">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>id</code></td><td>string</td><td>The unique identifier for a company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>name</code></td><td>string</td><td>The registered name of the company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>registrationNumber</code></td><td>string</td><td>The registration number of the company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>incorporationCountry</code></td><td>string</td><td>The incorporation country of the company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>incorporationDate</code></td><td>string</td><td>The date the company was incorporated. The format is <code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>incorporationType</code></td><td>string</td><td>The incorporation type of the company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>address</code></td><td>object</td><td>The structured address of the company.</td></tr><tr><td><code>active</code></td><td>boolean</td><td>Indicates if a company is active.</td></tr><tr><td><code>sourceUrl</code></td><td>string</td><td>The source URL from which the data was obtained.</td></tr><tr><td><code>createdAt</code></td><td>string</td><td>The date and time when the company record was created at source.</td></tr><tr><td><code>updatedAt</code></td><td>string</td><td>The date and time when the company record was updated at source.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Example response

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Success (200)" %}

```json
 {
     "totalItems": 1,
     "items": [
        {
            "id": "69655f5f353133313734",
            "name": "STRIPE PAYMENTS EUROPE, LIMITED",
            "registrationNumber": "513174",
            "incorporationCountry": "IE",
            "incorporationDate": "2012-05-15",
            "incorporationType": "LTD - Private Company Limited by Shares",
            "sourceUrl": "http://www.cro.ie/search/CompanyDetails.aspx?id=513174&type=C",
            "active": true,
            "createdAt": "2012-06-03T05:18:48+00:00",
            "updatedAt": "2021-10-22T17:38:46+00:00",
            "address": {
                "line": "C/O A&L GOODBODY, IFSC, NORTH WALL QUAY, DUBLIN 1.",
                "country": "IE",
                "fullAddress": "C/O A&L GOODBODY, IFSC, NORTH WALL QUAY, DUBLIN 1."
            }
        }
    ]
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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