Australian company data, as JSON

The REST API for ASIC company, director and document data

asicapi turns the ASIC public registers into clean JSON resources. Look up companies by ACN or ABN for free, purchase current or historical extracts with office holders and shareholders, pull lodged documents, order PDF images and search the professional and banned persons registers with one API key.

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Purchase a current extract

curl -X POST https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/companies/004085616/extracts   -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{ "type": "current" }'

201 Created, stored for 12 months

{
  "object": "extract",
  "id": "ext_01J9AB3K7Q2XM4",
  "kind": "company",
  "type": "current",
  "purchasedAt": "2026-09-04T03:12:44Z",
  "company": {
    "acn": "004085616",
    "name": "ACME WIDGETS PTY LTD",
    "type": { "code": "APTY", "label": "Australian Proprietary Company" },
    "status": { "code": "REGD", "label": "Registered" }
  },
  "officeholders": [
    {
      "role": { "code": "DR", "label": "Director" },
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "appointedAt": "2015-02-01",
      "party": {
        "type": "person",
        "person": { "familyName": "SMITH", "givenNames": ["JANE", "LOUISE"] },
        "birth": { "date": "1975-04-03", "locality": "MELBOURNE", "stateOrCountry": "VIC" }
      }
    }
  ],
  "addresses": [ ... ],
  "shareCapital": [ ... ],
  "members": [ ... ],
  "meta": { "billable": true, "product": "company_extract_current" }
}

Every ASIC register as a resource

The API is built from the primitives ASIC publishes for information brokers: companies, people, office holders, documents, charges and registers. Each one is a predictable JSON object with coded values expanded into readable labels.

Companies

Look up any Australian company by ACN, ABN, ARBN or ARSN. Name, type, status, addresses and former names.

Office holders

Current and former directors, secretaries, liquidators, administrators, receivers and auditors.

People

Search a person by name and date of birth, then list every directorship, licence and shareholding.

Documents

Every form lodged with ASIC by document number, with page counts and PDF image orders.

Shareholders

Share classes, issued capital and the members ASIC records for each class.

Registers

Registered auditors and liquidators, authorised representatives, banned and disqualified persons.

Charges

Satisfied charges held by ASIC and the hand-over to the Personal Property Securities Register.

Weekly summaries

Weekly feeds of new registrations, name changes, insolvencies and disqualified directors.

Built for compliance and onboarding teams

KYC and KYB. Verify a company's registration status, registered office and controlling directors before you onboard it.
Credit and risk. Watch for strike-off action, external administration appointments and deregistration across a portfolio.
Legal and accounting practice tools. Pull current and historical extracts, document images and share registers straight into your matter or client file.
Data platforms. Weekly summaries of new registrations, name changes and insolvencies keep your company graph current.

Understand the data

Plain-English guides to the concepts behind the ASIC register, each mapped to the fields and codes the API returns.

Data is derived from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission register under section 1274A of the Corporations Act 2001. asicapi is an independent information service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ASIC. Statutory fees apply to extracts, document images and register products.