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GlobalEntity

The GlobalEntity API lets you search across 56 European business registers for company information, verify VAT, EORI, or LEI identifiers, and create or retrieve unified “golden” company records with trust scores, including bulk deduplication of company names.

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Latency

343ms p95

Uptime

100.0% 30d

Playground

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live

Endpoints

REST · JSON
GET

/api/registry/search

Search a company register

  • country (query, required) — Country label, e.g. Norway, Danmark, Storbritannia, Tyskland.
  • q (query) — Company name or registration number. Required unless nace, postnr or city is supplied.
  • active (query) — When 1, return only active companies.
  • nace (query) — Industry (NACE) code to browse by, register-dependent.
  • postnr (query) — Postcode filter, where supported.
  • city (query) — City / place filter, where supported.
  • lei (query) — When 1, search the GLEIF LEI index for the country.
  • limit (query, limit) — Maximum number of results to return.
GET

/api/verify

Verify VAT / EORI / LEI

  • type (query, required) — One of vat, eori or lei.
  • country (query) — ISO country code for VAT (e.g. IE), or the country for a LEI lookup.
  • number (query) — The VAT / EORI number to check (include the country prefix for EORI, e.g. DK32345794).
POST

/api/company/resolve

Resolve a company to a golden record + Trust Score

POST

/api/company/match

Deduplicate a list of company names

GET

/api/company/{id}

Fetch a stored golden record

  • id (path, required) — Stable company id, e.g. COM-1567B4077A.

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Authentication

This API uses an API key, passed in the "x-api-key" header. No OAuth required.

curl -X GET \
  "https://www.globalentityapi.com/docs/api/registry/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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