One identifier follows a Singapore entity through every agency it deals with. Build on it and your dataset joins to everything; ignore it and it joins to nothing.
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ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the entity types, activity classifications or filters; we build the pipeline keyed on the unique entity number in its published form, keep entity types precise, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Paid document retrieval is quoted separately against a list you approve, with per-item costs shown rather than buried in a pipeline price.
This is a public registry: we collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on ACRA - and we collect it legally. Officer and shareholder records describe named individuals and you are the controller of whatever you build.
Entity records carry the unique entity number, entity name, former names, entity type, status, registration date, registered address, primary and secondary activity classifications and the date of the last filing where published.
The unique entity number is the primary key and stays in its published form. Reformatting it - stripping letters, padding digits - breaks the join to every other government dataset that uses it, which is the single reason to prefer this register over name-based matching in the first place.
Entity type is kept precisely, because Singapore distinguishes companies, limited liability partnerships, partnerships and sole proprietorships with different filing obligations, and collapsing them into a company field loses that.
Activity classification is collected as published, with both primary and secondary retained, since an entity doing two things is poorly described by one code.
Officer and shareholder detail generally sits behind paid documents, and where a client needs it we scope retrieval explicitly with the per-item cost shown, and mark it as personal data.
Status and registration monitoring is the lighter product and runs entirely on free entity data: new registrations, status changes, strike-offs and name changes, by activity classification.
Regional structure analysis is the reason many clients come. Holding entities registered in Singapore frequently sit above operating companies elsewhere in Southeast Asia, and the register is the anchor point for mapping those structures - though the layers outside Singapore need their own sources.
Cross-agency joining is the distinctive capability: because the identifier travels, official datasets from other Singapore agencies can be attached without name matching.
Limits: officer and shareholder detail is behind paid documents, we do not attempt to bypass charges, and where such detail is retrieved it is personal data about named individuals with the scoping conversation that always implies.
ACRA is Singapore's Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, the national registrar for companies, partnerships and sole proprietorships, operating the BizFile service through which entities are registered and file their returns.
Its distinguishing feature for data work is the Unique Entity Number. Singapore issues one identifier per registered entity and it is used across government services, which means a dataset keyed on it can be joined to other official datasets cleanly rather than through name matching.
That is rarer than it sounds. Most countries have a company register number that works inside the register and nowhere else. Here the identifier is designed to travel, and a project that builds on it inherits that property.
Entity pages show the unique entity number, entity name, entity type, status, registration date, registered address and activity classifications. As with most registries, entity search is free and detailed documents are purchased per item.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsMost company datasets spend a large part of their budget on matching. Names are written differently across sources, suffixes vary, and the resulting joins are probabilistic and need constant maintenance.
A register with a government-wide identifier removes that problem where the identifier is present. A dataset built on it joins to other official Singapore datasets directly, which means a client can assemble a picture across agencies without an entity resolution layer in the middle.
The corollary is a rule we hold firmly: never reformat the identifier. Stripping its letters or normalising its length to look tidy destroys exactly the property that made the source worth using, and it is the kind of well-intentioned cleaning that happens silently in a transformation step.
The second reason to use this source is regional. Singapore is the holding company base for a large amount of Southeast Asian business activity, so its register is a useful window onto ownership structures that operate across the region.
The third is the free and paid split, familiar from any registry: entity-level data supports most briefs, while officer and shareholding detail sits behind paid documents and should be scoped as a separate, approved line.
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Web scraping is a method of obtaining web data by extracting it from pages of web resources with the help of a program, that is, in automatic mode. It is used to syntactically convert web pages into more usable forms.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, keeps the identifier intact through every transformation, and repairs the collector before a status monitoring series misses a strike-off.
You see a sample first, in your format, over the entity types you actually track, with identifiers unmodified so you can test a join against another official dataset immediately.
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Because it travels across government services, so a dataset keyed on it joins to other official datasets directly instead of through name matching. That removes the entity resolution layer that eats most of the budget on company data projects elsewhere.
We will not, and it matters. Stripping letters or padding digits to make it look tidy breaks the join to every other dataset that uses it - destroying the one property that made this source worth choosing. It is a common silent error in transformation steps.
Entity-level data - name, type, status, registration, address, activity codes - is free and meets most briefs. Officer and shareholding detail sits behind paid documents, which we scope as a separate line against a list you approve.
Because Singapore distinguishes companies, limited liability partnerships, partnerships and sole proprietorships with different filing obligations. Collapsing them into a company field loses a distinction that matters to anyone doing diligence.
You can anchor them here - Singapore is a common holding base for the region - but the layers outside Singapore need their own sources. We scope those separately rather than implying one register shows the whole structure.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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