North America
BetaCompany data from the Alabama business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads Alabama Secretary of State (live) and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of Alabama companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 s in prefill mode and 2 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Official Alabama business entity register maintained by the Secretary of State Business Entities Division. Covers all corporations, limited liability companies, non-profit corporations, limited partnerships, general partnerships, and their foreign equivalents registered to do business in Alabama. Each entity carries a 9-digit Entity ID Number as the primary identifier. The public portal (ARC-SOS) provides searchable entity profiles with legal name, entity type, status, formation date, registered agent, principal address, nature of business, capital information, director and incorporator details, and filing history.
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its Entity ID Number as the id, with countryCode set to US-AL. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.