`hk_company_search`

Pack: hk-companies · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/hk_company_search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Search Hong Kong companies newly incorporated, registered, or renamed on the Companies Registry (香港公司註冊處, cr.gov.hk) since 30 Dec 2024 — official open data via data.gov.hk, updated weekly. Match by company name (English or Chinese, substring, case-insensitive) or an exact Business Registration (BR) number. Returns each match’s BR number, English and Chinese name, company type (Hong Kong local / non-Hong Kong), incorporation-or-registration date, and any name-change date, plus the matching HKEX ticker when the name resolves to a listed stock (joined via the same Yahoo Finance lookup hk_resolve_symbol uses — only attached on a confident name match, never guessed). LIMITATION: this only covers companies newly incorporated, registered, or renamed since 2024-12-30 — it is NOT the full historical company register and does NOT return registered address or company status for companies outside that window (Hong Kong publishes no open API for those; only the Companies Registry’s paid Cyber Search Centre does). Use for “is there a new HK company called X”, “HK BR number for Y”, “香港新註冊公司 X”.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`name`	string	no	Company name substring, English or Chinese, e.g. “HSBC” or “滙豐”. Case-insensitive.
`brn`	string	no	Exact Business Registration (BR) number, e.g. “81129706”.
`type`	string	no	Restrict to Hong Kong local companies (“local”) or non-Hong Kong companies registered in HK (“non_hk”). Omit to search both.
`since`	string	no	Only search weeks on/after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Default: last 12 weeks. Earliest possible: 2024-12-30 (the dataset start).
`limit`	number,string	no	Max matches to return, 1-100 (default 25).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "name": "HSBC"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hk-companies/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"hk_company_search","arguments":{"name":"HSBC"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('hk_company_search', {
  "name": "HSBC"
});

More examples

{
  "brn": "80846040"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the hk-companies pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hk-companies": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hk-companies/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

hk_company_search