Australian Business Register

ABN Lookup XML Search Web Service (ABRXMLSearch)

SOAP/XML web service for ABN Lookup that searches the Australian Business Register by ABN, ACN/ASIC number, name, postcode, charity, ABN status and registration/update events. It is free to registered users who accept the Web Services Agreement and pass an authentication GUID. The provider-hosted WSDL (28 operations) is saved verbatim.

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Documentation
https://abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceMethods

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WSDL
https://artifacts.apis.io/australian-business-register/wsdl/australian-business-register-abrxmlsearch.wsdl
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WSDL
https://abr.business.gov.au/abrxmlsearch/AbrXmlSearch.asmx?WSDL
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APIsJSON
https://artifacts.apis.io/australian-business-register/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: australian-business-register:abn-lookup-xml-search-web-service
name: ABN Lookup XML Search Web Service (ABRXMLSearch)
description: SOAP/XML web service for ABN Lookup that searches the Australian Business Register by ABN,
  ACN/ASIC number, name, postcode, charity, ABN status and registration/update events. It is free to registered
  users who accept the Web Services Agreement and pass an authentication GUID. The provider-hosted WSDL
  (28 operations) is saved verbatim.
humanURL: https://abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceMethods
baseURL: https://abr.business.gov.au/abrxmlsearch/AbrXmlSearch.asmx
tags:
- ABN
- SOAP
- Business Registry
properties:
- type: WSDL
  url: wsdl/australian-business-register-abrxmlsearch.wsdl
- type: WSDL
  name: WSDL (provider-hosted)
  url: https://abr.business.gov.au/abrxmlsearch/AbrXmlSearch.asmx?WSDL
- type: Documentation
  url: https://abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceMethods