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# List businesses

GET https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses

Reference: https://docs.middesk.com/api-reference/business-verification/businesses/list-businesses

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Response

### 200

businesses list

- `object` (string, required)
- `has_more` (boolean, required)
- `data` (list of BusinessItem, optional)
- `total_count` (integer, optional)

## Types

### BusinessItem

Simplified business object returned in list endpoints

- `object` (string, required)
- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `status` (enum, required) — Current status of the business verification
  - Allowed values: `open`, `pending`, `in_audit`, `in_review`, `approved`, `rejected`
- `created_at` (datetime, required)
- `updated_at` (datetime, required)
- `external_id` (string, optional, nullable)
- `unique_external_id` (string, optional, nullable)
- `tags` (list of string, optional)
- `review` (Review, optional, nullable)
- `assignee` (User, optional, nullable)
- `website` (BusinessItemWebsite, optional, nullable)
- `orders` (list of Order, optional)

### Review

- `object` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `review`
- `id` (string, required)
- `created_at` (datetime, required)
- `updated_at` (datetime, required)
- `tasks` (list of ReviewTask, required)
- `completed_at` (datetime, optional, nullable)
- `analyst_read_markdown` (string, optional, nullable) — LLM-generated analyst read of the business's verification results, in CommonMark markdown: one lead sentence followed by up to five bullet findings. Inline links, when present, are dashboard-relative paths (for example /businesses/\{id}/registrations) and may be ignored by API consumers. Null until a read has been generated; generated only for businesses without a risk order, whose risk assessment carries its own read.
- `analyst_read_generated_at` (datetime, optional, nullable) — When the analyst read was delivered. Null until a read has been generated.
- `assignee` (User, optional, nullable)

### User

- `object` (string, required)
- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `email` (string, required)
- `roles` (list of string, required)
- `created_at` (datetime, required)
- `image_url` (string, optional)
- `directory_managed` (boolean, optional)
- `last_login_at` (datetime, optional, nullable)
- `settings` (map from string to any, optional)

### BusinessItemWebsite

- `object` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)
- `url` (string, optional)
- `title` (string, optional, nullable)
- `description` (string, optional, nullable)

### Order

- `object` (string, required)
- `id` (string, required)
- `status` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `created`, `pending`, `audited`, `completed`, `approved`, `rejected`
- `business_id` (string, required)
- `product` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `identity`, `liens`, `adverse_media`, `bankruptcies`, `business_enrichment`, `documents`, `enhanced_screenings`, `kyc`, `litigations`, `people_litigations`, `people_bankruptcies`, `people_tax_liens`, `people_ucc_liens`, `people_criminal_history`, `tin`, `website`, `business_verification_qualify`, `business_verification_verify`, `tax_liens`, `ucc_liens`, `email_risk`
- `created_at` (datetime, required)
- `updated_at` (datetime, required)
- `subproducts` (list of enum, optional)
  - Allowed values: `Articles of Incorporation`, `Certificate of Good Standing`, `Articles of Incorporation with Certificate of Good Standing fallback`, `ucc_documents`, `web_analysis`, `industry_classification`
- `completed_at` (datetime, optional, nullable)
- `monitoring` (boolean, optional)
- `requester` (OrderRequester, optional)

### ReviewTask

- `category` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `bankruptcies`, `global_watchlists`, `name`, `people_litigations`, `loans`, `kyc`, `watchlist`, `phone`, `formation`, `people_criminal_history`, `adverse_media`, `litigations`, `tin_type`, `address`, `sos`, `web`, `liens`, `people_bankruptcies`, `industry`, `tin`, `people`, `people_liens`, `website`, `politically_exposed_persons`, `email`
- `key` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `location_frequency`, `bankruptcies`, `sos_unknown`, `address_deliverability`, `website_url_discovery`, `entity_type`, `web_person_verification`, `global_watchlists`, `website_status`, `name`, `sos_sub_status`, `name_and_entity_type`, `sos_active`, `profile_status`, `phone`, `sos_domestic`, `address_high_risk`, `web_address_verification`, `address_property_type`, `sos_not_found`, `time_in_business`, `web_phone_number_verification`, `adverse_media`, `litigations`, `address_verification`, `people_litigations`, `dba_name`, `watchlist`, `entity_type_match`, `people_criminal_history`, `formation_state`, `tin_error`, `sos_inactive`, `address_frequency`, `web_business_name_verification`, `web_presence_quality`, `tin_type`, `tin_issued`, `sos_domestic_sub_status`, `risky_keywords`, `address_registered_agent`, `sos`, `kyc_decision`, `ppp_loans`, `web_email_address_verification`, `tin`, `address`, `liens`, `sos_status`, `industry`, `sos_match`, `address_risk`, `website_url_domain_ownership`, `website_parked`, `domain_redirect`, `people_bankruptcies`, `politically_exposed_persons`, `person_verification`, `profile_discovery`, `address_cmra`, `website_verification`, `website`, `people_liens`, `email_risk`
- `label` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Politically Exposed Persons`, `Web Presence Quality`, `KYC`, `People Bankruptcies`, `Address Risk`, `Global Watchlists`, `Phone Number`, `Third Party Profile Status`, `Liens`, `Third Party Profiles`, `Time in Business`, `Web - Email Address`, `Risky Keywords`, `SOS Domestic Sub‑status`, `PPP Loans`, `Secretary of State Filings`, `Entity Type`, `SOS Filings`, `People Criminal History`, `Adverse Media`, `Web - People`, `Office Address`, `Entity Type Match`, `Web - Phone Number`, `Business Name`, `Bankruptcies`, `Industry Classification`, `TIN Match`, `Watchlists`, `People Litigations`, `True Industry`, `People`, `DBA Name`, `Domain Ownership`, `Domain Redirect`, `TIN Type`, `Website`, `TIN Error`, `Watchlist`, `Litigations`, `Web - Business Name`, `Name Entity Type`, `Formation State`, `People Liens`, `Web - Office Address`, `Email Risk`
- `message` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `status` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `success`, `failure`, `warning`, `neutral`
- `sub_label` (string, required)
- `sources` (list of Source, required)

### OrderRequester

- `name` (string, optional, nullable)
- `type` (enum, optional, nullable)
  - Allowed values: `account`, `user`, `api_key`

### Source

- `id` (string, required)
- `type` (string, required) — Origin of the resource. `risk_analysis` indicates the resource was discovered by a Risk order; for such sources, `id` is the originating risk_assessment ID.
- `metadata` (map from string to any, required)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "object": "list",
  "has_more": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "business",
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name",
      "status": "open",
      "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
      "updated_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
      "external_id": "external_id",
      "unique_external_id": "unique_external_id",
      "tags": [
        "tags"
      ],
      "review": {
        "object": "review",
        "id": "id",
        "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "tasks": [
          {
            "category": "bankruptcies",
            "key": "location_frequency",
            "label": "Politically Exposed Persons",
            "message": "message",
            "name": "name",
            "status": "success",
            "sub_label": "sub_label",
            "sources": [
              {
                "id": "id",
                "type": "type",
                "metadata": {
                  "key": "value"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "assignee": {
          "object": "user",
          "id": "id",
          "name": "name",
          "email": "email",
          "roles": [
            "roles"
          ],
          "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
        }
      },
      "assignee": {
        "object": "user",
        "id": "id",
        "name": "name",
        "email": "email",
        "roles": [
          "roles"
        ],
        "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
      },
      "website": {
        "object": "website"
      },
      "orders": [
        {
          "object": "order",
          "id": "id",
          "status": "created",
          "business_id": "business_id",
          "product": "identity",
          "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "updated_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "total_count": 1
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.middesk.com/v1/businesses")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```