BODACC Alerts: New French Companies & Insolvencies

Every new French company registration, insolvency proceeding (redressement, liquidation), business sale or deregistration published in the BODACC, the French state's official commercial bulletin. Filter by département, keyword or SIREN, and monitor it on a schedule so each run returns only the notices published since the last one.

Official state open data (DILA, Etalab Licence Ouverte 2.0). No proxy, no API key.

How to use

1. In the Apify Console. Open the actor page and click Start — the keywords field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found.
2. Via the API. Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token:

   curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~france-bodacc-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"keywords":[""]}'
   

3. On a schedule. Save this actor as an Apify Task with the input you want, then add a Schedule (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required.

For an alert, schedule the actor daily with "Only return notices new since the last run" on, and add a Discord, Slack or Telegram link under "Send alerts to". Accounts filings (dépôts des comptes) are not offered on purpose: they are very high volume.

Input

{
  "keywords": [
    ""
  ]
}

Optional. One keyword per line. A notice is kept when the company name or its declared activity contains one of them. Leave empty to get every notice in the families and window you choose. Accepted formats: boulangerie, logiciel, transport.

Output

Every row carries the notice fields (id, familyLabel, publishedOn, siren, companyName, legalForm, activity, address, judgmentNature, judgmentDate, noticeUrl) plus isNew and firstSeenAt when monitoring is on. activity, judgmentNature and judgmentDate are read from the bulletin's own JSON fields and are null when the bulletin does not publish them.

query	found	status	announcementCount	announcements	searchSummary	monitorStatus	truncated	notifyErrors	id	family	familyLabel	noticeType	publishedOn	siren	companyName	legalForm	activity	address	postcode	city	departement	region	court	judgmentNature	judgmentDate	noticeUrl	matchedKeyword	isNew	firstSeenAt	scrapedAt
	true	OK		<all notices (full list)>								<notice kind (first, correction, cancellation)>									<département code>		<commercial court (greffe)>	<judgment nature (procédures collectives)>				<is this notice new?>		1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Example runs

For French company-formation and insolvency monitors. Change the field named in each note.

1. New companies in Paris (who: local lead-gen) — change departements

{ "families": "creation", "departements": ["75"], "sinceDays": 7 }

2. France insolvency alerts (who: credit-risk watch) — change families / turn on monitoring

{ "families": "collective", "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true }

3. Business sales by keyword (who: M&A / asset buyer) — change keywords (confirm vente live before relying on it)

{ "families": "vente", "keywords": ["restaurant"], "sinceDays": 14 }

Pricing

• BODACC announcement returned: $4 per 1,000 notices

Plus a $0.01 start fee per run. Each event above is billed independently, only when it actually returns data — misses (found:false) are never charged.

Use it from Clay, n8n, Make, or an AI agent

This actor runs synchronously over plain HTTP — call it directly from a script, a workflow tool, or an AI agent, no Apify Console needed once you have an API token.

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~france-bodacc-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords":[""]}'

n8n. Add an HTTP Request node: Method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~france-bodacc-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, Body Content Type JSON, JSON Body {"keywords":[""]} (swap in an expression from an earlier node for a real value).

Clay. Add an "HTTP API" column: Method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~france-bodacc-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, Body {"keywords":["{{search}}"]}, mapping the row's search into the keywords array.

MCP. In Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client with the Apify MCP server, ask for "BODACC new companies and insolvency alerts" — the agent will find and run this actor.