France Company Registry & Legal Notices

Look up French companies and get their official registry details together with their newest legal announcements. Search by company name or keyword, by one or many SIRENs, by French activity code, by department or postal code, and by company size. Each row is one company: identity and legal form, activity, size and employee band, creation and closure dates, administrative state, head office address and coordinates, officers, published financial years, and the newest BODACC legal announcements for that company, plus ready-made insolvency and last-announcement flags.

Built for KYB and compliance teams, credit and risk analysts, B2B lead generation and due-diligence work on French businesses.

What you can do with it

• Onboard suppliers and customers (KYB). Check that a SIREN exists, is active, and matches the legal name, legal form and head office you were given, with the officers on record.
• Screen for insolvency. hasInsolvencyProceeding flags collective proceedings, conciliations and professional recovery notices published for the company, and says when the check could not be completed.
• Monitor a portfolio. Re-run a list of SIRENs on a schedule and watch lastAnnouncementAt, bodaccAnnouncementCount, etatAdministratif and the officers for changes.
• Assess credit risk. Published turnover and net result per financial year, size band and employee band in one row.
• Map a market or build lead lists. Search by activity code, department, postal code and company size, active companies only.

Quick start

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console. The form is prefilled with the search boulangerie, 20 companies and announcements on.
2. Change the search, or add filters such as a department or activity code.
3. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

{
  "query": "boulangerie",
  "departement": "75",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeAnnouncements": true
}

Look up known companies by SIREN:

{
  "sirenList": ["403052111"],
  "maxAnnouncementsPerCompany": 10
}

An empty input ({}) returns a small sample: 10 active French bakeries (boulangerie) with announcements, and the status message says it was a sample. Give a query, a sirenList or filters and only those run. Filters combine: activity codes, department, postal code, company size and active-only. The department and postal-code filters match a company when any of its establishments is in that area, not only its head office, so a returned row's siege address can be elsewhere.

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
query	string	—	Company name, keyword or one SIREN. At least 3 characters. Leave it out when you only want sirenList or filters.
sirenList	array	[]	Up to 200 SIRENs to look up directly.
nafCodes	array	[]	Up to 10 French activity codes, for example 10.71A.
departement	string	—	Department code, for example 75, 2A or 971. Matches companies with any establishment there, not only the head office.
postalCode	string	—	Five-digit postal code. Matches companies with any establishment there, not only the head office.
activeOnly	boolean	true	Keep only companies whose administrative state is active.
categorieEntreprise	array	[]	Any of PME, ETI or GE.
maxItems	integer	50	Stop after this many company rows (maximum 1,000). The empty-input sample stops at 10.
includeAnnouncements	boolean	true	Add legal announcements and the derived flags.
maxAnnouncementsPerCompany	integer	20	Newest announcements kept per company (maximum 100).
proxyConfiguration	object	direct	Optional connection settings.
apifyProxyCountry	string	FR	Country for platform connections.

What it returns

One row per company. Missing source values are null, never guessed.

Field	Meaning
siren	Nine-digit company identifier.
name, legalName, sigle	Published company name, registered name and acronym.
siretSiege	Head office establishment identifier.
nafCode, nafCode2025, nafSection	Primary activity codes and activity section.
natureJuridique	Legal form code.
categorieEntreprise, anneeCategorieEntreprise	Company size band and its reference year.
trancheEffectifSalarie, anneeTrancheEffectifSalarie	Employee-count band and its reference year.
dateCreation, dateFermeture	Creation and closure dates.
etatAdministratif	A active or C ceased.
nombreEtablissements, nombreEtablissementsOuverts	Establishments on record and open.
statutDiffusion	Published diffusion status.
commercialProspectingOptOut	Published opposition to commercial prospecting, verbatim (true, false or the published value).
caractereEmployeur	Published employer status of the legal unit, verbatim.
siege	Head office: full and complement address, municipality, department, region, coordinates, trade name, published shop signs and establishment state.
dirigeants	Officers and auditors exactly as published: name, given names, role, birth year and month, nationality, or company name and SIREN.
finances	Published financial years, newest first, with turnover and net result in euros.
bodaccAnnouncements	Newest legal announcements: publication date, family, notice type, court, city, published company name, summary text and official link. Each announcement also carries registreSirens (the registre entries the notice publishes, verbatim) and isSoleSubject (true when the notice lists exactly one SIREN, null when it lists no SIREN, for example an empty registre).
bodaccStatus	ok when the announcement lookup completed, unavailable when it failed or was partial (the insolvency flag is then null), not_requested when announcements are switched off.
hasInsolvencyProceeding	true when a collective proceeding, conciliation or professional recovery notice that lists this SIREN exists; false when the full history was checked and none does; null when announcements were not requested or the lookup was not complete.
lastAnnouncementAt	Most recent announcement date returned.
bodaccAnnouncementCount	All announcements on record for the company, including those beyond the per-company limit.
announcementsError	Why announcements could not be checked for this company.
sourceUrl	Link to the company's official public directory page.
sources	Open data used for the row: INSEE Sirene / RNE (via Annuaire des Entreprises) and, when requested, DILA BODACC, each with its page and licence.
sourceUpdatedAt, sourceUpdatedAtInsee, sourceUpdatedAtRne	The source's own last-update timestamps, verbatim; null when absent.
observedAt	UTC time the row was collected.

The run also writes a RUN-SUMMARY key-value record with delivered counts, request counts and any incomplete searches.

Output example

Illustrative row, with officers and announcements shortened for readability:

{
  "siren": "403052111",
  "name": "BOULANGERIES PAUL",
  "legalName": "BOULANGERIES PAUL",
  "sigle": null,
  "siretSiege": "40305211102616",
  "nafCode": "10.71A",
  "nafCode2025": "10.71G",
  "nafSection": "C",
  "natureJuridique": "5710",
  "categorieEntreprise": "ETI",
  "anneeCategorieEntreprise": "2024",
  "trancheEffectifSalarie": "41",
  "anneeTrancheEffectifSalarie": "2024",
  "dateCreation": "1995-12-07",
  "dateFermeture": null,
  "etatAdministratif": "A",
  "nombreEtablissements": 315,
  "nombreEtablissementsOuverts": 124,
  "statutDiffusion": "O",
  "commercialProspectingOptOut": true,
  "caractereEmployeur": null,
  "siege": {
    "siret": "40305211102616",
    "adresse": "BATIMENT D.E 344 AVENUE DE LA MARNE 59700 MARCQ-EN-BARŒUL",
    "complementAdresse": "BATIMENT D.E",
    "codePostal": "59700",
    "commune": "59378",
    "libelleCommune": "MARCQ-EN-BARŒUL",
    "departement": "59",
    "region": "32",
    "latitude": 50.678029398,
    "longitude": 3.1169136021,
    "activitePrincipale": "70.10Z",
    "nomCommercial": null,
    "listeEnseignes": [],
    "etatAdministratif": "A"
  },
  "dirigeants": [
    {
      "type": "personne physique",
      "nom": "HOLDER (HOLDER)",
      "prenoms": "FRANCIS",
      "qualite": "Président de SAS",
      "anneeNaissance": "1940",
      "dateNaissance": "1940-07",
      "nationalite": null,
      "denomination": null,
      "siren": null
    }
  ],
  "finances": [
    {
      "year": "2024",
      "revenue": 73611839,
      "netResult": -2197350
    }
  ],
  "bodaccAnnouncements": [
    {
      "id": "C2026014311507",
      "date": "2026-07-30",
      "family": "Dépôts des comptes",
      "familyCode": "dpc",
      "noticeType": "Avis initial",
      "court": "Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de lille métropole",
      "city": "Marcq-en-Baroeul",
      "companyName": "BOULANGERIES PAUL",
      "summary": "Comptes annuels et rapports (closing 2024-12-31)",
      "registreSirens": ["403052111"],
      "isSoleSubject": true,
      "url": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:C2026014311507"
    }
  ],
  "bodaccStatus": "ok",
  "hasInsolvencyProceeding": false,
  "lastAnnouncementAt": "2026-07-30",
  "bodaccAnnouncementCount": 80,
  "announcementsError": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/403052111",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "INSEE Sirene / RNE (via Annuaire des Entreprises)",
      "url": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/403052111",
      "licence": "Licence Ouverte 2.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "DILA BODACC",
      "url": "https://bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/annonces-commerciales/",
      "licence": "Licence Ouverte 2.0"
    }
  ],
  "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-11-04T11:42:11",
  "sourceUpdatedAtInsee": "2026-05-07T14:31:50",
  "sourceUpdatedAtRne": "2026-10-21T19:02:42",
  "observedAt": "2026-11-04T19:28:45.762832+00:00"
}

Announcements and flags

Announcements cover company creations, account filings, changes, sales of businesses, collective proceedings, conciliations, professional recovery and deregistrations. The latest ones are included newest-first, up to maxAnnouncementsPerCompany. The count and the insolvency flag always cover the company's full published history, not just the announcements shown.

A court notice can name more than one company: a sale of business lists the seller and the buyer in its registre. registreSirens therefore shows every registre entry the notice publishes, exactly as published, and isSoleSubject says whether this company is the only one listed. The insolvency flag counts only notices whose registre lists this SIREN, so a notice that merely names another company cannot raise it. The flag is true only for a collective proceeding, conciliation or professional recovery notice that lists this company.

bodaccStatus says whether the check was complete. When it is unavailable the insolvency flag is null, never false, so a failed lookup is never read as "no insolvency". When includeAnnouncements is off, the announcement list is empty, bodaccStatus is not_requested and the derived values are null.

Officers, addresses and announcement text are passed through exactly as published. No names, contact details or officer birth data are masked or removed.

Data sources and licence

Company identity and head office data come from INSEE Sirene, with registered-company data from the RNE, through the official Annuaire des Entreprises service. Legal announcements come from DILA BODACC, the official bulletin of civil and commercial announcements. Both are published as open data under the Licence Ouverte 2.0, which allows commercial use when the source is credited and its last-update date is kept.

Each row carries this attribution in sources (name, page and licence) and the source's own last-update timestamps in sourceUpdatedAt, sourceUpdatedAtInsee and sourceUpdatedAtRne. Keep them when you publish or redistribute the data. The BODACC entry appears only when announcements were requested for the run.

Dates and limitations

Dates are French publication and register dates, published without a time of day, and are exported as ISO calendar dates. The collection time observedAt is UTC. maxItems caps a run at 1,000 company rows. The company search also returns at most 10,000 matches: when more companies match the search than were delivered, or the match count reaches that limit, the status message reports the match count and the 10,000 limit. Announcements per company are capped by maxAnnouncementsPerCompany.

If a company search fails, already delivered rows stay in the dataset and the status message names the failed search. If every search fails and nothing was delivered, the run fails instead of reporting an empty success. If a company's announcements cannot be read, that company is still delivered with announcementsError filled and bodaccStatus set to unavailable. A search with no matches succeeds with zero rows and a plain status message. A run with partial results also succeeds and reports what was incomplete. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Pricing

You pay a $0.005 start fee per run plus $0.002 per company row, so 100 companies cost about $0.205 and 1,000 about $2.005.

Scheduling and monitoring

There is no built-in "changes only" mode. To monitor companies, save a sirenList input as a task and schedule it daily or weekly. Compare each run with the previous one: a new lastAnnouncementAt, a higher bodaccAnnouncementCount, hasInsolvencyProceeding turning true, a change in etatAdministratif or in dirigeants shows what changed.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the official sources live. Each row carries the sources' own last-update timestamps, so you can see how recent the register entry is.

Is this the official register? It uses the official open-data publications (INSEE Sirene, RNE through Annuaire des Entreprises, and DILA BODACC). It does not download Kbis extracts, filed accounts or statutes.

Does activeOnly hide ceased companies I look up by SIREN? No. activeOnly filters searches only. A SIREN in sirenList is returned whatever its state, with etatAdministratif set to C when it has ceased, and a SIREN the directory doesn't know is listed in the status message.

Which export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and the other dataset formats Apify offers, or read the dataset from your own code with the Apify API.

Run size

The default memory is 512 MB and the default time limit is 30 minutes. With announcements, each company takes a little over a second, so a full 1,000-company run fits in the default limit. If a run reaches its time limit, the rows already delivered are kept. When a per-event plan applies, the start event is counted per GB of memory, rounded up; the default 512 MB run is one start event. Check the current listing for the applicable price.