Brazil CNPJ Company Lookup

Quick Start

Look up Brazilian companies by CNPJ through public open-data mirrors of Receita Federal's monthly CNPJ datasets. Useful for company research, onboarding enrichment, prospect research, and counterparty screening; not a substitute for official, up-to-date verification or KYC due diligence. Paste this input to start:

{"cnpjs": ["19.131.243/0001-97", "33.000.167/0001-01", "00.000.000/0001-91"]}

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
cnpjs	array	—	One or more CNPJ numbers to look up, formatted or bare.
requestDelaySecs	number	0.3	Polite pause between lookups.

Provide one or more CNPJs. Formatting is optional, and every number is check-digit validated before the lookup so typos are caught up front.

Output

Each item includes companyKey, cnpj, cnpjRaiz, razaoSocial, nomeFantasia, situacaoCadastral, dataSituacaoCadastral, dataInicioAtividade, matrizFilial, naturezaJuridica, codigoNaturezaJuridica, porte, capitalSocial, cnaeFiscal, cnaeFiscalDescricao, atividadesSecundarias, logradouro, numero, complemento, bairro, cep, municipio, uf, telefone1, telefone2, email, opcaoPeloSimples, opcaoPeloMei, qsa, regimeTributario, status, source, sourceQuery, matchType, and scrapedAt, plus error on rows with status ERROR (every mirror was unavailable for that CNPJ).

Example record:

{"companyKey":"cnpj:19131243000197","cnpj":"19.131.243/0001-97","cnpjRaiz":"19131243","razaoSocial":"OPEN KNOWLEDGE BRASIL","nomeFantasia":"REDE PELO CONHECIMENTO LIVRE","situacaoCadastral":"ATIVA","dataInicioAtividade":"2013-10-03","matrizFilial":"MATRIZ","naturezaJuridica":"Associação Privada","porte":"DEMAIS","capitalSocial":0,"cnaeFiscal":"9430800","cnaeFiscalDescricao":"Atividades de associações de defesa de direitos sociais","municipio":"SAO PAULO","uf":"SP","status":"FOUND"}

FAQ

What is a CNPJ? The CNPJ is the 14-character national registry number (digits, or letters and digits for numbers issued from July 2026) that identifies every Brazilian company and its establishments.

How fresh is the data? Each lookup queries third-party open-data mirrors at run time, backed by Receita Federal's monthly bulk snapshots. Mirror refresh schedules vary and can lag the official release. This is not a live query to the official registry: recent registrations or changes may be absent or outdated. scrapedAt is the lookup time, not the source snapshot date or a guarantee of freshness; source identifies the mirror that answered.

What if a mirror does not recognize a CNPJ? The Actor tries other mirrors. If none returns a record and at least one reports it missing, the result is a NOT_FOUND audit row. This does not prove that the company does not exist: a recent registration may not yet appear in the mirrors' snapshots.

Does it include partners and officers? Yes — qsa carries the partners and administrators with their role and entry date when the registry publishes them.

How many CNPJs can I look up? Up to 100 per run, in one list.

What happens to missing values? Fields the registry does not publish for a company come back as null; list fields come back as empty arrays.

Support

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