GLEIF LEI Scraper — Legal Entity Identifiers

GLEIF LEI Scraper — Legal Entity Identifiers

Look up Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) records straight from the official GLEIF registry. Every LEI comes back mapped to its legal entity's name, address, legal form and registration status — filterable by legal name, country, entity status or an exact LEI code. No login, no API key, nothing for you to supply.

What it does

This actor queries the official, keyless GLEIF JSON:API (api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records — the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation's own registry) and returns one flat, structured record per matching entity. Because the source is the authoritative registry itself (not a scraped third-party mirror), the data is as accurate and current as GLEIF's own records. Typical use: KYC (know-your-customer) checks, counterparty due diligence, supplier/vendor verification, or bulk-enriching a company list with its LEI and registration status.

Input

• Legal name — entity legal name to search for (e.g. Apple, Deutsche Bank).
• Country (ISO-2) — filter by legal-address country, ISO-3166 alpha-2 (e.g. US, DE).
• Entity status — filter by ACTIVE or INACTIVE; empty returns all statuses.
• Exact LEI — look up a single, specific 20-character LEI code directly.
• Max results — cap on how many entities to return (default 100, up to 50,000).
• Proxy configuration — Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL group prefilled; the run is billed to your own Apify account, nothing extra to configure.

All filters are optional and combinable — e.g. legal name + country narrows a common name down to entities in one jurisdiction.

Fields returned

Each dataset record includes: lei (the 20-character identifier), legal_name, entity_status (ACTIVE/INACTIVE), legal_form_id (ELF legal-form code), jurisdiction, category, registered_as (local business-registry identifier), legal address (legal_city, legal_region, legal_country, legal_postal_code), headquarters address (hq_city, hq_country), registration_status (ISSUED/LAPSED/etc.), initial_registration_date, last_update_date, next_renewal_date, managing_lou (the Local Operating Unit that issued the LEI), bic (associated SWIFT/BIC code(s), when GLEIF has them on file), and record_url (a direct link to the record on search.gleif.org).

Pricing

Pay-per-result — billed one entity event per returned record. See the Store pricing tab on this actor's page for the current per-result rate.

Notes

GLEIF is the international body behind the LEI standard (ISO 17442), used worldwide for financial-counterparty identification and regulatory reporting. Because this actor reads GLEIF's own free, official API rather than screen-scraping a paywalled or rate-limited source, there's no anti-bot friction and no third-party licensing question — it's a direct, zero-COGS pull from the authoritative registry, well suited to scheduled KYC/compliance enrichment runs.