# Brazilian Company Database (CNPJ) — 69M Leads, No Scraping ✅ (`brazilayer/brazilian-company-search`) Actor

Search Brazil's official company registry by industry code (CNAE), state, city, size, capital and founding date. Returns name, CNPJ, full address, phone and e-mail. Straight from the Receita Federal bulk dataset — a database query, not a scraper, so it does not break and does not rate-limit.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/brazilayer/brazilian-company-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Brazilayer](https://apify.com/brazilayer) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 85.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 company returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Brazilian Company Database Search (CNPJ)

Search Brazil's **official company registry** — 69 million CNPJs from the Receita
Federal — by industry, state, city, size, share capital and founding date. Get
back legal name, trade name, CNPJ, full address, phone and e-mail.

**This is a database query, not a scraper.** The registry is loaded in our own
Postgres, so there is no target site to block you, no rate limit to respect, and
nothing that breaks when a page changes layout. A thousand companies come back in
seconds, every time.

### What you get per company

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `razao_social` | PC DEBUG DESENVOLVIMENTO DE SOFTWARE LTDA |
| `nome_fantasia` | ACG ANYWARE |
| `cnpj` | 00000611000130 |
| `cnae` | 6201501 — Custom software development |
| `porte` | Micro / Small / Medium-Large |
| `capital_social` | 401545.00 |
| `data_abertura` | 1994-05-10 |
| `endereco`, `bairro`, `municipio`, `uf`, `cep` | full postal address |
| `telefone`, `email` | contact channels, when published |
| `tipo` | head office or branch |
| `situacao` | active / closed / suspended |

### Typical uses

- **B2B prospecting** — every software company in São Paulo with an e-mail on file
- **Market sizing** — how many active firms in a sector, by state, by size band
- **Territory planning** — companies founded in the last 12 months in a given city
- **Supplier discovery** — manufacturers in a specific industry code and region

### Input

Give it at least one filter:

```json
{
  "cnae": "6201",
  "uf": "SP",
  "comContato": true,
  "maxResultados": 1000
}
```

`cnae` accepts the full 7-digit code for one activity, or a 2–6 digit prefix to
sweep an entire sector (`62` = information technology, `47` = retail trade).
Other filters: `municipio`, `porte`, `situacao`, `aberturaDe`, `aberturaAte`,
`capitalMin`.

### Pricing

Charged **per company delivered**, not per run. Ask for 50 companies and you pay
for 50 — a small test run costs cents. No subscription, no minimum, no charge for
records that fail to arrive.

### Data source and privacy

Data comes from the Receita Federal's public open-data release of the National
Registry of Legal Entities, redistributed as published.

Contact fields are **omitted for sole proprietors (*empresário individual*) and
MEI**, because in those cases the registered name is a natural person's name and
the phone is usually their personal line. The company record is still returned —
only the personal contact channels are withheld. This is a deliberate LGPD
safeguard, not a data gap.

***

Built by [Brazilayer](https://www.brazilayer.com) — Brazilian public data, structured.
Questions: contato@brazilayer.com

# Actor input Schema

## `cnae` (type: `string`):

Brazilian industry classification. Use the full 7-digit code for one activity (6201501 = custom software development) or a 2-6 digit prefix to sweep a whole sector (62 = information technology). Digits only.

## `uf` (type: `string`):

Two-letter Brazilian state code, e.g. SP, RJ, MG.

## `municipio` (type: `string`):

Receita Federal city code — narrower than state. Leave empty for the whole state.

## `porte` (type: `string`):

Registered size band.

## `situacao` (type: `string`):

Defaults to active — the only status worth prospecting.

## `comContato` (type: `boolean`):

Skip records with no contact channel. Recommended for prospecting.

## `aberturaDe` (type: `string`):

Useful for finding recently opened companies.

## `aberturaAte` (type: `string`):

Upper bound for the founding date. Combine with the field above to get a window.

## `capitalMin` (type: `integer`):

Filters out shell and micro entities when you need larger targets.

## `maxResultados` (type: `integer`):

How many companies to return. Charged per company delivered.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cnae": "6201",
  "uf": "SP",
  "porte": "",
  "situacao": "ativa",
  "comContato": true,
  "maxResultados": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `companies` (type: `string`):

Every company returned by this run, one item per company.

## `companiesCsv` (type: `string`):

Same list as a CSV download — the format most CRMs and spreadsheets import directly.

## `consoleView` (type: `string`):

Browse the results as a table.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "cnae": "6201",
    "uf": "SP",
    "porte": "",
    "situacao": "ativa",
    "comContato": true,
    "maxResultados": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("brazilayer/brazilian-company-search").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "cnae": "6201",
    "uf": "SP",
    "porte": "",
    "situacao": "ativa",
    "comContato": True,
    "maxResultados": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("brazilayer/brazilian-company-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "cnae": "6201",
  "uf": "SP",
  "porte": "",
  "situacao": "ativa",
  "comContato": true,
  "maxResultados": 100
}' |
apify call brazilayer/brazilian-company-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=brazilayer/brazilian-company-search",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/vQ2gXvXX0KELk0hmA/builds/qC0QQKpVmYchiRoHr/openapi.json