# EU Company Registry Monitor (`brick_joey_yto/company-registry-monitor`) Actor

Monitor EU company registries via North Data — officers, LEI, filings, insolvency, capital & director changes. KYC/compliance and competitive-intel alerts. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/brick_joey_yto/company-registry-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [William Billings](https://apify.com/brick_joey_yto) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## EU Company Registry Monitor

Search and **monitor official European company registries** through North Data's index — German Handelsregister, French Siren, Belgian KBO, Danish CVR, Polish KRS, Bulgarian UIC and more. Extract officers with titles, LEI codes, registry identifiers, insolvency/liquidation status, and the full **categorized filing-event timeline**. Then schedule `watch` runs to get alerts the moment a company files a director change, capital change, name change, or goes insolvent.

Built for **KYC/AML compliance, supplier due diligence, competitive intelligence, and sales-intel teams** — the same registry-event alerting that dedicated vendors charge per-company monthly fees for.

### Modes

#### `search` — company registry index search

Give a company name → get matching entities across all covered registries with registry type/ID, city, country, and canonical profile URL.

```json
{ "mode": "search", "query": "siemens", "country": "de", "maxResults": 50 }
```

#### `lookup` — full company profiles

Paste North Data company URLs → complete profiles: officers with job titles, LEI, founding date, registry court/ID, status (active / insolvent / liquidation / terminated), latest filing, event timeline, shareholding network size, financial KPIs where public.

```json
{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.northdata.com/Siemens%20AG,%20M%C3%BCnchen/HRB%206684"
  ]
}
```

#### `watch` — registry-event alerts ⭐

Poll a list of companies on a schedule. Emits `registry_event` rows for filings **newer than your last known date** — director changes, capital changes, address changes, liquidations, insolvencies. Pass `knownLastEvents` to dedupe; on first run it emits each company's newest event as a baseline so you can verify wiring.

```json
{
  "mode": "watch",
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.northdata.com/GALERIA%20Karstadt%20Kaufhof%20GmbH,%20Essen/HRB%2018928"
  ],
  "knownLastEvents": {}
}
```

Schedule it hourly/daily on Apify → webhook the `registry_event` rows to Slack/your compliance pipeline.

### Output fields

| Row type | Highlights |
|---|---|
| `company_result` | name, city, country, registryType/Id/Court, canonical URL, relevance score, geo |
| `company_profile` | officers\[] (name, jobTitle, profileUrl), status, LEI, foundingDate, address, registry, eventCount, latestEventDate, events\[] (date, category, description, sourceRegistry), shareholdingCount, financial KPIs |
| `registry_event` | companyName, companyUrl, date, category, description, sourceRegistry + sourceUrl |
| `company_heartbeat` | emitted for watched companies with no new events — confirms coverage |
| `error` | url + error for per-item failures |

### Notes

- **No login, no API key** — works from Apify datacenter IPs; proxy optional.
- Event categories: `status_event` (registration/continuation/liquidation/termination), `identity_change` (name/legal-form/register), `capital_change`, `address_change`, `officer_change` — descriptions are verbatim from the registry source.
- Officer lists reflect the current registry state — the `events[]` timeline holds the history.
- Coverage follows North Data's index: strongest for Germany, plus France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and others.

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# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

search = company name → registry index; lookup = full profiles for pasted company URLs; watch = poll companies for new registry events (director changes, filings, insolvency)

## `query` (type: `string`):

Company name or keyword (search mode)

## `country` (type: `string`):

Optional 2-letter country code for search (de, fr, be, dk, pl, bg...)

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Max rows per search / companies per lookup

## `companyUrls` (type: `array`):

North Data company page URLs (lookup/watch modes) — paste from northdata.com

## `knownLastEvents` (type: `object`):

watch: {companyUrl: 'YYYY-MM-DD'} — emit only events after this date; empty = baseline snapshot of newest event

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional — northdata works from datacenter IPs

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "siemens",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.northdata.com/Siemens%20AG,%20M%C3%BCnchen/HRB%206684",
    "https://www.northdata.com/BASF%20SE,%20Ludwigshafen%20am%20Rhein/HRB%206000"
  ],
  "knownLastEvents": {}
}
```

# Actor output Schema

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("brick_joey_yto/company-registry-monitor").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("brick_joey_yto/company-registry-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call brick_joey_yto/company-registry-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,brick_joey_yto/company-registry-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/hBt1LUuWXEbXNcRV5/builds/ipA4PaEMnNr15a16l/openapi.json