Finland PRH Company Registry Scraper

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Quick answer: The Finland PRH Company Registry Scraper exports Finnish registered-company records from PRH/YTJ's official open-data API — business ID (Y-tunnus), legal name, company form, industry code, registration and dissolution dates, address and website — filtered by name, city, postal code, industry code or date range, into JSON, CSV or Excel. The API is free, keyless and authoritative, but it nests names, addresses, company forms and industry codes three to four levels deep; we flatten each company to one English-labelled row and skip malformed entries instead of crashing on them. Pricing is pay-per-result — $4.20 per 1 000 companies, no subscription, no card required to try it.

🎯 What this scrapes

PRH's YTJ open-data API is Finland's authoritative company registry — free, keyless and public — but its JSON nests names, addresses, company forms and industry codes three or four levels deep, and a shallow clone cluster already scrapes it inconsistently (one live competitor fails 10 of every 51 runs). This Actor flattens every registered company into one row with English field names, keeps running cleanly through malformed entries and empty result sets, and prices at $4.20 per 1,000 results — matching or undercutting every live competitor on this exact API.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🧊 Flattens PRH's nested JSON — company names, forms, addresses and industry codes flattened into one clean, English-labelled row per company.
• 🧱 Honest zero-match handling — a narrow filter combination that matches nothing still finishes SUCCEEDED with a clear status message, never billed as a failed run.
• 🩹 Per-row fault isolation — one malformed registry entry is logged and skipped; it never crashes the rest of the page.
• 🔁 Retries transient 429/5xx responses with exponential backoff instead of failing the whole run.
• 🎯 Typed, validated dataset rows — Pydantic-checked, stable business IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Build a Nordic B2B prospect list filtered by city, industry code or registration date.
• Run a KYC/AML supplier or counterparty check against Finland's authoritative company register.
• Screen a partner list for dissolved companies or special situations before contracting.
• Support market-entry research by pulling every registered company in a city or industry line.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
nameQuery	string	no	'—'	Match companies whose name contains this text. Leave empty to filter by location, industry or business ID instead.
location	string	no	'Helsinki'	Municipality or city name, e.g. Helsinki. Leave empty to search all of Finland.
businessId	string	no	'—'	Exact Finnish business ID, format NNNNNNN-C, e.g. 0100123-2. Leave empty to skip this filter.
postalCode	string	no	'—'	Exact 5-digit Finnish postal code, e.g. 00131. Leave empty to skip this filter.
industryCode	string	no	'—'	PRH main business line code (Finnish TOL 2008 / NACE-style), e.g. 62010. Leave empty for all industries.
registeredAfter	string	no	'—'	Only include companies registered on or after this date, e.g. 2020-01-01. Leave empty to skip this filter.
registeredBefore	string	no	'—'	Only include companies registered on or before this date. Leave empty to skip this filter.
maxResults	integer	no	100	Stop after this many companies. Each company is one billed result row.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': False}	PRH is a public government API and does not need a proxy. Leave this off unless your account requires egress through…

Example input

{
  "location": "Helsinki",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
business_id	string	Finnish business ID (Y-tunnus), e.g. 0100123-2.
business_id_registered	string	Date this business ID was registered (YYYY-MM-DD).
company_name	string	Current registered company name.
company_form_code	string	PRH company form code, e.g. 16.
company_form	string	Company form in English, e.g. Limited company.
main_business_line_code	string	PRH main business line (TOL 2008) code.
main_business_line	string	Main business line description in English.
registration_date	string	Company registration date (YYYY-MM-DD).
end_date	string	Dissolution/end date (YYYY-MM-DD), if dissolved.
is_dissolved	boolean	True when the company has an end_date.
street_address	string	Business street address, or a PL/PO-box fallback.
postal_code	string	Business postal code.
city	string	Business city, English name where available.
website	string	Company website, when registered.
has_special_situation	boolean	True when PRH lists a special situation (e.g. bankruptcy, restructuring) for this company.
last_modified	string	Timestamp PRH last modified this record.
url	string	Public YTJ lookup URL for this business ID.

Example output

{
  "business_id": "0100123-2",
  "business_id_registered": "1978-03-15",
  "company_name": "Oy Emar Ab",
  "company_form_code": "16",
  "company_form": "Limited company",
  "main_business_line_code": "66190",
  "main_business_line": "Other activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding",
  "registration_date": "1968-04-26",
  "end_date": null,
  "is_dissolved": false,
  "street_address": null,
  "postal_code": "00131",
  "city": "HELSINKI",
  "website": null,
  "has_special_situation": false,
  "last_modified": "2026-04-03T10:17:56",
  "url": "https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/yritys/0100123-2"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.004	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $4.20. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

• Returns current registry data only — no financials, shareholders, beneficial owners or historical name/address change logs.
• No company-form filter — PRH's API accepts one but silently ignores it, so it isn't exposed here to avoid a misleading no-op input.
• The url field links to PRH's official lookup page, which renders client-side and cannot be verified per-ID without a browser.

❓ FAQ

Do I need an API key?

No. PRH/YTJ is open Finnish government data and needs no credentials — leave the proxy setting off too.

What happens if my filters match nothing?

The run finishes successfully with zero rows and a status message naming the filters you searched — you're never billed for a failed run just because a search was narrow.

Can I pull every company in an industry or city?

Yes — set an industry code or city and raise Maximum companies (up to 1,000 per run); the Actor pages until PRH runs out or your cap is reached.

Is the data in Finnish?

Company forms and industry lines are returned in English where PRH publishes an English description; names, addresses and cities fall back to Finnish when no English text exists.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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