Brazil Company Registry Scraper (CNPJ / Receita Federal)

Official Brazilian company data by CNPJ: legal and trade name, registration status with its reason, CNAE activity, legal nature, share capital, partners and shareholders (QSA), tax regime flags and registered address.

Free · No API key · Official source · Same schema across every country in this series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Registered legal name
registrationNumber	CNPJ — the register's own identifier
taxNumber	VAT / tax identifier where published
status	Normalized to active / inactive / dissolved / unknown
statusRaw	The register's own wording, untranslated
legalForm	Legal form as registered
incorporatedOn / dissolvedOn	ISO dates
address, city, postalCode	Registered address
industry, industryCode	Activity classification where published
employees, capital	Where the register publishes them
officers[]	Directors / partners where published
sourceUrl	Link to the company's page on the register

Country-specific fields on top of the shared schema: tradeName, statusReason, statusChangedOn, state, secondaryIndustries[], companySize, isHeadquarters, simplesNacional, mei.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	—	CNPJ numbers (14 digits — 19.131.243/0001-97 or 19131243000197).
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	5	For name searches, how many matching companies to return.
includeRaw	boolean	false	Attach the register's untouched response under raw.
requestDelayMs	integer	200	Politeness delay against a public register.
proxyConfiguration	object	none	Optional.

{
  "queries": [
    "19131243000197",
    "00000000000191"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5
}

Example output

{
  "country": "BR",
  "registry": "Receita Federal — CNPJ",
  "companyName": "OPEN KNOWLEDGE BRASIL",
  "tradeName": "REDE PELO CONHECIMENTO LIVRE",
  "registrationNumber": "19131243000197",
  "status": "active",
  "statusRaw": "ATIVA",
  "legalForm": "Associação Privada",
  "incorporatedOn": "2013-10-03",
  "city": "SAO PAULO",
  "state": "SP",
  "industry": "Atividades de associações de defesa de direitos sociais",
  "industryCode": "94992",
  "capital": "0 BRL",
  "officers": [
    {
      "name": "HAYDEE SVAB",
      "role": "Presidente",
      "ageRange": "Entre 41 a 50 anos"
    }
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://casadosdados.com.br/solucao/cnpj/19131243000197"
}

What can you use it for?

• KYC and onboarding — registration status, its reason and the partners (QSA) behind the company.
• Tax regime checks — Simples Nacional and MEI flags tell you how a supplier is taxed.
• Lead enrichment — CNAE activity, legal nature, share capital and full address from a CNPJ.

Frequently asked questions

Is this Brazilian company registry scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the Apify compute the run uses.

Do I need an API key or an account with the registry?

No. Receita Federal publishes the CNPJ base as open data; this actor reads it per company through the free BrasilAPI gateway.

Can I search by company name, or only by CNPJ?

CNPJ only. Receita Federal publishes no public search-by-name index, so a name query fails with a clear message rather than returning nothing.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as current as the register itself.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

Can I combine this with other countries in one dataset?

Yes — that is why it exists. Every actor in this series emits the same core schema, so results from different countries concatenate into one table with no remapping.

Is scraping this data legal?

This actor reads a public register that the Brazilian authorities publish deliberately for public inspection. Company records are public by design; where a record names a person (a director, owner or partner), that is personal data and your use of it falls under GDPR or the local equivalent — handle it accordingly.

Does it return the company's partners?

Yes. The QSA (quadro de sócios e administradores) is mapped into the shared officers array with each partner's role and age band.

Notes and limits

• Lookup is by CNPJ only. Receita Federal publishes no public search-by-name index — a name query fails with a clear message rather than returning nothing.
• Read through BrasilAPI, which serves Receita Federal's open CNPJ base as per-company lookups. The official release is a multi-gigabyte monthly dump, which is not usable per company.
• qsa partners are mapped into the shared officers array, including each partner's role and age band.
• Queries that match nothing are still pushed as { query, error }, so a partial run is never silent.

Other country registries in this series

Norway · Finland · Denmark · Iceland · Poland · Slovakia · Slovenia · Latvia · Estonia · Czechia · France · UK · Israel · Taiwan · Singapore · Vietnam · Brazil · Colombia · Peru · USA — plus EU VAT Validation (VIES) covering all 27 member states.