Norway Company Registry Scraper (Brønnøysund)

Official Norwegian company data straight from the Brønnøysund Register Centre — one of the most open registers in the world. Organisation number, legal form, status, NACE industry codes, actual employee counts, registered address and website, with no API key and no quota.

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	Organisation number (organisasjonsnummer) — 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: legalFormCode, municipality, allIndustries[], sectorDescription, registeredForVat, isSubEntity, previousNames[].

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	—	Organisation numbers (9 digits, e.g. 923609016) or company names (Equinor).
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 — Brønnøysund is an open government API.

{
  "queries": [
    "923609016",
    "Equinor",
    "Kahoot"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5
}

Example output

{
  "country": "NO",
  "registry": "Brønnøysund Enhetsregisteret",
  "companyName": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "registrationNumber": "923609016",
  "taxNumber": "NO923609016MVA",
  "status": "active",
  "statusRaw": "Registrert",
  "legalForm": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
  "incorporatedOn": "1972-09-18",
  "address": "Forusbeen 50, 4035, STAVANGER, Norge",
  "industry": "Utvinning av råolje",
  "industryCode": "06.100",
  "employees": 21393,
  "website": "www.equinor.com",
  "previousNames": [
    "STATOIL ASA",
    "STATOILHYDRO ASA"
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016"
}

What can you use it for?

• Lead enrichment — turn a list of Norwegian company names into organisation numbers, industry codes and employee counts.
• KYC and supplier checks — confirm a counterparty is registered, still active and VAT-registered before you trade.
• Market sizing — employee counts are real numbers here, not bands — rare in European registers and usable for TAM work.

Frequently asked questions

Is this Norwegian 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. The Brønnøysund Register Centre publishes the Norwegian entity register as a documented open REST API with no key and no quota.

Can I search by company name, or only by Organisation number (organisasjonsnummer)?

Both. A nine-digit organisation number is an exact lookup; anything else runs a name search against the register. Branches (underenheter) are looked up too.

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 Norwegian 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 real employee counts?

Yes. Norway is unusual in publishing an actual headcount rather than a band, so employees is an integer you can sort and sum on.

Notes and limits

• Employee counts are real numbers, not bands — Norway is unusual in publishing these.
• Both main entities and sub-entities (branches, underenheter) are looked up; isSubEntity tells them apart.
• Company names are stored in upper case by the register; this actor does not re-case them.
• 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.