# French New Companies, Sales & Insolvencies (BODACC) (`frenchdatalab/french-company-announcements-bodacc`) Actor

Official BODACC announcements: new French companies, business sales with price, insolvency proceedings, deregistrations. Filter by type, department, keywords, dates. Companies only by default (GDPR). Daily alert mode returns only new announcements.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/frenchdatalab/french-company-announcements-bodacc.md
- **Developed by:** [French Data lab](https://apify.com/frenchdatalab) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 announcements

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?

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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.

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

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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

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# README

## French New Companies, Sales & Insolvencies (BODACC)

Get the **official announcements of the French company bulletin (BODACC)** as clean data: **new companies**, **business sales with their price**, **insolvency proceedings**, registrations, changes, deregistrations and account filings — filtered by department, keywords and dates.

Schedule it daily in **alert mode** and receive **only the announcements you have not received yet**.

### What can you do with it?

- 🆕 **Prospect new companies first.** Every new company needs an accountant, a bank, insurance, a website, equipment… Get them the day their creation is published, with their activity and address.
- 💼 **Spot business sales.** Shops, restaurants and companies changing hands, **with the sale price** — for brokers, franchise networks, investors and suppliers.
- ⚠️ **Monitor risk.** Be alerted when a customer, supplier or competitor enters insolvency proceedings (safeguard, receivership, liquidation).
- 📊 **Market studies.** How many companies are created per sector and department? Pull months of history.

### Why this Actor?

| | This Actor | Typical BODACC scrapers |
|---|---|---|
| Structured fields (activity, address, legal form, capital, judgment, sale price) | ✅ | Often raw text |
| **Sale price** extracted as a number | ✅ | ❌ |
| Alert mode: only new announcements | ✅ `monitorName` | ❌ |
| Companies only by default (no sole traders' personal data) | ✅ GDPR-friendly | ❌ |
| More than 10,000 results | ✅ automatic splitting | ❌ |
| Official open data, legal reuse | ✅ Licence Ouverte | varies |

### Input

| Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `announcementTypes` | `creation`, `sale`, `insolvency`, `registration`, `modification`, `deregistration`, `accounts` | `["creation"]` |
| `departments` | French department numbers. Empty = all France | `["69", "75"]` |
| `keywords` | Words in the announcement (activity, name, address) | `["restaurant"]` |
| `publishedWithinDays` | 1 = daily alert, 7 = weekly | `1` |
| `publishedFrom` / `publishedTo` | Date range for history | `"2026-06-01"` |
| `minSalePrice` | Business sales: minimum price in € | `100000` |
| `companiesOnly` | Exclude sole traders (default `true`) | `true` |
| `includeDirectors` | Add the published management line | `false` |
| `initialOnly` | Skip corrections/cancellations (default `true`) | `true` |
| `monitorName` | **Alert mode** name | `"new-companies-lyon"` |
| `maxResults` | Maximum announcements per run | `500` |

#### Recipes

```json
{ "announcementTypes": ["creation"], "departments": ["69"], "publishedWithinDays": 1, "monitorName": "new-lyon" }
```

```json
{ "announcementTypes": ["sale"], "minSalePrice": 100000, "publishedWithinDays": 30 }
```

```json
{ "announcementTypes": ["insolvency"], "departments": ["75"], "keywords": ["restaurant"], "publishedWithinDays": 30 }
```

### Output

Real examples:

```json
{
    "family": "creation",
    "familyLabel": "Créations",
    "publicationDate": "2026-09-29",
    "companyName": "TEMPLE DES EPICES",
    "siren": "...",
    "legalForm": "Société à Responsabilité Limitée",
    "activity": "L'achat, l'importation, l'exportation, la distribution et la commercialisation d'épices",
    "city": "Décines-Charpieu",
    "department": "Rhône",
    "registrationDate": "...",
    "url": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:..."
}
```

```json
{
    "family": "sale",
    "familyLabel": "Ventes et cessions",
    "companyName": "EMMA & ELLA",
    "legalForm": "Société à responsabilité limitée",
    "activity": "achat, vente gros et demi gros de pret à porter, maroquinerie, chaussures...",
    "city": "Aubervilliers",
    "salePrice": 500000.0
}
```

```json
{
    "family": "insolvency",
    "familyLabel": "Procédures collectives",
    "companyName": "SD SOLEIL",
    "city": "Paris",
    "judgment": { "nature": "Dépôt de l'état des créances", "family": "Avis de dépôt", "date": "2026-01-23", "details": "..." }
}
```

All fields: `id`, `family`, `familyLabel`, `noticeKind`, `publicationDate`, `bulletinNumber`, `siren`, `companyName`, `tradeName`, `isCompany`, `legalForm`, `shareCapital`, `activity`, `address`, `postalCode`, `city`, `departmentCode`, `department`, `region`, `court`, `registrationDate`, `activityStartDate`, `salePrice`, `saleDate`, `previousOwner`, `judgment`, `url`, `sourceAttribution` (+ `directors` if requested). A `SUMMARY` record counts announcements by type and department.

### Source & licence

BODACC — Direction de l'information légale et administrative (DILA), published as open data under the French *Licence Ouverte 2.0* (commercial reuse allowed with attribution, included in every item).

### Pricing

Pay per announcement returned. In alert mode you only pay for new announcements. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops exactly there.

### FAQ

**Why are sole traders excluded by default?** Their announcements are about individuals (names, sometimes personal insolvency). For B2B use and GDPR, only companies are returned unless you turn `companiesOnly` off — you are then responsible for GDPR-compliant use.

**Why is the sale price sometimes missing?** Some announcements do not state it, or state it in a way that cannot be read reliably; the Actor never guesses.

**Something is wrong?** Open an issue with your run link — it will be fixed quickly.

***

#### 🇫🇷 En bref

Les **annonces officielles du BODACC** en données propres : **créations de sociétés**, **ventes de fonds de commerce avec prix**, **procédures collectives**, immatriculations, modifications, radiations, dépôts des comptes. Filtres par département, mots-clés et dates, **mode alerte** (uniquement les nouvelles annonces), sociétés uniquement par défaut (RGPD). Export Excel, CSV, Google Sheets.

# Actor input Schema

## `announcementTypes` (type: `array`):

New companies, business sales (with price), insolvency proceedings, registrations, changes, deregistrations, account filings.

## `departments` (type: `array`):

Department numbers (e.g. "69", "75", "13", "2A", "974"). Empty = all of France.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Words searched in the full announcement (activity, name, address), e.g. "boulangerie", "restaurant", "informatique". An announcement matches if it contains at least one.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

1 for a daily alert, 7 for a weekly one. Ignored when 'Published from' is set.

## `publishedFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD) for historical searches.

## `publishedTo` (type: `string`):

Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD). Default: today.

## `minSalePrice` (type: `integer`):

For business sales: keep only sales with a published price at or above this amount.

## `companiesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Recommended (B2B & GDPR): only announcements about companies (SARL, SAS...), not individuals trading under their own name.

## `includeDirectors` (type: `boolean`):

Add the management line published in the announcement (e.g. 'Gérant : ...'). You are responsible for GDPR-compliant use of personal data.

## `initialOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip corrections and cancellations of previous announcements.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Name your watch (e.g. "new-companies-lyon") and schedule the Actor daily: each run returns ONLY announcements not sent before under this name.

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

Maximum number of announcements returned by the run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "announcementTypes": [
    "creation"
  ],
  "departments": [
    "69"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "companiesOnly": true,
  "includeDirectors": false,
  "initialOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `announcements` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "announcementTypes": [
        "creation"
    ],
    "departments": [
        "69"
    ],
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxResults": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("frenchdatalab/french-company-announcements-bodacc").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 = {
    "announcementTypes": ["creation"],
    "departments": ["69"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxResults": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("frenchdatalab/french-company-announcements-bodacc").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 '{
  "announcementTypes": [
    "creation"
  ],
  "departments": [
    "69"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 50
}' |
apify call frenchdatalab/french-company-announcements-bodacc --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,frenchdatalab/french-company-announcements-bodacc"
        }
    }
}
```

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/6h9YYegkodow6weok/builds/mJQFYUFUVs800f7Ff/openapi.json