CNPJ Lookup — Brazilian Company Registry Data

Send a list of CNPJs (Brazilian company tax IDs) — get back the official registry data for each company: legal name, trade name, economic activity (CNAE), registration status, address, partners and share capital. Public data, no login, no API key.

Multi-source with automatic fallback: the Actor queries BrasilAPI → cnpj.ws → ReceitaWS in order and returns the first source that answers. When one public source is down or rate-limited (it happens weekly), your run keeps working — you don't even notice.

Input example

{
  "cnpjs": ["11.222.333/0001-81", "00000000000191"]
}

Formatted or digits-only, both work. Invalid CNPJs (wrong check digit) are flagged and skipped — they never crash the run and are never charged.

Output example

{
  "cnpj": "11222333000181",
  "cnpj_formatado": "11.222.333/0001-81",
  "razao_social": "EMPRESA EXEMPLO LTDA",
  "nome_fantasia": "Exemplo",
  "situacao": "ATIVA",
  "cnae": { "codigo": 6201501, "descricao": "Desenvolvimento de programas de computador sob encomenda" },
  "porte": "MICRO EMPRESA",
  "capital_social": 10000,
  "data_abertura": "2020-01-01",
  "endereco": { "logradouro": "RUA X", "numero": "100", "bairro": "CENTRO", "municipio": "SAO PAULO", "uf": "SP", "cep": "01000000" },
  "telefone": "1130000000",
  "email": "contato@exemplo.com",
  "socios": [{ "nome": "FULANO DE TAL", "qualificacao": "Sócio-Administrador" }],
  "fonte": "brasilapi"
}

Output fields

Field	Description
razao_social	Exact legal name from the federal registry (unmodified).
situacao	Registration status (ATIVA = active, BAIXADA = closed, etc.).
cnae	Primary economic activity (code + description).
socios	Public partner/shareholder list (name + role).
capital_social	Declared share capital (BRL).
fonte	Which source answered (brasilapi, cnpj.ws or receitaws).

Use cases

• KYB / vendor screening — confirm a Brazilian company exists, is active, and who its partners are before signing
• Lead qualification — enrich a B2B lead list with official activity, size and location before outreach
• CRM enrichment — turn a bare CNPJ column into full firmographic data
• Compliance checks — flag companies with BAIXADA/SUSPENSA status in your supplier base

Pricing (Pay per event)

Event	When	Price
actor-start	once per run	$0.005
company-fetched	once per company successfully returned	$0.01

Invalid or not-found CNPJs are not charged. A 500-company batch costs $0.005 + 500 × $0.01 = $5.01.

Is this compliant?

Yes — CNPJ registry data is public information published by Brazil's Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal), accessed through public APIs. No login, no private data, no scraping behind authentication.

Limitations

• Availability depends on the public sources; under heavy rate limiting a few CNPJs may return a temporary error (re-running resolves it — thanks to the fallback this is rare).
• Lookup is by CNPJ (you provide the list). Search by filters (state/CNAE) is not in this version.

From the same maker

• Lead Enricher & ICP Scorer — send raw leads, get them verified, deduplicated and scored 0–100 against your ideal customer profile. Pair them: this Actor for the official data, the Enricher to qualify and prioritize.