🇦🇱 Albania QKB Scraper: Company Registry & Beneficial Owner Data

Get the beneficial owners other registries hide Look up any Albanian company by NIPT or name and pull its legal record plus a full beneficial ownership extract: owner name, nationality, year and month of birth, and ownership percentage, straight from Albania's own public registry.

🕵️ Full beneficial ownership Owner name, nationality, birth year and month, ownership percentage, and control type, sourced from Albania's public UBO register

🔁 Built for repeat checks Load a watchlist of NIPTs once and re-run it on a schedule for ongoing KYC refresh

🚩 Risk flags included Registry-published red flags on ownership, admin, and financial filings, at no extra cost

📄 Official documents on request Fetch the official Simple and Historical extract PDFs alongside the structured data

QKB (Qendra Kombëtare e Biznesit, Albania's National Business Center) is the country's official company registry. This Actor searches it by NIPT, legal name, or trade name, and enriches every match with a structured beneficial ownership extract: the same anonymous UBO data Albania started publishing under its 2025 transparency reform. No login, no data broker, no manual PDF reading.

🔍 Who this is for

• KYC and AML analysts onboarding an Albanian counterparty who need the ownership chain before they sign, not after.
• Due-diligence teams checking an Albanian supplier, partner, or acquisition target's legal standing and registered owners in one search.
• Cross-border finance and legal teams who re-check the same Albanian relationships periodically and want a watchlist they can re-run on a schedule instead of retyping names.

No other Apify Actor covers Albania today. The closest comparable Actor on the Store, a beneficial-ownership scraper for Slovakia's registry, cannot return date of birth, nationality, or ownership percentage at all, because Slovakia's own register redacts those fields. Albania's register doesn't, so this Actor does.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
nipt	string	No	Exact-match lookup by NIPT (the company's unique registration number).
companyName	string	No	Contains-match search on the registered legal name.
tradeName	string	No	Contains-match search on the registered trade name.
niptList	array of strings	No	A watchlist of known NIPTs to look up and re-check in one run.
legalForm	enum	No	Restrict results to one legal form (SHPK, SHA, Person Fizik, and others).
ownershipType	enum	No	Restrict results by ownership nationality mix (Albanian, foreign, mixed, state-owned).
region	enum	No	Restrict results to one of Albania's 12 regions (qarqe).
city	string	No	Restrict results to a specific municipality.
registeredFrom	date	No	Only include companies registered on or after this date.
registeredTo	date	No	Only include companies registered on or before this date.
administrator	string	No	Contains-match search on a listed administrator's name.
shareholder	string	No	Contains-match search on a listed shareholder or partner's name.
sector	string	No	Contains-match search on the declared business activity.
address	string	No	Contains-match search on the registered address.
fetchBeneficialOwners	boolean	No	Fetch and structure the beneficial ownership extract per company. On by default.
fetchSimpleExtract	boolean	No	Fetch the official Simple Extract document per company. Off by default.
fetchHistoricalExtract	boolean	No	Fetch the official Historical Extract document per company, showing filing history. Off by default.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of companies to process in this run (up to 50).
proxyConfiguration	proxy	No	Apify Proxy configuration. Datacenter proxy is the default and is sufficient for this target.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Enter your search A NIPT, a company name, or a watchlist of NIPTs to re-check.

STEP 2 The Actor checks the registry It matches your search against Albania's national business registry.

STEP 3 Get structured results Legal details, beneficial owners, and risk flags land in your dataset, with PDFs on request.

📤 Data table

Field	Type	Description
nipt	string	The company's registration number.
legalName	string	Registered legal name.
tradeName	string	Registered trade name, when different from the legal name.
legalForm	string	Legal form (SHPK, SHA, Person Fizik, and others).
status	string	Current registration status.
registrationDate	string	Date the company was registered.
sector	string	Declared business activity.
city	string	Registered municipality.
ownershipNationalityMix	string	Whether ownership is Albanian, foreign, mixed, or state-owned.
adminAndShareholders	array of strings	Names of listed administrators and shareholders.
hasRedFlag	boolean	Whether the registry has published any risk indicator for this company.
rppRedFlagText	string	Risk indicator text related to beneficial ownership, when present.
bilanciRedFlagText	string	Risk indicator text related to financial filings, when present.
adminRedFlagText	string	Risk indicator text related to administrators, when present.
beneficialOwnersCount	integer	Number of beneficial owners found in the ownership extract.
beneficialOwners	array of objects	Full name, nationality, birth year and month, ownership percentage, control type, and the date each person was designated a beneficial owner.
uboExtractStatus	string	Whether the ownership extract was found and successfully read for this company.
uboExtractPdfUrl	string (link)	Link to the official beneficial ownership document.
simpleExtractPdfUrl	string (link)	Link to the official Simple Extract document, when requested.
historicalExtractPdfUrl	string (link)	Link to the official Historical Extract document, when requested.
sourceUrl	string (link)	The registry search page this data came from.
scrapedAt	string	When this record was retrieved.

Example output

{
  "nipt": "M64525802A",
  "legalName": "EUROPA PROFIL TIRANA",
  "tradeName": "EUROPA PROFIL TIRANA",
  "legalForm": "SHPK",
  "status": "Aprovuar",
  "registrationDate": "2026-09-25",
  "sector": "Import-export of aluminum profiles and related construction materials",
  "city": "Vlore",
  "ownershipNationalityMix": "Shqiptare (100%)",
  "adminAndShareholders": ["Harallamb Tavo", "Kosta Lapa"],
  "hasRedFlag": false,
  "beneficialOwnersCount": 2,
  "beneficialOwners": [
    {
      "fullName": "Harallamb Tavo",
      "nationality": "Shqiptar/e",
      "birthYear": 1987,
      "birthMonth": 7,
      "controlType": "Holder of 25% or more of capital shares",
      "ownershipPercentage": 50,
      "designatedDate": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "fullName": "Kosta Lapa",
      "nationality": "Shqiptar/e",
      "birthYear": 1981,
      "birthMonth": 1,
      "controlType": "Holder of 25% or more of capital shares",
      "ownershipPercentage": 50,
      "designatedDate": "2026-09-22"
    }
  ],
  "uboExtractStatus": "fetched",
  "uboExtractPdfUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/RPP-M64525802A",
  "sourceUrl": "https://format.qkb.gov.al/kerko-per-subjekt/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-27T23:02:25.762Z"
}

💰 Pricing

This Actor is pay per result: $3.50 per 1,000 companies (discounted further on Starter, Scale, and Business plans), with no subscription and no charge for an empty run. You only pay for the companies you actually get back. Free plan runs are limited to 25 companies per run, 3 runs per day, and a short wait between runs. Upgrade to a paid Apify plan for unrestricted use.

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❓ FAQ

Is this beneficial ownership data legal to access? Yes. Albania made this data anonymously public under its 2025 beneficial ownership transparency reform. This Actor reads the same registry pages available to anyone, with no login and no paywall.

Does this cover every company in Albania? A single search returns up to 50 matching companies, matching the registry's own limit. Narrow your search by name, NIPT, or the filters above to find a specific company; for a watchlist of companies you already know, use the NIPT list input instead.

What if a company has no beneficial ownership extract? Some entity types, most notably sole proprietorships, don't have a separate beneficial owner record because the individual registered is already the owner. This Actor reports that clearly rather than guessing or leaving the field blank without explanation.

Can I use this for ongoing KYC monitoring? Yes. Save your list of counterparties in the NIPT watchlist input and schedule this Actor to run on Apify's built-in scheduler to re-check them periodically.

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