Norway Company Registry API: Enhetsregisteret (Unofficial)

Search Norwegian companies and other organisations and download them as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API. No account or API key is needed.

• Search by industry code (næringskode, based on NACE), municipality, postcode, organisation form (AS, ASA, NUF, SA, STI...), name, registration or foundation date, number of employees or VAT registration.
• Look up by organisation number: up to 2,000 org numbers per run.
• Follow new companies: set registeredFrom and sort by newest.
• Per row: org number, name, legal form, main and secondary NACE codes, sector, employees, status (active, bankrupt, winding up), founded and registered dates, VAT and other register flags, share capital, last filed annual accounts year, registered purpose and business address.

The data comes from Enhetsregisteret, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities kept by Brønnøysundregistrene (The Brønnøysund Register Centre), through its keyless open data API at data.brreg.no.

Company data only. No email addresses, phone numbers, websites, roles (board members, CEOs, owners) or other person data. Sole proprietorships (ENK) and other single-person units are withheld entirely.

What data can you extract?

Field	Meaning
organisationNumber, name	Organisasjonsnummer (9 digits) and registered name
organisationForm, organisationFormDescription	Organisasjonsform code (AS, ASA, NUF, SA, STI...) and its Norwegian name
naceCode, naceDescription, secondaryNaceCodes	Main industry code (næringskode 1, SN 2025 based on NACE) and description, plus næringskode 2 and 3
sectorCode, sectorDescription	Institutional sector code
employees	Registered number of employees (null when not registered)
status, bankrupt, windingUp, compulsoryDissolution, deletedDate	Active, bankrupt, being wound up, under compulsory dissolution or deleted
foundedDate, registeredDate, businessRegisterDate	Foundation date, registration in Enhetsregisteret and in Foretaksregisteret
inBusinessRegister, vatRegistered, vatRegisteredDate, inFoundationRegister, inVoluntaryRegister	Registrations in the other registers
partOfGroup, parentOrganisationNumber	Part of a group of companies; parent unit (public sector)
shareCapital, shareCapitalCurrency, lastFiledAnnualAccounts	Registered capital and the year of the latest annual accounts submitted
purpose	Registered activity or statutory purpose (Norwegian), with emails, web addresses and phone numbers removed
businessAddressStreet, businessPostcode, businessPostTown, businessMunicipalityNumber, businessMunicipality, businessCountryCode, businessCountry	Business address (forretningsadresse); see Privacy for when the street is left out
nameResemblesIndividual	True when the name looks like a person's name (the street address is then left out)
registryPage, source, attribution, notice, retrievedAt	Public page on virksomhet.brreg.no, source, NLOD attribution, a non-affiliation line, fetch time

How to use it

1. Click Try for free and keep the prefilled input (the 10 newest software companies, code 62.100, in Oslo), or set your own filters.
2. Run it. Rows appear in the Output tab.
3. Give at least one criterion: organisation numbers, a name, organisation forms, industry codes, municipalities, postcodes, a date range or a minimum number of employees.

Input examples

New software companies registered in Oslo this month:

{
    "naceCodes": ["62.100"],
    "municipalityNumbers": ["0301"],
    "registeredFrom": "2026-10-01",
    "sort": "newest",
    "maxResults": 200
}

The largest construction companies in Bergen and Trondheim:

{
    "naceCodes": ["41", "42", "43"],
    "municipalityNumbers": ["4601", "5001"],
    "organisationForms": ["AS", "ASA"],
    "minEmployees": 50,
    "sort": "employees",
    "maxResults": 500
}

Look up organisations by number:

{
    "organisationNumbers": ["923609016", "974760673"],
    "status": "any"
}

Output example

{
    "organisationNumber": "923609016",
    "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
    "nameResemblesIndividual": false,
    "organisationForm": "ASA",
    "organisationFormDescription": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
    "naceCode": "06.100",
    "naceDescription": "Utvinning av råolje",
    "secondaryNaceCodes": ["06.200", "19.200"],
    "sectorCode": "1120",
    "sectorDescription": "Statlig eide aksjeselskaper mv.",
    "employees": 21231,
    "status": "active",
    "bankrupt": false,
    "windingUp": false,
    "compulsoryDissolution": false,
    "deletedDate": null,
    "foundedDate": "1972-09-18",
    "registeredDate": "1995-03-12",
    "businessRegisterDate": "1988-04-28",
    "inBusinessRegister": true,
    "vatRegistered": true,
    "vatRegisteredDate": "1989-07-01",
    "inFoundationRegister": false,
    "inVoluntaryRegister": false,
    "partOfGroup": true,
    "parentOrganisationNumber": null,
    "shareCapital": 5976872600,
    "shareCapitalCurrency": "NOK",
    "lastFiledAnnualAccounts": "2025",
    "purpose": "Selv, eller gjennom deltakelse i eller sammen med andre selskaper å utvikle, produsere og markedsføre ulike former for energi, avledede produkter og tjenester, samt annen virksomhet. Utleie av bygg og anlegg.",
    "businessAddressStreet": "Forusbeen 50",
    "businessPostcode": "4035",
    "businessPostTown": "STAVANGER",
    "businessMunicipalityNumber": "1103",
    "businessMunicipality": "STAVANGER",
    "businessCountryCode": "NO",
    "businessCountry": "Norge",
    "registryPage": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
    "source": "data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret",
    "attribution": "Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD 2.0) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene (The Brønnøysund Register Centre). Licence: https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0. Source: https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/dokumentasjon/en/index.html. Changed by this Actor: fields selected, renamed and translated; contact details and person-linked units removed.",
    "notice": "Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Brønnøysundregistrene (The Brønnøysund Register Centre).",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-25T16:23:53.085Z"
}

How much does it cost?

• $0.01 per run start plus $3 per 1,000 companies saved ($0.003 each, the company event). Example: 1,000 companies = $0.01 + $3 = $3.01.
• You pay only for rows that are saved. Withheld, filtered and duplicate units are free.
• Set Maximum cost per run when you start a run; the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches your cap.

Privacy: company data only

• No contact details. The source publishes email addresses, phone and mobile numbers and websites for many units, including sole proprietorships. The Actor drops those fields from every response before reading it, and removes emails, web addresses and phone numbers from the free-text purpose.
• No roles or people. The roles endpoint (board members, CEO, owners, auditors) is never called.
• No sole proprietorships or single-person units. ENK (enkeltpersonforetak), PERS (other individuals), BO (estates, such as a deceased person's estate), KBO (bankruptcy estates), TVAM (units force-registered for VAT, often individuals) and IKJP (other non-legal persons) are never output and cannot be requested. Unknown or new organisation forms are withheld too.
• No street address where it may be a home. Partnerships and similar forms (ANS, DA, KS, PRE), foreign branches (NUF, often one person), co-ownerships and owner-section condominiums (SAM, ESEK) and office shares (KTRF) are output with postcode, town and municipality only. So are companies whose name looks like a person's name (e.g. "OLA NORDMANN AS"), which you can also leave out with personNamedCompanies = exclude, and any address with a care-of (c/o) line.
• No postal address, historical names or registry annotations. Postal addresses often carry a person's name (c/o).
• Name searches match the organisation's own registered name only.

Limits

• Up to 50,000 companies per run (maxResults maximum). For more, split the work into several runs, for example by municipality.
• The source returns at most 10,000 units per search. When you list several municipalities, each is searched separately, so the limit applies per municipality. The run summary says when a search hit the limit.
• Industry codes use the registry's current standard (SN 2025). Older SN 2007 codes such as 62.010 match nothing; use e.g. 62.100, or a prefix such as 62. A code filter matches the main or a secondary industry, and also the code of a company's auxiliary unit, which is not in the output (see FAQ).
• Only main units (hovedenheter) are returned, not sub-units (underenheter, i.e. local establishments).
• Descriptions (organisation form, industry, sector) are in Norwegian, as published.
• Requests are paced at about 2 per second, and each returns up to 100 units.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Enhetsregisteret open data API is keyless.

Can I reuse the data? Brønnøysundregistrene publishes these open data under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD 2.0), which allows reuse, including commercial, provided you attribute the source and the licence. Every row carries the attribution: "Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene". The licence does not cover personal data; this Actor removes contact details and person-linked units. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is it? The search API serves the register in real time; each row shows when it was fetched.

Can I get email addresses, phone numbers or board members? No. This Actor outputs company data only. Contact fields are dropped and the roles data is never requested.

Why is a company missing? Sole proprietorships and other single-person units are never output. Units that are bankrupt or winding up are left out unless you set status to any. Only main units are returned, not local sub-units.

Why does my industry code return nothing? The register uses SN 2025 codes. Older SN 2007 codes such as 62.010 match nothing; use 62.100 or a prefix such as 62.

How many companies can I get? Up to 50,000 per run. Each search returns at most 10,000, so list several municipalities to go beyond that.

What does it cost? $0.01 per run plus $0.003 per saved company ($3 per 1,000). Withheld, filtered and duplicate units are free.

How do I get a list of companies by industry and region? Put NACE-based industry codes (SN 2025) in naceCodes, e.g. 62 for all IT and software, and municipality numbers in municipalityNumbers, e.g. 0301 Oslo, 4601 Bergen, 5001 Trondheim. Add organisationForms: ["AS"] for private limited companies only.

Why does a company appear under an industry code that isn't its main one? The register matches your code against the main code, the secondary codes and the auxiliary-unit code. The auxiliary-unit code isn't included in the output, so a row can match on a code you don't see. Check naceCode and secondaryNaceCodes in each row if you need main-industry matches only.

Can I look up an organisasjonsnummer? Yes. Put up to 2,000 9-digit organisation numbers in organisationNumbers. Numbers that aren't found are listed in the run summary.

Data source and licence

Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) 2.0 distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene. Licence: https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0. Source: https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/dokumentasjon/en/index.html. The data have been changed by this Actor (fields selected, renamed and translated; contact details and person-linked units removed).

Unofficial. Not affiliated with Brønnøysundregistrene (The Brønnøysund Register Centre), and not endorsed by it.