Brazil CNPJ Scraper — Company Data from the Receita Federal Registry

Look up any Brazilian company by CNPJ and get its full official record: legal name, trade name, address, industry codes (CNAE), partners/shareholders (QSA), tax regime, share capital and registration status. Feed thousands of CNPJs in a single run and export clean, structured JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Fast and reliable, with English-labelled fields and ISO dates.

What does Brazil CNPJ Scraper do?

This CNPJ scraper resolves Brazilian company registration numbers into complete, structured company profiles from Brazil's official open company registry (Receita Federal). Paste any number of CNPJs in any format and the actor returns each company's identity, address, activities, ownership and tax details as normalized data points you can export or push into your own systems.

What data can you scrape by CNPJ?

Data point	Description
Company & trade name	Registered legal name and doing-business-as name.
CNPJ	Raw and formatted registration number.
Registration status	Active/suspended status, reason and status date.
Opening date	Date the company was registered.
Company size & legal nature	Size band and legal entity type (with code).
Share capital	Declared share capital amount.
Main & secondary activities (CNAE)	Primary and secondary industry codes with descriptions.
Address	Full address object with city, state and ZIP.
Contact	Phone and email where available.
Tax regime	Simples Nacional / MEI and tax-regime details.
Partners / shareholders (QSA)	List of partners with names, roles and entry dates.

Use cases

• KYC / KYB & compliance — verify companies and their shareholders before onboarding.
• Lead generation & enrichment — enrich CRM records with official company data.
• Market & competitor research — analyse companies by industry (CNAE), region or size.
• Due diligence — check registration status and ownership structure.
• Dataset building — assemble a structured registry of Brazilian companies for analytics.

How to look up CNPJ data

1. Add Brazil CNPJ Scraper to your Apify account and open its input.
2. Paste one or more cnpjs — any format, with or without punctuation.
3. Optionally enable includeRaw to also keep the full raw record.
4. Click Run.
5. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or fetch them through the Apify API.

Input

{
  "cnpjs": ["00.000.000/0001-91", "71673990000177"],
  "includeRaw": false
}

Field	Description
cnpjs	List of CNPJs to look up — any format (with or without punctuation).
includeRaw	Also include the full raw registry record for each company.

What you get

One dataset item per CNPJ, ready to export to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

{
  "type": "company",
  "cnpj": "71673990000177",
  "cnpjFormatted": "71.673.990/0001-77",
  "companyName": "NATURA COSMETICOS S/A",
  "tradeName": "NATURA",
  "headquartersOrBranch": "MATRIZ",
  "status": "ATIVA",
  "statusDate": "2005-11-03",
  "openingDate": "1993-06-08",
  "companySize": "DEMAIS",
  "legalNature": "Sociedade Anônima Aberta",
  "legalNatureCode": 2046,
  "shareCapital": 6000000000,
  "mainActivity": { "code": "4646001", "description": "Comércio atacadista de cosméticos e produtos de perfumaria" },
  "address": { "city": "…", "state": "SP", "zip": "…" },
  "partners": [ { "name": "…", "role": "…" } ],
  "partnerCount": 5,
  "found": true
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Record type (e.g. "company").
cnpj	string	Unformatted CNPJ registration number.
cnpjFormatted	string	CNPJ with standard punctuation.
companyName	string	Registered legal name of the company.
tradeName	string	Trade / doing-business-as name.
headquartersOrBranch	string	Whether the establishment is the HQ (MATRIZ) or a branch (FILIAL).
status	string	Registration status (e.g. ATIVA).
statusReason	string	Reason associated with the current status.
statusDate	string	Date the current status took effect.
openingDate	string	Date the company was registered.
companySize	string	Company size band.
legalNature	string	Legal entity type description.
legalNatureCode	integer	Numeric code for the legal nature.
shareCapital	integer	Declared share capital amount.
mainActivity	object	Primary economic activity with CNAE code and description.
secondaryActivities	array	Secondary economic activities with codes and descriptions.
address	object	Full address (street, district, city, state, ZIP).
contact	object	Phone and email details where available.
taxRegime	object	Tax regime details (Simples Nacional / MEI and related).
partners	array	Partners / shareholders (QSA) with names, roles and dates.
partnerCount	integer	Number of partners / shareholders.
lastUpdated	string	When the registry record was last updated.
sourceUrl	string (URL)	Reference URL for the company record.
found	boolean	False when the CNPJ could not be resolved.

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FAQ

Do I need an account or API key? No. There is no login or key — just enter your list of CNPJs and click Run.

How many CNPJs can I look up per run? Thousands. Pass a list in any format and the actor batches them with automatic retries.

What happens with an invalid CNPJ? It is returned with found: false so your batch never breaks.

How fresh is the data? Records reflect the most recent official monthly snapshot of Brazil's open company registry.

What export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus programmatic access through the Apify API.

Can I connect this to my other tools? The Brazil CNPJ Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Is the data official and legal to use? It originates from Brazil's public open company registry (Receita Federal). Only public data is returned; you are responsible for compliant use.

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Notes

Original clean-room implementation. Returns only public data from Brazil's official open company registry; you are responsible for compliance with applicable terms and laws. Not affiliated with Receita Federal.