# German Insolvency Monitor – Insolvenzbekanntmachungen Scraper (`inovaflow/german-insolvency-monitor`) Actor

Scrape official German insolvency filings (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen) by company, court or date range. For credit risk, KYC, debt collection and competitor monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/inovaflow/german-insolvency-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [inovaflow](https://apify.com/inovaflow) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 filing founds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#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.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## German Insolvency Monitor 🇩🇪

Scrape official **German insolvency announcements** (*Insolvenzbekanntmachungen*) straight from the
government portal — search by company or person name, federal state, or date range, and export
clean, structured records.

Built for **credit risk & KYC, debt collection, B2B sales, competitor monitoring and journalism**.
The data is public official data published by the German insolvency courts.

### What it does

- Searches `insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de` (the official Länder portal) through a real browser on
  **residential German IPs**, so it reliably gets past the session/rate-limit gating.
- Returns each announcement as one structured row.
- Run it on a schedule to **monitor a portfolio** and catch new filings early.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Company or person name** | Who to search for. Leave empty to list every recent filing. |
| **Federal state** | Limit to one Bundesland, or all of Germany. |
| **Search the last N days** | How far back to look (default 14). |
| **Maximum results** | Caps run time and cost. |
| **Include full announcement text** | Also fetch each filing's complete official text. |
| **Only report new filings (monitor mode)** | On a schedule, return only filings not seen in previous runs of the same search. |
| **Advanced options** | Exact from/to dates, email delivery, proxy settings. |

### Output

Each row contains: `publishedDate`, `court`, `federalState`, `debtorName`, `debtorSeat`,
`caseNumber` (Aktenzeichen), `register` (Registereintrag, when present), `noticeText` (the full
official text, optional), `detailUrl` (link to the portal), `source`, `scrapedAt`.

### Pricing

**Pay per event** — two small charges, nothing else:

- **Check:** $0.025 per GB of run memory when a run starts — the default 2 GB run is **$0.05 per
  check**, whether or not new filings turn up.
- **Filing found:** **$0.01 per insolvency filing** written to your dataset, full official text
  included.

A quiet monitoring day costs just the check fee; a run that finds 20 filings costs $0.05 + $0.20.
Apify platform usage (compute, residential proxy) is included — there is no separate usage bill.

### Notes

- Uses Apify **Residential** proxy (country DE) by default — recommended for this portal.
- Please use responsibly and respect the portal's terms; the actor runs at a polite, low
  concurrency.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Name of the company or person to search for, e.g. "Müller GmbH". Leave empty to list every recent filing in the selected region and date range.

## `federalState` (type: `string`):

Limit the search to one German federal state, or search all of Germany.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

How many days back to search from today. 14 days is a good default for monitoring a portfolio.

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

Stop after this many announcements. Keeps run time and cost predictable.

## `includeNoticeText` (type: `boolean`):

Open each announcement and extract its full official text. Slower, but gives you the complete filing.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled monitoring: only return filings that weren't seen in previous runs of the same search. Remembers what it has already reported. Leave off for a one-off search.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional exact start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides "Search the last N days".

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional exact end date (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to today.

## `outputEmail` (type: `string`):

Optional. When the run finishes we email a short summary of the filings found to this address.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

This is a German government portal — residential German IPs are strongly recommended. Defaults to Apify Residential, country DE.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyName": "Müller GmbH",
  "federalState": "",
  "sinceDays": 14,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeNoticeText": true,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("inovaflow/german-insolvency-monitor").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 = { "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "DE",
    } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("inovaflow/german-insolvency-monitor").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 '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
  }
}' |
apify call inovaflow/german-insolvency-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,inovaflow/german-insolvency-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

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/SJMYxnDwnRIGabusx/builds/vNcpEf6dS1Pq3a00R/openapi.json