GLEIF Scraper: LEI Legal Entities Search (Global Open Data)

Search and export legal entities from the GLEIF LEI database, about 3 million entities worldwide, and get clean JSON that excludes sole traders and street addresses.

This Actor is independent. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.

Source: Global LEI Index, published by GLEIF under the CC0 licence. Each result links to its public record.

What data can you get?

Each result is one legal entity that holds a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI).

Field	Description
lei	20-character Legal Entity Identifier
name	Registered legal name
category, subCategory	General (companies and other entities), fund or branch
status	Entity status, such as ACTIVE
registryId, registryCode	Number in the national business register (for example the SIREN in France) and the code of that register
jurisdiction, legalFormCode	Country or region of incorporation and legal form code
createdAt	Creation date of the entity
country, region, city, postalCode	Legal address, without street
headquartersCountry, headquartersCity	Headquarters location
leiStatus, registeredAt, updatedAt, nextRenewalAt	State and dates of the LEI record
corroborationLevel, managingLou	How the data was verified, and the issuer of the LEI
profileUrl	Public record on the GLEIF search site

How to use it

1. Enter a search text in the entity name, and choose the countries.
2. Optionally keep funds or branches, or set an update date to monitor new registrations.
3. Run the Actor, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or schedule it.

Input example

{
  "query": "boulangerie",
  "countries": ["FR"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output example

{
  "lei": "648800XW96VUVPTHGW60",
  "name": "ALABAMA COURTAGE",
  "category": "GENERAL",
  "subCategory": null,
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "registryId": "891416059",
  "registryCode": "RA000189",
  "jurisdiction": "FR",
  "legalFormCode": "6CHY",
  "createdAt": "2020-11-16",
  "country": "FR",
  "region": null,
  "city": "Levallois-Perret",
  "postalCode": "92300",
  "headquartersCountry": "FR",
  "headquartersCity": "Levallois-Perret",
  "leiStatus": "ISSUED",
  "registeredAt": "2026-10-30",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-30",
  "nextRenewalAt": "2027-10-30",
  "corroborationLevel": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
  "managingLou": "485100001PLJJ09NZT59",
  "profileUrl": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/648800XW96VUVPTHGW60"
}

Pricing

This Actor is free to use during its launch. You only pay for Apify platform usage.

Which entities are excluded?

• Sole traders and individual entrepreneurs, because their registered name is the name of a person. GLEIF flags them as SOLE_PROPRIETOR, and they are never requested.
• Entities whose LEI record is inactive, unless you turn this filter off.

Limits

• Only entities that hold an LEI are covered. LEIs are mostly held by companies active on financial markets, banks, funds and large groups. This is not a complete company register.
• No street address, other names, parent relationships, e-mails or phone numbers.
• A run returns 10,000 entities at most. To go further, split your search by country or update date.
• Company names can contain a founder's name, because they are the registered names of legal entities.
• The search text matches the entity names, in the language they were registered.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

From the public API of the Global LEI Index, operated by GLEIF. This Actor adds filtering, cleaning and a stable output format.

Does the output contain personal data?

Sole traders are excluded at the source, and street addresses, contacts and other names are not requested. Each record is also checked before being saved, and any record that seems to contain an e-mail or a phone number is skipped and logged.

How do I link a result to a national register?

Use registryCode and registryId. For French companies, registryId is the SIREN.

Why did my run return no results?

Your filters are probably too narrow. Try a shorter search text, or remove the country or date.

Why did my run fail with an "Invalid" message?

The message names the field to fix. Countries use 2 letters (FR), and dates use the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Keywords

GLEIF, LEI, Legal Entity Identifier, LEI lookup, LEI search, legal entities, company registry, global company data, KYC, counterparty data, business register number.