France Company Search — Insee Sirene via API Recherche d'entreprises (itulo/france-sirene-company-search)

Search and look up French companies in the official Insee Sirene base through the French government's free API Recherche d'entreprises (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr, DINUM). No API key, no scraping. Company-level fields only: no sole traders, no directors, no home addresses. Every record carries the Licence Ouverte 2.0 attribution.

What you get per company

SIREN, name and acronym, legal form (code + label), NAF/APE activity (NAF rév. 2 and NAF 2025) and section, company category (PME/ETI/GE), headcount band, active/closed status, creation and closure dates, establishment counts, head office (SIRET, postcode, commune, département, région, employer flag; no street address), computed intra-EU VAT number (FR + key + SIREN), collective agreements (IDCC), labels (ESS, société à mission, Qualiopi…), Insee diffusion status, the RNE marketing opt-out flag (marketingOptOut), update timestamps and a link to annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr.

Modes

• search — free-text query (name, SIREN, address words) and/or filters: nafCodes, section, postCodes, communeCodes, departements, regions, legalForms, companyCategory, headcountBands, status, ess, societeMission. Up to 10,000 results per query (API limit). Location filters match any establishment of the company, not only the head office.
• lookup — list of SIREN (9 digits) or SIRET (14 digits) numbers; invalid checksums are rejected before calling the API.

{ "mode": "search", "query": "airbus", "maxResults": 20 }
{ "mode": "search", "nafCodes": ["62.01Z"], "departements": ["31"], "companyCategory": "PME", "maxResults": 200 }
{ "mode": "lookup", "sirenNumbers": ["383474814", "552032534"] }

Sample record (abridged)

{ "siren": "383474814", "name": "AIRBUS", "legalForm": { "code": "5710", "label": "SAS (société par actions simplifiée)" },
  "activity": { "naf": "30.30Z", "naf2025": "30.31Y", "section": "C" }, "companyCategory": "GE", "headcountLabel": "10,000+",
  "status": "active", "creationDate": "1991-10-18",
  "headOffice": { "siret": "38347481400100", "postCode": "31700", "city": "BLAGNAC", "departement": "31", "region": "76" },
  "vatNumberComputed": "FR89383474814", "diffusionStatus": "O", "marketingOptOut": true, "marketingOptOutSource": "rne",
  "attribution": "Source : Insee, base Sirene des entreprises et de leurs établissements (via API Recherche d'entreprises, DINUM), Licence Ouverte 2.0, ..." }

Personal-data filtering (company level only)

• Sole traders / individual entrepreneurs (EI, legal form 1xxx, est_entrepreneur_individuel) are excluded at query time and again client-side; groupings without legal personality (2xxx) are dropped too.
• Insee diffusion status is always respected. Units in partial diffusion (statut_diffusion / statut_diffusion_etablissement = "P", i.e. they filed an opposition with Insee) are output only with the fields Insee keeps public: for legal persons Insee masks the exact address and geolocation (everything but the commune), so headOffice.postCode is withheld, any [ND] value is dropped, and partialDiffusionMasked lists what was withheld. diffusionStatus is on every record. Any other status is dropped.
• Director / officer names (dirigeants) and elected officials are never requested or output; no street addresses or coordinates.

Marketing opt-out (GDPR art. 21(2), Code de commerce R.123-320)

• marketingOptOut comes from the official API field opposition_diffusion_commerciale (source: RNE, the national companies register): true = the company objected to reuse of its data for commercial prospecting. When the unit is not in the RNE the API returns null; we report marketingOptOut: false with marketingOptOutSource: "not_in_rne".
• excludeMarketingOptOut is ON by default: these companies are dropped (counted in the run summary under excluded.marketing_opt_out) — the safe default for lead lists.
• If you turn it OFF, records with marketingOptOut: true may only be used for non-marketing purposes such as KYB, compliance and credit checks — never for prospecting (no cold email, calls, mailing or ad audiences). You are the data controller for your use of the data and are responsible for honouring the opposition.
• Note: many large companies (e.g. Airbus SAS) have filed this opposition, so a default airbus search omits them.

Pricing (pay per event)

• Apify's standard start fee (apify-actor-start, $0.00005 per run, covers the first 5 s of compute)
• company-result: $0.0025 per company record ($2.50 per 1,000)

Licence

Data © Insee, base Sirene, via API Recherche d'entreprises (DINUM), under Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Attribution and the data update date are included in every record. Rate-limited to ≤ 2 requests/s (the API allows 7/s). Not affiliated with Insee, DINUM or the French government.