French Company Data: SIREN, Officers & Risk Flags

Look up any French company in one call. Legal identity, head office with coordinates, company size, directors with their roles, establishment counts and verifiable risk flags: straight from the official French government registry (INSEE Sirene + RNE), as clean JSON.

No API key, no scraping, no stale third-party database. 26 million French companies, live.

What you get

A real run for BlaBlaCar on 27 September 2026 (the officers list is cut to 2 of its 10 entries here):

{
  "siren": "491904546",
  "name": "COMUTO",
  "legalName": "COMUTO",
  "tradingNames": ["BLABLACAR"],
  "acronym": null,
  "status": "active",
  "companySize": "Mid-cap",
  "employeeRange": "250-499",
  "incorporatedOn": "2006-09-16",
  "closedOn": null,
  "companyAgeYears": 20,
  "nafCode": "63.11Z",
  "headOffice": {
    "siret": "49190454600034",
    "address": "84 AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE 75011 PARIS",
    "postalCode": "75011",
    "city": "PARIS",
    "department": "75",
    "latitude": 48.864144787,
    "longitude": 2.3796601156
  },
  "establishments": { "total": 7, "open": 2 },
  "officers": [
    { "name": "PHILIPPE BOTTERI", "role": "Administrateur", "kind": "person" },
    { "name": "ERNST & YOUNG AUDIT", "role": "Commissaire aux comptes titulaire", "kind": "company" }
  ],
  "officersCount": 10,
  "riskFlags": [],
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-27T10:15:35",
  "source": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/491904546",
  "attribution": "Data: INSEE Sirene / Registre National des Entreprises (RNE), via recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr, under Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab), https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/pages/legal/licences/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-27T16:25:16.451Z",
  "query": "BlaBlaCar"
}

employeeRange is the INSEE headcount band of the whole company (null when INSEE does not publish it). companySize is the INSEE category: SME, Mid-cap or Large enterprise.

The risk flags

Every flag is a verifiable registry fact, never a score or an opinion:

• status:ceased: the company is no longer administratively active.
• closed: a closure date is on record.
• no-open-establishments: registered as active but with zero open sites.
• under-1-year-old: incorporated less than a year ago. Not bad in itself, but it changes the risk of extending payment terms.
• no-officers-on-record: no directors listed in the national register.

Your policy decides what combination is a dealbreaker. The report just makes sure you never miss one.

Use cases

• KYC and vendor onboarding: verify a French counterparty exists, is active, and who runs it.
• Lead enrichment: NAF activity code, company size, employee range, head office coordinates for B2B prospecting and territory mapping.
• Watchlists: pass up to 50 companies per run, schedule it, and catch a status change or a director leaving the day the registry updates.
• AI agents: exposed as an MCP tool, so an agent can answer "is this French supplier still active and who are its directors?" in one call.

Input

companies (names or 9-digit SIREN, up to 50) or query for a single lookup. Narrow name searches with departement (e.g. 75 for Paris) or nafCode. Turn on includeAlternatives to see other companies that matched a name: the cheapest way to avoid acting on the wrong entity.

Pricing

Pay per event: charged only for profiles actually delivered. Companies not found and failed lookups are free.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=jdepablos/france-company-feed

Data source and license

All data comes from the official recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr service, which aggregates INSEE Sirene (the national business register) and the RNE (Registre National des Entreprises). This data is published under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab), which permits commercial and non-commercial reuse and requires citing the source and the update date. Every record carries an attribution field with the required citation, and lastUpdated gives the update date. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by INSEE, the DINUM or the French government.

Personal data note: officer records (officers) keep name, role and kind: the public fact of who directs the company, the same information the official Annuaire des Entreprises publishes. Birth year and nationality are removed: they are personal data with no value for a KYB decision.

Sole traders (personnes physiques): this registry also covers individual entrepreneurs and micro-entrepreneurs. For those records, the "company" itself is a natural person: name is that person's own name and headOffice.address can be their home address, exactly as published by the official register. If you build on this data, treat those records with the same care you would give any personal data: this Actor cannot separate "company" from "individual" here because, for a sole trader, they are legally the same entity.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr service, which aggregates INSEE Sirene (the national business register) and the RNE. It is public French open data.

How fresh is it? Live at request time. Each record carries its own lastUpdated from the registry.

Do you cover sole traders? Yes: the register includes micro-entrepreneurs and sole traders alongside companies.

Need UK companies too? See my Companies House feed, or BORME for Spain.