France Companies (SIRENE) - Legal Entities, NAF & Financials

French companies from the official INSEE Sirene search API, one row per company (SIREN): name, head-office SIRET, legal form, NAF/APE activity code with its label, staff band, SME/mid-size/large category, city and postcode, published revenue and net income, VAT number, labels (RGE, Qualiopi, ESS ...) and a link to the official company page.

The data comes from the API Recherche d'entreprises, the free public API behind the French government's Annuaire des Entreprises (DINUM), which serves INSEE's Sirene register together with the INPI/BCE financial ratios and other public registers. This Actor searches it by keyword, activity, place, legal form, staff band, category, labels and revenue, or looks up a list of SIREN/SIRET numbers, and turns the results into a clean table.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by INSEE, DINUM, the Annuaire des Entreprises or the French Government. Public data only. Legal entities only: sole proprietors are never returned, and no officers' names, birth dates or street addresses are output (see Personal data).

Quick start — verified input

Run on 2026-10-13 on the Apify platform: 20 rows, one API request, a few seconds. An empty input {} runs exactly this.

{
  "nafCodes": ["62.01Z"],
  "departments": ["75"],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Building firms with 10–49 employees and at least €1M revenue in Lyon's department, SAS and SARL only:

{
  "nafCodes": ["F"],
  "departments": ["69"],
  "employeeBands": ["10-49"],
  "legalForms": ["SAS", "SARL"],
  "revenueMin": 1000000,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Look up known companies (SIREN, SIRET or VAT number):

{
  "sirens": ["356000000", "552 100 554", "FR39851035329"]
}

Common input mistakes

Wrong	Right	Why
"nafCodes": ["software"]	"keywords": ["software"] or "nafCodes": ["62.01Z"]	NAF codes look like 62.01Z (6201Z, a class 62.01, a division 62 or a section J also work).
"departments": ["Lyon"]	"departments": ["69"] or "postalCodes": ["69002"]	Cities are not departments.
"keywords": ["Jean Dupont"]	—	Keywords match company names, acronyms and trade names only. Searching companies by a person's name is not supported.
"keywords": ["boulangerie paris"]	"keywords": ["boulangerie"], "departments": ["75"]	Put places in departments, regions or postcodes.
"legalForms": ["EI"]	—	Sole proprietors are never returned (privacy).
"employeeBands": ["15-30"]	"employeeBands": ["10-49"]	Ranges follow the INSEE bands (0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000).

An invalid value stops the run before any request, with a message that names the field and lists the valid values.

Empty results?

The run ends successfully with 0 rows when nothing matches. Typical reasons: the keyword is not part of any company name (results the API found through officers, elected officials, addresses or approximate spelling are dropped), too many filters combined (they are combined with AND), or a search that only finds sole proprietors. RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store shows how many results each query returned and how many were left out and why.

Input

All fields are optional.

• keywords — words from the company name, acronym or trade name. Each keyword is a separate search combined with the filters; results are merged without duplicates.
• sirens — a list of SIREN (9 digits), SIRET (14 digits) or French VAT numbers to look up directly. When set, only these are looked up (keywords and filters are ignored, as the API ignores filters for a direct lookup); every listed number is looked up regardless of maxItems.
• nafCodes — NAF rev. 2 codes, classes, divisions or section letters.
• departments, regions, postalCodes — places. They match companies with at least one establishment there (not only the head office); departments and postcodes given together are treated as "either". Former regions (Alsace, Rhône-Alpes ...) are accepted.
• legalForms — INSEE codes or common names: SAS, SARL, SA, SCI, SNC, SCOP, SELARL, SELAS, GIE, association, fondation, a code 5710 or a prefix 54.
• employeeBands — 10-49, 250+, 0, or INSEE codes.
• companyCategories — PME (SME), ETI (mid-size), GE (large).
• labels — ess, rge, qualiopi, bio, siae, societe_mission, association, finess, uai, organisme_formation, egapro, patrimoine_vivant, achats_responsables, alim_confiance, entrepreneur_spectacle, collectivite_territoriale, administration, convention_collective (all must apply).
• status — active (default), ceased or any.
• revenueMin / revenueMax — latest published revenue in euros.
• includeCorporateOfficers — add officers that are companies (e.g. the statutory auditor firm), with name, SIREN and role.
• maxItems (default 20, up to 200,000) and maxApiRequests (default 500) — limits for searches.

Output

One row per company:

{
  "siren": "851035329",
  "siret": "85103532900024",
  "name": "CHAPSVISION",
  "legalName": "CHAPSVISION",
  "acronym": null,
  "tradeNames": [],
  "nameWithheld": false,
  "legalFormCode": "5710",
  "legalForm": "SAS, société par actions simplifiée",
  "nafCode": "62.01Z",
  "nafLabel": "Programmation informatique",
  "nafSection": "J",
  "nafSectionLabel": "Information et communication",
  "nafCode2025": "62.10Y",
  "status": "active",
  "createdOn": "2019-05-16",
  "closedOn": null,
  "employeeBandCode": "22",
  "employeeBand": "100-199 employees",
  "employeeBandYear": 2024,
  "isEmployer": null,
  "companyCategory": "ETI",
  "companyCategoryYear": 2024,
  "city": "SURESNES",
  "postalCode": "92150",
  "communeCode": "92073",
  "departmentCode": "92",
  "department": "Hauts-de-Seine",
  "regionCode": "11",
  "region": "Île-de-France",
  "country": "France",
  "establishmentsCount": 15,
  "openEstablishmentsCount": 14,
  "financials": [{ "year": 2024, "revenue": 156671000, "netIncome": -38221000 }],
  "latestFinancialYear": 2024,
  "latestRevenue": 156671000,
  "latestNetIncome": -38221000,
  "vatNumbers": ["FR39851035329"],
  "labels": ["qualiopi", "organisme_formation", "egapro", "convention_collective"],
  "associationId": null,
  "collectiveAgreements": ["1486"],
  "partialDiffusion": false,
  "canonicalSiren": null,
  "corporateOfficers": null,
  "naturalPersonOfficersOmitted": null,
  "matchingEstablishments": [
    { "siret": "85103532900040", "isHeadOffice": false, "status": "active", "nafCode": "62.01Z", "city": "PARIS", "postalCode": "75002",
      "communeCode": "75102", "departmentCode": "75", "regionCode": "11", "tradeNames": [], "createdOn": "2026-01-01", "closedOn": null,
      "employeeBandCode": "NN", "partialDiffusion": false }
  ],
  "lastUpdatedAt": "2026-10-12T09:51:21",
  "annuaireUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/851035329",
  "matchedBy": "quick-start",
  "source": "API Recherche d'entreprises (DINUM, Annuaire des Entreprises) - data from INSEE Sirene, INPI/BCE financial ratios and other public registers",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.data.gouv.fr/dataservices/api-recherche-dentreprises",
  "license": "Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab), https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence/. Source: INSEE (base Sirene), ...",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-13T06:30:00.000Z"
}

• Legal-form, NAF and section labels are INSEE's official French labels; staff bands are in English.
• matchingEstablishments lists up to 10 establishments that matched a place filter or a keyword (city and postcode only); it is empty for direct lookups.
• financials holds the published revenue and net income by financial year when the company filed public accounts (often the latest year only).
• nafCode2025 is INSEE's forthcoming NAF 2025 code, published for information until it replaces the current code in January 2027.

How it reads the API

• One request returns up to 25 companies. Requests go one at a time, at least 1.2 seconds apart (the API allows up to 7 per second per IP), and an HTTP 429 is retried only after the wait the API asks for (Retry-After). About 1,200 rows per minute.
• The API returns at most 10,000 results per query. When a search has more and you ask for more, the Actor splits it automatically — by legal form, then by activity section/division/code, then by department — and removes duplicates. If one slice still has more than 10,000 results after every split, the run reads the first 10,000 of it and ends with complete: false and the slice listed in RUN_SUMMARY.cappedSlices: results are never cut silently. Splits by legal form, activity and department reach companies through INSEE's code tables and French establishments; RUN_SUMMARY.splitNotes says which were used.
• If the API fails mid-run, or maxApiRequests or the run timeout is reached, the rows read so far are kept and the run succeeds with complete: false and a stopReason. If nothing could be read at all, the run fails visibly.
• robots.txt is checked at the start of every run.

Personal data

• Sole proprietors are never returned. Units of legal-form category 1 (entrepreneur individuel, micro-entrepreneur, EIRL) and category 2 (indivisions, sociétés créées de fait or en participation, fiducies — groupings without legal personality) are dropped whole, because their names are the names of private persons. The API is also asked to leave sole proprietors out (est_entrepreneur_individuel=false).
• No officers who are natural persons. Their names, birth dates and nationalities are not requested by default; with includeCorporateOfficers only officers that are companies are output, and natural persons are only counted.
• No street addresses or coordinates. Location stops at city, postcode, department and region. Elected officials of local authorities are never output.
• Partial diffusion respected. Where INSEE masks data after an objection (statut de diffusion "P"), the masked values are returned as null with partialDiffusion: true; nothing is rebuilt from other fields. Data is read live at run time, so the latest diffusion status applies; if you store results, refresh them and keep honouring later objections.
• Keywords match company names only. Results the API found through officers, elected officials or addresses are dropped, so the Actor cannot be used to list the companies of a person.
• Company names are the registered names of legal entities and can contain a founder's family name (e.g. a property company named after a family). Use the data in line with the GDPR, the French Data Protection Act and the rules on direct marketing; you are responsible for your use of the data.

Licence and attribution

The data is published under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE's Base Sirene des entreprises et de leurs établissements, DINUM's Données des entreprises utilisées dans l'Annuaire des Entreprises and the Ministry of Economy's Ratios financiers (BCE/INPI). The licence asks you to credit the source and the date of the last update: every row carries source, license and lastUpdatedAt. Keep them when you republish the data.

This is an unofficial tool. It uses only the public API, does not log in anywhere and does not bypass any protection. You are responsible for complying with the source's conditions and with the law in your use of the data.

Pricing

Pay per row stored in the dataset. A run stops by itself when it reaches the maximum charge you set.