# German Impressum Scraper: Company, Directors, HRB & VAT (`larkmoor/german-impressum-scraper`) Actor

Turn German, Austrian and Swiss company websites into structured company data from their legally required Impressum: company name, legal form, address, phone, email, managing directors, register court + HRB number, VAT ID, share capital. $2.50 per 1,000 sites, failures free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/larkmoor/german-impressum-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Larkmoor Data](https://apify.com/larkmoor) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 45.5% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.13 / 1,000 website with impressums

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## German Impressum Scraper: Company, Directors, HRB & VAT

Turn a list of German, Austrian and Swiss company websites into clean company records. Every commercial website in Germany (§ 5 DDG, formerly TMG), Austria (§ 5 ECG / § 25 MedienG) and Switzerland must publish an Impressum (imprint / legal notice) with the operator's legal details. This actor finds that page on each site and reads it for you: company name, legal form, street, postal code, city, phone, fax, email, managing directors (Geschäftsführer, Vorstand, Inhaber), register court and commercial register number (HRB / HRA / PR / VR, Austrian FN, Swiss CHE number), VAT ID (USt-IdNr., ATU, CHE … MWST), tax number, share capital and the person responsible for content.

You give it websites — from a CRM export, a trade-fair exhibitor list, a directory or any other source you already have. It reads only the companies' own public websites, respects robots.txt and needs no login, browser, search engine or API key.

### What you can use it for

- **B2B lead enrichment in the DACH region**: add the managing director's name, a verified company name and the register number to a list of domains
- **Personalised outreach**: address the Geschäftsführer by name instead of "Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren"
- **KYC, supplier and partner checks**: match a website to its legal entity, HRB number, register court and VAT ID before you sign or pay
- **Data cleaning**: fix company names and legal forms (GmbH, GmbH & Co. KG, UG, AG, e.K., PartG mbB …) in your CRM
- **Market research**: map who really operates a group of online shops or brands (c/o and operator lines are preserved)

### Why this one

- **$2.50 per 1,000 websites read** — less than half of other Impressum scrapers, no monthly rental, no per-run fee beyond $0.001
- **Sites without a readable Impressum are free**: they still appear in the dataset with the reason (not reachable, blocked, no Impressum found), but you are not charged
- **Finds the page for you**: footer links like "Impressum", "Imprint", "Legal notice", "Anbieterkennzeichnung", "Offenlegung", links hidden in scripts, and the usual paths (/impressum, /imprint, /de/impressum …)
- **Germany, Austria and Switzerland**: HRB/HRA/PR/VR numbers with their Amtsgericht, Austrian Firmenbuch numbers (FN 123456a) and Landesgericht, Swiss UID numbers (CHE-123.456.789)
- **Smart about layouts**: labels on one line and values on the next, obfuscated emails like "info (at) firma.de", wrong character encodings, web-designer credits and insurance lines that are not the operator
- **Fast and polite**: 8 sites at once by default (up to 20), robots.txt respected, a few requests per site

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Websites | Domains or URLs (e.g. `thomann.de`, `https://www.billa.at`) |
| Only sites with an Impressum | Leave out the free "not found" rows |
| Include Impressum text | Adds the page text (first 4,000 characters) for your own checks |
| Sites at once | Parallel websites (1–20) |
| Max websites | Hard cap per run |

Example input:

```json
{
  "websites": ["https://www.thomann.de", "check24.de", "https://www.billa.at"],
  "onlyFound": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 8
}
```

### Output

One row per website:

```json
{
  "website": "https://www.thomann.de",
  "impressumUrl": "https://www.thomann.de/de/compinfo_imprint.html",
  "found": true,
  "companyName": "Thomann GmbH",
  "legalForm": "GmbH",
  "street": "Hans-Thomann-Straße 1",
  "postalCode": "96138",
  "city": "Burgebrach",
  "country": "DE",
  "phone": "+49 (0)9546 9223-0",
  "fax": "+49 (0)9546 9223-24",
  "email": "kundenservice@thomann.de",
  "emails": ["kundenservice@thomann.de"],
  "managingDirectors": ["Johann Thomann"],
  "registerCourt": "Amtsgericht Bamberg",
  "registerNumber": "HRB 5862",
  "vatId": "DE257375233",
  "taxNumber": null,
  "shareCapital": null,
  "contentResponsible": null,
  "error": null
}
```

Rows for sites without a readable Impressum carry `found: false` and an `error` such as "homepage blocked (HTTP 403)" or "no Impressum page found". Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read it through the Apify API.

### How much does it cost?

You pay **$0.0025 per website whose Impressum was read** ($2.50 per 1,000) plus $0.001 per run. Websites that fail are free. There is no browser, so platform compute stays small (256 MB is enough).

Worked examples:

1. **A trade-fair exhibitor list of 400 domains**, 340 with a readable Impressum: 340 × $0.0025 + $0.001 ≈ **$0.85**
2. **Enrich 5,000 CRM accounts** (about 80% found): **about $10**
3. **Weekly check of 200 suppliers' legal details**: about **$0.50 per week**

### FAQ

**Is this legal?** The Impressum is information that companies are legally required to publish so that anyone can identify and contact them. The actor reads only the websites you supply, only their public pages, respects robots.txt and does not log in or get around blocks. Names of managing directors are personal data under the GDPR: if you use them for marketing, make sure you have a lawful basis (for example legitimate interest for B2B contact), tell people where you got their data and honour objections. Cold emailing in Germany needs prior consent (§ 7 UWG); calling businesses needs at least presumed consent.

**Why are some fields empty?** Small sites often skip fax, share capital or tax number, sole traders (Inhaber) have no register number, and some pages put the details in an image. Turn on "Include Impressum text" to see what the page says.

**Why was a site not found?** The homepage may block automated visits (HTTP 403), need JavaScript to show its footer, or have no Impressum at all. These rows are free.

**Does it work for websites outside Germany?** It is built for German-language legal notices (DE, AT, CH), and also reads English "Imprint / Legal notice" pages of DACH companies.

**Where do I get websites?** From your own lists, trade-fair exhibitor pages, association member lists, or our other actors (for example the website contact finder or local business actors).

### Tips

- Combine with a contact or tech-stack actor on the same domain list for full company profiles
- Use "Only sites with an Impressum" for a clean CSV
- Keep "Sites at once" at 8–12 for large lists; raise it if your list has many small sites

### Integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Airtable, Slack, a webhook, Zapier or Make with Apify integrations, or call the actor from your own code with the Apify API and client libraries.

### Changelog

- **0.1.1** (November 2026) — reads Impressum pages that are built by JavaScript frameworks (the text shipped inside the page's JSON data, e.g. flaschenpost.de); one unreadable page can no longer stop a run; pages with no readable text come back as a free row with a clear reason.
- **0.1** (October 2026) — first release: Impressum discovery, DE/AT/CH register and VAT formats, directors, content responsible, failures free.

# Actor input Schema

## `websites` (type: `array`):

Company websites (domain or full URL) from Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The actor finds the Impressum / imprint page itself.

## `onlyFound` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out sites where no readable Impressum was found (those rows are free anyway).

## `includeImpressumText` (type: `boolean`):

Add the Impressum text (first 4,000 characters) so you can check or parse extra details yourself.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many websites to read in parallel.

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

Stop after this many websites.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "websites": [
    "https://www.flaschenpost.de",
    "https://www.otto.de",
    "https://www.zalando.de"
  ],
  "onlyFound": false,
  "includeImpressumText": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 8,
  "maxResults": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results as JSON items in the run's default dataset (also downloadable as CSV/Excel from the dataset).

# 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 = {
    "websites": [
        "https://www.flaschenpost.de",
        "https://www.otto.de",
        "https://www.zalando.de"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("larkmoor/german-impressum-scraper").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 = { "websites": [
        "https://www.flaschenpost.de",
        "https://www.otto.de",
        "https://www.zalando.de",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("larkmoor/german-impressum-scraper").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 '{
  "websites": [
    "https://www.flaschenpost.de",
    "https://www.otto.de",
    "https://www.zalando.de"
  ]
}' |
apify call larkmoor/german-impressum-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/ngLyhKoUxZnqGRuHO/builds/U2dKoto4w5Evurb4d/openapi.json