Bodacc.fr French Legal Gazette Scraper

This Apify actor collects structured legal gazette announcements from BODACC.fr, France's official civil and commercial bulletin. Capture rich public notice data covering company events, registrations, insolvencies, and commercial activity updates — ideal for compliance workflows, risk monitoring, and market intelligence.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🔍 Scrape commercial announcements, legal notices, and insolvency updates from BODACC.fr
• 📥 Retrieve establishment, person, and act metadata in a consistent schema
• 🕒 Track publication dates, edition numbers, and court jurisdictions
• 🧭 Automatically paginate through result sets and stop at maxItems

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❓ Why Use This Actor

• ✅ Automate monitoring of French commercial court announcements
• ✅ Enrich KYC, AML, and compliance datasets with authoritative public records
• ✅ Surface corporate events (creations, transfers, liquidations) in near real time
• ✅ Reduce manual browsing of the Bodacc portal and downloadable PDFs
• ✅ Feed structured data into case management or risk platforms
• ✅ Build historical archives for research, analytics, or investigative work

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👥 Who Is This Actor Suitable For?

• ⚖️ Legal and insolvency practitioners
• 🛡️ Compliance, risk, and due diligence teams
• 🏦 Financial institutions screening French counterparties
• 📊 Corporate intelligence and market research analysts
• 🕵️ Investigative journalists and data journalists
• 🧑‍💻 Data engineers building monitoring pipelines

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📥 Input Schema

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

{
  "title": "Input schema for Bodacc French Legal Gazette Scraper",
  "description": "This schema defines the input for the Bodacc French Legal Gazette Scraper.",
  "type": "object",
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "properties": {
    "startUrls": {
      "title": "Start URLs",
      "type": "array",
      "description": "URLs to scrape",
      "editor": "requestListSources",
      "prefill": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales/?disjunctive.typeavis&disjunctive.familleavis&disjunctive.publicationavis&disjunctive.region_min&disjunctive.nom_dep_min&disjunctive.numerodepartement&sort=dateparution#resultarea"
        }
      ]
    },
    "maxItems": {
      "title": "Max items",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The maximum number of items to fetch",
      "prefill": 20,
      "default": 20
    },
    "proxyConfiguration": {
      "title": "Proxy Configuration",
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Your proxy configuration from Apify",
      "editor": "proxy",
      "default": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
      }
    }
  }
}

Input Parameters

• startUrls: Array of Bodacc listing or detail pages to enqueue. Defaults to the commercial announcements search.
• maxItems: Maximum number of notices to extract (default: 20).
• proxyConfiguration (optional): Apify proxy settings when routing traffic through residential or datacenter pools.

Example Start URLs

You can provide different types of URLs to target the notices you need:

1. Commercial announcements listing (scrapes the newest nationwide notices):

https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales/?sort=dateparution#resultarea

2. Filtered search results (scrapes by department, notice family, or publication type):

https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales/?numerodepartement=75&familleavis=creation&sort=dateparution#resultarea

3. Specific notice detail page (scrapes a single announcement record):

https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:A202502145

You can mix and match listing, filtered, and detail URLs in the startUrls array to collect the exact notices required.

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📤 Output Schema

Each scraped announcement returns the following structured data:

{
  "datasetId": "annonces-commerciales",
  "recordId": "4fa94a945ad52d2ce9cf6e6d58521aabc97eb7c3",
  "establishments": {
    "etablissement": {
      "origineFonds": "Création",
      "qualiteEtablissement": "Etablissement principal",
      "activite": "Commercialisation, promotion et vente de produits cosmétiques et de soins corporels. - Effectuer des prestations sur différentes Plateformes de mise en relations entre entreprises et micro entrepreneurs",
      "enseigne": "NUZA",
      "adresse": {
        "numeroVoie": "21B",
        "typeVoie": "avenue",
        "nomVoie": "de Paris",
        "codePostal": "02400",
        "ville": "Château-Thierry"
      }
    }
  },
  "persons": {
    "personne": {
      "typePersonne": "pp",
      "numeroImmatriculation": {
        "numeroIdentification": "984 487 074",
        "codeRCS": "RCS",
        "nomGreffeImmat": "Soissons"
      },
      "nom": "ISMI",
      "prenom": "Nurcan",
      "nomCommercial": "NUZA"
    }
  },
  "url": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:A202502145",
  "publicationType": "A",
  "id": "A202502145",
  "postalCode": "02400",
  "register": "984487074,984 487 074",
  "isPdfUnit": "oui",
  "court": "Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de Soissons",
  "act": {
    "dateImmatriculation": "2025-10-28",
    "dateCommencementActivite": "2025-10-21",
    "creation": {
      "categorieCreation": "Immatriculation d'une personne physique suite à création d'un établissement principal"
    }
  },
  "city": "Château-Thierry",
  "publicationDate": "2025-11-06",
  "merchant": "ISMI, Nurcan",
  "pdfSubfolder": 0,
  "regionCode": 32,
  "announcementNumber": 5,
  "noticeType": "annonce",
  "edition": "20250214",
  "noticeFamily": "creation",
  "noticeTypeLabel": "Avis initial",
  "departmentNumber": "02",
  "noticeFamilyLabel": "Créations",
  "officialRegionName": "Hauts-de-France",
  "officialDepartmentName": "Aisne",
  "recordTimestamp": "2025-11-06T05:00:00Z"
}

Output Fields

• datasetId: Name of the Bodacc collection the notice originated from.
• recordId: Unique identifier for the record in the dataset.
• establishments.etablissement: Establishment-level details such as activity, trade name, and address.
• persons.personne: Parties involved, registration identifiers, and legal form.
• url: Direct link to the Bodacc detail page for verification.
• publicationType: Official Bodacc series (A, B, or C).
• id: Notice identifier shown on Bodacc.
• register: Company registration numbers and formatting variants.
• isPdfUnit: Flag indicating if a PDF notice is provided.
• court: Commercial court or registry responsible for the filing.
• act: Nested fields describing the legal act, dates, and categories.
• publicationDate: Official Bodacc publication date.
• merchant: Primary merchant or company name associated with the notice.
• location fields: postalCode, city, officialRegionName, officialDepartmentName, regionCode, departmentNumber.
• notice metadata: noticeType, noticeTypeLabel, noticeFamily, noticeFamilyLabel, edition, announcementNumber.
• recordTimestamp: UTC timestamp recorded during scraping.

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