# French BODACC Legal Notices (`mcmh_data/french-bodacc-legal-notices`) Actor

Collect French BODACC legal notices: new business creations, insolvency proceedings, sales of businesses and deregistrations. Filter by date, department and company name. Clean JSON, CSV or Excel with SIREN, address, activity and court.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mcmh\_data/french-bodacc-legal-notices.md
- **Developed by:** [Michael HOSPITAL](https://apify.com/mcmh_data) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 notices

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

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# README

## French BODACC Legal Notices

Collect the legal notices published in the BODACC, the official French bulletin of commercial announcements: new business creations, insolvency proceedings, sales of businesses, deregistrations, modifications and filed accounts. Filter by publication date, department, notice family and company name. Get flat JSON, CSV or Excel with the company name, SIREN, address, activity, court, judgment details and a link to the original notice.

Récupérez les annonces du BODACC (créations d'entreprises, procédures collectives, ventes et cessions, radiations) filtrées par date, département et famille d'annonce. Export JSON, CSV ou Excel.

### Use cases

- **Lead generation.** Newly created companies need accountants, banks, insurers, web agencies and software. Contact them in their first weeks.
- **Risk monitoring.** Track insolvency proceedings and conciliations of customers or suppliers.
- **Market intelligence.** Follow sales of businesses and deregistrations in a sector or a department.

### Input examples

New companies created in Rhône and Ain over the last week:

```json
{
  "families": ["creation"],
  "departments": ["69", "01"],
  "maxResults": 2000
}
```

Insolvency proceedings in September 2026 containing "energie":

```json
{
  "families": ["collective"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
  "query": "energie",
  "maxResults": 500
}
```

### Output

Each item has: id, publicationDate, family, familyLabel, noticeType, name, personType, siren, legalForm, city, postalCode, department, court, judgmentNature, judgmentDate and noticeUrl (link to the original notice).

### Pricing

Pay per event: a small start fee per run plus a fee per notice returned (`notice-result`). You only pay for items returned.

### Limits

- Data comes from the public BODACC open data published by the French administration (Licence Ouverte). The Actor scans one publication day at a time, newest first.
- Notices carry no email addresses or phone numbers. The Actor does not invent or scrape them.
- The list `families` defaults to `creation`. A run without dates covers the last 7 days. The maximum range is 400 days per run.
- Some fields exist only for some notice families (for example judgment details only for insolvency notices).

### Sole traders and personal data

By default the Actor returns only notices about legal entities. Notices about natural persons (sole traders) contain personal data. Enable `includeIndividuals` only if you have a lawful basis under the GDPR, inform the people concerned and honour objections. You are responsible for your use of the data.

### Support

Open an issue from the Actor page for a bug or a missing filter.

# Actor input Schema

## `families` (type: `array`):

creation (business creations), immatriculation, modification, radiation, vente (sales), collective (insolvency), conciliation, retablissement\_professionnel, dpc (filed accounts). Default: creation.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

First publication day. Default: 6 days before the end date.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Last publication day. Default: today.

## `departments` (type: `array`):

Examples: 69, 01, 2A, 971. Empty means all of France.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Word to look for in the company name.

## `includeIndividuals` (type: `boolean`):

By default only legal entities are returned. Names of natural persons are personal data, see README.

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

Hard limit on results (you are charged per notice returned).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "families": [
    "creation"
  ],
  "includeIndividuals": false,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mcmh_data/french-bodacc-legal-notices").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mcmh_data/french-bodacc-legal-notices").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 '{}' |
apify call mcmh_data/french-bodacc-legal-notices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mcmh_data/french-bodacc-legal-notices"
        }
    }
}
```

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/wxncRwmrbIsRgshW2/builds/q1RwJ1ZJQQx6xkVOq/openapi.json