Impressum Scraper - Company, VAT ID & Register Number Extractor

Give a list of websites. For each one this Actor finds the Impressum (legal notice, imprint, mentions légales, aviso legal, note legali, 特定商取引法に基づく表記) and returns one row with the company behind the site: legal name and legal form, address, phone, email, managing directors, commercial register number and court, and VAT ID. Every value comes with the line of the page it was read from, so a person or an AI agent can cite and check it.

Use it for B2B lead lists in the German-speaking market, KYB / supplier checks, invoice address checks, or to answer "which company runs this website?".

What makes it different

• Evidence for every field. evidence.companyName, evidence.address, evidence.register, evidence.vatId … hold the exact line(s) the value was read from. Nothing is inferred by a language model; the reading is done with rules, and a field the rules are not sure about is left null.
• It does not confuse the operator with other companies on the page. A German Impressum also names the web designer (Webdesign), the hosting company (Hosting), the supervisory authority (Aufsichtsbehörde), the dispute resolution body (Streitschlichtung) and the person responsible for content (Verantwortlich i.S.d. § 18 MStV). Those sections are recognised and not used for the company name, address, phone, register or VAT ID. The content-responsible person is returned separately in contentResponsible.
• VAT ID format check. vatIdCheck says whether the VAT ID (USt-IdNr., UID, TVA, P.IVA) has the right length for its country and, for DE, AT, BE, FR, IT, GB and CH, whether its check digit is right (format-and-check-digit, format-only, check-digit-failed, format-invalid). This is not a VIES lookup.
• Several languages and countries (German-speaking sites are the checked ones; the rest is best effort, see Limits). German (DE / AT / CH: HRB, HRA, FN, CHE-UID, Amtsgericht, Firmenbuchgericht), French (RCS, SIREN/SIRET), Spanish (NIF/CIF, Registro Mercantil), Italian (P.IVA, REA), English (Companies House number) and Japanese (特定商取引法に基づく表記, 会社概要, 法人番号).
• Honest misses, free of charge. A site without a findable legal notice, a site that refuses the reader, or a page whose text cannot be read comes back as a row with a status and a note that says why. Those rows are not charged.
• Polite by design. Only the sites you list are read, at most 5 pages per site. Each site's robots.txt is read at run time and pages disallowed for User-agent: * are not requested (robots-disallowed). Check pages (CAPTCHA) and HTTP 403 are not solved and not routed around with proxies (blocked).

Input

Field	What it does
websites	Domains (example.de) or legal notice URLs (https://example.de/impressum), 1 to 500. A domain is searched for its legal notice; a URL with a path is read as the legal notice.
includePersonNames	Default true. Turn off to leave out representatives, contentResponsible and any company name without a legal form (it may be a sole trader's personal name).
maxConcurrency	Websites read in parallel (1 to 8, default 4).
requestTimeoutSecs	Time limit per request (5 to 60, default 20).

{ "websites": ["www.hetzner.com", "www.thomann.de", "www.zotter.at"], "includePersonNames": true }

Output

One row per website. Example (shortened):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "domain": "zotter.at",
  "impressumUrl": "https://www.zotter.at/impressum",
  "impressumFoundVia": "homepage-link",
  "companyName": "Zotter Schokolade GmbH",
  "legalForm": "GmbH",
  "street": "Rastbühel 7d",
  "postalCode": "8301",
  "city": "Laßnitzhöhe",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "phone": "+43 - 3152 - 5554",
  "phoneE164": "+4331525554",
  "email": "schokolade@zotter.at",
  "representatives": [{ "name": "Julia Zotter", "role": "Geschäftsführerin" }],
  "registerType": "FN",
  "registerNumber": "FN 220619s",
  "registerCourt": "Graz",
  "vatId": "ATU53816900",
  "vatIdCountry": "AT",
  "vatIdFormatValid": true,
  "vatIdCheck": "format-and-check-digit",
  "fieldsFound": 7,
  "evidence": {
    "companyName": "Zotter Schokolade GmbH",
    "address": "Rastbühel 7d / 8301 Laßnitzhöhe",
    "phone": "Tel.: +43 - 3152 - 5554",
    "representatives": "Geschäftsführerin: Julia Zotter",
    "register": "Firmenbuchnummer: 220619s / Firmenbuchgericht: Landesgericht für ZRS Graz",
    "vatId": "UID: ATU53816900",
    "country": "vat-id-prefix: ATU53816900"
  }
}

Column	Meaning
status	ok, or the reason nothing was returned: no-impressum-found, impressum-not-readable, blocked, robots-disallowed, robots-unreachable, unreachable, not-found, login-required, http-error, unreadable, not-html, bad-input, budget-reached.
impressumUrl, impressumFoundVia	The page that was read and how it was found: homepage-link, legal-page-link, homepage (one-page sites), common-path, input-url.
companyName, legalForm	The operator as written, and its legal form (GmbH, UG (haftungsbeschränkt), AG, GmbH & Co. KG, e.K., e.V., Ltd, PLC, SAS, SARL, S.L., S.r.l., 株式会社 …). legalForm is null when the name carries none.
street, postalCode, city, region, countryCode, country, addressRaw	The first address that belongs to the operator. countryCode is filled only when the page itself gives it (country written in the address, a D-/A-/CH- prefix, the VAT ID prefix, a Japanese or UK postcode); it is never taken from the domain ending.
phone, phoneE164	The phone number as written, and in international form when the number starts with +/00 or the country was read from the page. Fax numbers are skipped.
email	The first email address in the operator's part of the notice (also name [at] example.de and Cloudflare-protected addresses, as a browser shows them).
representatives	[{ name, role }]: Geschäftsführer, Vorstand, Inhaber, Managing Director, Gérant, Directeur de la publication, 代表者, 運営統括責任者 …
contentResponsible	The person named as responsible for content (V.i.S.d.P., § 18 MStV, § 55 RStV).
registerType, registerNumber, registerCourt	For example HRB / HRB 6089 / Ansbach, FN / FN 220619s / Graz, RCS, SIREN, Companies House, NIF/CIF, REA, UID, 法人番号.
vatId, vatIdCountry, vatIdFormatValid, vatIdCheck	The VAT ID without spaces, and the result of the format check.
fieldsFound, fieldsRead	How many of the seven groups were read (company name, address, phone, email, representatives, register, VAT ID) and which.
evidence	For each group, the line(s) the value was read from. Values taken from the page's JSON-LD (Organization) say so, for example JSON-LD Organization.legalName: …. When the JSON-LD name carries no legal form and the page text states the same name with one ("Monzo Bank Limited"), the text is used.
dataSources	Per group: impressum-page-text or json-ld.
note	What was not read, and the limits of the row.

Pricing

Pay per event: impressum-returned is charged once for each website whose legal notice was found and from which at least two of the seven groups were read. Rows with any other status are free. There is no start fee. An empty input reads the example site and charges nothing.

Limits you should know

• Where it has been checked. The reading rules were checked in production (2026-10-05) on German, Austrian and Swiss websites: of 30 mixed sites, 16 came back with company data, 10 refused automated readers, disallowed the page in robots.txt or could not be reached, 1 needed JavaScript and 3 had no findable notice. French (mentions légales), Spanish (aviso legal), Italian (note legali) and Japanese (特定商取引法に基づく表記) notices are read by rules that are in place but have not been confirmed in production yet: treat those as best effort and check evidence.
• JavaScript-only pages are not read. If the legal notice text appears only after JavaScript runs (for example dm.de), the row is impressum-not-readable and free.
• Reading is done with rules, not a language model. Legal notices written as one long sentence, as an image, in a column layout where labels and values are far apart, or loaded by JavaScript after the page opens can yield fewer fields or impressum-not-readable. Missing fields are null; nothing is guessed.
• For a group of companies the notice may name several entities. The first operator block from the top of the notice is taken. For a GmbH & Co. KG the notice also names the general partner; check evidence.companyName.
• Sites that answer HTTP 403 or show a check page to automated readers come back as blocked. Shopify shops disallow /policies/ in robots.txt, so a legal notice that lives only there comes back as robots-disallowed.
• The United Kingdom has no Impressum duty; company details there are often only in the page footer or the terms, so fewer UK sites are found.
• The VAT ID check is a format and check-digit check. It does not say the number is registered or belongs to this company.
• Legal notices contain personal data that the law requires traders to publish (names of directors and owners; for sole traders sometimes a home address or mobile number). You are responsible for how you use it: follow the GDPR and your country's rules on unsolicited marketing (in Germany § 7 UWG), and use includePersonNames: false if you do not need names.

FAQ

What is an Impressum? In Germany (§ 5 DDG, formerly § 5 TMG), Austria (§ 5 ECG, § 25 MedienG) and Switzerland (Art. 3 UWG) commercial websites must state who operates them. France (mentions légales), Spain (aviso legal, LSSI) and Italy (note legali) have similar duties, and Japanese online shops must publish a 特定商取引法に基づく表記.

Can an AI agent use this? Yes. Give it the domain; the row answers "who operates this site" and evidence gives the sentence to quote, with impressumUrl as the source.

Does it verify the VAT ID in VIES? No. It checks length and check digit only.

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