🔎 Finland PRH Business Filing Lookup

A per-identity check: submit identifiers, get one official answer each. Billed per completed official resolution — a not-found, ambiguous, or unavailable outcome is returned but never charged.

Output is one fi_prh_filing_answer row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one business filing lookup (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.05 per business filing lookup). Source: avoindata.prh.fi.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.

Who buys this

Buyers usually search for PRH or Finland company filings.

• Sales and lead-generation teams building lists from PRH.
• KYB, onboarding and compliance teams checking Finland company filings.
• Market researchers and data teams that need the official record as rows.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run pTFLmYGpAg2jO7WZS on build 0.1.10 (2026-09-28), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

input	business_id	name	company_form	trade_register_status	registration_date
0112038-9	0112038-9	Nokia Oyj	Public limited company	Registered	1896-12-19
1092973-7	1092973-7	Steinerpedagogikens vänner i Borgå rf	Non-profit association	Registered	2026-07-27

The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 2 billable answer(s), 0 definitive non-billable (not-found/ambiguous), 0 unavailable, 0 unparseable of 2 | business-filing-lookup billable=2 | business-filing-lookup charged=2

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string/null) — e.g. fi_prh_filing_answer
• input (string/null) — e.g. 0112038-9
• business_id (string/null) — e.g. 0112038-9
• name (string/null) — e.g. Nokia Oyj
• company_form (string/null) — e.g. Public limited company
• trade_register_status (string/null) — e.g. Registered
• status_code (string/null) — e.g. 2
• registration_date (string/null) — e.g. 1896-12-19
• last_modified (string/null) — e.g. 2026-08-19T10:04:06
• latest_entry_date (string/null) — e.g. 1995-03-01
• latest_entry_desc (string/null) — e.g. Registered
• main_business_line (string/null) — e.g. Activities of head offices
• website (string/null) — e.g. www.nokia.com
• outcome (string/null) — e.g. answer
• outcome_reason (string/null) — null in every sample row
• source (string/null) — e.g. https://avoindata.prh.fi/opendata-ytj-api/v3/companies
• query_mode — e.g. bid

✅ What you get

✅ What you get

What you get

One record per submitted identity. A resolved identity carries the official fields verbatim; fields the source withholds are honest null with a reason. Not-found, ambiguous, and service-unavailable outcomes are distinguished in the outcome field and are not billed. A run that gets no definitive result at all fails loud and charges nothing.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "businessIds": [
    "0112038-9",
    "1092973-7"
  ]
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 2 × $0.05 business-filing-lookup = $0.12 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

This actor takes no size cap or filter beyond the input above, so the Store example is the one input to run; put it on a schedule to keep the data current.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run pTFLmYGpAg2jO7WZS, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "fi_prh_filing_answer",
  "input": "0112038-9",
  "business_id": "0112038-9",
  "name": "Nokia Oyj",
  "company_form": "Public limited company",
  "trade_register_status": "Registered",
  "status_code": "2",
  "registration_date": "1896-12-19",
  "last_modified": "2026-08-19T10:04:06",
  "latest_entry_date": "1995-03-01",
  "latest_entry_desc": "Registered",
  "main_business_line": "Activities of head offices",
  "website": "www.nokia.com",
  "outcome": "answer",
  "outcome_reason": null,
  "source": "https://avoindata.prh.fi/opendata-ytj-api/v3/companies",
  "query_mode": "bid"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads avoindata.prh.fi — endpoints: https://avoindata.prh.fi/opendata-ytj-api/v3/companies. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent.

Charging. Each business filing lookup is charged at the moment it is pushed (business-filing-lookup); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

🔧 How it works

How it behaves

Each Finnish Business ID is resolved to one company on the official PRH open-data trade register (v3). A resolved company returns its current name, company form, trade-register status, registration date, last-modified timestamp, latest registry entry (filing recency), and main line of business as published. An unknown Business ID is not-found and not billed. Single-entity lookup twin of the finland-prh-ytj-company-registry roster.

Billing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
apify-actor-start (one-time actor start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
business-filing-lookup (per completed resolution)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Charged once per completed official resolution. Not-found, ambiguous, and service-fault outcomes are emitted but never charged. Start fee $0.02.

Source

https://avoindata.prh.fi/opendata-ytj-api/v3/companies

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Business Filing Lookup (business-filing-lookup)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 2 business filing lookups: $0.02 start + 2 × $0.05 = $0.12
• 25 business filing lookups: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.05 = $1.27
• 100 business filing lookups: $0.02 start + 100 × $0.05 = $5.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 1024 MB.

Yield on the sample run: NORMAL: 2 billable answer(s), 0 definitive non-billable (not-found/ambiguous), 0 unavailable, 0 unparseable of 2 | business-filing-lookup billable=2 | business-filing-lookup charged=2.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by avoindata.prh.fi. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (avoindata.prh.fi) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other company registry checks actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers avoindata.prh.fi. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Fewer rows than expected → the source had fewer items in scope → widen the input.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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