Norway and Finland Company Registry Scraper (Brreg, PRH YTJ)

Company records from the two official Nordic business registers that publish open APIs: Enhetsregisteret in Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene, Brreg) and YTJ in Finland (Finnish Patent and Registration Office, PRH). Both are returned in one schema, so a Norwegian AS and a Finnish Oy have the same fields.

Search by company name, organisation number, industry code, municipality or registration date. Typical uses:

• Look up a list of Norwegian and Finnish organisation numbers and get legal form, status, industry and address back.
• A daily list of newly registered companies in a given industry or town (with onlyNew and a schedule).
• Check whether a supplier is VAT registered, bankrupt or in liquidation.
• Build a company list for one NACE/TOL code in one municipality.

Personal data

The actor only returns legal entities. It never returns:

• Sole proprietorships: ENK (enkeltpersonforetak) in Norway and private traders (toiminimi) in Finland, since the business is the person. Bankruptcy and other estates (KBO, BO) and the PERS form are left out in Norway as well, since they are often named after a person.
• Names of people, roles, board members, owners or signatories.
• Phone numbers and e-mail addresses, even when the register has them.

Partnerships (ANS, DA, KS in Norway; AY, KY in Finland) are legal entities and are included. Their names sometimes contain a partner's surname, as registered by the company itself.

Example from a real run

This is the input and the first rows of a run on the Apify platform on 3 October 2026 (run ejufhjmIRlFB7cD7I, 20 rows in total). Nothing is edited except that only the first rows are shown.

Input:

{
  "countries": [
    "NO"
  ],
  "query": "Equinor",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeBankrupt": false,
  "includeInactive": false,
  "onlyNew": false
}

Output (excerpt):

[
  {
    "country": "NO",
    "orgNumber": "923609016",
    "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
    "legalForm": {
      "code": "ASA",
      "text": "Allmennaksjeselskap"
    },
    "status": "active",
    "registrationDate": "1995-03-12",
    "industryCode": "06.100",
    "industryText": "Utvinning av råolje",
    "employees": 21272,
    "address": {
      "street": "Forusbeen 50",
      "postalCode": "4035",
      "city": "STAVANGER",
      "municipality": "STAVANGER",
      "municipalityCode": "1103"
    },
    "website": "www.equinor.com",
    "vatRegistered": true,
    "bankrupt": false,
    "underLiquidation": false,
    "source": "Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysundregistrene (Norway)",
    "license": "NLOD 2.0 (Norsk lisens for offentlige data)",
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/oppslag/enheter/923609016"
  },
  {
    "country": "NO",
    "orgNumber": "959733600",
    "name": "EQUINOR PENSJON",
    "legalForm": {
      "code": "PK",
      "text": "Pensjonskasse"
    },
    "status": "active",
    "registrationDate": "1995-03-12",
    "industryCode": "65.300",
    "industryText": "Pensjonskasser",
    "employees": null,
    "address": {
      "street": "Forusbeen 50",
      "postalCode": "4035",
      "city": "STAVANGER",
      "municipality": "STAVANGER",
      "municipalityCode": "1103"
    },
    "website": "www.equinorpensjon.no",
    "vatRegistered": false,
    "bankrupt": false,
    "underLiquidation": false,
    "source": "Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysundregistrene (Norway)",
    "license": "NLOD 2.0 (Norsk lisens for offentlige data)",
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/oppslag/enheter/959733600"
  }
]

Input

Field	Example	Notes
countries	["NO", "FI"]	Empty means both.
query	"Equinor"	Company name, current or previous.
orgNumbers	["923609016", "0112038-9"]	Direct lookup. Norway: 9 digits. Finland: Business ID. Other filters are ignored when set.
industryCodes	["62"]	Main industry code starts with one of these. 62, 62.01 and 6201 all work. Norway uses SN (NACE), Finland TOL.
municipality	"Bergen" or "0301"	Norway: municipality name or number. Finland: town or city ("Espoo").
registeredAfter	"2026-09-26"	Registered on or after this date.
includeBankrupt	false	Bankrupt companies are left out by default.
includeInactive	false	Finnish companies that have ceased are left out by default.
onlyNew	false	Only companies earlier runs of the same search have not returned.
maxResults	50	Total cap, 1-10 000. With both countries each gets half, and places one country does not use go to the other.

With an empty input the actor returns companies registered in the last seven days in both countries, newest first for Norway.

Input used for the example below:

{ "countries": ["NO"], "query": "Equinor", "maxResults": 20 }

Output

One row per company. Excerpt from a cloud run on 3 October 2026:

{
  "country": "NO",
  "orgNumber": "923609016",
  "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "legalForm": { "code": "ASA", "text": "Allmennaksjeselskap" },
  "status": "active",
  "registrationDate": "1995-03-12",
  "industryCode": "06.100",
  "industryText": "Utvinning av råolje",
  "employees": 21272,
  "address": {
    "street": "Forusbeen 50",
    "postalCode": "4035",
    "city": "STAVANGER",
    "municipality": "STAVANGER",
    "municipalityCode": "1103"
  },
  "website": "www.equinor.com",
  "vatRegistered": true,
  "bankrupt": false,
  "underLiquidation": false,
  "source": "Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysundregistrene (Norway)",
  "license": "NLOD 2.0 (Norsk lisens for offentlige data)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/oppslag/enheter/923609016"
}

And a Finnish row from the run with { "countries": ["FI"], "query": "Nokia", "maxResults": 20 }:

{
  "country": "FI",
  "orgNumber": "0197067-4",
  "name": "Tikkurila Oyj",
  "legalForm": { "code": "OYJ", "text": "Public limited company" },
  "status": "active",
  "registrationDate": "1917-07-26",
  "industryCode": "20300",
  "industryText": "Manufacture of paints, varnishes and similar coatings, printing ink and mastics",
  "employees": null,
  "address": { "street": "Heidehofintie 2", "postalCode": "01300", "city": "VANTAA", "municipality": null, "municipalityCode": "092" },
  "website": null,
  "vatRegistered": true,
  "bankrupt": false,
  "underLiquidation": false,
  "source": "YTJ open data, Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "sourceUrl": "https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/yritys/0197067-4"
}

Field	Description
country	NO or FI.
orgNumber	Organisation number (NO) or Business ID, Y-tunnus (FI).
name	Current registered name.
legalForm	code (AS, ASA, OY, OYJ ...) and text. Norwegian text is in Norwegian, Finnish in English.
status	active, bankrupt, liquidation, forcedDissolution, reorganisation or ceased.
registrationDate	Date of registration in Enhetsregisteret (NO) or the company's registration date (FI).
industryCode, industryText	Main industry. NO: SN/NACE in Norwegian. FI: TOL in English.
employees	Number of employees when Brreg has it. Always null for Finland, since YTJ does not publish it.
address	Business address (postal address if there is none). municipality is the name in Norway; for Finland only municipalityCode is given.
website	As registered.
vatRegistered	Norway: in Merverdiavgiftsregisteret. Finland: a current VAT register entry.
bankrupt, underLiquidation	Flags from the register.
source, license, sourceUrl	Where the row comes from, the license and a link to the public register page.

Monitoring and scheduling

To get new companies every morning, create a schedule in Apify Console (Schedules, Create new, cron 0 6 * * *) that runs this actor with for example:

{ "countries": ["NO", "FI"], "industryCodes": ["62"], "onlyNew": true, "maxResults": 500 }

With onlyNew the actor remembers which companies each search has returned, in a named key-value store (nightwave-state-nordic-company-registers, one record per search). Each run returns and charges only companies not returned before. When no name, number, industry or date is given, the moving "last seven days" window counts as the same search from day to day. The first run returns everything the search matches.

Limits

• Brreg returns at most 10 000 units per search. Narrow the search (industry, municipality, date) to get more.
• PRH matches industry codes by text as well, so the actor checks the code prefix itself. A broad Finnish search may therefore read more pages than it returns.
• Name search follows each register's own rules. PRH also matches parallel and auxiliary names, so "Nokia" returns companies in the town of Nokia too.
• Norwegian sub-units (underenheter, local branches) are not included in this version.
• Neither register publishes a fixed request quota. The actor reads one page at a time and retries 429 and 5xx responses three times with a growing pause, then stops with a clear error.

Use cases

• Get newly registered companies in Norway and Finland every day with registeredAfter and onlyNew: true, as leads for accounting, banking or software sales.
• Verify a list of Norwegian organisation numbers or Finnish Business IDs (Y-tunnus) and check status, VAT registration and bankruptcy flags.
• Build a list of companies in an industry and municipality from the NACE or TOL code.
• Enrich a CRM with legal name, legal form, address and website from the official registers.
• Compare company formation per industry between Norway and Finland.

FAQ

How often is the data updated? Every run reads the registers live. Brreg and PRH update their open data as companies register changes, normally within a working day.

What does 1 000 rows cost? 4 USD (0.004 USD per company, event company). Platform usage is included. Rows that are filtered out are not charged.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Set onlyNew: true and add the actor to an Apify schedule. See "Monitoring and scheduling" above.

Can I use the data commercially? Yes. Brreg data is published under NLOD 2.0 and PRH YTJ data under CC BY 4.0. Both require attribution, which is included in every row (source, license).

Data source and license

• Norway: Enhetsregisteret open data API, Brønnøysundregistrene, under NLOD 2.0.
• Finland: YTJ open data API v3, Finnish Patent and Registration Office, under CC BY 4.0. Please name PRH as the source when you use the data.

Every row carries source and license. This actor is not made by or affiliated with Brreg or PRH.

Pricing

Pay per result: 0.004 USD per row returned (event company), which is 4 USD per 1 000 companies. Platform usage is included, so you pay only per result. maxResults caps how many rows a run returns, so you always know the highest possible cost.

Rows are delivered only after they have been charged. If you set a maximum cost per run (maxTotalChargeUsd), the run stops there and its status message says how many rows were delivered.

Contact

Questions and bug reports: kontakt@nightwave.se. Nightwave AB, Sweden.

På svenska

Actorn hämtar bolagsuppgifter ur Norges Enhetsregisteret (Brønnøysundregistrene) och Finlands YTJ (Patent- och registerstyrelsen, PRH) och levererar dem i samma format: organisationsnummer, namn, bolagsform, status, bransch (NACE/TOL), adress, momsregistrering och konkursuppgift.

Sök på namn, organisationsnummer, branschkod, kommun eller registreringsdatum. Med tom input får du bolag registrerade de senaste sju dagarna i båda länderna. Med onlyNew och ett schema i Apify får du varje morgon bara bolag som inte levererats tidigare.

Enskilda näringsidkare (ENK i Norge, toiminimi i Finland), konkursbon och personer tas aldrig med, och inga personnamn, roller, styrelser, telefonnummer eller e-postadresser levereras.

Källor och licenser: Brreg under NLOD 2.0 och PRH under CC BY 4.0. Pris: 0,004 USD per bolag. Frågor: kontakt@nightwave.se.