# France Bodacc Scraper (`normdata/france-bodacc-scraper`) Actor

Search and monitor France's official BODACC legal-announcements gazette: insolvency proceedings, business sales, registrations, modifications, deregistrations and account filings. Filter by company name, SIREN, department, region, announcement type and date range, or watch for new filings.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/france-bodacc-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $6.15 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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

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## 🇫🇷 France BODACC Scraper

Scrape **BODACC**, France's official gazette of company legal announcements, with no API key and no login. Search or monitor insolvency proceedings, business sales, new registrations, deregistrations, general modifications and account filings for any French company.

Get clean structured data for **KYB, credit risk and business intelligence**: parsed judgment, sale, modification, deregistration and account-filing details, plus officers, establishments and the previous owner or operator where the announcement carries one.

### 🎯 Who uses it?

#### 🛡️ Credit and risk analysts

Filter straight to insolvency proceedings by department, region or date range and get the parsed judgment (nature, date, appointed liquidator) on every row.

#### 📇 KYB and compliance teams

Look up a company's full BODACC history by SIREN in one call, every filing from first registration to today, to build the legal timeline for an onboarding file.

#### 🗂️ M\&A and deal-sourcing teams

Search business sales and transfers (cessions de fonds de commerce) by sector keyword or region to find deals as they're announced.

#### 📡 Portfolio monitoring teams

Watch a set of departments, regions or announcement types for anything published since a given date, and get new insolvencies or deregistrations before they show up anywhere else.

### ✨ What it does

- **Search announcements** by company name, keyword list, department, region, announcement type and publication date range. Filters combine with logical AND.
- **Look up by SIREN**: paste a batch of nine-digit numbers, get every BODACC announcement on record for each one, its full legal history, newest first. A SIREN with no announcements still comes back as its own row with an `error`, so the output always matches your input list.
- **Monitor**: announcements published on or after a given date, matching the same filters as Search, for a recurring daily or weekly watch.
- **Parsed detail blocks**: judgment, sale, modification, deregistration and account-filing data are returned as structured objects, not raw text, matched to whichever type the announcement actually is.
- **One row per company** (optional): keep only the most recent matching announcement per SIREN instead of every filing.

Missing source values are returned as `null`, never invented.

### Why this scraper

- **Region filter that other BODACC scrapers on Apify don't offer.** Filter by any of France's 18 administrative regions directly, not just department code.
- **Monitor mode for a recurring watch.** Set a date and schedule it daily to get new insolvencies, sales and deregistrations as they're published, matching the same filters as Search.
- **Full company history included, not a paid add-on.** Look up mode already returns every announcement on record for a SIREN at the same price as any other row.
- **No API key, no login, no captcha.** Public official gazette data, delivered clean and flat.

### How it compares

| Capability | This actor | Other BODACC scrapers on Apify |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| Search by company name, keyword, department, date range | yes | yes |
| Batch SIREN lookup in one run | yes | yes |
| Filter by announcement type (insolvency, sales, etc.) | yes | yes |
| **Filter by region** | **yes** | **no** |
| **Monitor mode: announcements since a date** | **yes** | **no** |
| Parsed judgment, sale, modification, deregistration blocks | yes | yes |
| **Full company history included as standard** | **yes** | **paid add-on** |

### 📦 What data you get

| Entity | Useful fields |
| --- | --- |
| Announcement | Publication date, bulletin and announcement number, notice status, announcement type, source link. |
| Company | Name, SIREN, department, region, city, postal code, commercial court. |
| Judgment | Insolvency procedure nature, date, and the appointed liquidator or administrator. |
| Sale / transfer | Sale category, effective date, legal-notice reference, and any opposition on record. |
| Modification | What changed (capital, legal form, activity, and similar general updates). |
| Deregistration | Deregistration flags for the legal entity. |
| Account filing | Filing type and closing date. |
| People & establishments | Officers, owners and establishment details as filed on the announcement. |

Every record includes `observedAt` (UTC). Download your dataset from Apify as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

### 💡 Use cases

#### 🛡️ Watch for new insolvencies in a region

```json
{ "mode": "search", "regions": ["Île-de-France"], "announcementFamilies": ["Procédures collectives"], "maxItems": 200 }
```

#### 📇 Get a company's full legal history

```json
{ "mode": "lookup", "sirens": ["552032534"] }
```

#### 🗂️ Find business sales in a sector

```json
{ "mode": "search", "keywords": ["boulangerie", "patisserie"], "announcementFamilies": ["Ventes et cessions"], "maxItems": 500 }
```

#### 📡 Daily monitor for two departments

```json
{ "mode": "monitor", "since": "2026-09-19", "departments": ["75", "92"] }
```

### ⚙️ How the input is organised

The maximum results field sits above every section since it applies to every mode. The rest follows the mode you pick:

| Section | What it's for |
| --- | --- |
| **Mode** | Pick what to get: Search, Look up, or Monitor. |
| **Search and Monitor filters** | Company name, keywords, department, region, announcement type, notice status, date range, dedupe and sort order. |
| **Look up** | SIREN numbers to look up. |
| **Monitor** | The date to watch for new announcements since. |

> **Apify Free plan:** every run is limited to a fixed 10-row sample. Upgrade your Apify plan to run your own settings.

### 🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only BODACC's own public official gazette data. It never signs in and never accesses anything gated behind an account.

A Look up SIREN with no announcement on record still writes one row with an `error` rather than failing the run, so your output count matches your input list. Company and officer names are kept exactly as published in the gazette.

### 📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

### Local development

```bash
bun install
bun test              # offline: input parsing and normalisation against synthetic fixtures
bun run src/main.ts   # reads storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
```

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/normdata/france-bodacc-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many announcement rows this run writes. Starts at 10 for a quick sample; raise it for a full run.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Search filters the whole gazette. Look up returns the full BODACC history for exact SIREN numbers. Monitor returns announcements published on or after a given date, for a recurring watch.

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

Matches the announcement's registered company name. Leave empty to use the filters below instead, or use Look up mode for an exact SIREN.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Matches if the company name contains any of these terms (OR). Useful for scanning a trade or sector, e.g. boulangerie, patisserie.

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

Two or three-digit French department codes, e.g. 75, 69, 971. Matches any of the listed departments.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Matches any of the selected administrative regions. Independent of the department filter above; set either or both.

## `announcementFamilies` (type: `array`):

Keep only these announcement families, e.g. just insolvency proceedings for credit-risk monitoring.

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep only these notice statuses. Leave empty to include corrections and cancellations too.

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

YYYY-MM-DD. Only announcements published on or after this date.

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

YYYY-MM-DD. Only announcements published on or before this date.

## `dedupeBySiren` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only the most recent matching announcement per SIREN instead of every filing.

## `sortNewestFirst` (type: `boolean`):

Order results by publication date, most recent first.

## `sirens` (type: `array`):

Nine-digit SIREN numbers. Returns every BODACC announcement on record for each one (its full legal history), newest first. Spaces and dots are stripped.

## `since` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. Returns announcements published on or after this date that also match the Search and Monitor filters above. Set this to yesterday's date and schedule the Actor daily to get a running feed of new filings.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "Danone",
  "dedupeBySiren": false,
  "sortNewestFirst": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One dataset row per announcement.

# 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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "Danone"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/france-bodacc-scraper").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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "Danone",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("normdata/france-bodacc-scraper").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 '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "Danone"
}' |
apify call normdata/france-bodacc-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,normdata/france-bodacc-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/ipUsz8rY8Mz1M9FVx/builds/pngunBTk05iOw5tcN/openapi.json