Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper

Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper

The Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper extracts company registration data — legal name, address, VAT ID, managing director, commercial register number, register court, email, and phone — from the Impressum, Mentions Légales, Aviso Legal, or other statutory legal-notice page of any domain.

Point it at a list of domains — URLs and email addresses work too — and it finds each site's legal-notice page automatically, falls back to a contact page when none exists, and returns clean, structured company data ready for compliance checks, B2B lead enrichment, or KYC workflows.

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Use the Apify Actor "parsebird/impressum-legal-notice-scraper" (Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper) via the ApifyClient: client.actor("parsebird/impressum-legal-notice-scraper").call(run_input={"domains": ["sipgate.de", "flaconi.de", "teamviewer.com"], "contactPageFallback": True, "maxConcurrency": 20, "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": False}}) — inputs are domains (array of domains, URLs, or emails — required), contactPageFallback (boolean, default true), maxConcurrency (integer, default 20), and proxyConfiguration (Apify Proxy object, off by default); output items contain domain, companyName, address, emails, phone, vatId, managingDirector, registrationNumber, registerCourt, legalPageUrl, legalPageType, foundVia, error, and scrapedAt; full API spec at https://apify.com/parsebird/impressum-legal-notice-scraper/api and get an API token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

What does the Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper do?

Legal-notice pages are the most reliable public source of a company's registered legal name, address, and registration details — every commercial website operating in the EU, UK, or Switzerland is required to publish one. The Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper reads that page for you, across dozens of domains at once:

• 🔎 Locates the legal-notice page automatically by scanning footer/navigation links and, if needed, trying common URL paths (/impressum, /mentions-legales, /aviso-legal, /imprint, and more) in the site's own language
• 📇 Extracts company name, full address, VAT ID, managing director / legal representative, commercial register number, and register court
• 📧 Decodes obfuscated email addresses, including Cloudflare's data-cfemail cloaking and name(at)domain.tld-style obfuscation
• 🔁 Optional contact-page fallback so you still get an email and phone number when a site has no formal legal notice
• ⚡ Configurable concurrency to process large domain lists quickly, with an optional Apify Proxy for sites that block direct requests
• 💸 Only billed for domains where real data was actually extracted — unreachable domains and dead ends cost nothing

Feed it plain domains, full URLs, or even email addresses (e.g. hello@example.com) — the domain is normalized automatically.

Supported countries and legal-notice formats

The Actor recognizes legal-notice pages and vocabulary in many languages and formats:

Country	Legal-notice name
🇩🇪 Germany	Impressum
🇦🇹 Austria	Impressum / Offenlegung
🇨🇭 Switzerland	Impressum
🇫🇷 France	Mentions légales
🇪🇸 Spain	Aviso legal
🇮🇹 Italy	Note legali / Dati societari
🇳🇱 Netherlands	Colofon / Juridische informatie
🇧🇪 Belgium	Mentions légales / Wettelijke vermeldingen
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	Legal notice / Company information
🇵🇹 Portugal	Aviso legal / Informação legal
… and more	Generic "Legal notice" / "Imprint" pages

Coverage of the register number, VAT ID, and managing-director fields is strongest for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, where the Impressum format is highly standardized (Handelsregister, USt-IdNr., Geschäftsführer). For other countries, expect reliable company name, address, email, and phone, with the structured register fields filled in wherever the site publishes them in a recognizable format.

What data can you extract from an Impressum or legal notice page?

Field	Description
domain	The domain you supplied
companyName	Legal company name (e.g. Flaconi GmbH)
address	Street and postal city
emails	Email addresses found on the legal notice
phone	Phone number
vatId	VAT number / USt-IdNr. (e.g. DE219349391)
managingDirector	Managing director / legal representative
registrationNumber	Commercial-register number (e.g. HRB 133604)
registerCourt	Registering court or chamber (e.g. Düsseldorf)
legalPageUrl	URL of the legal-notice page that was read
legalPageType	legal-notice or contact (fallback)
foundVia	How the page was located (footer-link, common-path, or contact-fallback)
error	Populated only if nothing could be read
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

Not every field is present on every site — legal notices vary by country and company. Core fields (companyName, emails, phone, address) fill at a high rate; register/VAT/director fields are richest in German-speaking markets (DE/AT/CH), where the legal-notice format is most standardized.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
domains	array	Yes	—	Domains to process. Full URLs and email addresses are accepted too — the domain is extracted automatically.
contactPageFallback	boolean	No	true	If no legal notice is found, try a contact page to still capture email and phone.
maxConcurrency	integer	No	20	How many domains to process in parallel.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	off	Apify Proxy. Off by default; enable if some targets block direct requests.

Minimal input:

{
  "domains": ["sipgate.de", "flaconi.de", "teamviewer.com"]
}

Larger run:

{
  "domains": ["site1.de", "site2.fr", "site3.nl", "site4.it"],
  "contactPageFallback": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 30
}

Output example

[
  {
    "domain": "flaconi.de",
    "companyName": "Flaconi GmbH",
    "address": "Franklinstraße 15a, 10587 Berlin",
    "emails": "service@flaconi.de",
    "phone": "030 / 920 363 63",
    "vatId": "DE815275589",
    "managingDirector": "Bastian Siebers (Vorsitzender), Alexandra Szarmach, Henry Brodski",
    "registrationNumber": "HRB 133604",
    "registerCourt": "Berlin-Charlottenburg",
    "legalPageUrl": "https://www.flaconi.de/impressum/",
    "legalPageType": "legal-notice",
    "foundVia": "footer-link",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T10:00:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "domain": "sipgate.de",
    "companyName": "sipgate GmbH",
    "address": "Gladbacher Straße 74, 40219 Düsseldorf",
    "emails": "info@sipgate.de",
    "phone": "+49 211 635555-0",
    "vatId": "DE219349391",
    "managingDirector": "Thilo Salmon",
    "registrationNumber": "HRB 39841",
    "registerCourt": "Düsseldorf",
    "legalPageUrl": "https://www.sipgate.de/impressum",
    "legalPageType": "legal-notice",
    "foundVia": "footer-link",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T10:00:00.000Z"
  }
]

Download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML directly from the Apify Console, or pull them via the Dataset API / Apify SDK.

How to scrape Impressum data with Python and JavaScript

1. Open the Impressum & EU Legal Notice Scraper on the Apify Store, or call it via the API below.
2. Paste in your list of domains (or URLs, or email addresses).
3. Run the Actor and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or read it straight from your own code.

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("parsebird/impressum-legal-notice-scraper").call(run_input={
    "domains": ["sipgate.de", "flaconi.de", "teamviewer.com"],
    "contactPageFallback": True,
    "maxConcurrency": 20,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["domain"], item["companyName"], item["vatId"])

JavaScript (Node.js):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });

const run = await client.actor('parsebird/impressum-legal-notice-scraper').call({
    domains: ['sipgate.de', 'flaconi.de', 'teamviewer.com'],
    contactPageFallback: true,
    maxConcurrency: 20,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Use cases

• KYC and vendor onboarding — verify a supplier's or partner's legal name, registered address, and VAT ID before signing a contract
• B2B lead enrichment — append verified company name, address, and contact details to a list of domains
• Compliance monitoring — check that your own or a competitor's sites publish a valid, up-to-date Impressum
• M&A and due-diligence research — pull commercial register numbers and managing directors for a list of target companies
• Directory and aggregator building — batch-collect standardized company data across many websites at once

How it works

1. Normalizes each input value (domain, URL, or email) down to a bare domain.
2. Fetches the homepage and scans its footer and navigation links for a legal-notice link, matching keywords across German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and English.
3. If no link is found, tries a set of common legal-notice URL paths (/impressum, /mentions-legales, /aviso-legal, and more) and verifies the resulting page actually contains legal-notice content before trusting it.
4. Parses the page text for company name, address, VAT ID, managing director, registration number, register court, email, and phone using pattern-based extraction tuned for German, Austrian, and Swiss formats plus generic multi-language fallbacks.
5. If Contact page fallback is on and no legal notice was found, repeats steps 2–4 against the site's contact page to still capture an email and phone number.
6. Pushes one row per domain to the dataset, with error populated only when nothing could be read.

How much does it cost to scrape Impressum pages?

This Actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing — you pay only for domains where real data was actually extracted.

Event	Price per event	Price per 1,000 domains
domain-scraped	$0.00199	$1.99

A domain-scraped event fires once for every domain where a legal-notice page (or, with the fallback on, a contact page) was found and at least one field was successfully extracted. Domains that are unreachable or where nothing could be read are not charged — so a batch of 1,000 domains where 850 have a readable legal or contact page costs roughly $1.69. Apify's free monthly platform usage credits apply to this Actor like any other.

FAQ

Does this Actor use a browser? No — it fetches pages directly over HTTP, which keeps runs fast and cheap. This means it cannot read a legal-notice page that is rendered entirely client-side with no server-rendered HTML.

What if a domain has no Impressum page? With Contact page fallback on (the default), the Actor tries the site's contact page instead and still returns any email or phone number it can find, with legalPageType set to contact.

Why are some fields empty? Legal-notice formats vary by country. Coverage of vatId, registrationNumber, registerCourt, and managingDirector is strongest for German-speaking markets (DE/AT/CH); other countries reliably return companyName, address, emails, and phone but may not publish the structured register fields at all.

A domain fails with "Could not reach the domain" — what do I do? Some sites (particularly ones behind Cloudflare) block requests from shared datacenter IPs. Turn on Proxy configuration and select an Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL group for those domains.

Can I pass a URL or email instead of a bare domain? Yes. https://www.example.com/some/page and hello@example.com are both automatically normalized to example.com.

Can I schedule this to run automatically? Yes — use Apify Schedules to re-check a domain list daily, weekly, or on any interval, and pair it with webhooks or the Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, or Make integrations to route the results.

Can I access this via API? Yes — every Actor on Apify has a full REST API, plus native clients for Python and JavaScript. See the code samples above.

Found a domain this Actor doesn't handle well? Open an issue on the Issues tab — bug reports on specific domains help improve the extraction patterns.

Is it legal to scrape Impressum and legal notice pages?

Yes. A legal-notice page is legally required to be publicly accessible, and this Actor only reads information the site itself has published for that exact purpose. That said, always respect a target site's terms of service and applicable data-protection law (e.g. GDPR) for how you subsequently use any personal data, such as a named managing director. See Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping for a broader overview.

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