🇨🇿 ARES Czech Business Registry Scraper

🚀 Export Czech company records in bulk from the official ARES registry. Pull names, IČO IDs, legal forms, DIČ tax IDs, addresses, regions, and registration dates. No API key, no manual lookup, no CSV wrangling.

The ARES Czech Business Registry Scraper queries the Ministry of Finance's official Czech business registry (ARES) and returns 25+ fields per company, including name, 8-digit IČO, legal form code and label, DIČ tax ID, full registered address, region (kraj), municipality (obec), and registration metadata. The registry is the authoritative source for company information in the Czech Republic.

Coverage spans every Czech legal entity with an IČO, from joint-stock companies (a.s.) and limited liability (s.r.o.) to cooperatives, foundations, public bodies, and self-employed traders. This Actor exposes name-based search, direct IČO lookup, and legal-form filtering with server-side pagination.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Compliance teams, due-diligence analysts, AML/KYC officers, B2B sales, journalists, supplier-onboarding teams	Sanctions and PEP screening, invoice validation, supplier databases, fraud detection, beneficial ownership research, market research

📋 What the ARES Scraper does

Three filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Search by name. Partial match against the legal company name (e.g. Skoda returns every Skoda-related entity).
• 🆔 Lookup by IČO. Direct fetch of a single company by its 8-digit Czech registration ID.
• 🏷️ Filter by legal form. Restrict to a specific entity type via the official legal-form code (e.g. 121 for joint-stock).

Each record includes the company's IČO, name, legal form (code and label), tax registration status (DIČ), date of incorporation, full registered seat address, region (kraj), municipality (obec), financial office jurisdiction, and the complete raw ARES payload for downstream processing.

💡 Why it matters: the Czech business registry is the canonical source for company data in the country. Compliance teams use it for sanctions screening, sales teams use it for supplier onboarding, journalists use it for investigative reporting. This Actor lifts the bulk-export limitation that ARES's web UI imposes.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: city, country, dic, financialOffice, fullAddress, ico, lastUpdated, legalForm, name, postalCode, region, registrationDate, scrapedAt, street. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ARES Czech Business Registry Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose a search query, IČO, or legal form code.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor fetch and structure the records.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more business registry scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Czech Ministry of Finance, ARES, or any government agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available registry data is collected.

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