🇫🇮 Finland YTJ Companies Scraper

🚀 Export the Finnish company registry in seconds. Filter by name, business ID, legal form, or trade register status. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The Finland YTJ Companies Scraper pulls live records from the YTJ/PRH open data API (Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus, the Finnish Patent and Registration Office) and returns 27+ fields per record, covering business ID, primary and former names, legal form, main business line, addresses, trade register status, and registered entry codes. The registry includes every active and historic Finnish company, association, and registered entity.

YTJ is the joint information system of the PRH and the Finnish Tax Administration. It is the authoritative source for Finnish corporate identity, and the open data API exposes the same records that drive due diligence, tax compliance, and beneficial ownership disclosures across Finland. This Actor handles trilingual names (Finnish, Swedish, English), parses postal and street addresses, distinguishes active and ended registrations, and flags VAT liability automatically.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
KYC and compliance teams, B2B sales prospecting, marketing data vendors, business journalists, due diligence analysts, academic researchers, GovTech vendors	KYC and AML enrichment, sales prospecting, market sizing, supplier verification, beneficial ownership research, business journalism, Finnish corporate due diligence

📋 What the Finland YTJ Companies Scraper does

Several filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Name search. Partial-match on company name across primary, auxiliary, and former names.
• 🆔 Business ID lookup. Exact match on a Finnish business ID like 0112038-9.
• 🏛️ Legal form filter. Filter by OY, OYJ, AY, KY, or any other registered form code.
• 📊 Trade register status. Active, removed, ended, or all statuses combined.
• 🌐 Trilingual descriptions. Finnish, Swedish, and English labels for legal form and main business line.

Each record includes business ID with registration date, primary name, former and auxiliary names, legal form codes and trilingual descriptions, main business line code (TOIMI taxonomy) and descriptions, status flags, registration and end dates, last-modified timestamp, active postal address with Finnish and Swedish city names, registered entry codes, VAT liability flag, and optional situation codes.

💡 Why it matters: Finland has more than 1 million registered business entities. KYC, sales prospecting, and journalism rely on the YTJ registry as the canonical record. Building your own scraper means parsing the legacy YTJ XML and navigating Finnish-only documentation. This Actor returns clean trilingual JSON on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: addressType, auxiliaryNames, businessId, businessIdRegistrationDate, careOf, city, cityInSwedish, companyForm, companyFormCode, companyFormFinnish, companyFormSwedish, country, endDate, formerNames, isVatLiable, lastModified, mainBusinessLineCode, mainBusinessLineDescription, mainBusinessLineFinnish, mainBusinessLineSwedish, name, postCode, postOfficeBox, registeredEntryCodes, registrationDate, scrapedAt, status, streetAddress, tradeRegisterStatus, url. All 30 field names come from a real production run, 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 Finland YTJ Companies Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a name or business ID, optionally pick a legal form and status, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
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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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YTJ, PRH (Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus), the Finnish Tax Administration, or any Finnish government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data published under CC BY 4.0 is collected.

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