Austrian Insolvency Notices Monitor (Company / Konkurs & Sanierung)

Unofficial Apify actor that monitors official Austrian company insolvency announcements (Insolvenzdatei, part of the Ediktsdatei, published under the Insolvenzordnung) from edikte.justiz.gv.at. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any Austrian authority. Data source attribution: edikte.justiz.gv.at (official Ediktsdatei of the Austrian justice administration; all queries are free of charge / gebührenfrei).

Example

Input

{
    "court": "Wien",
    "procedureType": "konkurs",
    "maxResults": 3
}

Output (one dataset item per company notice)

{
    "companyName": "6B47 Wohnbauträger GmbH",
    "court": "HG Wien",
    "caseNumber": "28 S 78/26p",
    "procedureType": "Konkursverfahren",
    "noticeType": "Eröffnung",
    "noticeDate": "2026-06-01",
    "registeredAddress": "1010 Wien",
    "firmenbuchnummer": "FN 397046t",
    "sourceUrl": "https://edikte.justiz.gv.at/edikte/id/idedi8.nsf/0/<docid>!OpenDocument",
    "cachedAt": "2026-06-13T22:28:30.020Z",
    "dataSource": "edikte.justiz.gv.at/Insolvenzdatei"
}

Consumer / personal-debtor notices are never emitted — see below.

Please read first

• What this is. This actor searches the official Austrian Insolvenzdatei by procedure type, insolvency court, publication-date range and company name, and returns structured, company-only notices (court, case number, procedure type, notice type, date, registered seat, Firmenbuchnummer). A monitoring tool for counterparty, supplier and debtor risk.
• Unofficial tool — not affiliated with or endorsed by any Austrian authority. The data comes from the official Ediktsdatei but this actor is an independent third-party tool. Notices may contain errors; verify against the source before relying on them.
• Public-data basis & robots.txt. Austrian insolvency announcements are published to the public by statute (Insolvenzordnung) via the Ediktsdatei, are freely readable in a browser, and all queries are gebührenfrei. Austria even publishes an official IWG (Open-Data / PSI) re-use interface for this database. The portal's robots.txt contains no Disallow rules (it is a generic Domino stub), so the default respectRobots: true is non-blocking. Either way the actor never evades rate limits or anti-bot measures.
• Company data only — no consumer / personal data (GDPR). The private- individual procedure (Schuldenregulierungsverfahren) is never searched, and natural persons inside a company procedure — sole traders, registered sole entrepreneurs (e.U.), and deceased-estate cases — are filtered out in code and never appear in the output. The first-name search field is never used and no birth dates or notice free-text bodies are fetched for returned rows. If you process the output you become the data controller for it under the GDPR.
• Full legal basis. See ./COMPLIANCE.md for the complete Legitimate Interest Assessment (LIA) and design rules, and ./TECHNICAL_SPEC.md for the portal recon.

Company notices only — by design

Austria's insolvency procedures split into business procedures — Konkursverfahren (bankruptcy) and Sanierungsverfahren (restructuring, with/without self-administration) — and the consumer procedure, Schuldenregulierungsverfahren (private individuals). This actor:

1. never queries the consumer procedure;
2. drops natural persons that appear within a company procedure (a Konkurs can be opened over a sole trader): names shaped like Surname, Firstname, or carrying e.U. / Inhaber / Verlassenschaft / a birth date, are dropped before their detail document is ever fetched;
3. re-confirms each kept row at the detail stage — a Firmenbuchnummer or a legal-form token is required, and any birth-date / first-name marker is an absolute veto.

This is stricter than the German sister actor (which narrowly keeps e.K. merchants): here all sole-entrepreneur (e.U.) cases are excluded, so the output is pure legal entities and no birth date is ever processed. See ./COMPLIANCE.md §0.

Input

The portal lists at most 4999 hits per search — keep date ranges tight for broad (no-name) queries. Austrian insolvency courts are the Landesgerichte, the Handelsgericht Wien, and the LG für ZRS (Graz/Wien).

Output (one dataset item per notice)

companyName, court, caseNumber, procedureType, noticeType, noticeDate, registeredAddress, firmenbuchnummer, sourceUrl, cachedAt, dataSource.

Procedural detail fields (always included, non-personal) — parsed from the same detail document, no extra requests:

• openingEffectiveDate — start of the effects of opening (Beginn der Wirkungen der Eröffnung), ISO date or null.
• claimsDeadline — creditors' claim-filing deadline (Anmeldefrist), ISO or null.
• hearings — array of { date, time, location, type } (Tagsatzungen, e.g. Berichts-/Prüfungstagsatzung); [] if none published.
• isMainProceeding — EuInsVO main proceeding (true/false/null).
• selfAdministration — debtor self-administration / Eigenverwaltung (true/false/null).

Administrator (opt-in only, personal data) — administrator { name, address, phone, email } appears only when

includeAdministrator: true

Polite by construction

• 1 000 ms minimum spacing between requests (a human-clickable pace, no bursts) + a 120 requests/hour sliding-window safety ceiling, persisted across runs.
• 12-hour cache — repeat queries cost zero HTTP requests.
• Audit log of every request, saved to the run's key-value store (AUDIT_LOG).
• No proxy rotation, captcha solving, or anti-bot evasion. If the portal signals automated access is unwelcome, the actor pauses rather than adapts.

A search is one request for the result list plus one detail request per returned company notice (e.g. a default maxResults: 20 run ≈ 22 requests).

Pricing (pay-per-event)

This actor uses Apify's standard auto-charged events. Suggested prices, to be configured by the operator in the Apify Console → Monetization (not set here):

Local development

export PATH="$HOME/node20/bin:$PATH"
npm install
npm test                                   # offline + edge-case + rate-limit tests
node test/run-local.mjs '{"court":"Wien","procedureType":"konkurs","maxResults":3}'

Support

• Questions, bug reports, data-subject requests: the actor's Apify issues page.
• Operator contact: patrick.lierse@googlemail.com

Disclaimer

Unofficial tool. Insolvency data originates from the official Ediktsdatei and may contain errors; verify against the source before relying on it. Users who process the output assume their own controller responsibilities under GDPR.