# Austrian Insolvency API — Ediktsdatei (Konkurs) (`pat1987/austrian-insolvency-notices-monitor`) Actor Austrian insolvency API. Monitor official company insolvency notices (Insolvenzdatei, part of the Ediktsdatei) from edikte.justiz.gv.at. Company cases only (Konkurs/Sanierung); consumer & natural-person cases excluded. JSON output for KYB & credit risk in Österreich. Unofficial. - **URL**: https://apify.com/pat1987/austrian-insolvency-notices-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [Patrick Lierse](https://apify.com/pat1987) (community) - **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.005 / actor start This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 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`](https://edikte.justiz.gv.at/edikte/id/idedi8.nsf/suche!OpenForm&subf=vid). 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** ```json { "court": "Wien", "procedureType": "konkurs", "maxResults": 3 } ```` **Output** (one dataset item per company notice) ```json { "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/!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`](./COMPLIANCE.md) for the complete Legitimate Interest Assessment (LIA) and design rules, and [`TECHNICAL_SPEC.md`](./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`](./COMPLIANCE.md) §0. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Notes | |---|---|---|---| | `companyName` | string | — | Debtor name/keyword (Schuldner), min. 3 chars. Optional. | | `court` | string | — | Insolvency court name, e.g. "Wien", "Graz", "Innsbruck". Optional. | | `procedureType` | enum | All company | `konkurs`, `sanierung`, or "" (both). **No consumer option.** | | `dateFrom` | string | 30 days ago | Publication date from, `YYYY-MM-DD`. | | `dateTo` | string | today | Publication date to, `YYYY-MM-DD`. | | `maxResults` | int | 20 | 1–100. Each result costs one extra polite detail request. | | `respectRobots` | bool | `true` | Non-blocking here (portal has no Disallow rules). | | `includeAdministrator` | bool | **`false`** | GDPR default OFF. When true, also returns the insolvency administrator (Masseverwalter/Sanierungsverwalter) — a **named natural person** with office address, phone, email. Enable only with a legitimate purpose (see COMPLIANCE.md §2). | 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`. By default it is omitted entirely. No persons / personal-debtor / birth-date fields are ever emitted. `sourceUrl` is the **stable** per-notice detail-document URL. ### 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):** | Event | Suggested price | |---|---| | `apify-actor-start` (auto, per run) | $0.005 | | `apify-default-dataset-item` (auto, per result) | $4.00 / 1000 | ### Local development ```bash export PATH="$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. # Actor input Schema ## `companyName` (type: `string`): Company name or keyword to search for in the debtor field (Schuldner), e.g. "Bau GmbH". Min. 3 characters. Optional — leave empty to list all company notices in the date range. ## `court` (type: `string`): Optional. Name of the Austrian insolvency court (a Landesgericht / Handelsgericht), e.g. "Wien", "Graz", "Innsbruck". Matched against the portal's court list; if not uniquely found, all courts are searched and the name is filtered locally. ## `procedureType` (type: `string`): Company insolvency procedure to search. 'Konkursverfahren' (bankruptcy) and 'Sanierungsverfahren' (restructuring) are the business procedures. There is NO consumer option — the private-individual procedure (Schuldenregulierungsverfahren) is excluded by design and never searched or returned. ## `dateFrom` (type: `string`): Start of the publication-date range (Bekanntmachungsdatum). Defaults to 30 days ago. The portal lists at most 4999 hits per search, so keep ranges tight for broad queries. ## `dateTo` (type: `string`): End of the publication-date range. Defaults to today. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of company notices to return (1–100). Each returned notice costs one extra polite request to fetch its detail (notice type, date, Firmenbuchnummer). ## `respectRobots` (type: `boolean`): Default true. The Austrian portal publishes no robots.txt Disallow rules, so this is non-blocking (the actor searches normally). The actor never evades rate limits or anti-bot measures regardless of this setting. ## `includeAdministrator` (type: `boolean`): GDPR SAFETY DEFAULT: OFF. When true, each notice also includes the insolvency administrator (Masseverwalter / Sanierungsverwalter) — a NAMED NATURAL PERSON, with their office address, phone and email as published in the edict. Only enable this if you have a legitimate purpose for processing that personal data (see COMPLIANCE.md §2). All non-personal procedural fields (claims deadline, hearing dates, opening date, main-proceeding & self-administration flags) are always included regardless of this setting. ## Actor input object example ```json { "court": "Wien", "procedureType": "konkurs", "maxResults": 20, "respectRobots": true, "includeAdministrator": false } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `notices` (type: `string`): Structured company insolvency notices (one item per match). # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "companyName": "", "court": "Wien", "procedureType": "konkurs", "maxResults": 20 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("pat1987/austrian-insolvency-notices-monitor").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "companyName": "", "court": "Wien", "procedureType": "konkurs", "maxResults": 20, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("pat1987/austrian-insolvency-notices-monitor").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "companyName": "", "court": "Wien", "procedureType": "konkurs", "maxResults": 20 }' | apify call pat1987/austrian-insolvency-notices-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=pat1987/austrian-insolvency-notices-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Austrian Insolvency API — Ediktsdatei (Konkurs)", "description": "Austrian insolvency API. Monitor official company insolvency notices (Insolvenzdatei, part of the Ediktsdatei) from edikte.justiz.gv.at. Company cases only (Konkurs/Sanierung); consumer & natural-person cases excluded. JSON output for KYB & credit risk in Österreich. 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