# German Insolvency API — Insolvenzbekanntmachungen (`pat1987/german-insolvency-notices-monitor`) Actor German insolvency API. Monitor official company insolvency notices (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen, §9 InsO) from neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de. Filter by company, court, date & notice type; consumer (Verbraucher) cases excluded. JSON output for KYB, credit risk & Bonität monitoring. Unofficial. - **URL**: https://apify.com/pat1987/german-insolvency-notices-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [Patrick Lierse](https://apify.com/pat1987) (community) - **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Automation - **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 87.5% 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 ## German Insolvency Notices Monitor (Company / Regelinsolvenz) Unofficial Apify actor that monitors **official German company insolvency announcements** (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen, published under §9 InsO) from [`neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de`](https://neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de). Not affiliated with or endorsed by any German authority. Data source attribution: neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de (official announcements, §5 UrhG). ### Example **Input** ```json { "court": "München", "noticeType": "eroeffnung", "maxResults": 1 } ```` **Output** (one dataset item per company notice, trimmed) ```json { "companyName": "CL Capital Investments GmbH", "court": "München", "caseNumber": "1542 IN 1744/25", "noticeType": "Eröffnung", "noticeDate": "2026-06-12", "registeredAddress": "Hettstedt", "registerReference": "HRB 12345" } ``` (Each item also carries `sourceUrl`, `cachedAt` and `dataSource`. Consumer / personal-debtor notices are never emitted — see below.) ### Please read first - **What this is.** This actor searches the official German insolvency portal by company name, insolvency court, publication-date range and notice type, and returns **structured, company-only** notices (court, case number, notice type, date, registered seat, register reference). It is a monitoring tool for counterparty, supplier and debtor risk. - **Unofficial tool — not affiliated with or endorsed by any German authority.** The data comes from the official portal but this actor is an independent third-party tool. Notices may contain errors; verify against the source before relying on them. - **Public-data basis (§9 InsO) and robots.txt.** Insolvency announcements are *published to the public by statute* under §9 InsO and are freely readable in a browser. The portal's `robots.txt` disallows the search path (it targets indexing crawlers of a session-bound JSF app, not statutory public-record lookups). By **default the actor searches** the portal; set `respectRobots: true` to strictly honour robots.txt, in which case the actor will refuse to search. Either way it never evades rate limits or anti-bot measures. - **Company data only — no consumer / personal data (GDPR).** Consumer (Verbraucher / "IK") notices and bare natural-person debtors are **filtered out in code** and never appear in the output; the Vorname (first-name) field is never searched and the free-text notice body is never fetched. 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. ### What it does Searches the official portal by company name, insolvency court, publication date range, and notice type, and returns **structured, company-only** results. Use it to monitor counterparties, suppliers, and debtors for insolvency events (openings, dismissals for lack of assets, decisions in proceedings, …). #### Company notices only — by design This actor returns **company / legal-entity** insolvencies only. Consumer (Verbraucher / "IK") notices and bare natural-person debtors are **filtered out in code** and never appear in the output. The Vorname (first-name) search field is never used, and the free-text notice body is not fetched. See [`COMPLIANCE.md`](./COMPLIANCE.md) for the full design rule and Legitimate Interest Assessment. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Notes | |---|---|---|---| | `companyName` | string | — | Debtor name/keyword (Firma/Nachname). Optional. | | `court` | string | — | Insolvency court name, e.g. "München". Optional. | | `dateFrom` | string | 14 days ago | Publication date from, `YYYY-MM-DD`. | | `dateTo` | string | today | Publication date to, `YYYY-MM-DD`. | | `noticeType` | enum | All | Eröffnung, Abweisung mangels Masse, … (Gegenstand). | | `maxResults` | int | 20 | 1–100. | | `respectRobots` | bool | `false` | See "robots.txt" below. | The portal lists at most **1000 hits** per search and refuses to list beyond that — keep date ranges tight for broad (no-name) queries. ### Output (one dataset item per notice) ```json { "companyName": "CL Capital Investments GmbH", "court": "München", "caseNumber": "1542 IN 1744/25", "noticeType": "Eröffnung", "noticeDate": "2026-06-12", "registeredAddress": "Hettstedt", "registerReference": "HRB 12345", "sourceUrl": "https://neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de/ap/suche.jsf", "cachedAt": "2026-06-12T20:00:00.000Z", "dataSource": "neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de/ap" } ``` No persons / personal-debtor fields are ever emitted. `sourceUrl` is the search page: individual notices are JSF postbacks with no stable GET URL. ### Polite by construction - **30 requests/hour** hard limit (sliding window, 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. ### robots.txt By **default the actor searches** the portal (`respectRobots: false`). The data is publicly mandated by §9 InsO and freely accessible in a browser, and the portal's `robots.txt` disallows the search path only because it is aimed at indexing crawlers of a POST-only, session-bound JSF app — not at statutory public-record lookups. Set `respectRobots: true` to strictly honour robots.txt. In that mode, because the portal disallows the search path, **the actor will not search**: it logs a clear explanation, returns zero results, exits cleanly (no crash, no charge for results), and tells you to set `respectRobots: false` to run a search. The actor never evades rate limits or anti-bot measures regardless of this setting. See [`TECHNICAL_SPEC.md` §2](./TECHNICAL_SPEC.md) and [`COMPLIANCE.md` §5](./COMPLIANCE.md). ### 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) | $4.00 / 1000 | A future `deep-record` event is reserved for fetching the full notice text but is **not** wired up (the notice body carries personal data and isn't needed). ### Local development ```bash export PATH="$HOME/node20/bin:$PATH" npm install npm test # offline + edge-case + rate-limit tests node test/run-local.mjs '{"court":"München","noticeType":"eroeffnung","respectRobots":false}' ``` ### Support - Questions, bug reports, data-subject requests: https://apify.com/pat1987/german-insolvency-notices-monitor/issues - Operator contact: patrick.lierse@googlemail.com ### Disclaimer Unofficial tool. Insolvency data originates from the official portal 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 (Firma/Nachname), e.g. "Logistik GmbH". Optional — leave empty to list all company notices in the date range. ## `court` (type: `string`): Optional. Name of the insolvency court to filter by, e.g. "München", "Hamburg". Matched against the portal's own court list; if not uniquely found, all courts are searched. ## `dateFrom` (type: `string`): Start of the publication-date range. Defaults to 14 days ago. The portal lists at most 1000 hits per search, so keep ranges tight for broad queries. ## `dateTo` (type: `string`): End of the publication-date range. Defaults to today. ## `noticeType` (type: `string`): Optional. Restrict to one announcement type. Leave as 'All types' for everything. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of company notices to return (1–100). ## `respectRobots` (type: `boolean`): Default false: the actor searches the portal (data is public by statute §9 InsO). Set true to strictly honour robots.txt — the actor will then refuse to search. Rate limits and anti-bot measures are never evaded either way. ## Actor input object example ```json { "court": "München", "noticeType": "eroeffnung", "maxResults": 20, "respectRobots": 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": "München", "noticeType": "eroeffnung", "maxResults": 20 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("pat1987/german-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": "München", "noticeType": "eroeffnung", "maxResults": 20, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("pat1987/german-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": "München", "noticeType": "eroeffnung", "maxResults": 20 }' | apify call pat1987/german-insolvency-notices-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=pat1987/german-insolvency-notices-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "German Insolvency API — Insolvenzbekanntmachungen", "description": "German insolvency API. Monitor official company insolvency notices (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen, §9 InsO) from neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de. Filter by company, court, date & notice type; consumer (Verbraucher) cases excluded. JSON output for KYB, credit risk & Bonität monitoring. Unofficial.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "NLaM8nejSfCe94otG" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/pat1987~german-insolvency-notices-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-pat1987-german-insolvency-notices-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/pat1987~german-insolvency-notices-monitor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-pat1987-german-insolvency-notices-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/pat1987~german-insolvency-notices-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-pat1987-german-insolvency-notices-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "companyName": { "title": "Company name / keyword", "type": "string", "description": "Company name or keyword to search for in the debtor field (Firma/Nachname), e.g. \"Logistik GmbH\". Optional — leave empty to list all company notices in the date range." }, "court": { "title": "Insolvency court (Insolvenzgericht)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Name of the insolvency court to filter by, e.g. \"München\", \"Hamburg\". Matched against the portal's own court list; if not uniquely found, all courts are searched." }, "dateFrom": { "title": "Date from (YYYY-MM-DD)", "type": "string", "description": "Start of the publication-date range. Defaults to 14 days ago. The portal lists at most 1000 hits per search, so keep ranges tight for broad queries." }, "dateTo": { "title": "Date to (YYYY-MM-DD)", "type": "string", "description": "End of the publication-date range. Defaults to today." }, "noticeType": { "title": "Notice type (Gegenstand)", "enum": [ "", "eroeffnung", "abweisung_mangels_masse", "entscheidung_im_verfahren", "entscheidung_nach_aufhebung", "restschuldbefreiung", "sicherungsmassnahme", "sonstiges" ], "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Restrict to one announcement type. Leave as 'All types' for everything.", "default": "" }, "maxResults": { "title": "Max results", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of company notices to return (1–100).", "default": 20 }, "respectRobots": { "title": "Respect robots.txt strictly", "type": "boolean", "description": "Default false: the actor searches the portal (data is public by statute §9 InsO). Set true to strictly honour robots.txt — the actor will then refuse to search. 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