SIRENE API: Export French Company Lists by NAF Code

Get clean lists of French companies from the SIRENE register in minutes: filter by code NAF / APE, département, employee headcount, legal form, creation date and status, and download one tidy row per company with its SIREN, head-office SIRET, legal name, activity label, size and location. Exports go past the 10,000-result limit of the source automatically, and the new-company feed mode returns only the companies that appeared since your last run. An independent tool built on the open API Recherche d'entreprises, which serves SIRENE data: not affiliated with INSEE or DINUM, and no INSEE API key needed.

Built for privacy from the start: no sole proprietors, no directors or birth dates, no emails or phone numbers. Companies named after a person are filtered out by a name check (best effort), and street addresses are only included when you ask for them.

SIRENE API for French company lists (API Sirene alternative, no INSEE key)

Call this Actor like an API: send filters, get a JSON, CSV or Excel list of companies back, with no INSEE account, no API key and no 10,000-result ceiling.

Who it is for

• B2B sales and marketing teams selling into France who need target-account lists by sector (NAF code), region and company size.
• Agencies, accountants and consultants prospecting newly created companies in their area.
• Developers and data teams feeding a CRM, a data warehouse or an AI agent with an up-to-date French company reference (entreprises France, SIREN / SIRET lookups by sector).
• Market researchers counting and profiling companies by activity, legal form and size.

What you can do

• Bulk export: every company that matches your filters, for example all active software companies (NAF 62.01Z) headquartered in Paris, or all engineering firms (71.12B) in five departments. Large exports are split into smaller queries behind the scenes and de-duplicated by SIREN, so you are not stuck at 10,000 results.
• New-company feed: give the feed a watch ID and schedule it. Each run returns only companies that were not in the previous run with the same watch ID, marked change_type: "new".
• Filter by creation date: a fixed date (2026-01-01) or a rolling window (30 days, 6 months) to focus on recently created companies.
• Coarse location by default: postcode, commune, department and region of the head office. Switch to full detail to add the street address and coordinates.

Export by code NAF, département and creation date (liste des entreprises par code NAF)

1. Pick one or more NAF codes (or a two-digit division such as 62) and departments.
2. Optionally narrow by headcount bracket, legal form, creation date or status. Creation-date filters need at least one NAF code or department.
3. Choose Export for a one-off list, or New-company feed with a watch ID for a recurring list, and set Maximum companies to cap the run and its cost.
4. Run, then download the dataset or read it through the API.

Input example

{
    "nafCodes": ["62.01Z", "62.02A"],
    "departments": ["75", "92"],
    "headcountBrackets": ["11", "12", "21"],
    "status": "active",
    "createdFrom": "5 years",
    "mode": "export",
    "addressDetail": "communeOnly",
    "maxResults": 5000
}

Input fields

Field	What it does	Default
nafCodes	NAF rev. 2 activity codes such as 62.01Z; a two-digit division such as 62 includes every code in it	all activities
departments	INSEE department codes such as 75, 2A, 974	all of France
headcountBrackets	INSEE employee brackets (NN, 00, 01 ... 53)	all sizes
legalCategories	INSEE legal categories such as 5710 (SAS), 5499 (SARL), 5599 (SA), 6540 (SCI)	all company forms
createdFrom, createdTo	Creation date range: YYYY-MM-DD or a period back from today such as 30 days; needs a NAF code or department	no limit
status	active, ceased or any	active
locationMatch	headOffice: head office in the departments. anyEstablishment: any establishment there	headOffice
mode	export or newSinceLastRun (new-company feed)	export
watchId	Name of the feed; runs with the same watch ID are compared	required for the feed
outputOnFirstRun	Feed only: output the current companies on the first run, or only record a baseline	true
addressDetail	communeOnly or full (adds street address, latitude, longitude)	communeOnly
maxResults	Stop output after this many company rows (feed: new companies)	1,000

Fichier entreprises: CSV, JSON or Excel output

Every run fills a dataset with one row per company. Download it from the run page as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML, or fetch it from the dataset API endpoint in any of those formats, so the same run gives you a spreadsheet-ready company file (fichier entreprises) or a JSON feed for your code. Large exports page through the dataset API like any other Apify dataset.

New companies feed (nouvelles entreprises créées) since your last run

New-company feed, for a weekly schedule:

{
    "mode": "newSinceLastRun",
    "watchId": "lyon-software",
    "nafCodes": ["62"],
    "departments": ["69"],
    "outputOnFirstRun": false,
    "maxResults": 2000
}

• With outputOnFirstRun off, the first run only records the current companies as a baseline and outputs nothing (and charges no rows); every later run outputs the companies that are new since the previous one.
• With outputOnFirstRun on, the first run outputs the current companies as well. If it stops at Maximum companies or at your maximum charge, it still reads the rest of the scope and records those companies as the baseline without output or charge, and says so in the run summary. Later runs therefore never report an old company as new.
• Add createdFrom: "30 days" if you only want companies that were also created recently.

Output fields

One row per company. Example (from a real run, NAF 62.01Z in Paris):

{
    "siren": "849239587",
    "siret_hq": "84923958700199",
    "name": "SNAPDESK",
    "naf_code": "62.01Z",
    "naf_label": "Programmation informatique",
    "legal_form_code": "5710",
    "legal_form": "SAS, société par actions simplifiée",
    "category": "PME",
    "headcount_bracket": "11",
    "headcount_label": "10 à 19 salariés",
    "headcount_year": "2024",
    "created_on": "2019-03-15",
    "status": "active",
    "closed_on": null,
    "establishments_open": 19,
    "postcode": "75010",
    "commune": "PARIS",
    "commune_code": "75110",
    "department": "75",
    "department_name": "Paris",
    "region": "11",
    "region_name": "Île-de-France",
    "address": null,
    "latitude": null,
    "longitude": null,
    "change_type": null,
    "first_seen": null,
    "updated_on": "2026-10-25",
    "source_url": "https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=849239587",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-25T23:03:46.653Z"
}

Field	Meaning
siren, siret_hq	Company number and head-office establishment number
name	Registered legal name
naf_code, naf_label	Main activity (NAF rev. 2) and its French label
legal_form_code, legal_form	INSEE legal category and its label
category	INSEE size category: PME, ETI or GE
headcount_bracket, headcount_label, headcount_year	Employee bracket, its label and reference year
created_on, status, closed_on	Creation date, active or ceased, closure date
establishments_open	Number of open establishments
postcode, commune, commune_code, department, department_name, region, region_name	Head-office location
address, latitude, longitude	Head-office street address (number, street, postcode, commune) and coordinates, only with addressDetail: "full"
change_type, first_seen	new and the time first seen, in the new-company feed
updated_on	Date the register last updated the company, for the licence attribution
source_url, retrieved_at	Where and when the data was retrieved

The run summary (counts of fetched, excluded and saved companies, query splits, warnings and the source attribution) is saved in the key-value store record OUTPUT. If the source stops the run (for example by rate limiting), a free row with error: true explains why instead of a silent failure.

What is not included (no managers, no sole traders, no emails)

• Sole proprietors (entrepreneurs individuels, legal category 1000) and groups of private individuals (indivisions, 2110): they are natural persons. This is enforced in code, not a setting you can switch off.
• Companies named after a person, filtered by a name check: a legal name that is a director's first and last name, a common first name next to a surname, or a common French surname with only legal-form or trade words around it (for example "SCI" plus a frequent family name). This is best effort: a company named after a rare family name, with no director listed, can still appear.
• Partly public units (INSEE partial publication status).
• Directors (dirigeants), their names, birth years and nationality: the source returns them, the Actor uses them only to detect person-named companies and never outputs them.
• Emails, phone numbers and contact names: SIRENE does not contain them, and we do not add them.
• Street addresses and coordinates by default: many small companies are registered at a home address, so the default output stops at postcode and commune. Full detail builds the street address from the register's number, street, postcode and commune only; the free-text address complement (which can read "chez" plus a person's name) is never output.

Pricing per company row

Pay per event: you pay for each company row saved to your dataset, nothing for companies that were filtered out, skipped or excluded.

Event	Price
Company row (company-row)	$0.0025
New-company feed run (watch-run), once per feed run	$0.005

Plus Apify's standard Actor start event, a fraction of a cent per run. There are no free-tier limits: every plan gets every feature at the same prices.

Example costs:

Run	Rows	Cost
Quick test with the default prefill	50	about $0.13
A 1,000-company export (the default maximum)	1,000	$2.50
A 10,000-company export	10,000	$25
Weekly new-company feed that finds 40 new companies	40	$0.105

Set Maximum companies or a maximum charge per run to cap what a run can cost; the run stops cleanly at that limit and you only pay for rows that were saved.

Data source, licence and attribution

The data comes from the French administration's open company search API (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr), which serves the INSEE Sirene register and the RNE (Registre national des entreprises, kept by INPI). The data is published under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0, which allows commercial reuse provided the source and the date of its last update are credited. Attribution to use when you republish the data:

Source: INSEE Sirene and RNE data via the API Recherche d'entreprises (DINUM, data.gouv.fr), Licence Ouverte 2.0, data last updated on the date in updated_on (retrieved on retrieved_at).

Companies that asked INSEE not to publish their data (non-diffusible units) are already removed by the source. This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by INSEE, DINUM, INPI or any French administration.

What we verified on the live source (October 2026): it needs no key or login; it returns at most 25 results per page and 10,000 results per query, which is why large exports are split; it allows 7 requests per second per IP, and this Actor stays at 5 or fewer, identifies itself, checks robots.txt and text-and-data-mining reservations (TDMRep), backs off when asked to slow down and stops if it is refused; it has no creation-date filter, so creation dates are filtered after fetching; and its result counts are estimates (one query announced 7,968 companies and returned 7,922, another announced 4,111 and returned 4,125), so the Actor pages until the results run out instead of trusting the count. In a live test over ten departments it read 27,323 distinct companies where the source's own counts added up to 27,328.

Limitations

• Creation-date filters do not speed up a run. The source cannot filter by creation date, so the Actor reads everything else that matches and filters dates itself. You only pay for the rows that pass. Date filters therefore need a NAF code or department, and an export stops after reading 50 pages per requested row (at least 2,000 pages) and says so in the summary.
• The department filter of the source matches any establishment. By default the Actor keeps only companies whose head office is in your departments, so it may read more pages than the number of rows you get.
• The new-company feed re-reads its whole scope on every run (the source has no "changed since" filter). Keep each feed focused (a few NAF codes and departments); one watch remembers up to 100,000 companies, and a run that would go past that stops before charging for rows it could not remember.
• Very dense combinations (one NAF code, one department, one headcount bracket, one legal form with more than 10,000 companies) cannot be split further; the run then reads the first 10,000 and says so in the summary. This is rare outside the largest categories.
• Ceased companies past 10,000 per query may be incomplete. Many ceased companies carry a NAF code from before 2008 or no legal category, and the queries used to split past 10,000 results cannot match them. The Actor also reads the first 10,000 results of such a query directly and warns in the summary, but companies of that kind beyond those can be missing. Active companies are not affected in practice.
• Some trade names that look like a person's name are left out too. Small companies whose name contains a common first name next to other words, or a frequent family name with only legal-form or trade words, are excluded to protect founders' privacy; a few genuine trade names are caught by these rules. In a 27,000-company test the first-name rule removed well under 1% of companies; in a 3,519-company test the surname rule removed another 7 (0.2%).
• Headcount brackets and size categories are INSEE's latest published values and can be a year or two old.

FAQ: base Sirene, API Siren, API Siret

Is this the INSEE API Sirene? Do I need an INSEE key? No and no. This is an independent Actor that reads the open API Recherche d'entreprises, which serves the same SIRENE register (base Sirene) together with RNE data. It needs no INSEE account or API key; you only need an Apify account.

Is this a download of the whole base Sirene (fichier Sirene)? It is a filtered extract: you choose the activities, departments and other filters, and get the matching companies as a file. The full monthly base Sirene files from INSEE are much larger and include sole proprietors and establishments, which this Actor leaves out.

Can I get SIRET numbers for a whole sector? Yes: every row has the SIREN (API Siren) and the head-office SIRET (API Siret) of the company. Choose the NAF codes of the sector, leave departments empty for all of France and set a high maximum. Only head-office establishments are included, one row per company.

Can I export all companies in France for a NAF code, beyond 10,000 results? Yes. Leave departments empty and set a high maximum; the Actor splits the query by status, headcount, legal form, activity and department until each part fits, and removes duplicates. For ceased companies, see the limitation above.

How do I get only new companies every week? Use mode: "newSinceLastRun" with a watch ID and schedule the Actor weekly. Add createdFrom: "30 days" if you only want companies that were also created recently.

Why are some companies from my department missing? Check locationMatch: by default only head offices count. Sole proprietors are never included, and companies named after a person are filtered out.

Can I get the street address? Yes, set addressDetail to full. Use it only when you need it: small companies often use a home address.

Is the data current? Each run reads the live source; retrieved_at shows when, and updated_on shows when the register last updated each company. The source is updated continuously from INSEE and the RNE: records we checked had been updated the same day.

What happens if the source is down or rate limits the run? The Actor waits and retries politely. If the source keeps refusing, the run ends with a free error row and a summary instead of failing silently.

Changelog

See the Changelog tab. Version 0.1 (October 2026): first release with bulk export, automatic query splitting, the new-company feed, privacy exclusions and coarse addresses by default.

Provider

Provided by Quarrywise, a trade name of Picazzo Research & Development, Zinkstraat 24, Box C4687, 4823 AD Breda, the Netherlands. KvK 42060545, VAT NL005464235B85. Contact: hello@quarrywise.com or the Issues tab.