Portugal Corporate Acts Scraper - Publicações

Search the official Portuguese Ministry of Justice register of published corporate acts (Publicações de Atos Societários) by NIF/NIPC or entity name.

For each company, association or foundation you get its published acts - incorporations, changes to the articles, appointments of officers, accounts, dissolutions - each with its date, entity, municipality and act type, as structured JSON.

No API key. No account. The access challenge on the site is handled for you.

What you get per act

What this is - and is not

This is an act / event register, not a company-profile register. It answers "what has been published about this entity, and when" - a timeline of official corporate events. It is ideal for:

• Monitoring - detect new incorporations, board changes or dissolutions as they are published.
• Event-based due diligence - see a counterparty's published corporate history at a glance.
• KYB enrichment - confirm a Portuguese entity is real and active by its recent filings.

It does not return a company's current consolidated profile (share capital, current board, registered address, shareholders). The authoritative full record in Portugal is the paid Certidão Permanente, which this actor does not scrape. If you need the consolidated legal record, this is a monitoring and verification tool, not a replacement for that certificate.

Search by NIF or name

• NIF/NIPC (9 digits) - the precise criterion; returns that entity's published acts.
• Entity name (min 2 characters) - broader; more likely to hit the 200-result ceiling.

Both can be narrowed with date range (dateFrom/dateTo), district and publication type. A search that finds nothing returns a clean no_acts_found - a trustworthy negative.

Result ceiling

The register returns at most 200 acts per search (20 per page, paged automatically on a single run). When a query hits that ceiling the run says so in its status message. To reach acts beyond it, narrow by date range, district or publication type.

Input

Set at least one of nifs or entityNames. A run with neither fails immediately and is not charged.

Example input

{
  "entityNames": ["CONSTRUÇÕES"],
  "district": "Porto",
  "dateFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100
}

Billing

Charged per search, not per act - one query resolves one access challenge and pages through up to 200 acts on the same session, so the cost is per search regardless of how many acts come back.

A search that finds no acts in scope is still an answer, and is charged: on a screen, "this entity has no published acts in this period" is a real result. It is written as

lookupStatus: no_acts_found

Queries that could not be retrieved are not charged, are never written as result rows, and are listed in FAILED_INPUTS in the run's key-value store.

Limitations

• Act register, not a profile - no consolidated current record, share capital, board or address.
• 200 acts per search, paged - a register limit; narrow by date/district/type to reach more.
• Act type and municipality are the register's own text (Portuguese).
• Full act body (the "Conteúdo" of each publication) is not exported in this version - the act metadata (who, when, what type, where) is returned.

Related registry actors

Part of a fleet of official-registry actors across 12+ countries - Poland (KRS, CRBR, KRZ, MSiG, EKW, KNF, UOKiK, BDO), Germany (Handelsregister), Spain (Registro Mercantil, BORME), Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus (DRCOR), Nigeria (CAC), Colombia (RUES), Slovakia (RPVS beneficial owners), Czechia, UAE and California.

For Portugal specifically, pair this with a sanctions and PEP screen on the entity names it returns.

Data source: Publicações de Atos Societários, Ministério da Justiça, Portugal. This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Ministério da Justiça.