# France Company Finder (Open Data) (`revenuepilot/france-company-finder`) Actor

Search French companies by industry (NAF), department, size, revenue and creation date from the official open-data Annuaire des Entreprises API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/revenuepilot/france-company-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [chatbot chatbot](https://apify.com/revenuepilot) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 company records

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## France Company Finder (Open Data)

Find French companies by activity code (NAF/APE), department, size, revenue and
creation date, using the official open-data company search API of the French
government. One clean dataset row per company: SIREN, SIRET, name, activity,
size band, latest published revenue, address, VAT number and creation date.

The default input lists active car repair and bodywork companies (NAF 45.20A
and 45.20B), but any NAF code works: garages, dealers, haulage, construction,
restaurants, software and so on.

### Why use it?

- Build B2B prospect lists by sector and region without scraping paid directories.
- Size a market: how many mid-sized companies exist in a department and sector.
- Spot newly created companies in a niche (use `createdAfter`).
- Enrich a spreadsheet or CRM with SIREN/SIRET, VAT number, size and revenue.
- Feed stable JSON into Make, Zapier, n8n, an AI agent or a scheduled task.

### Input

- `query`: optional free text (name, address or SIREN).
- `nafCodes`: activity codes, for example `45.20A`, `47.11B`.
- `departements`: French department codes, for example `75`, `69`, `2A`.
- `employeeBands`: INSEE size bands, for example `11` (10-19), `12` (20-49).
- `minRevenue` / `maxRevenue`: latest published revenue in EUR.
- `createdAfter` / `createdBefore`: creation date range, `YYYY-MM-DD`.
- `onlyActive`: keep only active companies (default on).
- `excludeSoleTraders`: skip sole traders (default on, see privacy).
- `maxResults`: 1-1,000 companies per run.

At least one search filter is required. Revenue is only available for companies
that publish their accounts, so revenue filters exclude the others.

### Input example

```json
{
  "nafCodes": ["45.20A", "45.20B"],
  "departements": ["69"],
  "employeeBands": ["11", "12"],
  "onlyActive": true,
  "excludeSoleTraders": true,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

### Output

One row per company: name, siren, siret, nafCode, legalFormCode,
companyCategory, employeeBand, latestRevenueEur, latestNetResultEur,
financialsYear, creationDate, isActive, establishments, openEstablishments,
address, postalCode, city, departement, latitude, longitude, vatNumbers,
sourceUrl (official public company page) and fetchedAt.

### Output sample

```json
{
  "name": "PDR-TEAM",
  "siren": "752030221",
  "siret": "75203022100275",
  "nafCode": "45.20A",
  "companyCategory": "PME",
  "employeeBand": "20-49",
  "latestRevenueEur": 33678145,
  "financialsYear": 2025,
  "creationDate": "2012-05-31",
  "isActive": true,
  "city": "ROMANS-SUR-ISERE",
  "departement": "26",
  "vatNumbers": ["FR73752030221"],
  "sourceUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/752030221"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.002 per company record** ($2 per 1,000 companies). There is
no monthly rental. If your run reaches your maximum charge, it stops cleanly.

### Data source and licence

Data comes from the "Recherche d'entreprises" API of the French government
(`recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr`), built on the Annuaire des Entreprises
(data.gouv.fr, INSEE SIRENE and company register data). It is published as open
data under the Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. This Actor is not affiliated with
or endorsed by the French government, INSEE or data.gouv.fr. Data may be
incomplete or out of date; always check the official page linked in `sourceUrl`.

### Privacy

The Actor returns company data only. It does not return names of company
officers or directors. Sole traders (entrepreneurs individuels) are excluded by
default because their business data can identify a private person. If you turn
this off or use the data for direct marketing, you are responsible for complying
with GDPR and French rules on prospecting (for example the right to object).

### Limits

The Actor makes polite, rate-limited requests and retries on temporary errors.
The upstream API returns at most 10,000 results per query; the Actor caps a run
at 1,000 companies, so split large searches by department or size band.

### AI transparency

The Actor performs deterministic querying, filtering and formatting. It does not
call a generative AI model and does not claim human review. Its source and
listing were prepared with AI assistance. Verify results before making
financial, legal or commercial decisions.

### Local checks

```text
python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
```

To test pay-per-event charging without billing:

```text
ACTOR_TEST_PAY_PER_EVENT=true python -m src
```

### Search terms

France company search, SIREN, SIRET, NAF, APE, Sirene, French business directory,
B2B leads France, annuaire entreprises, French company data API.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional text matched against company name and address, e.g. garage, carrosserie, Renault.

## `nafCodes` (type: `array`):

NAF rev. 2 codes, e.g. 45.11Z (car sales), 45.20A (car repair), 45.31Z (parts wholesale), 45.32Z (parts retail).

## `departements` (type: `array`):

French department codes, e.g. 75, 69, 13, 2A, 971.

## `employeeBands` (type: `array`):

INSEE size codes: 00=0, 01=1-2, 02=3-5, 03=6-9, 11=10-19, 12=20-49, 21=50-99, 22=100-199, 31=200-249, 32=250-499, 41=500-999, 42=1000-1999, 51=2000-4999, 52=5000-9999, 53=10000+.

## `minRevenue` (type: `integer`):

Only companies whose latest published revenue is at least this amount.

## `maxRevenue` (type: `integer`):

Only companies whose latest published revenue is at most this amount.

## `createdAfter` (type: `string`):

Date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Useful for new-company lead lists.

## `createdBefore` (type: `string`):

Date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `onlyActive` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude companies that have ceased activity.

## `excludeSoleTraders` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude individual entrepreneurs (natural persons) to avoid personal data. Recommended.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of company records to return (and be charged for).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "nafCodes": [
    "45.20A",
    "45.20B"
  ],
  "onlyActive": true,
  "excludeSoleTraders": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("revenuepilot/france-company-finder").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("revenuepilot/france-company-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call revenuepilot/france-company-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,revenuepilot/france-company-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/eKuj19CuTPDOi52xu/builds/TYG8veqWHJeiKficb/openapi.json