# Impressum Scraper: German Company Contacts & Directors (`scrapemint/german-impressum-scraper`) Actor

Extract the Impressum (legal notice) from German, Austrian and Swiss websites: company name, legal form, managing directors (Geschäftsführer), address, phone, email, Handelsregister number and court, VAT ID. Bulk B2B lead data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapemint/german-impressum-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ken M](https://apify.com/scrapemint) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 impressum reads

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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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.

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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

## Impressum Scraper: German Company Contacts & Directors

**Turn a list of German, Austrian or Swiss websites into company records.** Every business website in Germany, Austria and Switzerland must publish an **Impressum** (legal notice) with the company's legal name, address and registration. This actor finds that page on each site and reads it into clean fields:

- **Company:** legal name and legal form (GmbH, UG, AG, KG, GmbH & Co. KG, e.K., PartG mbB, m.b.H. ...)
- **People:** **managing directors** (Geschäftsführer, Vorstand, Inhaber) and the person responsible for content
- **Address:** street, postcode, city, country (DE, AT, CH)
- **Contact:** phone, fax, **email** (including Cloudflare-protected and "\[at]" spellings)
- **Registration:** **Handelsregister number** (HRB, HRA, PR, VR), register court, Austrian FN number, Swiss UID, **VAT ID** (USt-IdNr., ATU, CHE), tax number
- **Professions:** professional title and chamber for doctors, lawyers, tax advisers and architects

Paste domains or URLs; the Impressum page is found automatically from the site's links, with common paths as a fallback. **You only pay for sites where company data was found.**

No browser, no proxy, no API key.

### What you get

`website`, `domain`, `found`, `companyName`, `legalForm`, `managingDirectors`, `street`, `postalCode`, `city`, `country`, `phone`, `fax`, `email`, `emails`, `registerCourt`, `registerNumber`, `vatId`, `taxNumber`, `contentResponsible`, `profession`, `chamber`, `impressumUrl`

### Example input

```json
{
  "websites": [
    "hetzner.com/de",
    "https://www.braune-tauche.de",
    "willhaben.at",
    "https://www.nzz.ch"
  ]
}
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "website": "https://www.hetzner.com/de",
  "domain": "hetzner.com",
  "found": true,
  "companyName": "Hetzner Online GmbH",
  "legalForm": "GmbH",
  "managingDirectors": ["Martin Hetzner", "Stephan Konvickova", "Günther Müller"],
  "street": "Industriestr. 25",
  "postalCode": "91710",
  "city": "Gunzenhausen",
  "country": "DE",
  "phone": "+49 (0)9831 505-0",
  "fax": "+49 (0)9831 505-3",
  "email": "info@hetzner.com",
  "emails": ["info@hetzner.com", "tco@hetzner.com"],
  "registerCourt": "Amtsgericht Ansbach",
  "registerNumber": "HRB 6089",
  "vatId": "DE812871812",
  "impressumUrl": "https://www.hetzner.com/de/legal/legal-notice/"
}
```

Austrian and Swiss sites fill the same fields: `"registerNumber": "FN 271791v", "registerCourt": "Handelsgericht Wien", "vatId": "ATU62224319"` or `"registerNumber": "CHE-106.838.812", "registerCourt": "Handelsregister des Kantons Zürich"`.

### Uses

- **B2B lead lists for the DACH market:** decision-maker names (Geschäftsführer) with company email and phone
- **Enrich scraped websites:** run the websites from [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapemint/google-maps-scraper) through it to add legal name, directors and register numbers
- **KYC and supplier checks:** match a website to its registered company, register court and VAT ID
- **CRM clean-up:** correct legal names and addresses for invoicing

### Accuracy

Tested on 47 small-business and corporate sites from Leipzig, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden, Vienna and Zurich: company data was read on 42; the other 5 block automated visits or only render with JavaScript, and those are returned with `found: false` free of charge. Fields that a site does not publish stay `null`.

### Pricing

- **$0.002** per website with company data found
- Sites without a readable Impressum are free. No start fee.

# Actor input Schema

## `websites` (type: `array`):

Company websites or domains, one per line, e.g. heise.de or https://www.example.de. The Impressum page is found automatically; you can also paste Impressum URLs directly.

## `requireEmail` (type: `boolean`):

Sites whose Impressum has no email address are returned as not found and not charged.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many websites to read in parallel.

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

Stop after this many websites.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "websites": [
    "https://www.heise.de",
    "https://www.thomann.de"
  ],
  "requireEmail": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 8,
  "maxResults": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `companies` (type: `string`):

Company name, legal form, managing directors, address, phone, email, register court and number, VAT ID, Impressum URL.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Websites processed and how many had company data.

# 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 = {
    "websites": [
        "https://www.heise.de",
        "https://www.thomann.de"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapemint/german-impressum-scraper").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 = { "websites": [
        "https://www.heise.de",
        "https://www.thomann.de",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapemint/german-impressum-scraper").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 '{
  "websites": [
    "https://www.heise.de",
    "https://www.thomann.de"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapemint/german-impressum-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapemint/german-impressum-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/3ZCREObz4PmqRQjaZ/builds/Hh3TIEZU1AQtZeFV8/openapi.json