European Net Short Positions Scraper (Short Selling)

Track disclosed net short positions in European shares under the EU Short Selling Regulation. This actor aggregates the public disclosure files from national regulators (France AMF and Germany BaFin) and normalises them into one clean schema: position holder, issuer, ISIN, net short position percent, position date, disclosing regulator and a current-vs-historical flag. Filter by holder, issuer or ISIN, regulator, minimum position size and date, and export clean structured data for hedge-fund positioning intelligence, short-squeeze monitoring and market research.

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Multi-regulator France AMF, Germany BaFin

Holder, issuer, ISIN & % current and historical

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

What you get

For each disclosed net short position:

• Position holder - the fund or firm holding the short, plus its LEI where the regulator publishes it.
• Issuer - issuer name and ISIN of the shorted share.
• Net short position - the percentage of issued share capital held short.
• Dates - the position date and, where available, the publication date.
• Status & source - a current-vs-historical flag, the country and the disclosing regulator.

All regulators are normalised into one flat schema so you can screen across countries in a single run.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Positioning intelligence	Hedge funds and traders tracking who is short which names and by how much
Short-squeeze monitoring	Desks watching crowded shorts and rising aggregate short interest
Corporate & IR	Issuers and advisers monitoring short activity in their own stock
Research & media	Analysts and journalists studying short-seller behaviour across Europe

How to use it

1. Choose the regulators to aggregate (France, Germany, or both).
2. Pick a position status (current, historical or all) and optionally filter by holder, issuer or ISIN, minimum position percent or a date range.
3. Set Max Positions To Scrape and run. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it through the Apify API.

You are only charged for real positions returned. Runs that match nothing cost nothing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a net short position disclosure? Under the EU Short Selling Regulation, holders must disclose net short positions in shares once they cross 0.5% of issued share capital, and each further 0.1% step. Regulators publish these disclosures.

What does the current flag mean? Current positions are still open (the holder remains short above the disclosure threshold). Historical positions have since been closed or reduced below the threshold.

Which countries are covered? France (AMF) and Germany (BaFin) today, normalised into one schema. More regulators can be added on request.

How fresh is the data? The disclosure files are read live at run time, so each record reflects the official register at the moment of the run (see observedAt).

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

For AI agents: this Actor is available on x402, Apify's agentic payment standard built with Coinbase. An AI agent can discover, pay for and run it on its own with a funded wallet and a single HTTP request: no account, no subscription, no API key and no human in the loop. It also runs as an MCP tool inside Claude, Cursor and other AI clients out of the box. Learn more about x402 agentic payments on Apify.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with any national regulator, AMF or BaFin. It only accesses publicly available net short position disclosures. Use the results in accordance with each source's terms.