# France BODACC Insolvency & Legal Announcements Scraper (`scrapers_lat/france-bodacc-scraper`) Actor
Extract French official legal announcements: company registrations, sales and transfers, insolvency (procedure collective) filings and account deposits. Get company name, SIREN, court, dates and parsed announcement details. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapers\_lat/france-bodacc-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Lat](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 results
This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
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# README
[](https://console.apify.com/actors/L2XKdcgKzhoMEWsct/input)
## France BODACC Insolvency & Legal Announcements Scraper
> Extract French official legal announcements (insolvencies, company registrations, sales and account filings) with company name, SIREN, court and the full ruling, covering every business event published across France
25 fields per record
France coverage
JSON / CSV / Excel output formats
### What you get
Each record is one official legal announcement about a French business, with the company name, its SIREN, the court, the publication date and the parsed announcement details, whether it is an insolvency ruling, a new registration, a sale of business or an account filing.
- **id**: unique announcement identifier
- **publicationDate**: date the announcement was published
- **announcementType**: announcement family code (collective, creation, vente, dpc, modification, radiation and more)
- **announcementTypeLabel**: readable announcement type (Insolvency and collective proceedings, Company registration, Sale or transfer of business, Account filing and more)
- **familyLabelFr**: original French family label
- **avisType**: notice stage (initial notice, corrective, cancellation)
- **companyName**: name of the company or trader named in the announcement
- **siren**: 9 digit national company identifier for the main party
- **sirens**: every SIREN referenced in the announcement
- **persons**: each party (company or individual) with name, SIREN, RCS registry office, legal form, capital, management and address
- **court**: court or commercial registry office that issued the announcement
- **address**: city, postal code, department code, department name and region
- **judgment**: for insolvency and collective proceedings, the ruling family, nature, date, stage and full text (liquidation, receivership, closure for insufficient assets and more)
- **sale**: for sales and transfers, the sale category, description, opposition terms and legal notice reference
- **registrationAct**: for registrations and modifications, the registration date, activity start date and category
- **accountFiling**: for account deposits, the closing date, deposit type and confidentiality note
- **establishments**: business premises with origin, role, activity and address
- **previousOwner**: prior owner parties named in a sale or transfer
- **bulletin**: bulletin the announcement appeared in (BODACC A, B or C) with its number
- **bulletinCode**: bulletin letter code (A, B or C)
- **bulletinNumber**: publication number of the bulletin
- **announcementNumber**: sequential announcement number within the bulletin
- **sourceUrl**: link to the official announcement page
- **observedAt**: when this announcement was last seen by the scraper
### Who is it for
| Use case | Who benefits |
|---|---|
| Monitoring insolvencies and collective proceedings by company or region | Credit risk and KYB teams |
| Screening suppliers, customers and partners for legal events | Compliance and due diligence analysts |
| Spotting sales and transfers of business as acquisition signals | M and A and corporate development teams |
| Tracking new company registrations for prospecting | Sales and lead generation teams |
| Following the legal history of a single company by SIREN | Legal and research teams |
### Frequently Asked Questions
**What French legal announcements does this scraper cover?**
It covers the official bulletin of civil and commercial announcements for the whole of France: company registrations, sales and transfers of business, insolvency and collective proceedings, account filings, modifications and deregistrations. Records go back many years and are updated as new announcements are published.
**How do I find insolvencies for a company or area?**
Set the announcement type to insolvency and collective proceedings, then add a company name or SIREN, a department code or a publication date range. Each matching record includes the ruling nature and full text, for example a liquidation, a receivership or a closure for insufficient assets.
**Can I look up every announcement for one company?**
Yes. Enter a 9 digit SIREN as the search text and the scraper returns the full legal history for that company, including its registration, any sales, modifications, account filings and insolvency events, each with its own date and details.
**How many announcements can I collect in one run?**
You set the limit with the Max items field. Large searches match hundreds of thousands of records, so you can collect thousands per run. Very deep result sets are best narrowed with a date range or a department filter.
**What happens when a field is missing for an announcement?**
Fields that do not apply to a given announcement type are returned as null rather than dropped, so the record shape stays consistent. An insolvency record carries the judgment block while a sale record carries the sale block, and each keeps the shared company and court fields.
### 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](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/x402).
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### More scrapers at scrapers.lat
This actor is built and maintained by [scrapers.lat](https://scrapers.lat), where we publish scrapers for Latin American and US public platforms: real estate, jobs, e-commerce, company registries and government data. Browse the full catalog, see live sample output for each one, or ask us for a custom scraper at [scrapers.lat](https://scrapers.lat).
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> This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the French government or any official publisher. It only accesses data that is published as public open data. Use it in accordance with the service's terms of use.
# Actor input Schema
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of announcements to collect across all matching results. Optional.
## `query` (type: `string`):
Free-text search across company name, trader name, address and registration numbers (for example "boulangerie", a company name, or a 9 digit SIREN like "552100554"). Leave empty to list every announcement that matches the filters below.
## `announcementType` (type: `string`):
Restrict to a single announcement family. Leave as "Any type" to include all.
## `department` (type: `string`):
Restrict to a French department by its 2 or 3 character code (for example "75" for Paris, "13" for Bouches-du-Rhone, "2A" for Corse-du-Sud). Optional.
## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):
Only announcements published on or after this date (format YYYY-MM-DD, for example "2025-01-01"). Optional.
## `dateTo` (type: `string`):
Only announcements published on or before this date (format YYYY-MM-DD, for example "2025-12-31"). Optional.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"maxItems": 20,
"query": "boulangerie",
"announcementType": ""
}
````
# Actor output Schema
## `results` (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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"maxItems": 20,
"query": "boulangerie"
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapers_lat/france-bodacc-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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"maxItems": 20,
"query": "boulangerie",
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapers_lat/france-bodacc-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"maxItems": 20,
"query": "boulangerie"
}' |
apify call scrapers_lat/france-bodacc-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapers_lat/france-bodacc-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
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"x-build-id": "pFQrXWiLzPVBckNaD"
},
"servers": [
{
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"required": true,
"schema": {
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"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
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"parameters": [
{
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"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
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"components": {
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"minimum": 1,
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},
"query": {
"title": "Search text or SIREN",
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text search across company name, trader name, address and registration numbers (for example \"boulangerie\", a company name, or a 9 digit SIREN like \"552100554\"). Leave empty to list every announcement that matches the filters below."
},
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"title": "Announcement type",
"enum": [
"",
"collective",
"creation",
"immatriculation",
"vente",
"modification",
"radiation",
"dpc",
"conciliation",
"retablissement",
"divers"
],
"type": "string",
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"title": "Department code",
"type": "string",
"description": "Restrict to a French department by its 2 or 3 character code (for example \"75\" for Paris, \"13\" for Bouches-du-Rhone, \"2A\" for Corse-du-Sud). Optional."
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