🇪🇺 European Notaries Directory Scraper

Extract structured contact data for ~49,900 notaries across the European Union from the official European Directory of Notaries. Get names, offices, full addresses, phone, email, website, spoken languages and GPS coordinates — ready for CRM import, mapping, market research or legal-services outreach.

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🎯 Why use this Scraper?

The official directory is great for looking up one notary at a time, but there's no way to export the data in bulk. This Actor solves that by:

• Bulk extraction of every notary in a country — or the entire EU.
• Clean, structured output (JSON / Excel / CSV) instead of one-by-one page lookups.
• GPS coordinates on every record, so you can map notaries or calculate catchment areas.
• Language data, so you can find notaries who speak a specific language for cross-border clients.

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🏢 Use Cases

• Legal & financial services: build territory lists of notaries for partnerships or referrals.
• Cross-border transactions: find notaries by country and spoken language.
• Market research: analyse notary density and coverage across EU regions.
• Data enrichment: append verified office addresses and coordinates to an existing contact list.

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📦 Output Data

Each result is a structured record with the following fields:

name, office_name, country, city, address, postal_code, phone, fax, email, website, languages_spoken, lat, lon, detail_url, google_maps_url.

Example output

ℹ️ The values below are illustrative samples, not a real person's details.

{
  "name": "Jean EXEMPLE",
  "office_name": "Étude Notariale Exemple",
  "country": "France",
  "city": "LYON",
  "address": "12 rue de l'Exemple",
  "postal_code": "69000",
  "phone": "+33 4 00 00 00 00",
  "fax": "+33 4 00 00 00 01",
  "email": "contact@etude-exemple.fr",
  "website": "https://www.etude-exemple.fr",
  "languages_spoken": ["French", "English", "German"],
  "lat": 45.764043,
  "lon": 4.835659,
  "detail_url": "https://www.notaries-directory.eu/en/jean-exemple-000000",
  "google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=45.764043,4.835659"
}

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
country	string	""	2-letter EU country code (e.g. FR, DE). Empty = all EU countries.
city	string	""	Optional city filter (case-insensitive).
language	string	"en"	Interface language (en, fr, de, es, it, …).
max_items	integer	100	Maximum notaries to scrape. 0 = the full directory (~50K).
concurrency	integer	5	How many records to fetch in parallel. Higher = faster.
delay_ms	integer	250	Pause between page requests in milliseconds.
proxyConfiguration	object	{ "useApifyProxy": true }	Proxy settings. Recommended on — the directory limits requests per IP and the Actor rotates IPs automatically.

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💡 Tips

• Target a country with the country filter to get a focused, fast export (e.g. all French notaries).
• Keep the proxy on. The directory limits how fast a single IP can request pages; the Actor rotates IPs to keep results flowing. If you see slow runs, leave the proxy enabled (or switch its group to Residential for the smoothest results).
• Tune speed with concurrency — raise it for a faster run.
• City filtering is most efficient when combined with a country filter.
• Full EU export: set max_items: 0 and run it on the Apify scheduler to keep the dataset fresh.

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🤖 Use it as an AI Tool (MCP)

This Actor is Model Context Protocol (MCP) compatible, so AI assistants like Claude can call it directly through the Apify MCP Server. The input is described so an assistant can fill it in from a natural-language request, for example:

"Find 50 notaries in Lyon who speak English and return their office addresses and emails."

The assistant maps that to country: "FR", city: "Lyon" and reads the structured results — no manual configuration needed.

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📜 Disclaimer

This Actor extracts publicly available professional contact information from an EU-funded open directory. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable data-protection laws (such as the GDPR). Do not use the data for unsolicited marketing.