Norway Company Data API: Enhetsregisteret Register

Search 1.17 million Norwegian companies from the official Enhetsregisteret open API, published by the Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brreg). Filter by name, industry code, municipality, legal form, VAT registration, bankruptcy or liquidation — and get organisation number, address, NACE codes, headcount and status as clean JSON.

No scraping, no API key. The source is a documented public API under the NLOD licence, which permits commercial reuse.

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What you get

One dataset item per entity:

Group	Fields
Identity	organisation number, name, legal form, previous names with dates, website
Addresses	business address and postal address, each with postcode, city, municipality and country
Industry	up to three NACE industry codes, each with code and description
Size	reported headcount, institutional sector
Dates	founding date, register registration date, VAT registration date
Status	VAT registered, bankrupt (with date), under liquidation (with date), compulsory dissolution
Provenance	source, licence and attribution on every row

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Sample output

Real row, trimmed:

{
  "orgNumber": "923609016",
  "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "orgForm": { "code": "ASA", "description": "Allmennaksjeselskap" },
  "website": "http://www.equinor.com",
  "businessAddress": {
    "address": ["Forusbeen 50"],
    "postalCode": "4035",
    "city": "STAVANGER",
    "municipality": "Stavanger",
    "municipalityNumber": "1103",
    "country": "Norge",
    "countryCode": "NO"
  },
  "industryCode1": { "code": "06.100", "description": "Utvinning av råolje" },
  "industryCode2": { "code": "06.200", "description": "Utvinning av naturgass" },
  "employees": 21272,
  "registeredDate": "1995-02-24",
  "vatRegistered": true,
  "bankrupt": false,
  "underLiquidation": false,
  "source": {
    "provider": "Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brreg) — Enhetsregisteret",
    "licence": "NLOD — Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data"
  }
}

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Usage

Everything traded under one name

{ "name": "Equinor", "maxItems": 500 }

Businesses in a municipality, by industry

{
  "naceCode": "46.710",
  "municipality": "0301",
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Newly registered limited companies

{
  "orgForm": "AS",
  "registeredAfter": "2026-08-01",
  "maxItems": 5000
}

New registrations are the classic B2B prospecting list: a company that registered last month needs an accountant, insurance, banking and software.

Risk screen: bankrupt and liquidating companies

{ "bankrupt": true, "maxItems": 5000 }

There are around 3,200 bankrupt entities in the register at any time. Separately, underLiquidation and compulsoryDissolution cover the other distress states.

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Filters

Field	Notes
name	Full or partial company name
orgNumber	9-digit organisation number
naceCode	NACE code in NN.NNN format — the dots matter
municipality	Municipality code, e.g. 0301 Oslo
orgForm	AS limited, ASA public limited, ENK sole trader…
registeredAfter / registeredBefore	ISO dates
vatRegistered	VAT register — a good proxy for real trading activity
bankrupt	Declared bankrupt
underLiquidation	Being wound up
compulsoryDissolution	Compulsory dissolution proceedings
sort	Organisation number, name, or registration date
maxItems	Hard cap on returned entities

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Pricing

Event	Charged	Covers
company-record	once per entity returned	the normalised record

No scan surcharge — the API returns up to 10,000 entities per request, so a run that collects 10,000 companies costs the same in requests as a run that collects one. You pay only for the rows you keep.

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Reliability

• A documented public API, not a web page. No browser, no proxy, no selectors.
• The API is unusually generous: 10,000 rows per request, which keeps even large extractions cheap.
• Requests are retried, capped at four in flight, and errors are logged rather than silently dropped.
• Duplicate organisation numbers across pages are removed before pushing.

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Notes and limits

• NACE codes need the exact format. 46.710 works, 46710 is rejected and 46.71 matches nothing. The register uses the Norwegian NACE variant, which does not always align one-to-one with the EU codes.
• Headcount is often absent. Many entities have never reported one, so employees is null rather than zero. Filter on vatRegistered if you want entities that are actually trading.
• Entities are not only companies. The Enhetsregisteret also holds associations, foundations, public bodies and sole traders. Use orgForm to narrow to companies.
• Attribution is required by NLOD and is included on every row.

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Data source

The Enhetsregisteret is published by the Brønnøysund Register Centre. The API is free, requires no key, and its documentation states the licence as NLOD (Norsk lisens for offentlige data), which permits commercial reuse provided the source is acknowledged.

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Support

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