Impressum Scraper — German, Austrian and Swiss company data from the legal notice

Every commercial website in Germany, Austria and Switzerland must publish an Impressum (legal notice): who runs the site, where, and under which register entry. This Actor reads it and gives you each company as one clean row: company name, legal form, address, managing directors, register court and number (HRB / HRA / FN / UID), VAT ID, email, phone and fax, plus the company's LinkedIn, XING and other profiles.

Two ways in:

• A list of websites you already have (domains or links): the Actor finds the Impressum link and reads it.
• A trade and a city (Steuerberater in München, Zahnarzt in Wien): the Actor finds the businesses on Google Maps and reads the Impressum of every one that has its own website. Each row then also carries the business's Google Maps name, category, rating, reviews and link.

You pay only for websites whose Impressum named the company. Unreachable sites, sites without an Impressum, blocked sites and Maps businesses without a website are free.

Who it is for

• B2B sales and lead generation in the DACH market: decision makers (Geschäftsführer, Vorstand, Inhaber) with the company's official address and contacts, by trade and region.
• CRM enrichment and data cleaning: add the legal name, register number and VAT ID to a list of domains.
• KYC, supplier and partner checks: compare what a company states about itself with the Handelsregister, Firmenbuch or Swiss commercial register; the register number and court are given exactly as cited.
• Agencies and market research: count and segment local businesses (legal form, city, register) in any area.

How it works

1. Websites: each one is opened like a visitor would. The link to the Impressum is found by its text (Impressum, Imprint, Legal notice, Offenlegung…); when the homepage shows none (some sites draw their footer with JavaScript), /impressum and /imprint are tried. A link straight to the Impressum is read with one request.
2. Google Maps: each search term is looked up around each location, page by page, keeping businesses inside the radius. Businesses with their own website are read as above; a profile pointing to Facebook, Instagram or a directory counts as no website. A chain whose branches share one Impressum is delivered and charged once.
3. Reading the Impressum: the Actor finds the legal-notice block (not the menu, footer or the web designer's credits) and reads German, Austrian and Swiss formats: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 269744 B, FN 440148 b, Handelsgericht Wien, CHE-294.954.422 MWST, USt-IdNr. DE450479811, ATU70099519, addresses like A – 1010 Wien or Graben 31/4/11, and emails written as info(at)firma.de or hidden by Cloudflare's email protection.

Measured on 108 small businesses found on Google Maps in Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Hamburg, Graz and Basel: 87 homepages answered, 74 Impressums were found, and 69 of those named the company with an address or register entry. The rest draw their Impressum with JavaScript or show it as an image; they are free rows.

Input example

{
    "websites": ["https://www.manufactum.de", "einstein-kaffee.de", "mymuesli.com"],
    "searchTerms": ["Steuerberater"],
    "locations": ["München"],
    "radiusKm": 5,
    "maxImprintsPerSearch": 10,
    "country": "de",
    "requireEmail": false
}

Use only websites, only searchTerms + locations, or both.

Output example

{
    "rowType": "imprint",
    "website": "https://hoppesteuerberater.de/",
    "domain": "hoppesteuerberater.de",
    "imprintUrl": "https://hoppesteuerberater.de/impressum/",
    "companyName": "Hoppe & Partner Steuerberatung PartGmbB",
    "legalForm": "PartG mbB",
    "address": "Wagmüllerstraße 16, 80538 München",
    "street": "Wagmüllerstraße 16",
    "postalCode": "80538",
    "city": "München",
    "countryCode": "DE",
    "managingDirectors": ["Danny Hoppe", "Faik Shulemaja"],
    "registerType": "PR",
    "registerNumber": "PR 2549",
    "registerCourt": "Amtsgericht München",
    "vatId": "DE238033672",
    "taxNumber": null,
    "email": "mail@hoppestb.de",
    "emails": ["mail@hoppestb.de"],
    "phone": "089 379 533 76",
    "phoneInternational": "+498937953376",
    "fax": null,
    "socials": { "linkedin": null, "xing": null, "facebook": null, "instagram": null, "youtube": null, "tiktok": null, "x": null },
    "foundBy": "google maps",
    "searchTerm": "Steuerberater",
    "location": "München",
    "mapsName": "Hoppe & Partner Steuerberatung PartGmbB",
    "mapsCategory": "Steuerberater",
    "mapsAddress": "Wagmüllerstraße 16, 80538 München-Altstadt-Lehel",
    "mapsPhone": "089 37953376",
    "mapsRating": 4.8,
    "mapsReviewCount": 26,
    "mapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16891850753548071026",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Company fields (rowType: imprint, charged)

field	what it holds
companyName	The company or, for a sole trader, the person the Impressum names.
legalForm	Normalized: GmbH, UG (haftungsbeschränkt), GmbH & Co. KG, AG, KG, OHG, GbR, e.K., PartG mbB, e.U., OG, Sàrl, Einzelunternehmen…
address, street, postalCode, city, countryCode	The company's address as the Impressum gives it; countryCode is DE, AT, CH or LI.
managingDirectors	Geschäftsführer, Vorstand, Inhaber or whoever the Impressum names as representing the company.
registerType, registerNumber, registerCourt	HRB, HRA, GnR, PR, VR (Germany), FN (Austria), UID (Switzerland), cited as written (HRB 269744 B).
vatId, taxNumber	VAT ID (DE…, ATU…, CHE-… MWST) and the German tax number when the Impressum gives one.
email, emails	The company's own mailbox first; web designers' and platforms' addresses are left out.
phone, phoneInternational, fax	As written, and the phone in E.164 for dialers and CRMs.
socials	LinkedIn, XING, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X profiles linked from the site.
website, domain, imprintUrl	Where the data came from.
foundBy, searchTerm, location, maps…	website list or google maps; for Maps businesses their name, category, address, phone, rating, reviews and link.

A field the Impressum does not state is null (or an empty list).

Free rows

• rowType: skipped — a website not delivered, with reason and a plain message: unreachable (no answer, the domain does not exist), blocked (the site refused the request or answered with a bot check), noImprint (no Impressum link or page), noCompanyData (an Impressum whose HTML names no company: drawn by JavaScript or an image), noEmail (with "Only companies with an email" on).
• rowType: search — one per search term and location: where it was centred, businesses in the radius, how many had no website, websites read, companies delivered.

The run's SUMMARY record counts everything.

Pricing

US$0.003 per company delivered (imprint event), nothing else: no start fee, no per-website fee, no per-page fee. Everything that is not a delivered company is free. 1,000 companies cost US$3. Set a spending limit on the run and the Actor stops reading websites when it is reached.

Google Maps: stops when Google asks for verification

The Actor reads Google Maps' public search answers at a gentle pace. If Google answers with its "unusual traffic" verification page, the Actor never solves or bypasses it: it stops asking Google for the rest of the run, the searches left become free blocked rows, and the run still ends successfully with what was delivered. Try again later.

Limits

• Websites that draw their Impressum with JavaScript, show it as an image or put it in a PDF cannot be read (free rows).
• Sites behind bot protection (Cloudflare challenges, DataDome and similar) are free blocked rows; the Actor never solves a challenge.
• Each Google Maps search returns ~120–240 businesses per point; wide radii are covered with several points.
• Up to 5,000 websites per run, 20 search terms × 20 locations.
• The data is what each company publishes about itself in its Impressum. It can be outdated or incomplete; check the official register before relying on it for a contract.

Is it legal?

The Impressum is a page the law requires companies to publish so that anyone can identify them (Germany § 5 DDG, Austria § 5 ECG and § 14 UGB, Switzerland Art. 3 UWG). This Actor reads only public pages, at a visitor's pace (one request at a time per site), never signs in and never bypasses any protection. Using the data is your responsibility. In particular:

• Cold email and calls: in Germany, § 7 UWG forbids advertising emails without prior consent, also to businesses, and cold calls to businesses need at least their presumed consent; Austria (§ 174 TKG) and Switzerland (Art. 3 UWG) have similar rules.
• GDPR: names, direct emails and phones of managing directors and sole traders are personal data. You need a legal basis (for example legitimate interest, with a balancing test), must inform the people you contact, honour objections, and keep the data only as long as needed.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Google or by any website whose Impressum it reads. Read more in Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Feedback

Found an Impressum the Actor reads wrong, or a format it misses? Open an issue with the website: every format fixed is tested against the real page.