French Insolvency & Company Notices — BODACC Scraper

Search and extract French commercial announcements from BODACC (Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales). Find insolvencies, company registrations, dissolutions, business transfers, and account filings. Filter by company name, SIREN, department, notice type, or date range. No cookies, no login required.

How to scrape BODACC data

This actor queries the official BODACC open data API to deliver structured French commercial announcements. BODACC is France's mandatory publication bulletin for civil and commercial announcements — every company registration, modification, dissolution, insolvency proceeding, and account filing is published here. The database contains over 49 million announcements.

Search by Company Name

Enter a company name to find all official announcements about that company — registrations, modifications, insolvency proceedings, dissolutions, and account filings.

Search by SIREN Number

Look up all announcements for a specific company by its SIREN number. This gives you a complete legal timeline of any French company.

Filter by Notice Category

Focus on specific announcement types: insolvency proceedings (procedures collectives), new company registrations, modifications, deregistrations, account filings, or business sales/transfers.

Credit Risk Monitoring

Track insolvency announcements in a specific department or across all of France. Set up scheduled runs to monitor for new liquidations, receiverships (redressement judiciaire), and safeguard proceedings.

What data does BODACC Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
companyName	String	Company name (denomination)
siren	String	9-digit SIREN number
siret	String	14-digit SIRET number (when available)
noticeFamily	String	Category: insolvency, registration, modification, etc.
noticeType	String	Initial notice, judgment, or correction
publicationDate	String	BODACC publication date
court	String	Court name (tribunal)
city	String	Company city
postalCode	String	Postal code
department	String	Department code
region	String	Region code
judgmentType	String	Type of court decision (for insolvency notices)
judgmentDate	String	Date of court decision
legalAct	String	Type of legal act (for registration/modification notices)
actDate	String	Effective date of act
persons	Array	Named persons with roles (directors, administrators)
establishments	Array	Establishment details
url	String	Direct link to BODACC notice
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp

Example output

{
    "companyName": "SARL Restaurant Le Provence",
    "siren": "123456789",
    "siret": "",
    "noticeFamily": "Procedures collectives",
    "noticeType": "Jugement",
    "publicationDate": "2026-05-18",
    "court": "Tribunal de Commerce de Marseille",
    "city": "Marseille",
    "postalCode": "13001",
    "department": "13",
    "region": "93",
    "judgmentType": "Jugement d'ouverture de liquidation judiciaire",
    "judgmentDate": "2026-05-15",
    "legalAct": "",
    "actDate": "",
    "persons": [
        { "name": "Jean Dupont", "role": "Gerant" },
        { "name": "Marie Martin", "role": "Mandataire judiciaire" }
    ],
    "establishments": [
        { "name": "Restaurant Le Provence", "address": "15 rue de la Republique, 13001 Marseille", "activity": "Restauration traditionnelle" }
    ],
    "sourceUrl": "",
    "url": "https://www.bodacc.fr/annonce/detail/A-2026-12345",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-20T14:30:00.000Z"
}

Tips for best results

• Credit risk monitoring: Filter by "Insolvency" category and run on a daily schedule. Get early warning when companies in your supply chain or customer base enter proceedings.
• Due diligence: Search by SIREN to see the complete legal history of any French company — from registration through any proceedings to dissolution.
• Market intelligence: Track new company registrations in a specific department to spot emerging businesses.
• Account monitoring: Filter by "Account filings" to track when companies publish their annual accounts.
• Combine with enrichment: Use SIREN numbers from BODACC results with our French Company Enrichment actor for full company profiles.

How much does it cost?

Search size	Estimated time	Estimated cost
20 notices	~3 seconds	~$0.002
100 notices	~10 seconds	~$0.008
1,000 notices	~2 minutes	~$0.06

Can I use it as an API?

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("studio-amba/bodacc-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "liquidation judiciaire",
    "department": "75",
    "noticeFamily": "collective",
    "maxResults": 50,
})

for notice in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{notice['companyName']} | {notice['judgmentType']} | {notice['publicationDate']}")

Limitations

• OpenDataSoft API caps offset pagination at 10,000 — use date-range windowing for bulk extraction
• Nested JSON fields vary by notice type
• Personal insolvency notices may have restricted data
• Updated daily

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• French Company Enrichment — Full French company profiles from government API
• French Procurement (BOAMP) — French public procurement tenders

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