North Data Scraper — European Company Register Data

Search and extract European company data from North Data (northdata.com / northdata.de), the free company-intelligence directory that aggregates commercial-register filings, LEI/EUID identifiers, addresses, and officer records from Germany plus 15+ other European countries. Look up companies by name and get the register ID, EUID, LEI, registered address, founding date, business purpose or industry code, and current officers/directors for each match. No API key, no login, no cookies required.

North Data is one of the few free sources that pulls together official commercial-register data across borders — Germany's Handelsregister, Belgium's KBO, the Netherlands' KVK, France's SIREN, Denmark's CVR, and more — under one search box. This actor turns a plain company-name search into a clean, structured list of company profiles you can drop into a CRM, a due-diligence workflow, or a market-research spreadsheet.

How to scrape NorthData company data

This actor reads North Data's own public search endpoint and company profile pages. It returns structured records for every matching company across the countries North Data covers, with the same information you'd see by clicking through the website by hand — just structured and bulk-exportable.

Search by company name

Enter a company name to find that business and its related entities. Example: Siemens, Bosch, Bäckerei (bakery, useful for a broad small-business search). North Data's own search ranks and returns the closest name matches.

Filter by country

Set the Country Filter to one or more comma-separated ISO country codes to keep only companies registered in those countries. Example: DE (Germany only), DE,AT,CH (German-speaking countries), BE,NL (Benelux). Leave empty to search across every country North Data covers.

Full profile vs. lightweight search hits

By default (Fetch Full Company Profile = on) the actor opens each company's North Data profile page and extracts the register ID, address, founding date, officers, and business purpose or industry code. Turn this off to get only the fast, lightweight search-result fields (name, location, URL) — useful if you just need a quick list of matching companies without the extra page-load cost per result.

What data does North Data Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
companyName	String	Current registered company name
formerNames	Array	Previous names on record (mergers, rebrands, renamed legal forms)
registerId	String	Register court/authority + register number (e.g. "Amtsgericht Ulm HRB 732923", "Zentrale Unternehmensdatenbank (KBO) 0475.328.902")
formerRegisterIds	Array	Previous register entries (e.g. before a cross-border register change)
euid	String	European Unique Identifier, when assigned
lei	String	Legal Entity Identifier (ISO 17442), when registered
foundingDate	String	Company founding/registration date (ISO 8601), when on file
address	String	Current registered address, formatted as shown on North Data
street	String	Street and house number, when a structured address is available
postalCode	String	Postal code
city	String	City / locality
country	String	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
formerAddress	String	Previous registered address(es), when the company has relocated
industryOrPurpose	String	Free-text business purpose (Germany-style) or industry/NACE code list (Belgium-style), depending on what the source country's register publishes
officers	Array	Current officers/directors: { name, jobTitle, url }
officerNames	String	Officer names joined into one string, for a flat CSV view
location	String	City/country as shown in the search-result list (fallback display field)
url	String	Link to the company's North Data profile page
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of extraction

Financial figures (revenue, profit, headcount, balance sheet) are shown on North Data only for its Premium Service customers and are not included in this actor's output — the free public pages this actor reads have those figures blanked out ("censored") for most companies.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
Company Name	String	Siemens	Search by company name (any language North Data indexes)
Country Filter	String	—	Comma-separated ISO country codes to restrict results to
Fetch Full Company Profile	Boolean	true	Fetch each company's full profile page (register ID, address, officers, etc.) vs. just the lightweight search hit
Max Results	Integer	15	Maximum companies to return. North Data's free search returns up to 15 matches per query — a hard cap on the search box itself, not a setting this actor can raise
Proxy Configuration	Object	German residential proxy	Proxy settings

Example output

{
    "companyName": "Bäckerei A. Zink GmbH",
    "formerNames": [],
    "registerId": "Amtsgericht Ulm HRB 732923",
    "formerRegisterIds": [],
    "euid": "DEB8537.HRB732923",
    "lei": "",
    "foundingDate": "2015-12-21",
    "address": "Hauptstr. 11, D-88367 Hohentengen",
    "street": "Hauptstr. 11",
    "postalCode": "88367",
    "city": "Hohentengen",
    "country": "DE",
    "formerAddress": "",
    "industryOrPurpose": "Der Betrieb einer Bäckerei und/oder Konditorei, Ladengeschäfte mit Bäckereiwaren, Obst, Käse, Kaffee, Lebensmittel aller Art, Tabak und Nonfoodartikel.",
    "officers": [
        {
            "name": "Zink, Andreas",
            "jobTitle": "Geschäftsführer",
            "url": "https://www.northdata.de/Zink,%20Andreas,%20Hohentengen/1bok"
        }
    ],
    "officerNames": "Zink, Andreas",
    "location": "Hohentengen",
    "url": "https://www.northdata.de/B%C3%A4ckerei%20A%C2%B7%20Zink%20GmbH,%20Hohentengen/Amtsgericht%20Ulm%20HRB%20732923",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-14T19:31:37.571Z"
}

Common use cases

• Build B2B prospecting lists enriched with register ID, address, and officer names.
• Verify a supplier's or partner's legal identity and registration status before signing.
• Cross-border due diligence — one search box covers Germany, Benelux, France, the Nordics, and more.
• Track officer/director appointments across a group of related companies.
• Feed structured European company data into CRM enrichment or market-research pipelines.

Cost estimate

Pricing is pay-per-result. Each search returns up to 15 companies (North Data's free-tier cap), and full-profile mode makes one additional page request per company. Because both the search and profile pages are lightweight HTML/JSON reads with no browser rendering, compute cost per run is low.

Limitations

• North Data's free search box returns a maximum of 15 matches per query. For broader coverage, run multiple targeted queries (narrower name fragments, or combined with a country filter).
• Financial data (revenue, profit, headcount, balance sheet) is gated behind North Data's Premium Service and is not available through this actor.
• Coverage of secondary fields — officers, founding date, and industry/purpose — varies by source country and company type. A company's home register simply may not publish everything: for example, some Dutch KVK entries and informal legal vehicles (investment funds, employee share plans) carry little beyond a name, register ID, and address on North Data's free tier. Core identity fields (company name, address, city, country, register ID) are populated for the large majority of results; enrichment fields are best-effort, matching what North Data itself has managed to source.
• This actor reads the company's current registered profile. It does not enumerate the full filing history, shareholding network, or linked-entity graph North Data shows on its site.

Related scrapers

• Pappers Scraper — French company data (SIREN/SIRET) from Pappers.
• KVK Scraper — company data from the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.
• Registro Imprese Scraper — Italian company register data.
• Handelsregister Scraper — German commercial register data.

Data source and legality

This actor reads publicly available company data that North Data republishes from official European commercial registers, LEI/EUID registries, and other public sources. It does not access any login-protected or paid area, and it identifies itself with a standard browser user agent rather than any of the automated crawler identities North Data's robots.txt explicitly disallows. Use the data in line with North Data's terms and applicable data-protection rules.