Proff.no Scraper — Norwegian Company Register Data

Search Norwegian companies on Proff.no by name and extract structured company data: organization number, address, industry, revenue, profit, employees, CEO, board members, and parent company.

Why use this actor?

Proff.no is Norway's main business information directory (similar to KVK for the Netherlands or North Data for Germany), pulling from the Brønnøysund Register Centre plus Proff's own financial data. This actor turns a company name search into clean, structured JSON — useful for lead generation, sales prospecting, credit/risk checks, market research, and building a Nordic company database without manually looking up each entity on the site.

How to scrape Proff.no company data

1. Set searchQuery to the Norwegian company name you want to look up (e.g. "Telenor", "Equinor", "Norsk Hydro"). The search matches Proff's own company-name search box.
2. Leave fetchDetails enabled (default) to get the full company profile — founding/registration date, business purpose, NACE industry codes, board members and officers, and parent company. Disable it for a faster run that only returns the lighter search-result fields (name, org number, address, revenue, employees — still populated on every result, just without the board/founding-date extras).
3. Set maxResults (default 20, max 25 — see Limitations for why).
4. Run the actor. Results are written to the default dataset as one row per company.

Under the hood, the actor reads the same __NEXT_DATA__ JSON payload that Proff's own Next.js frontend hydrates from — no HTML scraping of rendered text, no anti-bot browser automation needed. Proff.no serves this to plain HTTP requests with no login and no API key.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Norwegian company name to search for. Default: "Telenor".
fetchDetails	Boolean	No	Fetch each company's full detail page for founding date, board members, purpose, NACE codes, parent company (default: true).
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum companies to return (default: 20, max: 25 — the verified per-search ceiling).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Defaults to Apify Residential proxy, country Norway.

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
companyName	String	"TELENOR NORGE AS"
legalName	String	"TELENOR NORGE AS"
orgNumber	String	"976967631"
companyTypeCode	String	"AS"
companyTypeName	String	"Aksjeselskap"
status	String	"ACTIVE"
industry	String	"Telekommunikasjon"
industryCode	String	"2210"
naceIndustries	Array	["61.100 Kabelbasert, satellittbasert og trådløs telekommunikasjon"]
address	String	"Snarøyveien 30"
postalCode	String	"1360"
city	String	"Fornebu"
county	String	"Akershus"
municipality	String	"Bærum"
revenue	Number	25787000
profit	Number	5010000
currency	String	"NOK"
employees	Number	2831
phone	String	"91509000"
ceoName	String	"Birgitte Engebretsen"
ceoRole	String	"Daglig leder"
boardMembers	Array	["Sigvart Voss Eriksen", "Kenneth Pettersen", ...]
boardMemberNames	String	"Sigvart Voss Eriksen, Kenneth Pettersen, ..."
parentCompanyName	String	"Telenor Networks Holding AS"
parentCompanyOrgNumber	String	"983939724"
foundationDate	String	"28.11.1996"
registrationDate	String	"09.12.1996"
purpose	String	"Å bygge ut, eie og drive effektive nett for telekommunikasjon..."
url	String	"https://www.proff.no/selskap/telenor-norge-as/fornebu/telekommunikasjon/IG5NT1R01PE"
scrapedAt	String	"2026-07-14T20:00:00.000Z"

Note: revenue and profit are reported by Proff.no in NOK thousands, matching how Norwegian annual accounts (regnskap) are typically filed — a value of 25787000 means roughly NOK 25.8 billion, not NOK 25.8 million.

Example output

{
    "companyName": "TELENOR NORGE AS",
    "legalName": "TELENOR NORGE AS",
    "orgNumber": "976967631",
    "companyTypeCode": "AS",
    "companyTypeName": "Aksjeselskap",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "industry": "Telekommunikasjon",
    "industryCode": "2210",
    "naceIndustries": ["61.100 Kabelbasert, satellittbasert og trådløs telekommunikasjon"],
    "address": "Snarøyveien 30",
    "postalCode": "1360",
    "city": "Fornebu",
    "county": "Akershus",
    "municipality": "Bærum",
    "revenue": 25787000,
    "profit": 5010000,
    "currency": "NOK",
    "employees": 2831,
    "phone": "91509000",
    "ceoName": "Birgitte Engebretsen",
    "ceoRole": "Daglig leder",
    "boardMembers": ["Sigvart Voss Eriksen", "Kenneth Pettersen"],
    "boardMemberNames": "Sigvart Voss Eriksen, Kenneth Pettersen",
    "parentCompanyName": "Telenor Networks Holding AS",
    "parentCompanyOrgNumber": "983939724",
    "foundationDate": "28.11.1996",
    "registrationDate": "09.12.1996",
    "purpose": "Å bygge ut, eie og drive effektive nett for telekommunikasjon i Norge...",
    "url": "https://www.proff.no/selskap/telenor-norge-as/fornebu/telekommunikasjon/IG5NT1R01PE",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-14T20:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost estimate

This actor makes 1 search request plus (optionally) 1 detail-page request per result — a lightweight HTTP scraper with no browser rendering. At standard Apify compute pricing this runs well under $1 per 1,000 companies in compute alone; see the actor's pricing tab for the per-result and per-run pricing that applies to your account.

Limitations

• Proff.no's company-name search returns a maximum of 25 companies per search on the first (and only allowed) results page. Proff's robots.txt explicitly disallows requesting further pages via the page= parameter for this search endpoint, so this actor does not paginate past page 1 — 25 is the real, verified ceiling per search, not a self-imposed limit. Narrow your searchQuery if you need to isolate a specific company out of a large result set.
• revenue, profit, and employees reflect the latest figures Proff has on file (companyAccountsLastUpdatedDate indicates the accounting year) — very small or newly founded companies may not have this data yet.
• Data is scraped from the public Proff.no website and may change without notice. Respect Proff's terms of service and use responsibly.

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