Recherche Entreprises Scraper — Official French Company Register

Search and extract French company data straight from the official government register: recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr, the same open API that powers annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr. Look up companies by name or business activity and get the SIREN, SIRET, legal form, NAF/APE activity code, registered address, administrative status, officers (dirigeants), creation date, and employee bracket for every match. No API key, no login, no scraping of the website itself — this reads the same public data source the French state publishes for free.

France has more than 26 million registered business entities in SIRENE, the national business register. This actor turns a plain keyword search into a clean, structured list of companies you can drop straight into a CRM, a lead list, or a market-research spreadsheet.

How to scrape Recherche Entreprises company data

This actor queries the official recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr search endpoint and returns structured records for every matching French company. Because it reads the government's own open-data API — not a scraped HTML page — the data is authoritative, current, and free to access at any volume the API allows.

Search by company name

Enter a company name to find that business and its related entities. Example: Carrefour, Decathlon, Total. The actor returns matches ranked the same way the official search ranks them, including group subsidiaries and holding structures.

Search by business activity

Enter an activity keyword to build a list of companies in that line of work. Example: boulangerie (bakery), restaurant, plombier (plumber), garage automobile. This is the fastest way to build a prospecting list for a specific trade or vertical.

Filter by department

Set the Department Filter to a French department code to keep only companies whose head office is in that department. Use the 2-digit code (75 Paris, 69 Rhône, 13 Bouches-du-Rhône, 33 Gironde) or the 3-digit code for overseas departments (971 Guadeloupe, 974 Réunion). The filter is applied server-side by the official API.

Filter by activity code (NAF/APE)

Set the NAF/APE Activity Code Filter to a specific activity code (e.g. 10.71A for bread and pastry, 62.01Z for software development) to keep only companies whose main registered activity matches. Combine with a name or activity keyword for a precise vertical list.

Active companies only

Turn on Active Companies Only to exclude companies whose administrative status is closed (etat_administratif = C) and keep just the ones currently active.

What data does Recherche Entreprises Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
companyName	String	Registered company name (dénomination complète)
siren	String	9-digit SIREN identifier
siret	String	14-digit SIRET of the head office (siège)
legalFormCode	String	Raw INSEE legal category code (catégorie juridique)
legalForm	String	Plain-language legal form label (SA, SARL, SAS, EURL, etc.)
nafCode	String	NAF/APE activity code (e.g. 10.71A)
nafLabel	String	Broad sector description derived from the NACE activity section
sectionActivity	String	NACE activity section letter (A–U)
address	String	Head-office street address
postalCode	String	5-digit French postal code
city	String	Head-office city (commune)
department	String	French department code of the head office
latitude	Number	Head-office latitude
longitude	Number	Head-office longitude
status	String	Administrative status (actif, cessé)
ceased	Boolean	Whether the company has ceased activity
creationDate	String	Company creation date (ISO)
employeeRange	String	Headcount bracket (tranche d'effectif salarié)
employeeCountYear	Number	Reference year of the headcount
employerCompany	Boolean	Whether the head office is registered as an employer
companySize	String	INSEE company size category (categorie_entreprise: PME, ETI, GE...)
establishmentsTotal	Number	Total number of establishments (sites) for this company
establishmentsOpen	Number	Number of currently open establishments
officers	String	Officers/directors (dirigeants) with their role, semicolon-separated
url	String	Link to the company page on annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of extraction

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
Company Name / Activity Keywords	String	boulangerie	Search by company name or activity (in French)
Department Filter	String	—	Keep only companies in this department (75, 69, 971, …)
NAF/APE Activity Code Filter	String	—	Keep only companies matching this activity code
Active Companies Only	Boolean	false	Exclude closed companies
Max Results	Integer	50	Maximum companies to return (actor paginates 25 per request)
Proxy Configuration	Object	none	Optional — this is an open government API, no proxy required

Example output

{
    "companyName": "BOULANGERIES BG (B B G)",
    "siren": "478455793",
    "siret": "47845579305205",
    "legalFormCode": "5710",
    "legalForm": "SAS (société par actions simplifiée)",
    "nafCode": "56.10C",
    "nafLabel": "Hébergement et restauration",
    "sectionActivity": "I",
    "address": "615 AVENUE DE LA CHAFFINE 13160 CHATEAURENARD",
    "postalCode": "13160",
    "city": "CHATEAURENARD",
    "department": "13",
    "latitude": 43.8903640316375,
    "longitude": 4.82612901648503,
    "status": "actif",
    "ceased": false,
    "creationDate": "2004-08-25",
    "employeeRange": "5 000 à 9 999 salariés",
    "employeeCountYear": 2023,
    "employerCompany": true,
    "companySize": "GE",
    "establishmentsTotal": 597,
    "establishmentsOpen": 575,
    "officers": "BERNARD BLACHERE (Président de SAS); MARIE BLACHERE (Directeur Général)",
    "url": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/478455793",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-14T21:00:00.000Z"
}

Common use cases

• Build B2B prospecting lists for a specific trade and department.
• Enrich a CRM with SIREN, SIRET, legal form, and NAF codes.
• Verify a supplier's legal identity, status, and officers before signing.
• Map competitors in a region by activity code or department.
• Feed French company data into market-research and lead-scoring pipelines.

Cost estimate

Pricing is pay-per-result. Each run paginates the official API in batches of 25, so cost scales with the number of companies returned. Because the actor reads a single lightweight JSON endpoint with no browser rendering, compute cost per run is negligible.

Limitations

• This actor reads head-office (siège) data by default. Secondary establishments are counted (establishmentsTotal) but not individually enumerated.
• The nafLabel field is derived from the broad NACE activity section (A–U), not a full 700-entry NAF code dictionary — for the exact activity description, use nafCode.
• Officer (dirigeants) data reflects what the RNE (Registre National des Entreprises) has on file and may be empty for some entity types (associations, public bodies).
• Results depend entirely on the official government API's uptime and rate limits.

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Data source and legality

This actor reads publicly available company data directly from the French government's official open-data API (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr), part of the État Plateforme suite of gouv.fr open APIs. It does not access any login-protected or paid area. This data is published under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence.

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