Spanish Company Registry Scraper — BORME Data

Extract structured company data from Spain's official BORME (Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil), the daily publication of the Spanish commercial registry. No login required, no cookies, no fees — uses only free official open data from BOE.es.

How to scrape Registro Mercantil data

The Registro Mercantil is Spain's official commercial registry. Every corporate act — new company incorporations, officer appointments, capital changes, dissolutions, mergers — must be published in the BORME through the BOE (Boletín Oficial del Estado).

This actor accesses the free BORME open data API to fetch daily summaries, downloads the official province-level PDFs, and extracts structured company data from them.

Quick start

1. Set the Publication Date to the date you want (or leave empty for the most recent)
2. Optionally set a Province filter (e.g., "Madrid", "Barcelona")
3. Optionally search by Company Name or CIF/NIF
4. Click Start and wait for results

What you get

Each result contains:

Field	Description
companyName	Official company name as registered
cifNif	Tax identification number (CIF/NIF) when available
province	Province where the act was registered
actType	Type of corporate act (see list below)
actDetails	Full text of the registered act
legalForm	Legal form (SL, SA, SLL, etc.)
registeredOffice	Registered office address
capital	Share capital when mentioned
administrators	Names of administrators/directors
companyPurpose	Company purpose/object
bormeId	Official BORME identifier
publicationDate	Date of publication
sourceUrl	Direct link to the source PDF

Corporate act types

The actor classifies entries into these act types:

• constituciones — New company incorporations
• nombramientos — Appointments of directors, administrators, representatives
• ceses — Terminations and resignations
• ampliaciones_capital — Capital increases
• reducciones_capital — Capital reductions
• cambios_domicilio — Address changes
• disoluciones — Dissolutions and liquidations
• fusiones — Mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs
• otros — Other registered acts

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
date	string	No	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to most recent weekday.
province	string	No	Filter by province. E.g., "Madrid", "Barcelona", "Valencia".
searchQuery	string	No	Filter by company name or keywords.
cifNif	string	No	Search by CIF/NIF tax ID. E.g., "A28015865".
actType	string	No	Filter by act type (see list above).
daysBack	integer	No	Number of business days to process. Default: 1, max: 30.
maxResults	integer	No	Maximum records to return. Default: 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. Defaults to Spanish residential proxies.

Output example

{
    "companyName": "NUEVA TECNOLOGIA APLICADA SL",
    "cifNif": "B12345678",
    "province": "MADRID",
    "actType": "constituciones",
    "actDetails": "Constitución. Comienzo de operaciones: 15.04.2026. Objeto social: Desarrollo de software. Capital: 3.000,00 Euros.",
    "legalForm": "SL",
    "registeredOffice": "Calle Gran Via 28, 28013 Madrid",
    "capital": "3.000,00 Euros",
    "administrators": ["Juan Garcia Lopez"],
    "companyPurpose": "Desarrollo de software y consultoría tecnológica",
    "bormeId": "BORME-A-2026-89-28",
    "publicationDate": "2026-05-12",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.boe.es/borme/dias/2026/05/12/pdfs/BORME-A-2026-89-28.pdf",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-12T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Data source

This actor uses the official BORME open data API provided by the BOE (Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado) at boe.es/datosabiertos/. This is:

• Free — No registration, no API key, no per-query fees
• Official — Government-published data from the Registro Mercantil
• Daily — Updated every business day with 500+ corporate acts
• Comprehensive — Covers all 50 Spanish provinces plus Ceuta and Melilla

The data includes all acts that Spanish companies are legally required to publish in the commercial registry: incorporations, officer changes, capital modifications, dissolutions, and more.

Use cases

• Lead generation — Find newly incorporated companies by province and date
• KYC/KYB compliance — Verify company registrations and officer appointments
• Competitive intelligence — Track capital changes, mergers, and dissolutions
• Market research — Analyze incorporation trends by region and industry
• Legal monitoring — Track corporate governance changes for specific companies

Cost and performance

• Data source cost: Free (official open data, no API fees)
• Speed: Processes 1 province in 2-5 seconds, all 50 provinces in 2-5 minutes
• Volume: A single day typically contains 500-1,500 corporate acts across all provinces
• Proxy: Spanish residential proxies recommended for reliable PDF downloads

Estimated costs per run

Scenario	Time	Apify cost
1 province, 1 day	~10 sec	~$0.01
All provinces, 1 day	~3 min	~$0.05
1 province, 30 days	~5 min	~$0.08
All provinces, 7 days	~20 min	~$0.30

Available provinces

All 50 Spanish provinces are supported:

Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Alicante, Malaga, Murcia, Cadiz, Vizcaya (Bizkaia), A Coruna, Asturias, Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Granada, Pontevedra, Zaragoza, Tarragona, Girona, Cordoba, Guipuzcoa (Gipuzkoa), Alava (Araba), Badajoz, Jaen, Toledo, Almeria, Castellon, Huelva, Cantabria, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Navarra, Caceres, Leon, Illes Balears, Albacete, Salamanca, Burgos, Lleida, La Rioja, Lugo, Ourense, Guadalajara, Huesca, Cuenca, Palencia, Zamora, Segovia, Avila, Soria, Teruel, Ceuta, Melilla.

Tips

• Weekend dates will return no data — BORME only publishes on business days (Monday to Friday)
• Use daysBack to scan multiple days at once instead of running the actor repeatedly
• Filter by province to speed up runs when you only need data from specific regions
• CIF/NIF search requires the exact format (letter + 7 digits + check character): e.g., B12345678
• Results are deduplicated by company name and act type within each province and date

Integrations

This actor works with the standard Apify ecosystem:

• Use the Apify API to run the actor programmatically
• Connect to Google Sheets, Slack, or email via Apify integrations
• Schedule daily runs to monitor new company registrations
• Export data as JSON, CSV, XML, or Excel