Societe.com Scraper — French Company Register Data

Search and extract French company data from Societe.com, one of the most-used public directories for French businesses (SIREN/SIRET, RCS, RNE). Look up a company by name or by an exact SIREN/SIRET and get the legal name, SIREN, SIRET, VAT number, legal form, NAF activity code, registered address, founding date, administrative status, employee headcount, and the full list of dirigeants (managers, directors, and mandated companies). No login, no API key, no cookies required.

France has more than 26 million registered business entities on file. This actor turns a plain company-name search into structured records you can drop into a CRM, a lead list, a KYC check, or a supplier-verification workflow — without opening a browser tab per company.

How to scrape Societe.com data

This actor reads Societe.com's own site-search endpoint to resolve a query to one or more matching companies, then fetches each company's public profile page and parses the structured company record embedded in it. Because it reads the same data Societe.com serves to its own website (schema.org company markup), the output matches what a human would see on the page — legal identity, address, dirigeants — without needing a paid Societe.com subscription.

Search by company name

Enter a company name to find that business and close variants. Example: TotalEnergies, Danone, Carrefour. The actor returns the top company matches, ranked the same way Societe.com's own search ranks them, and fetches a full profile for each.

Look up an exact SIREN or SIRET

Paste a 9-digit SIREN or 14-digit SIRET into the search field instead of a name to jump straight to one company (or its establishment) and its head-office profile.

Filter by SIREN

Set the SIREN Filter to keep only the one company whose SIREN matches, out of a broader name search. Useful when a name search returns several similarly-named entities and you need the exact one.

Control how many profiles are fetched

Max Results caps how many company profiles the actor fetches and returns (1–20). Each result is a separate page fetch, so keep this to what you actually need — a single exact lookup only needs 1.

What data does Societe.com Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
companyName	String	Registered legal name (dénomination)
siren	String	9-digit SIREN identifier
siret	String	14-digit SIRET of the head office
vatNumber	String	French intra-community VAT number (TVA)
legalForm	String	Legal form label (SA, SAS, SARL, SASU, etc.)
legalFormCode	String	INSEE legal form code (nature juridique)
nafCode	String	NAF/APE activity code
nafLabel	String	Description of the NAF activity
address	String	Head-office street address
postalCode	String	Postal code
city	String	Head-office city
foundingDate	String	Date the company was founded (ISO)
status	String	Administrative status (e.g. Active)
employeeCount	Number	Exact reported headcount, when Societe.com exposes it for that company (otherwise null)
directors	Array	Dirigeants: name, role/mandate, whether it's a person or a mandated company, and that company's own SIREN
url	String	Link to the company's Societe.com profile
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of extraction

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
Company Name / SIREN / SIRET	String	TotalEnergies	Search by company name, or paste an exact SIREN/SIRET
SIREN Filter	String	—	Keep only the company with this 9-digit SIREN
Max Results	Integer	5	Maximum company profiles to fetch (1–20)
Proxy Configuration	Object	FR residential proxy	Proxy settings — French residential proxy recommended

Example output

Real output from a live run against https://www.societe.com/societe/l-oreal-632012100.html (directors array trimmed to 3 of 22 entries for readability):

{
    "companyName": "L'OREAL",
    "siren": "632012100",
    "siret": "63201210000012",
    "vatNumber": "FR10632012100",
    "legalForm": "SA à conseil d'administration",
    "legalFormCode": "5599",
    "nafCode": "7740Z",
    "nafLabel": "Location-bail de propriété intellectuelle et de produits similaires, à l'exception des oeuvres soumises à copyright",
    "address": "14 RUE ROYALE",
    "postalCode": "75008",
    "city": "PARIS",
    "foundingDate": "1963-03-01",
    "status": "Active",
    "employeeCount": 6574,
    "directors": [
        {
            "name": "Jean-Paul AGON",
            "role": "Président du conseil d'administration",
            "type": "person",
            "siren": null
        },
        {
            "name": "Nicolas HIERONIMUS",
            "role": "Directeur général",
            "type": "person",
            "siren": null
        },
        {
            "name": "TETHYS",
            "role": "Administrateur",
            "type": "company",
            "siren": "409030053"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://www.societe.com/societe/l-oreal-632012100.html",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-24T19:53:41.201Z"
}

Common use cases

• Verify a French supplier or partner's legal identity (SIREN, SIRET, VAT number) before signing a contract.
• Build B2B prospecting lists enriched with legal form, NAF code, and headcount.
• KYC / KYB checks — confirm a company's dirigeants match the people you're dealing with.
• Track management changes at a competitor or portfolio company over time.
• Feed clean French company identity data into a CRM or scoring pipeline.

Cost estimate

Pricing is pay-per-result plus a small per-run start fee. Each company profile is one dataset item, so a run costs roughly the per-result price times Max Results. A single exact SIREN lookup (maxResults: 1) is the cheapest possible run; a 5-company name search costs about 5x that. Compute cost per run is negligible — the actor makes plain HTTP requests, no browser rendering.

Limitations

• Free-tier financial data (chiffre d'affaires, bilan, résultat) is not exposed on the public profile page — Societe.com paywalls those behind its own subscription (/bilan/, /analyse-financiere/ are excluded from the site's own robots.txt for a reason). This actor returns identity, legal, and dirigeants data only, not financial statements.
• employeeCount reflects the exact figure Societe.com displays for that entity. Holding companies and pure administrative entities often show null/no headcount even when the wider group employs thousands — check the operating subsidiary instead if you need real headcount.
• Societe.com rate-limits (HTTP 429) aggressive traffic rather than hard-blocking it. The actor retries with backoff and a residential French proxy is the default — for very large batches, spread requests across multiple runs rather than pushing Max Results to its ceiling repeatedly in a tight loop.
• This actor reads the head-office profile page. It does not enumerate every secondary établissement of a multi-site company.

Related scrapers

• Infogreffe Scraper — French company data (SIREN, dirigeants, legal form) from the official trade register search.
• Pappers Scraper — French company register lookup by name or business activity, with revenue and headcount brackets.
• Bodacc Scraper — official French legal announcements (company creations, procedures, changes) from BODACC.
• Recherche Entreprises Scraper — the official French government company-search API (DINUM), for bulk RCS/RNE lookups.

Data source and legality

This actor reads publicly available company data that Societe.com republishes from the official French SIRENE, RCS, and RNE registers, via pages the site itself allows search engines and general crawling to access (confirmed against societe.com/robots.txt). It does not access any login-protected or paid area. Use the data in line with Societe.com's terms and applicable data-protection rules, particularly around the personal names of dirigeants.