WKO Firmen A-Z Scraper — Austrian Business Directory Data

Search and extract Austrian company data from WKO Firmen A-Z, the official business directory run by the Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (Austrian Federal Economic Chamber). Every company that holds a trade license (Gewerbeschein) in Austria is required to be a WKO member, which makes this directory one of the most complete sources of Austrian company data available — 620,000+ businesses across all nine Bundesländer. Look up a company by name or industry keyword and get its address, phone, email, website, Firmenbuchnummer, Firmengericht, official trade-permit wording (Gewerbewortlaut), and WKO Fachgruppe (industry association). No API key, no login, no cookies required — the actor reads WKO's own public search-results and company-profile pages.

This actor turns a plain keyword search into a clean, structured list of Austrian company records you can drop into a CRM, a lead-generation list, or a market-research spreadsheet — without clicking through the site by hand. Run it on demand via the Apify Console or API, schedule it to refresh a target list periodically, or chain it into a larger data pipeline.

How to scrape WKO data

This actor reads WKO's own public search-results pages and company-profile pages. It returns one structured record per matching company, with the same information you'd see by clicking through the directory yourself — just structured and bulk-exportable via the Apify API, CSV/Excel/JSON export, or scheduled runs.

Search by company name or keyword

Enter a company name, trade, or industry keyword (e.g. Bäckerei, Immobilien, Consulting, or an exact company name like Voestalpine) in Company Name or Keyword. WKO's search matches company names, trade descriptions, and Fachgruppe/branch text.

Filter by Bundesland or location

Set Bundesland / Location Filter to restrict results to one Austrian state or city (e.g. Wien, Tirol, Oberösterreich, Salzburg, or even a specific city like Graz). Leave empty to search across all of Austria — the actor automatically fans the query out across all nine Bundesländer to build a broader result set (see Limitations below for why).

Result limit

Max Results caps how many company profiles the actor fetches and pushes per run (default 50).

What data does WKO Firmen A-Z Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
companyName	String	Registered company name
address	String	Full formatted address
street	String	Street and number
postalCode	String	Postal code (PLZ)
city	String	City / municipality
bundesland	String	Austrian federal state (Wien, Tirol, Steiermark, etc.)
country	String	Country (always "Österreich" for this actor)
industryOrPurpose	String	Official trade-permit wording (Gewerbewortlaut) — the legally registered business activity description
fachgruppe	String	WKO Fachgruppe / branch(es) the company is registered under (e.g. "FG Gastronomie")
phone	String	Phone number, when the company has opted to publish it
email	String	Email address, when published
website	String	Company website, when published
firmenbuchnummer	String	Commercial register number, for companies registered in the Firmenbuch (GmbH/AG)
firmengericht	String	The Firmenbuch court holding the registration
url	String	Link to the company's WKO Firmen A-Z profile page
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of extraction

Note on coverage: phone, email, and website are opt-in fields — a company only shows them if the owner chose to publish them on WKO, so these fields are populated for a subset of results, not all of them (this matches what you'd see browsing the site directly, not a scraper limitation). Firmenbuchnummer and Firmengericht only apply to companies registered in the commercial register (mainly GmbH and AG); sole proprietorships (Einzelunternehmen) typically won't have them.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
Company Name or Keyword	String	Bäckerei	Search by company name or industry/trade keyword
Bundesland / Location Filter	String	—	Austrian state or city to restrict results to
Max Results	Integer	50	Maximum companies to return (1–200)
Proxy Configuration	Object	Austrian residential proxy	Proxy settings

Example output

{
    "companyName": "Akil Bäckerei Konditorei GmbH",
    "address": "Lassallestraße 42, 1020, Wien",
    "street": "Lassallestraße 42",
    "postalCode": "1020",
    "city": "Wien",
    "bundesland": "Wien",
    "country": "Österreich",
    "industryOrPurpose": "Gastgewerbe in der Betriebsart Restaurant",
    "fachgruppe": "FG Gastronomie",
    "phone": "",
    "email": "",
    "website": "",
    "firmenbuchnummer": "651046x",
    "firmengericht": "Handelsgericht Wien",
    "url": "https://firmen.wko.at/akil-b%C3%A4ckerei-konditorei-gmbh/wien/?firmaid=58ef4ada-d925-49c7-8c0c-177fa022ca76",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-01T14:51:03.438Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Common use cases

• Build B2B prospecting lists for Austria enriched with address, Fachgruppe, and trade-permit wording.
• Verify a supplier's, customer's, or partner's Austrian business registration before signing a contract.
• Market research — measure the density of a trade or industry across Austrian Bundesländer.
• Feed structured Austrian company data into CRM enrichment or lead-generation pipelines.
• Complement other national company registers (Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, UK) with Austria for full DACH/EU coverage.

Cost estimate

Pricing is pay-per-result. Each run makes one lightweight HTML listing request per Bundesland (or one, if a single Bundesland/location filter is set) plus one HTML profile request per matched company — no browser rendering is used, so compute cost per run is low. A run returning 50 companies typically makes well under 100 total HTTP requests.

Tips / Advanced options

• For the broadest coverage of a niche keyword, leave Bundesland / Location Filter empty — the actor automatically checks all nine Austrian states.
• For a fast, narrow lookup (e.g. verifying one specific company you already know the region for), set Bundesland / Location Filter to save requests and speed up the run.
• Combine multiple runs with different keywords (e.g. by industry) to build a full sector map rather than relying on one broad search term.

Limitations

• WKO's own "next page" link on its search-results pages is wired to an internal ASP.NET postback mechanism, not a plain URL — following it directly returns an error page. Rather than replicate that fragile, session-bound mechanism, this actor gets broader coverage per query by checking each of Austria's nine Bundesländer as independent requests (confirmed to return distinct, region-correct result sets). This means very broad, high-volume keywords may return fewer than the theoretical total number of matching companies on WKO — for exhaustive coverage of a very broad term, narrow your keyword (e.g. by city, or a more specific trade description) and run several queries.
• Phone, email, and website are only scraped when a company has published them on WKO — this reflects the site's own opt-in data model, not a scraper defect.

Related scrapers

• Handelsregister Scraper — German commercial register data.
• KVK Scraper — Dutch Chamber of Commerce company data.
• Infogreffe Scraper — French company register data (SIREN/SIRET).
• North Data Scraper — European company data (Germany + 15 more countries) from North Data.
• eInforma Scraper — Spanish company register data.

Data source and legality

This actor reads publicly available company data that WKO publishes as Austria's official business directory. It does not access any login-protected or paid area, and it identifies itself with a standard browser user agent. Use the data in line with WKO's terms and applicable data-protection rules (in particular, take care with personal data of natural persons / sole proprietors returned in some results).