Company Registry Lookup: Official Records, EU, UK & US

Check a company against its official government registry in France, Norway, Finland, Czechia, Poland, the US (SEC EDGAR) or the UK (Companies House). Search by name or registration number, and get status, legal form, address, industry codes and VAT ID in one format.

• 🏛️ 7 official government registries, read through their own open APIs. Only the UK needs a key: your own free one.
• 🔎 Search by name or look up by number: SIREN, organisasjonsnummer, Y-tunnus, IČO, KRS number, CIK or UK company number.
• 📋 One format for every country: status, legal form, start date, address, industry codes, VAT ID and a registry link.
• 🚫 No data about people: no directors, officers or shareholders. Sole traders are left out unless you ask.
• 📜 The data licence and credit line on every row, so you know how you may reuse it.
• 💸 $2 per 1,000 companies. Names with no match, skipped countries and failed lookups are free.

Try it: the input comes pre-filled with an example. Click Start to search "Nokia" in Finland, Norway and France and to look up three companies by number. Then add your own names and numbers.

What you get

One row per company, in the same format whichever registry it comes from.

Data	Fields
Identity	country, registry, the registry's number for the company and its kind (SIREN, KRS and so on); name, and former, trade and parallel names
Status	active, inactive or dissolved, plus the registry's own wording, such as "Konkurs" or "W likwidacji"
Legal form and dates	legal form as text and as the registry's code; incorporation and dissolution dates
Address	registered or business address: street, postal code, city, region and country
Industry	industry codes with descriptions: NAF, Norwegian NACE, TOL, CZ-NACE, PKD or SIC
Size	employees: an exact number in Norway, a size band in France
IDs and links	website, VAT ID and other IDs (SIRET, REGON, NIP, DIČ, EIN, LEI, EUID) where given; a link to the registry's page and the API address of the record
Reuse	the data licence, its link and the credit line it asks for
Search	what you searched for, how it matched, and when the record was read

The registries:

Country	Registry	By name	By number	Key needed
France	Sirene and the national business register (RNE), through API Recherche d'entreprises	Yes	SIREN (or a SIRET)	No
Norway	Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysund Register Centre	Yes	Organisasjonsnummer	No
Finland	Trade Register and YTJ, Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)	Yes	Y-tunnus	No
Czech Republic	ARES, Ministry of Finance	Yes	IČO	No
Poland	National Court Register (KRS), Ministry of Justice	No	KRS number	No
United States	SEC EDGAR (companies that file with the SEC)	Yes	CIK	No
United Kingdom	Companies House	Yes	Company number	Your own free key

Every run also saves a RUN_SUMMARY record: each search and lookup with its status, the companies delivered, and the reason for anything skipped.

Who it's for

• Sales and finance teams: check that a customer or supplier exists, is active and has the VAT ID they gave you.
• Compliance and KYB analysts: confirm a company's legal form, registered address and status from the official source.
• Data teams: clean up and enrich company lists with official IDs, industry codes and addresses.
• Researchers and journalists: find companies across several countries in one run, in one format.
• App builders: add company lookups to a form, CRM or onboarding flow through the Apify API.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event: you pay per company delivered, plus Apify's start fee per run.

Event	Price
Company delivered	$2 per 1,000 ($0.002 each)
Run start	Apify's standard start fee

Examples:

• 1,000 companies delivered: 1,000 × $0.002 = $2, plus the start fee.
• Checking 500 suppliers by number, 480 of them found: 480 × $0.002 = $0.96, plus the start fee. The 20 not found are free.
• Searching 100 names in 3 countries, up to 5 matches each: at most 1,500 companies, so at most $3.00. Names with fewer matches cost less, and names with no match are free.

Free:

• names with no match, and numbers not found;
• countries skipped: Poland by name, and the UK without a key;
• searches a registry blocked or failed;
• companies left out by your filters: inactive companies, sole traders, and people filing with the SEC.

Spending limit: set a maximum cost per run in the run options. The run stops cleanly at that amount, even with several registries running side by side.

How to use it

1. Add company names under Company names, one per line, such as Danone. Choose the Countries to search the names in; each name is searched in each country.
2. Add registration numbers under Registration numbers, one per line, with the country first, such as FR:552032534 or NO:923609016. For a list from one country, choose it under Country for numbers without a prefix, then paste bare numbers.
3. Set the options: Most companies per name and country gives the best matches first (default 10). Include inactive and dissolved companies and Include sole traders are off by default.
4. For the UK, paste your own free Companies House API key (see the FAQ). Set a maximum cost in the run options, then click Start.
5. View and download the results. The Companies table shows country, number, name, status, legal form, date, address, VAT ID and registry link. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Number formats:

Country	Example	Number
France	FR:552032534	SIREN, or a 14-digit SIRET
Norway	NO:923609016	Organisasjonsnummer
Finland	FI:0112038-9	Y-tunnus
Czech Republic	CZ:27082440	IČO
Poland	PL:0000019193	KRS number
United States	US:320193	CIK
United Kingdom	UK:00445790	Company number

Example input

Check a supplier list by registration number:

{
  "registrationNumbers": ["FR:552032534", "NO:923609016", "FI:0112038-9", "CZ:27082440", "PL:0000019193", "US:320193"]
}

Find bakeries in Norway and the Czech Republic, including closed ones:

{
  "searches": ["Sentrum bakeri", "Pekárna"],
  "countries": ["NO", "CZ"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 25,
  "includeInactive": true
}

Search the UK with your own key, and France:

{
  "searches": ["Tesco"],
  "countries": ["UK", "FR"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 5,
  "companiesHouseApiKey": "YOUR_COMPANIES_HOUSE_KEY"
}

Example output

One row per company. This is a real record from Norway's registry, shortened:

{
  "country": "NO",
  "countryName": "Norway",
  "registry": "Enhetsregisteret (Brønnøysundregistrene)",
  "companyId": "923609016",
  "idType": "Organisasjonsnummer",
  "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "otherNames": ["Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s", "STATOIL ASA", "STATOILHYDRO ASA"],
  "status": "active",
  "registryStatus": "Registrert i Foretaksregisteret",
  "legalForm": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
  "legalFormCode": "ASA",
  "incorporationDate": "1972-09-18",
  "dissolutionDate": null,
  "address": { "street": "Forusbeen 50", "postalCode": "4035", "city": "STAVANGER", "region": null, "country": "Norway", "countryCode": "NO", "full": null },
  "industryCodes": [
    { "scheme": "SN (Norwegian NACE)", "code": "06.100", "description": "Utvinning av råolje", "primary": true },
    { "scheme": "SN (Norwegian NACE)", "code": "06.200", "description": "Utvinning av naturgass", "primary": false }
  ],
  "employeeCount": 21231,
  "employeeBand": null,
  "website": "https://www.equinor.com",
  "vatId": "NO923609016MVA",
  "otherIds": {},
  "marketingOptOut": null,
  "details": { "registeredDate": "1995-03-12", "sector": "Statlig eide aksjeselskaper mv.", "partOfGroup": true, "lastAnnualAccounts": "2025", "municipality": "STAVANGER" },
  "registryUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
  "source": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/enheter/923609016",
  "licence": "Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0",
  "licenceUrl": "https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0",
  "attribution": "Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene",
  "searchedFor": "Equinor",
  "matchType": "name",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T12:04:10.000Z"
}

Integrations

• Schedules: re-check a customer or supplier list every week or month, with the same input.
• API: look companies up from your own code, form or onboarding flow (example below).
• Webhooks: have Apify call your URL when a run finishes, then read that run's dataset.
• Make, Zapier and n8n: pass the records on to a CRM or spreadsheet with Apify's apps for these tools.
• Monitoring: Apify's monitoring can alert you when a scheduled run fails.

Run it from the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/subtleasianmerch~company-registry-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"registrationNumbers": ["FR:552032534", "NO:923609016", "CZ:27082440"]}'

The call runs the Actor and returns the companies as a JSON array. Replace YOUR_TOKEN with your Apify API token, from Apify Console under Settings → API & Integrations.

Good to know

About the fields

• status: active; inactive for bankrupt, in liquidation or being wound up; dissolved for deleted, ceased or removed. It's null for SEC filers, as EDGAR has no company status. registryStatus keeps the registry's own words.
• incorporationDate: for Poland, the date of entry in the KRS; for SEC filers, null.
• industryCodes: each registry's own scheme, with descriptions in the registry's language. Czech codes have no "primary" flag (primary: null).
• vatId: France's VAT number; Norway's and Finland's when the company is VAT-registered; the Czech DIČ when the company is a VAT payer.
• marketingOptOut (France only): true means the company objected to the use of its data for commercial prospecting.
• details: a few facts only one registry has. Examples: tickers and the last filing date for SEC filers, or the KRS register for Poland.
• registryUrl: null for Poland, as the KRS search site has no link per company.

Dataset view: Companies shows the country, number, name, status, legal form, date, address, VAT ID, registry link and what you searched for.

Run summary: the RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists each search and lookup with:

• its status: ok, no match, not found, left out, skipped, failed or not run;
• the companies delivered, and the matches left out by your filters;
• the reason for anything not delivered.

It also lists each registry with its status and number of requests.

Coverage and limits

• No data about people. Directors, officers, shareholders and beneficial owners are never read into the output. Poland's extracts include anonymised board members; they're dropped. "c/o" (care of) parts of addresses are dropped too, because they can name a person.
• Sole traders are left out by default. A sole trader's record is about one person, often with a home address. The Actor recognises them in France (entrepreneur individuel), Norway (ENK) and the Czech Republic (natural persons). Turn on Include sole traders only if you have a lawful reason.
• Finland has no sole traders in its open data. PRH's open data covers the Trade Register "except private traders".
• Poland: by number only. The KRS API has no name search. Polish companies removed from the KRS have no current extract, so they show as "not found".
• The UK needs your own free Companies House key. Without it, UK searches and numbers are skipped and free. Your key is stored as a secret input and never logged.
• The UK is tested against Companies House's documented answer format, not yet with a real key.
• SEC EDGAR covers SEC filers only. That's mainly public companies, funds and their issuers, not every US business. People who file with the SEC, such as company insiders, are left out.
• Name matching differs by registry. France, Norway and the UK rank matches themselves. Finland, the Czech Republic and the SEC list matches in number or alphabetical order. The Actor ranks those by how closely the name matches. The SEC only finds names that start with your words.
• Lookups by number always return inactive companies. Name searches leave them out unless you turn on Include inactive and dissolved companies.
• French data protection: if marketingOptOut is true, the company has objected to the use of its data for commercial prospecting. Don't use it for marketing. Companies that refused publication aren't in the French open data at all.
• Licences and credit: each row carries its licence and the credit line it asks for. France: Licence Ouverte 2.0. Norway: NLOD 2.0. Finland: CC BY 4.0. SEC EDGAR: public information. The Czech, Polish and UK registries publish their data for reuse without a named licence. Keep the attribution text when you publish the data.
• Speed and politeness: one request a second per registry, five a second for the SEC. Registries run side by side. A lookup by number takes one request, two at most for Poland. The Actor says it's a bot in every request.
• No evasion. If a registry asks it to slow down, the Actor waits and retries. If a registry blocks it, that registry stops, the others continue, and the summary says so.

Test runs on Apify (31 October 2026)

• Prefilled example: 12 companies in 6 requests, 4 seconds.
• 5 names in France, Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic and the US: 77 companies in 10 seconds. 2 searches with no match were free.
• Numbers in every country: 10 companies. A missing IČO and a removed KRS entity came back "not found", free.

FAQ

Is it legal to use?

The Actor reads open government APIs that publish company records for reuse. Each registry's reuse terms were read on 31 October 2026, and none forbade this kind of reuse. The conditions they set:

• keep each row's attribution credit line when you publish the data;
• don't use the PRH or Finnish Business Information System logos;
• don't use French companies with marketingOptOut: true for marketing;
• sole traders' records are personal data, so data-protection law such as GDPR applies if you turn them on.

Check that your own use complies with the law and each registry's terms where you are.

Do I need any accounts or keys?

No, except for the UK. France, Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland and the SEC are open.

How do I get a Companies House key?

Register at developer.company-information.service.gov.uk, create an application, and add a REST API key to it. It's free. Paste the key into Companies House API key.

Why does the SEC search miss my company?

EDGAR only has companies that file with the SEC. Its search matches names that start with your words. Try the company's full name, or look it up by CIK.

Why is a company missing from a name search?

By default, name searches leave out inactive companies and sole traders. Turn on the two options, or look the company up by number: lookups by number always return inactive companies.

Can I get directors or shareholders?

No. The Actor is built to leave out data about people.

Should I add my email for the SEC?

It's optional. The SEC asks automated tools to identify themselves. The Actor sends an honest bot name, which the SEC accepted in tests. Adding your email follows the SEC's guidance more closely. It's sent only to sec.gov.

How fresh is the data?

Each record is read live from the registry's API during your run. fetchedAt shows when.

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