# Brazil Company Search (CNPJ): Receita Federal Open Data (`swiftkit/brazil-companies`) Actor

Find Brazilian companies by state, city, CNAE activity or legal form, or look up CNPJ numbers: name, trade name, status, founding date, activities, size, capital, address and phone. Official Receita Federal open data. No partner data. $1 per 1,000 companies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/swiftkit/brazil-companies.md
- **Developed by:** [SwiftKit](https://apify.com/swiftkit) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 companies

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Brazil Company Search (CNPJ): Receita Federal Open Data

Find **Brazilian companies** by state, city, CNAE activity or legal form, or look up CNPJ numbers in
bulk, and get one clean row per company:

- **Identity:** CNPJ (raw and formatted), legal name (razão social), trade name (nome fantasia),
  legal form (natureza jurídica), founding date, head office or branch
- **Status:** registration status (ativa, baixada, inapta…), status date and reason
- **Activity:** main CNAE code and description, plus all secondary CNAEs
- **Size and tax:** size (ME, EPP, demais), share capital in BRL, Simples Nacional and MEI flags
- **Address:** street, number, complement, district, CEP, city, state and IBGE city code
- **Contact:** the registered phone numbers (and email, when the registry has one)

**Cities by name:** type `Campinas` or `Florianópolis/SC`. We turn names into IBGE codes for you
using the official IBGE list.

Data comes from the **Receita Federal CNPJ open data** (public under Brazil's Access to Information
Law), served by [Minha Receita](https://minhareceita.org), a free open-source project. No key, no
login, no CAPTCHA.

### Who it's for

- **B2B sales:** lists of active companies by activity and city, e.g. every software house in
  Florianópolis or every restaurant in Campinas.
- **KYB and finance:** check CNPJ status, legal form and activity in bulk.
- **Market research:** count companies by sector, size and region.

### Input

| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| States (UF) | – | One or more states |
| Cities | – | Names (`Campinas`, `São José/SC`) or 7-digit IBGE codes |
| Activity (CNAE) codes | – | e.g. `6201-5/01` or `6201501` |
| Also match secondary activities | off | Main CNAE only, or main + secondary |
| Legal form codes | – | e.g. `2062` (Ltda), `2054` (S.A. fechada) |
| Company size | – | Micro, small, other |
| Only active companies | on | Skip closed and unfit registrations |
| Only head offices | on | One row per company instead of one per branch |
| Include sole traders (MEI) | off | See privacy below |
| CNPJ numbers | – | Bulk lookup (ignores the filters) |
| Max companies | 100 | Up to 10,000 per run |

### Output

Real data:

```json
{
  "status": "ok",
  "cnpj": "60610781000168",
  "cnpjFormatted": "60.610.781/0001-68",
  "name": "CICI3 TECNOLOGIA E ASSESSORIA LTDA",
  "tradeName": "CICI3 TECH",
  "headOffice": true,
  "registrationStatus": "ATIVA",
  "founded": "2025-04-30",
  "legalForm": "Sociedade Empresária Limitada",
  "mainActivityCode": "6201-5/01",
  "mainActivity": "Desenvolvimento de programas de computador sob encomenda",
  "secondaryActivities": [{ "code": "6204-0/00", "description": "Consultoria em tecnologia da informação" }],
  "size": "micro",
  "shareCapitalBRL": 1000,
  "simplesNacional": true,
  "address": { "street": "RODOVIA JOAO CARLOS DAUX", "number": "4190", "district": "SACO GRANDE", "postalCode": "88032005", "city": "FLORIANOPOLIS", "state": "SC", "ibgeCityCode": 4205407 },
  "phones": ["+55 41 98130414"]
}
```

### Privacy, on purpose

- **Partners and shareholders (QSA) are never returned**, and you can't search by a person's CPF.
- **Sole traders are excluded by default** (MEI, empresário individual and other one-person
  forms): their business name is usually the owner's own name, often with ID digits.

### Pricing

You pay **per company returned**. Errors, not-found numbers and skipped sole traders are free.
See the Pricing tab.

### Limits, honestly

- Filters on status, head office and size are applied after fetching, so a narrow search may
  read many registry entries to find a few matches. A run stops after about 80,000 entries checked;
  add a city or CNAE to narrow it.
- We send one request per second to be kind to the free service, so large runs take a while
  (about 200 entries checked per second at best).
- The Receita Federal updates the open data about once a month, so very recent changes may be missing.
- Many small companies have no phone or email on file.

### Thank you, Minha Receita

This tool relies on [Minha Receita](https://minhareceita.org), run by volunteers. If it's useful to
you, consider supporting the project there.

### More tools from SwiftKit

- [French Company Search (SIRENE)](https://apify.com/swiftkit/france-companies): official French company data
- [Norway & Finland Company Search](https://apify.com/swiftkit/nordic-companies): official Brreg and YTJ registers
- [Company Domain & Logo Finder](https://apify.com/swiftkit/company-lookup): websites, logos and socials for company names
- [Website Contact Finder](https://apify.com/swiftkit/website-contacts): business emails and phones from company websites

### Use it from your AI agent (MCP)

Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can call this tool directly through Apify's MCP server. Add it as
an MCP server / connector:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=swiftkit/brazil-companies",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}
```

Then just ask, for example: *"List 50 active software companies in Florianópolis with their phone numbers"*. Each call is billed like a normal run.

### Questions?

Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `states` (type: `array`):

One or more states.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

City names, with the state if the name exists in several states: Campinas, Florianópolis/SC, São José - SC. 7-digit IBGE codes also work.

## `activityCodes` (type: `array`):

7-digit CNAE codes, with or without punctuation: 6201-5/01 (software development), 5611-2/01 (restaurants), 4711-3/02 (supermarkets).

## `includeSecondaryActivities` (type: `boolean`):

Off: the CNAE must be the company's main activity. On: it can also be a secondary activity.

## `legalFormCodes` (type: `array`):

e.g. 2062 (Sociedade Empresária Limitada), 2054 (S.A. fechada), 2046 (S.A. aberta), 3999 (Associação).

## `sizes` (type: `array`):

Size as registered with the Receita Federal.

## `onlyActive` (type: `boolean`):

Skip closed, suspended and unfit registrations.

## `onlyHeadOffices` (type: `boolean`):

Every branch has its own CNPJ. On: one row per company (the head office).

## `includeSoleTraders` (type: `boolean`):

MEIs and empresários individuais are excluded by default because their business name is usually the owner's name.

## `cnpjList` (type: `array`):

14-digit CNPJs, with or without punctuation, one per line. When given, the filters above are ignored.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many companies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [
    "SC"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Florianópolis"
  ],
  "activityCodes": [
    "6201-5/01"
  ],
  "includeSecondaryActivities": false,
  "onlyActive": true,
  "onlyHeadOffices": true,
  "includeSoleTraders": false,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per company.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "states": [
        "SC"
    ],
    "cities": [
        "Florianópolis"
    ],
    "activityCodes": [
        "6201-5/01"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("swiftkit/brazil-companies").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "states": ["SC"],
    "cities": ["Florianópolis"],
    "activityCodes": ["6201-5/01"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("swiftkit/brazil-companies").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "states": [
    "SC"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Florianópolis"
  ],
  "activityCodes": [
    "6201-5/01"
  ]
}' |
apify call swiftkit/brazil-companies --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,swiftkit/brazil-companies"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FsqD9tbzD0onbxh2Q/builds/ER2M6tcopN3vsBbet/openapi.json