# French Company Search (SIRENE): SIREN, Revenue, Activity (`swiftkit/france-companies`) Actor

Search French companies by name, NAF activity, postal code, department or size, or look up SIREN/SIRET: legal form, head office and GPS, employees, status, VAT number, revenue and net income. Official open data. $2 per 1,000 companies.

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

$2.00 / 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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## French Company Search (SIRENE): SIREN, Revenue, Activity

Search the **official French company directory** or look up SIREN/SIRET numbers, and get one clean
row per company:

- **Identity:** SIREN, name, acronym, legal form (SAS, SARL, SA…), founding date, active or closed
- **Activity:** NAF/APE code and section
- **Size:** INSEE size category (PME, ETI, GE) and employee range with its year
- **Head office:** SIRET, full address, postal code, city, department, region, **GPS coordinates**,
  trade name and shop signs
- **Establishments:** total and currently open
- **Money:** intra-EU **VAT number**, latest **revenue and net income** where published, plus history
- **Labels:** e.g. organic (bio), RGE, Qualiopi, ESS, collective agreement on file
- A link to the company's official page on annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr

**Search by** name/keywords and any mix of filters: NAF codes, postal codes, departments, size
category, minimum employees, active only.

Data comes from the French government's **API Recherche d'entreprises** (INSEE SIRENE + RNE),
published as open data. No key, no login.

### Who it's for

- **B2B sales and marketing:** lists of companies by activity, area and size, with VAT numbers.
- **Finance and KYB:** verify SIREN/SIRET, status, legal form and VAT in bulk.
- **Market research:** count and map companies by sector and region (GPS included).

### Input

| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Search text | – | Name or keywords |
| SIREN / SIRET numbers | – | Bulk lookup (ignores the search) |
| Activity (NAF) codes | – | e.g. `62.01Z` |
| Postal codes / Departments | – | Companies with an establishment there |
| Company size | – | PME, ETI, GE |
| Minimum employees | any | From INSEE employee ranges |
| Only active companies | on | Skip closed ones |
| Include sole traders | off | See privacy below |
| Max companies | 100 | Up to 10,000 per search |

### Output

Real data:

```json
{
  "status": "ok",
  "siren": "306138900",
  "name": "DECATHLON",
  "legalForm": "Société européenne (SE)",
  "activityCode": "68.20B",
  "sizeCategory": "GE",
  "employees": "5000-9999",
  "active": true,
  "founded": "1977-01-01",
  "establishments": 385,
  "headOffice": { "siret": "30613890001294", "address": "4 BOULEVARD DE MONS 59650 VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ", "latitude": 50.645137179, "longitude": 3.1417124642 },
  "vatNumber": "FR51306138900",
  "revenue": 16868995000,
  "netIncome": 845133000,
  "financialsYear": 2025
}
```

### Privacy, on purpose

- **Company officers (dirigeants) are never returned.**
- **Sole traders are excluded by default:** their business name is usually the owner's own name.
- Entries whose owners asked INSEE not to publish their details (non-diffusible) are skipped.

### Pricing

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

### Limits, honestly

- The API returns at most **10,000 companies per search**. Add filters (activity, department,
  size) to split large searches.
- Postal-code and department filters match companies with **any establishment** there; the head
  office shown may be elsewhere.
- Revenue and net income exist only for companies that filed public accounts (many small companies
  don't, or file confidentially).

### More tools from SwiftKit

- [Brazil Company Search (CNPJ)](https://apify.com/swiftkit/brazil-companies): Brazilian companies by city and CNAE activity
- [Company Domain & Logo Finder](https://apify.com/swiftkit/company-lookup): websites, logos and socials for company names
- [SEC EDGAR Financials](https://apify.com/swiftkit/sec-edgar): financials of US-listed companies
- [Fuel Prices Europe](https://apify.com/swiftkit/fuel-prices): official station prices in France, Spain, Italy and the UK

### Questions?

Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Company name or keywords, e.g. decathlon or boulangerie lyon. Can be combined with the filters.

## `sirenList` (type: `array`):

9-digit SIREN or 14-digit SIRET numbers, one per line. When given, search and filters are ignored.

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

e.g. 62.01Z (software), 56.10A (restaurants), 47.11F (supermarkets).

## `postalCodes` (type: `array`):

e.g. 75011, 69003. Matches companies with an establishment there.

## `departments` (type: `array`):

e.g. 75, 69, 2A. Matches companies with an establishment there.

## `sizeCategories` (type: `array`):

INSEE size category.

## `minEmployeesCode` (type: `string`):

Based on the INSEE employee range.

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

Skip closed companies.

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

Sole traders (entrepreneurs individuels) are excluded by default because their business name is usually a person's name.

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

The API returns at most 10,000 per search.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "decathlon",
  "minEmployeesCode": "",
  "onlyActive": 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 = {
    "query": "decathlon"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("swiftkit/france-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 = { "query": "decathlon" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("swiftkit/france-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 '{
  "query": "decathlon"
}' |
apify call swiftkit/france-companies --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,swiftkit/france-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/FHhsIIa6KFYbpSdO5/builds/xImLtEDRf2KxIjnYU/openapi.json