BODACC — French Legal Announcements Scraper

An Apify Actor that retrieves official French legal announcements (annonces légales) from the BODACC (Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales) via the official open data API.

BODACC is published by DILA (Direction de l'information légale et administrative) and covers all mandatory legal publications for French businesses registered with the RCS (Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés).

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What data is available

Type	Description
Créations	New business registrations
Radiations	Business closures / deregistrations
Modifications diverses	Changes to company details (address, management, activity...)
Procédures collectives	Insolvency proceedings (redressement, liquidation judiciaire...)
Ventes et cessions	Business sales and transfers
Dépôts des comptes	Annual account filings

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Output

Each item pushed to the dataset has the following structure:

{
  "id": "C202500182618",
  "dateparution": "2025-01-26",
  "familleavis": "cr",
  "familleavis_lib": "Créations",
  "typeavis_lib": "Avis initial",
  "publicationavis": "C",
  "commercant": "DUPONT SERVICES SARL",
  "siren": "123456789",
  "tribunal": "Tribunal de commerce de Paris",
  "ville": "PARIS",
  "cp": "75001",
  "numerodepartement": "75",
  "departement_nom_officiel": "Paris",
  "region_nom_officiel": "Île-de-France",
  "url_complete": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:C202500182618",
  "jugement": null,
  "acte": null,
  "modificationsgenerales": null,
  "depot": null,
  "radiationaurcs": null,
  "listepersonnes": { ... }
}

The listepersonnes field contains detailed information about the company or person (legal form, address, activity, SIREN...) and varies by announcement type.

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Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
familleavis	string	No	(all)	Filter by announcement type
departement	string	No	(all)	French department number (e.g. 75, 69)
siren	string	No	—	Look up all announcements for a specific SIREN
date_debut	string	No	—	Start date filter YYYY-MM-DD
date_fin	string	No	—	End date filter YYYY-MM-DD
q	string	No	—	Full-text search (company name, city, activity...)
maxResults	integer	No	100	Max results to retrieve (up to 10 000)

Example inputs

All insolvency proceedings in Paris, last 30 days:

{
  "familleavis": "Procédures collectives",
  "departement": "75",
  "date_debut": "2025-01-01",
  "maxResults": 500
}

All announcements for a specific company:

{
  "siren": "552032534",
  "maxResults": 100
}

New businesses in Lyon area:

{
  "familleavis": "Créations",
  "departement": "69",
  "maxResults": 200
}

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Use cases

• B2B lead generation — track new business registrations in your target market
• Credit risk monitoring — detect insolvency proceedings before they become public knowledge
• M&A prospecting — monitor business sales and transfers
• Compliance & due diligence — verify company legal history by SIREN
• Market research — analyze business creation/closure trends by region or sector

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Data source

Data is sourced from the official BODACC open data API: https://bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/annonces-commerciales/

Published by DILA under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0.

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Running locally

npm install
echo '{"familleavis": "Créations", "departement": "75", "maxResults": 10}' > storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
npm start

Requires Node.js 18+.

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License

Apache-2.0