Finland Company Registry Lookup

What this Actor returns

Look up Finnish companies by name, Business ID (Y-tunnus), municipality or company form, and get one clean, typed record per company. Every record has the same 13 fields, and a value the source does not have is null, never a missing key.

• business_id, company_title, company_form: the Business ID, the current registered name and the current company form
• registration_date, end_date, company_status, liquidation_status: when it was registered and dissolved, its Trade Register status, and any liquidation, bankruptcy or re-organisation in force
• main_industry_code: the main line of business, as a TOL 2008 code
• municipality, postcode, city, website: the municipality code, postcode and city of its address, and its registered website
• source_updated_at: the date the source last modified the company's record

The Actor reads Finland's public open company-data API and nothing else. It does not scrape any website, and there is no login.

Who it helps

• Sales and research teams who want a tidy list of Finnish limited companies in one town or of one company form, ready for a spreadsheet or a database.
• Developers who want to check or enrich a Business ID inside their own workflow, through the Apify API, without writing their own client for the source.

Quick start

1. Open the Input tab and leave the defaults as they are. They look up one company by its Business ID, so a first run returns a single record.
2. Press Start. Try it on one record first; it costs a fraction of a cent.
3. Open the Output tab, check the record, then search by name, municipality or company form. Clear the Business ID first, or it stays in the search.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Company name	Part of a company's name. The source also matches earlier, parallel and auxiliary names.	empty
Business ID	A Business ID: seven digits, a hyphen and a check digit, like 0112038-9.	0112038-9
Municipality	A town or city name, like Espoo.	empty
Company form	The source's code for the company form, like OY (limited company) or OYJ (public limited company). The Input tab lists all 27 codes.	empty
Maximum records	How many records to return at most, from 1 to 1000.	10

Give at least one of name, Business ID, municipality or company form.

Output

One record per company. The record below is what the default input returned on 12 October 2026, unchanged except for the website.

{
  "business_id": "0112038-9",
  "company_title": "Nokia Oyj",
  "company_form": "Public limited company",
  "registration_date": "1896-12-19",
  "end_date": null,
  "main_industry_code": "70100",
  "company_status": "Registered",
  "liquidation_status": null,
  "municipality": "049",
  "postcode": "02610",
  "city": "ESPOO",
  "website": "(the company's registered website)",
  "source_updated_at": "2026-08-19"
}

In a real record, website is the web address the company registered.

What it costs

You pay for one event, Company record, at $0.003 per record returned. Apify also adds its standard run-start event, $0.00005 per start for an Actor run with up to 1 GB of memory; it is the platform's own event, not ours. The default run returns one record and costs $0.00305. Records the Actor leaves out (see below) are never charged.

For example, a search that returns 200 companies costs $0.60. If your Apify plan includes monthly credit, a small run draws on that credit.

If the source cannot be reached or keeps answering with errors, the run stops with a clear status message, and only the records already returned are charged.

Limits and honest notes

• Legal entities only. Sole traders are natural persons whose company name is their own name, so they are left out. A company whose current form is not one of the 27 forms the source lists is left out too, and so is one whose form is unknown.
• No street addresses, officers or contact details. The Actor copies only the 13 fields above. The postcode and city come from the street address, or from the postal address when there is no street address, which can be a PO box. A website that is not a plain address, such as an email address, is shown as null.
• Names can still be personal. A partnership, a limited partnership or a branch of a foreign trader can carry a person's name in its registered name. One limit no filter can fix. What you do with such records is your responsibility under the data-protection rules that apply to you.
• Municipality. The search takes a town or city name. The municipality field of a record is the source's municipality code, such as 049, and city holds the name.
• Status. company_status is the company's status on the Finnish Trade Register. liquidation_status is null when the source lists no liquidation, bankruptcy or re-organisation without an end date.
• Up to 1000 records per run. For more, split the search by municipality or company form.
• Pace. The source states no rate limit. The Actor sends at most one request per second and when the source is busy it waits as asked, up to about a minute per request, and then stops with a clear message, so a large search can take a while; the source sometimes needs several seconds to answer one page.
• Freshness follows the source. source_updated_at tells you when the source last modified each record.

Questions

Why did my run return fewer records than I asked for? Either fewer companies matched, or some matches were left out because they are not legal entities or lacked a name, a form or a status. You were not charged for those.

What does the run say when something is wrong? It says what it found and what to try. "Give at least one of: a name, a Business ID, a municipality or a company form" means the input was empty: add one. A message about the Business ID or the company form names the field to fix and shows the right shape. "Could not be reached" or "kept answering" means the source is busy; wait a few minutes and run again.

Can I search for a company that has ceased? Yes. Look at company_status and end_date.

How do I list the companies of one form? Clear the Business ID, pick the form code, for example OYJ, and set Maximum records.

Does it return the people behind a company? No. Officers and other people are not in the output.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes, with the Apify scheduler or the API. Each run is independent and charged per record returned.

Data source and AI note

Data source: Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH), CC BY 4.0. The records come from the open data API of the Business Information System (YTJ), reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. source_updated_at gives the date the source last modified each record.

This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office or the Business Information System, and it does not use their logos.

This tool was built with the help of AI coding assistants.

Help

Questions, a record that looks wrong, or an idea for a field: please open an issue on the Issues tab. Thank you for the report; every one is read.