French Company Search — SIRENE, SIREN/SIRET & Directors

Search every company registered in France and get clean, ready-to-use rows: SIREN, SIRET, legal name, trade names, NAF activity, headcount, revenue and net income, directors, head office and establishment addresses with GPS, labels (RGE, Qualiopi, Bio…) and the intra-EU VAT number. Or paste thousands of SIREN / SIRET numbers and enrich them in bulk.

The data comes from the official French government API «Recherche d'entreprises» (INSEE Sirene + national business register RNE, the same data as annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr). No scraping of Pappers or societe.com, no proxies, no login.

Why use it

• Official and complete — every diffusible company in INSEE Sirene and the RNE, active and closed, updated daily by the French administration.
• Prospecting filters — NAF / APE code (or a whole division like 62), NAF section, department, region, postal code, INSEE commune, company size (PME / ETI / GE), headcount band, legal form, revenue and net income ranges, director name, creation date, labels (RGE, Qualiopi, Bio, ESS, Société à mission, SIAE, training bodies…).
• No 10,000 cap — the government API stops at 10,000 results per search; this actor splits big searches by department and headcount automatically and removes duplicates.
• One row per company or per establishment — choose establishment rows (SIRET) to get every shop, office or site with its own address, GPS, activity and headcount: ideal for local prospecting and mapping.
• Compliant lead lists — companies that opted out of commercial prospecting (opposition_diffusion_commerciale) are skipped by default and free; sole proprietors (registered under a person's name) are left out unless you ask for them; no birth dates.
• Cheap — $1.50 per 1,000 rows, directors and finances included. Errors, skipped and not-found numbers are free.

Use cases

B2B lead generation in France by sector and area, building TAM / market maps, CRM enrichment (SIREN → full record), KYC and supplier checks, finding RGE installers or Qualiopi training bodies, local store mapping with GPS, academic and economic research.

Input examples

Software companies with 10-49 employees in the Lyon area (Rhône):

{ "nafCodes": ["62.01Z"], "departments": ["69"], "employeeRanges": ["11", "12"], "maxResults": 500 }

Every bakery in Paris 11e, one row per shop:

{ "query": "boulangerie", "postalCodes": ["75011"], "rowPer": "establishment" }

RGE-certified building companies in Brittany created since 2024:

{ "sections": ["F"], "regions": ["53"], "labels": ["rge"], "createdAfter": "2024-01-01", "maxResults": 2000 }

Bulk enrichment of SIREN / SIRET numbers:

{ "sirenOrSiret": ["552032534", "403 052 111", "40305211101022"] }

Output (real row, software company in the Rhône search above; director name hidden here)

{
  "siren": "445301039", "siret": "44530103900027", "isHeadOffice": true, "vatNumber": "FR20445301039",
  "name": "INLEED", "tradeNames": "IN-LEED", "status": "active", "createdAt": "2003-01-23",
  "nafCode": "62.01Z", "nafLabel": "Programmation informatique", "legalForm": "SAS, société par actions simplifiée",
  "category": "PME", "employees": "20-49", "employeeRangeYear": 2024, "establishments": 10, "openEstablishments": 6,
  "address": "PARC COMITEC 2 RUE JEAN-FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION 18000 BOURGES", "postalCode": "18000", "city": "BOURGES",
  "department": "18", "region": "Centre-Val de Loire", "latitude": 47.0972918771529, "longitude": 2.39351787135985,
  "matchedEstablishmentSiret": "44530103900068",
  "matchedEstablishmentAddress": "LES JARDINS D EOLE-IMM LE MELTEM 2 ALLEE DES SEQUOIAS 69760 LIMONEST",
  "revenue": 2107396, "netIncome": 4027, "financialYear": 2025,
  "directors": [{ "type": "person", "name": "«FIRST LAST»", "role": "Président de SAS", "siren": null }],
  "labels": [], "collectiveAgreements": ["1486", "0804"], "isSoleProprietor": false, "optedOutOfProspecting": false,
  "registryUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/445301039"
}

The head office is in Bourges, but the company matched the Rhône search through its Limonest establishment, shown in matchedEstablishment*. Use One row per establishment to get only the local sites.

Three table views in the Output tab: Companies, Establishments (local) and Finance & size. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 rows (one company or one establishment = one row). Directors, finances, labels and VAT numbers are included. Invalid or unknown SIREN/SIRET numbers, companies skipped because they opted out of prospecting, and input errors are free. Apify store discounts apply on paid plans.

Tips

• Find NAF codes on insee.fr (e.g. 56.10A traditional restaurant, 43.22A plumbing, 69.20Z accounting, 70.22Z consulting). 62 returns every code of division 62.
• Department filters match companies that have at least one establishment there. For "head office in Paris" keep company rows and check department.
• Run it on a schedule with Created on or after set to a recent date to get newly created companies in your area every week.
• Set a maximum cost per run in Apify: the actor stops cleanly at your limit.

Sources, licence and privacy

Data: API Recherche d'entreprises by DINUM / annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr, built on INSEE Sirene and the INPI national business register (RNE), published under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (commercial reuse allowed with attribution). This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the French administration. Non-diffusible companies (those that asked INSEE to hide them) are not in the API. You are responsible for using personal data (directors, sole proprietors) in line with the GDPR and French rules on commercial prospecting; keep Skip companies that opted out of prospecting on for marketing lists.

FAQ

Is this the complete Sirene database? It covers every diffusible company in Sirene and the RNE, active and closed. Companies that chose non-diffusion are hidden by law and cannot be returned by any official API.

Can I get more than 10,000 companies? Yes. Searches with 10,000 or more matches are split automatically by department and then by headcount band, and duplicates are removed. Only a single department + headcount slice that still has over 10,000 companies is cut at 10,000 (add a NAF code or postal codes to get the rest); the log tells you when that happens.

Does it give emails and phone numbers? No. The official register does not publish them. Pair it with a contact finder such as our Website Contact Extractor if you have websites.

What does "opted out of prospecting" mean? French companies can ask that their register data is not used for commercial prospecting. Those companies are skipped by default (free). For KYC, supplier checks or research, switch Skip companies that opted out of prospecting off; SIREN/SIRET lookups always return the company and flag it in optedOutOfProspecting.

How is the VAT number computed? With the official French formula: FR + key + SIREN, where key = (12 + 3 × (SIREN mod 97)) mod 97. Every company has one computed, but only companies registered for VAT actually use it: check it in the EU VIES service before invoicing.

How fresh is the data? The government API is updated every day from INSEE and the RNE; updatedAt shows the last change of each record. Headcount bands and finances are the latest year published.

Does it need an API key or proxies? No. The official API is free and open; the actor calls it politely within its rate limit.

Can I run it on a schedule or from code? Yes: schedule it in Apify, call it from the API, Make, Zapier or n8n, or export each run straight to Google Sheets.

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