EU Business Registry Search: KYB Lookup + New Companies (FR, NO, FI)

Use this to verify a European company against its official register (France, Norway, Finland) or to get a feed of newly registered companies.

Beta. Verify the companies you act on in the linked official register. Built on official open registers, local unit tests with recorded fixtures, and a live check of each registry API before release. Open an issue on the Issues tab if a field looks wrong and we fix it fast.

What it does

Two modes in one actor, both from official open registers (no login, no scraping of private sites):

1. KYB / company lookup. Give company names or registry IDs; get matching registry records with legal form, status, registration date, address, industry code and a link to the official record. Not-found queries return a free found: false row.
2. New-company feed. Leave Queries empty to get companies registered in the last N days (Norway and Finland), deduped across runs so a repeat run returns and charges nothing.

Coverage

Country	Register	Lookup	New feed
France	Annuaire des Entreprises / INSEE Sirene (data.gouv.fr API)	name, SIREN, SIRET	no (no creation-date filter in the open API)
Norway	Bronnoysundregistrene Enhetsregisteret	name, org number	yes
Finland	PRH / YTJ open data	name, business ID	yes

More countries are added based on demand. Tell us which register you need on the Issues tab.

Use cases

• Supplier and customer onboarding checks (KYB) across France, Norway and Finland.
• Sales prospecting: fresh company registrations in Nordic markets, filtered by name keyword.
• Compliance and due-diligence enrichment: legal form, status, address, industry code.

Example input

{ "queries": ["Nokia", "0112038-9"], "countries": ["FI", "NO", "FR"], "resultsPerQuery": 3 }

New registrations:

{ "countries": ["NO", "FI"], "daysBack": 7, "keywords": ["consulting"], "maxItems": 50 }

Output fields

country, registryId, entityName, legalName, legalForm(Code), status, registrationDate, address (full, street, postalCode, city), industryCode, industryDescription, employeesBand, website (where the register publishes it), sourceUrl, sourceRegistry, scrapedAt.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.004 per company record returned (about $4 per 1,000). Actor start $0.00005. Not-found rows, filtered rows and already-seen rows are free. Set Maximum cost per run to cap spend.

Privacy and limits

Company-level public register data only. Natural-person officer names are not emitted. Registry data can lag the source by a day or more; the sourceUrl links the authoritative record. Each registry rate-limits politely; the actor makes serial requests with backoff.

Output sample

Each result is one dataset item (JSON, CSV, Excel or via API). Shape taken from the actor's dataset schema; field names and meanings below, not live data:

Field	Meaning
country
registryId
entityName
legalForm
status
registrationDate
industryCode
sourceUrl

FAQ

How do I try it quickly? Press Start with the prefilled input; it is a small run.

How is it priced? Pay per event; see the Pricing section above or the Pricing tab. A small run costs very little.

Is this a one-off or can it run on a schedule? Both. Use Apify schedules or the API to run it repeatedly.

What if the source is slow or fails? Failed or rate-limited requests (HTTP 429 or 5xx, network errors) are retried up to 4 attempts with growing waits; if a source stays unavailable the run records a warning instead of returning invented results.

Is the data legal to use? The actor reads public data. You are responsible for using the results in line with applicable law and the source's terms.

Alternatives to EU Company Search

Other ways to get similar data, so you can choose what fits:

• OpenCorporates: global company database with its own API
• Dun & Bradstreet: commercial company data and risk scores
• the official registers directly: free but one lookup at a time

This actor's edge is pay-per-result pricing, no login and ready-to-use structured output. Compare on a small test run before you commit.

Changelog

• 0.2 (2026-10-28): listing refresh (title, description, README sections, console prefills). No change to output fields.
• Earlier: initial release.