France Company Search (SIRENE / SIREN lookup) — French companies from the official register

For anyone who needs facts about French companies in bulk: sales and market-research teams building lists by sector and postcode, KYC and supplier-onboarding teams checking SIREN / SIRET numbers, data teams enriching a CRM, and journalists or analysts screening a list of names. Give the Actor company names, SIREN / SIRET numbers or filters (postal code, department, NAF activity code, status) and get one flat row per company: SIREN, name, legal form, NAF code, active or ceased, creation date, headcount band, headquarters SIRET and address, number of establishments. $2 per 1,000 companies. Data comes from the French government's free Recherche d'entreprises API (api.gouv.fr), which serves the INSEE SIRENE register. No scraping, no proxies, no API keys. Unofficial: this Actor is not run by INSEE or the French government.

Try it free: leave input empty and press Start (a small demo run, not charged, rows carry _demo: true).

Sample output

siren	name	legalForm	nafCode	status	createdAt	headcount	city	department
123456789	EXEMPLE SAS	SAS, société par actions simplifiée	62.01Z	active	2010-05-01	20-49	PARIS	75
234567890	EXEMPLE BOULANGERIE SARL	SARL	10.71C	ceased	1998-03-12	3-5	LYON	69
345678901	null (sole proprietor)	Entrepreneur individuel	47.11B	active	2019-09-02	0 employees	NANTES	44

(Made-up placeholder values that show the shape of a row.) Example price: 1,000 companies cost $2; 50 companies cost $0.10.

What it does

• Search by name or keyword: each query returns up to maxResultsPerQuery companies (prefill 5, cap 1,000)
• Look up SIREN (9 digits) or SIRET (14 digits) numbers: spaces and dots are ignored, a SIRET returns its company
• Filters that can be combined with queries or used alone: postal code, department, NAF code, NAF section, active / ceased
• Matching establishments (SIRET, address, status) for text and filter searches, if you turn it on (default on)
• Dedupes: a company found by several queries is returned, and charged, once
• Polite: at most 2 requests per second (the API allows about 7), backs off on HTTP 429 and honours Retry-After

Privacy: no officers, no personal names

The API also lists company officers (dirigeants). This Actor never reads or outputs them, and no personal names of any kind. For sole proprietors (Entrepreneur individuel, legal form code 1000) the company name is the person's own name, so name is null and isSoleProprietor is true; their street address is dropped too (postal code and city stay). The same applies to companies the register marks as partially non-diffusible.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["Danone", "boulangerie Lyon"],
  "sirenList": ["552 032 534"],
  "codePostal": "69003",
  "etatAdministratif": "A",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5
}

Filters apply to every query. With only filters (no query), one search is run for the filters alone.

Output

One row per company in the dataset (an overview table and a details table are included):

{
  "siren": "123456789",
  "name": "EXEMPLE SAS",
  "isSoleProprietor": false,
  "legalFormCode": "5710",
  "legalForm": "SAS, société par actions simplifiée",
  "nafCode": "62.01Z",
  "nafLabel": null,
  "nafSection": "J",
  "nafSectionLabel": "Information and communication",
  "createdAt": "2010-05-01",
  "status": "active",
  "ceasedAt": null,
  "headcountCode": "12",
  "headcount": "20-49",
  "companyCategory": "PME",
  "hqSiret": "12345678900011",
  "address": "1 RUE EXEMPLE 75002 PARIS",
  "postalCode": "75002",
  "city": "PARIS",
  "department": "75",
  "regionCode": "11",
  "region": "Île-de-France",
  "establishmentsTotal": 3,
  "establishmentsOpen": 2,
  "matchingEstablishments": [{"siret": "12345678900011", "address": "1 RUE EXEMPLE 75002 PARIS", "postalCode": "75002", "city": "PARIS", "status": "active"}],
  "query": "exemple",
  "queriedSiret": null,
  "source": "INSEE SIRENE register via the Recherche d'entreprises API (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr, DINUM / api.gouv.fr). Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0."
}

Notes: legalForm is a label for the most common legal-form codes only (other codes keep the code and a null label). nafLabel is filled only when the API provides it; nafSectionLabel always comes with the section letter. headcount is the INSEE employee band at the time of the last declaration and can be out of date. Unknown or invalid SIREN / SIRET numbers and failed requests come back as free rows with an error field (not_found, invalid_siren_or_siret, rate_limited, http_400, ...).

The record SUMMARY in the key-value store counts companies, charged companies, duplicates, not found, invalid, errors and API requests.

Limits (cannot be raised by input)

• Up to 200 queries, 5,000 SIREN / SIRET numbers, 1,000 results per query and 6,000 API requests per run
• At most 2 requests per second, one at a time; up to 4 retries on 429 / 5xx with growing waits
• The register's search window is 10,000 results per search, and the API returns 25 results per page
• matchingEstablishments is filled by the API for text searches and filters, not for plain SIREN lookups

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per company returned ($2 per 1,000). Invalid input, not-found lookups, errors, duplicates and the free demo are not charged. Set a maximum charge per run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Data source and licence

Data: INSEE SIRENE register, served by the Recherche d'entreprises API of api.gouv.fr (operated by the French DINUM / Etalab ecosystem), published as open data under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). If you reuse or republish the data, cite the source and the date of extraction, as the licence requires: "Source: INSEE SIRENE register via api.gouv.fr (Recherche d'entreprises), Licence Ouverte 2.0, extracted . Every row carries a source field with this attribution. The data may contain personal data of sole proprietors (for example street addresses); if you use it in the EU, GDPR obligations are yours. See LEGAL.md.

FAQ

Is this official? No. It is an unofficial client of a free public API, not affiliated with INSEE or the French government. Why is there no owner or director name? By design (see Privacy). The Actor is for company facts, not for finding people. Why is name null for some rows? The company is a sole proprietor (Entrepreneur individuel) or non-diffusible, and its name would be a person's name. How do I get all establishments of a company? Search with a query or filters and keep includeEstablishments on: you get the establishments that matched. A plain SIREN lookup returns the headquarters and the establishment counts.

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