# gBizINFO Japan Company Profile Scraper (`wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper`) Actor

Company profiles for any Japanese corporation from METI's gBizINFO open data: address, capital, employees, industry, business summary, website, finance (EDINET), subsidies, public procurement, certifications, patents and workplace data. CC BY compatible.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [WeSales](https://apify.com/wesales_jp) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 company profiles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## gBizINFO Japan Company Profile Scraper

Full company profiles for Japanese corporations from **gBizINFO** (Gビズインフォ), the open corporate data portal of Japan's **Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)**. One run turns a list of 13-digit corporate numbers into structured records with:

- name, kana, English name, head-office address
- capital, number of employees (with the data source, for example EDINET), industry, business summary, website
- **5 years of financial indicators** from securities reports (EDINET): sales, ordinary income, net income, capital, net assets, total assets and more
- **government subsidies and grants** received
- **public procurement contracts** won (date, project, amount, ministry)
- certifications and notifications (DX認定, くるみん, えるぼし and so on)
- patent, design and trademark counts
- workplace data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (average tenure, share of female workers and more)

gBizINFO content is published under rules compatible with **CC BY 4.0**, and commercial use is allowed with attribution.

### What can you use it for?

- **Market entry and partner search in Japan**: screen companies by size, industry, financials and government work.
- **B2G sales**: see who wins public procurement contracts and subsidies in your field.
- **Credit and supplier checks**: combine financial history, certifications and workplace data.
- **Data enrichment**: add Japanese firmographics to your CRM by corporate number.

Need corporate numbers first? Use the companion Actor **Japan Corporate Number (法人番号) Lookup**, or the name search below.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `corporateNumbers` | string\[] | | 13-digit corporate numbers (`T` prefix, hyphens and full-width digits accepted). |
| `sections` | string\[] | basic, finance, subsidies, procurement, certifications | Extra sections: `offices`, `finance`, `patents`, `certifications`, `subsidies`, `procurement`, `awards`, `workplace`. |
| `names` | string\[] | `[]` | Optional company-name search through the official REST API v2 (needs `apiToken`). |
| `apiToken` | string (secret) | | Free gBizINFO REST API token (e-mail registration at https://info.gbiz.go.jp/api/). Only for name search. |
| `maxResultsPerName` | integer | `20` | Results per name. |
| `maxConcurrency` | integer | `2` | Parallel requests (kept low on purpose). |
| `delayMs` | integer | `500` | Pause between requests. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "corporateNumbers": ["9130001002387", "5010501005434"],
  "sections": ["basic", "finance", "subsidies", "procurement", "certifications", "patents", "workplace"]
}
```

### Output

Real example (lists shortened):

```json
{
  "corporateNumber": "9130001002387",
  "found": true,
  "name": "ニデック株式会社",
  "nameKana": "ニデック",
  "nameEn": null,
  "address": "京都府京都市南区久世殿城町３３８番地",
  "capital": "87,784,000,000円",
  "capitalYen": 87784000000,
  "capitalSource": "EDINET",
  "employees": 1714,
  "employeesSource": "職場情報総合サイト",
  "companySizeDetail": "男性：1,345人、女性：369人",
  "businessSummary": "精密小型モータ、車載及び家電・商業・産業用モータ、機器装置、電子・光学部品。その他の開発・製造・販売",
  "website": "http://www.nidec.com/ja-JP/",
  "industry": "E.製造業",
  "finance": {
    "tables": [[
      { "item": "売上高", "unit": "（百万円）", "4期前": "198,247", "3期前": "199,194", "2期前": "222,185", "1期前": "253,398", "当期": "273,452" },
      { "item": "経常利益又は経常損失（△）", "unit": "（百万円）", "4期前": "46,019", "3期前": "82,055", "2期前": "166,998", "1期前": "56,657", "当期": "120,030" }
    ]]
  },
  "patents": { "patents": 593, "designs": 2, "trademarks": 84 },
  "certifications": [
    { "認定日": "2025年09月01日", "届出認定等": "ＤＸ認定制度", "対象": "-", "出典府省": "経済産業省", "部門": "-" }
  ],
  "subsidies": [],
  "procurement": [
    { "受注日": "2017年09月14日", "事業名": "ロボット活用型市場化適用技術開発プロジェクト…", "金額": "35,794,440円", "出典府省": "国立研究開発法人新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構" }
  ],
  "workplace": {
    "平均継続勤務年数（男女別）": "男性：12.4年、女性：10.4年 （範囲：正社員）",
    "労働者に占める女性労働者の割合": "14.8% （範囲：正社員）"
  },
  "sourceUrl": "https://info.gbiz.go.jp/hojin/ichiran?hojinBango=9130001002387",
  "attribution": "出典：Gビズインフォ（経済産業省） / Source: gBizINFO (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), CC BY compatible"
}
```

Fields that gBizINFO does not have for a company are `null` or empty lists. Coverage in our 25-company test (listed companies): address, kana 25/25; capital, employees, financials 24/25; industry 20/25; business summary 19/25; website 17/25; certifications 10/25; procurement 9/25; subsidies 6/25.

### Pricing (pay per event)

| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| `apify-actor-start` | $0.01 | Once per run |
| `company-profile` | $0.01 (= $10 per 1,000) | Each company profile |
| `lookup-miss` | $0.001 | Number not found / name with no hits |

### Data and privacy

- **No personal data**: representative names (代表者名) and major-shareholder names (大株主, which can be private persons) are deliberately not output.
- Source: gBizINFO (METI). Cite the source as in the `attribution` field when you publish the data and state if you edited it. This Actor is not provided or endorsed by METI.
- Requests are sequential and slow on purpose (about 2 per second).

### FAQ

**Do I need an API key?** No, not for lookups by corporate number. Name search uses the official REST API v2 and needs a free token.

**How fresh is the data?** gBizINFO updates its sources daily or periodically (EDINET daily, MHLW workplace data daily, procurement and subsidies when ministries publish).

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `corporateNumbers` (type: `array`):

13-digit Japanese corporate numbers (法人番号). A leading T, hyphens and full-width digits are accepted. Use the Japan Corporate Number Lookup Actor to find numbers from company names.

## `sections` (type: `array`):

Which profile sections to include besides basic info.

## `names` (type: `array`):

Company names to search through the official gBizINFO REST API (partial match). Requires apiToken.

## `apiToken` (type: `string`):

Free token from https://info.gbiz.go.jp/api/ (e-mail registration). Only needed for name search.

## `maxResultsPerName` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of companies returned for each company name you search.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests to the gBizINFO site. Keep it low; this is a government site.

## `delayMs` (type: `integer`):

Wait time between requests in milliseconds. Raise it if the site starts refusing requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "corporateNumbers": [
    "1180301018771",
    "5010401067252",
    "4000012090001"
  ],
  "sections": [
    "basic",
    "finance",
    "subsidies",
    "procurement",
    "certifications"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerName": 20,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "delayMs": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All records produced by the run (default dataset).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "corporateNumbers": [
        "1180301018771",
        "5010401067252",
        "4000012090001"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "corporateNumbers": [
        "1180301018771",
        "5010401067252",
        "4000012090001",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "corporateNumbers": [
    "1180301018771",
    "5010401067252",
    "4000012090001"
  ]
}' |
apify call wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,wesales_jp/gbizinfo-japan-company-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CUwA7r1NTVGueGMjZ/builds/csP3JlOteVGgFMyX9/openapi.json