North Data Company & Register Scraper

Extract German / EU public commercial-register data from northdata.com: official company name, register number and court, registered address, officers, founding date, LEI, industry, and the full public-record event history — including publicly listed insolvency and liquidation events. Clean public-register data for KYC, B2B due diligence, and lead research.

This actor reads public-record data only — company-register entries exactly as they are published. See the note at the bottom.

Why use this actor

• No account, no login, no API key — paste a company link or a company name and run.
• Official register data: legal name, register number and registering court, registered address, founding date, LEI code, business purpose, and industry.
• People on the record: the officers (managing directors, board members) as listed in the public register.
• Full event history: every published register and financial event over the company's life — capital changes, mergers, role changes, annual reports — with insolvency and liquidation events flagged for quick risk screening.
• Two ways to work: paste company-page links directly, or search by company name and let the actor find the matching companies.
• Clean, structured output, automatic retries, runs on a schedule, exports to JSON / CSV / Excel. No scrapers or browsers to babysit.

How it works

1. Pick a mode: paste company-page links (url), or search by company name (search).
2. In search mode, the actor looks up each name and picks the top matching companies.
3. For each company it reads the public register page and pulls the official details, the officers, and the full event history.
4. Each company becomes one row in your dataset, with insolvency / liquidation events flagged.

You never manage scrapers, browsers, or blocks — just provide companies and read the results.

Input

Mode: Company URLs

{
  "mode": "url",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.northdata.com/Google+Germany+GmbH,+Hamburg/HRB+86891"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
  }
}

Mode: Company-name search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["Wirecard AG"],
  "countries": "DE",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}

Field	Mode	Type	Description
mode	—	string	url (paste company links) or search (search by name). Default url.
startUrls	url	array of strings	North Data company-page links, e.g. https://www.northdata.com/Google+Germany+GmbH,+Hamburg/HRB+86891.
queries	search	array of strings	Company-name searches, e.g. Wirecard AG.
countries	search	string	Optional country codes to focus the search (DE, or DE AT CH). Blank = all countries.
maxResultsPerQuery	search	integer	How many top matches to scrape per search (default 5).
maxItems	—	integer	Overall cap on rows. 0 = no cap.
maxConcurrency	—	integer	How many companies to process in parallel. Default 3.
proxyConfiguration	—	object	German residential proxy support, set by default.

Output

One row per company (real sample, Google Germany GmbH — event list truncated):

{
  "_input": "https://www.northdata.com/Google+Germany+GmbH,+Hamburg/HRB+86891",
  "_source": "S1-ldjson",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T11:09:46Z",
  "url": "https://www.northdata.com/Google+Germany+GmbH,+Hamburg/HRB+86891",
  "name": "Google Germany GmbH",
  "headerLine": "Google Germany GmbH, Hamburg, Germany",
  "isDefunct": false,
  "statusFlags": null,
  "registerType": "HRB",
  "registerNumber": "86891",
  "register": "HRB 86891",
  "court": "District Court of Hamburg",
  "courtEnglish": "District Court of Hamburg",
  "foundingDate": "2001-04-06",
  "leiCode": "529900H4SBHKV7XQXK22",
  "purpose": "arranging the sale of online advertising and other products and services; in addition, all commercial, industrial or financial transactions relating to movable or immovable property that directly or indirectly serve the foregoing purpose.",
  "industry": "Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities",
  "address": {
    "streetAddress": "ABC-Str. 19",
    "postalCode": "20354",
    "city": "Hamburg",
    "region": null,
    "country": "DE"
  },
  "officers": [
    { "name": "Manicle, Paul Terrence", "givenName": "Paul Terrence", "familyName": "Manicle", "role": "Managing Director", "url": "https://www.northdata.com/Manicle,%20Paul%20Terrence,%20Baudour/zxd" },
    { "name": "Sebastian, Liana Yvonne", "givenName": "Liana Yvonne", "familyName": "Sebastian", "role": "Managing Director", "url": "https://www.northdata.com/Sebastian,%20Liana%20Yvonne,%20Cupertino/15da" }
  ],
  "officerCount": 4,
  "events": [
    { "date": "2025-11-10", "source": "Eb", "topicTypes": ["AnnualFinancialReport", "Balance", "Earnings", "Relation"], "summary": "Annual report for the year ending 31/12/2024 · Balance sheet for 31/12/2024 · Earnings statement for 31/12/2024 …", "detailUrl": "/?id=5111838758666240", "isInsolvencyRelated": false },
    { "date": "2003-04-01", "source": "Hrcdd", "topicTypes": ["Entry", "Role", "Relation", "Capital", "Headquarters", "LegalForm", "Name"], "summary": "Registration · MD (1) · Capital: €25,000 · Seat: Hamburg · Legal form: GmbH · Name: Google Germany GmbH …", "detailUrl": "/?id=4736277570650112", "isInsolvencyRelated": false }
  ],
  "eventCount": 61,
  "insolvencyEvents": [],
  "hasInsolvencyEvents": false,
  "pageTitle": "Google Germany GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, District Court of Hamburg HRB 86891: Network, Financial information"
}

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Official company name.
headerLine	string	Name, city, and country as shown on the page.
isDefunct / statusFlags	boolean / array	Whether the company is closed / liquidated, and any status markers.
registerType / registerNumber / register	string	Register category, number, and the combined register string.
court / courtEnglish	string	Registering court (native and English).
foundingDate	string	Founding date (ISO).
leiCode	string	Legal Entity Identifier, when present.
purpose	string	Stated business purpose.
industry	string	Industry / activity classification.
address	object	Registered address (street, postal code, city, region, country).
officers	array	People on the register: name, given/family name, role, and their North Data link.
officerCount	integer	Number of officers listed.
events	array	Full published event history: date, source, topics, summary, detail link, and an insolvency flag.
eventCount	integer	Number of events.
insolvencyEvents	array	The subset of events flagged as insolvency / liquidation related.
hasInsolvencyEvents	boolean	Quick risk signal — whether any insolvency / liquidation event exists.
pageTitle	string	The page title (name, city, court, register number).

In search mode each company row also carries a searchMatchTitle field with the matched name as shown in search. On failure the actor writes a row with _error and _errorDetail rather than silently skipping.

Notes & limits

• German residential proxy support is set by default and recommended for volume.
• The public page exposes the public-register events themselves (registrations, capital changes, mergers, role changes, liquidations, financial publications). Full-text insolvency-register announcements are a separate paid North Data feature and are not included; this actor flags the insolvency / liquidation events that appear in the public event feed.
• Officers and event history vary in length by company; large companies can have dozens of events.

Legality note

This actor collects public commercial-register data (Handelsregister and equivalent EU registers) exactly as published on northdata.com. Officers appear because they are recorded in the public register, and are passed through with no enrichment beyond the page. This is legitimate public-record / KYC / B2B due-diligence data, not private-data harvesting. Respect North Data's terms and applicable data-protection law for your use case.