# BODACC – French Company Creations, Insolvencies & Sales (`yck69/french-bodacc`) Actor

French legal announcements (BODACC), cleaned and structured: new companies, business sales with prices, insolvency proceedings with liquidators and claim deadlines, deregistrations and accounts filings. Daily alerts, SIREN watchlists and statistics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/yck69/french-bodacc.md
- **Developed by:** [yck](https://apify.com/yck69) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 announcements

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

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# README

## BODACC – French Company Creations, Insolvencies & Sales

Every **BODACC legal announcement**, the official bulletin of French company life (about 15,000 a day), **cleaned and structured**:

- **Company creations and registrations**: new companies and sole traders with activity, legal form, capital, management and start date.
- **Business sales**: who bought what, the **sale price**, the seller, and where to file oppositions.
- **Insolvency proceedings**: liquidations, receiverships, safeguards, plans, closures and sanctions. Each comes with the **liquidator or court-appointed representative**, the **date payments stopped** and the **deadline for creditor claims**.
- **Modifications, deregistrations and accounts filings**.
- **Alerts and watchlists**: schedule it and get only new announcements. Filter by SIREN to monitor customers and suppliers, or by department and activity for new leads.
- **Statistics**: counts by announcement type, insolvency judgment, department, region, court or month.

**$1 per 1,000 announcements.**

### What data can you get?

<table>
<tr><td>📅 Publication date</td><td>🏢 Company and SIREN</td><td>🏷️ Announcement type</td></tr>
<tr><td>⚖️ Insolvency judgment</td><td>🧑‍⚖️ Liquidator or administrator</td><td>⏳ Payment-stop date and claims deadline</td></tr>
<tr><td>💶 Sale price and seller</td><td>🆕 Activity, capital, management</td><td>🏛️ Court</td></tr>
<tr><td>📍 Head office, department, region</td><td>🔗 Official notice link</td><td>📊 Statistics</td></tr>
</table>

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of this page.
2. Choose announcement types, procedures, regions or activities, or paste **SIREN** numbers to monitor.
3. Set a period (e.g. the last 7 days).
4. Click **Start**, then schedule it for daily alerts.
5. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect it to Slack or your CRM.

### Use cases

- **Sales and marketing**: new companies every morning in your area and sector (restaurants in Lyon, IT consultancies in Paris…), for accountants, banks, insurers, agencies and suppliers.
- **Credit management and collections**: get alerted the day a customer goes into receivership or liquidation, with the practitioner to send your claim to and the deadline.
- **Investors and buyers**: businesses for sale, sale plans and liquidations in your sector.
- **Analysts and journalists**: insolvency trends by region, sector or month.

### Input examples

**New restaurants in the Rhône this week**

```json
{ "mode": "announcements", "families": ["creation"], "departments": ["69"], "activities": ["restaurant"], "lastDays": 7 }
```

**Daily watchlist of customers** (schedule daily, add an integration)

```json
{ "mode": "announcements", "sirens": ["552100554", "910288372"], "onlyNew": true, "alertName": "customers" }
```

**Liquidations opened in Paris in the last 2 weeks**

```json
{ "mode": "announcements", "procedures": ["liquidation-opened"], "departments": ["75"], "lastDays": 14 }
```

**Insolvency judgments per month in Gironde**

```json
{ "mode": "stats", "groupBy": "procedure", "departments": ["33"], "perMonth": true, "publishedAfter": "2026-01-01" }
```

### Output

**Insolvency proceeding**

```json
{
    "id": "A202602041859",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-23",
    "bulletin": "A",
    "noticeType": "initial",
    "family": "collective",
    "familyLabel": "Insolvency proceeding",
    "companyName": "Opt'in GTA",
    "siren": "910288372",
    "personType": "company",
    "legalForm": "Société par Actions Simplifiée",
    "activity": "consulting en gestion du temps de travail",
    "headOffice": { "street": "29 rue Geoffroy de Moirans", "postalCode": "26330", "city": "Châteauneuf-de-Galaure", "country": null },
    "departmentCode": "26",
    "region": "Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes",
    "court": "Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de Romans",
    "judgment": {
        "kind": "liquidation-opened",
        "nature": "Jugement d'ouverture de liquidation judiciaire",
        "date": "2026-10-13",
        "paymentStopDate": "2025-04-13",
        "practitioners": [{ "role": "liquidator", "name": "Selarl Berthelot Agissant par Maître Geoffroy Berthelot" }],
        "claimsDeadline": "2026-12-23",
        "details": "Jugement prononçant la liquidation judiciaire, date de cessation des paiements le 13 avril 2025, désignant liquidateur Selarl Berthelot…"
    },
    "url": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:A202602041859"
}
```

**Business sale**: `category` (e.g. "Achat d'un fonds par une personne morale"), `establishments` (activity, address, origin), and `sale`:

```json
{ "price": 52000, "previousOwners": [{ "name": "LE REPERE DES AVENTURIERS", "siren": "815091921" }], "legalNotice": { "newspaper": "Lavoixdunord.fr", "date": "2026-09-23" }, "oppositions": "Au lieu d'exploitation du fonds cédé, sis 225, rue de Lille 59270 Bailleul" }
```

**Other types**:

- **Creations and registrations**: `registrationDate`, `activityStartDate`, `category`, `management` and `people`.
- **Modifications**: `changes`.
- **Deregistrations**: `deregistration`, with the reason and the activity end date.
- **Accounts filings**: `accounts`, with the closing date and the type.

**Insolvency judgment kinds**:

- `liquidation-opened`, `receivership-opened`, `safeguard-opened`
- `plan-adopted`, `sale-plan`
- `closed-insufficient-assets`, `closed-debts-paid`
- `sanction` (personal bankruptcy, management ban)
- `claims` (lists of claims and distributions)
- `other`

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Announcement | $0.001 |
| Statistics row | $0.002 |

Alert runs with no new announcement cost almost nothing.

### Good to know

- **Source**: [BODACC open data](https://bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/annonces-commerciales/) (DILA), *Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0*, updated with each issue (every working day). Bulletin A covers sales, creations and insolvencies, B covers modifications and deregistrations, C covers accounts filings.
- **Period**: when no date, company or SIREN is given, searches cover the last 30 days (statistics: the last 365 days).
- **Practitioners, payment-stop dates and claim deadlines** are read from the judgment text. Practitioners are found for about 99% of opened proceedings. The claims deadline is the usual two months from publication, when the announcement says so.
- **Personal data**: announcements about sole traders include their names, as published in the official bulletin. Process them in line with the GDPR, for example by not using them for unsolicited marketing to individuals without a legal basis.
- **Insolvency statistics** count announcements, not companies: one proceeding usually leads to several announcements over time.

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### FAQ

##### Can I use it through the API, Make, Zapier or Google Sheets?

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##### Is it legal to use this data?

The Actor only reads public or official open data and doesn't log in anywhere. Check the source's licence and your local rules (for example GDPR when data concerns people) for your use case; if in doubt, ask a lawyer.

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# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

<b>Announcements</b>: BODACC legal announcements, structured: company creations, business sales, insolvency proceedings, modifications, deregistrations, accounts filings. Turn on alerts to get only new ones (e.g. a watchlist of SIRENs).<br><b>Statistics</b>: announcements counted by type, insolvency procedure, department, region, court or month.

## `families` (type: `array`):

Any of them. All types by default.

## `procedures` (type: `array`):

Kinds of insolvency judgments (implies insolvency proceedings).

## `lastDays` (type: `integer`):

Without any period, company or SIREN, announcements of the last 30 days (365 for statistics).

## `publishedAfter` (type: `string`):

On or after this date.

## `publishedBefore` (type: `string`):

Before this date.

## `sirens` (type: `array`):

Companies to follow, 9 digits each. Combine with alerts to monitor customers or suppliers.

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Words in the company name.

## `activities` (type: `array`):

Words in the activity description, e.g. <code>restaurant</code>, <code>boulangerie</code>, <code>informatique</code>. Any of the lines.

## `personType` (type: `string`):

Companies (legal entities) or sole traders.

## `onlyInitial` (type: `boolean`):

Only initial announcements.

## `departments` (type: `array`):

e.g. <code>69</code>, <code>2A</code>, <code>974</code>.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Whole regions.

## `postalCodes` (type: `array`):

e.g. <code>69002</code>.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

City names.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Schedule the Actor (e.g. every day) with an email, Slack or webhook integration. The first run saves the current announcements.

## `alertName` (type: `string`):

Separate memory per alert. Defaults to one per set of filters.

## `groupBy` (type: `string`):

For Statistics mode.

## `perMonth` (type: `boolean`):

One row per group and month: trends.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Announcements or statistics rows.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "announcements",
  "families": [
    "creation"
  ],
  "lastDays": 7,
  "personType": "all",
  "onlyInitial": false,
  "departments": [
    "69"
  ],
  "onlyNew": false,
  "groupBy": "family",
  "perMonth": false,
  "maxResults": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `announcements` (type: `string`):

Structured BODACC announcements.

## `insolvencies` (type: `string`):

Insolvency judgments with practitioners and deadlines.

## `stats` (type: `string`):

Announcement counts.

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

Every field.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "announcements",
    "families": [
        "creation"
    ],
    "lastDays": 7,
    "departments": [
        "69"
    ],
    "maxResults": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("yck69/french-bodacc").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 = {
    "mode": "announcements",
    "families": ["creation"],
    "lastDays": 7,
    "departments": ["69"],
    "maxResults": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("yck69/french-bodacc").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 '{
  "mode": "announcements",
  "families": [
    "creation"
  ],
  "lastDays": 7,
  "departments": [
    "69"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}' |
apify call yck69/french-bodacc --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,yck69/french-bodacc"
        }
    }
}
```

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/Ke9uSBaowqV670pWa/builds/UhPB3BObFUA36xcgR/openapi.json