Impressum Scraper — DACH Register No., VAT ID & Legal Name

Turn a list of German, Austrian and Swiss domains into verified company data. For every domain this Actor finds the website's Impressum (legal notice) — the page every German, Austrian and Swiss business website must publish — and returns the legal company name and form, address, commercial register court and number, VAT ID (check-digit verified), business phone and role mailboxes. One row per domain, ready for your CRM.

You only pay for companies found. Domains without an Impressum, websites that refuse the visit, parked domains and dead links are free.

What you get

Field	Example
Legal name / form	sipgate GmbH / GmbH
Address	Gladbacher Straße 74, 40219 Düsseldorf, DE
Register court / number	Amtsgericht Düsseldorf / HRB 39841
VAT ID + checksum check	DE219349391 ✓
Phone, role mailboxes	+49 211 635555-0, info@sipgate.de
Source page	https://www.sipgate.de/impressum
Confidence	high (score 0–100)

Works for:

• 🇩🇪 Germany — HRB, HRA, VR (associations), GnR (cooperatives), PR (partnerships), USt-IdNr. DE…
• 🇦🇹 Austria — Firmenbuch FN 123456a, ZVR (associations), UID ATU…
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland / 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein — UID CHE-123.456.789 (MWST), Handelsregister des Kantons …
• Legal forms such as GmbH, AG, SE, UG (haftungsbeschränkt), GmbH & Co. KG, KGaA, OHG, e.K., e.V., eG, OG, e.U., Sàrl, SA.

Use cases

• DACH lead generation — turn a scraped list of websites into companies with a legal name, address and phone.
• CRM data quality — fill in or check legal names, register numbers and VAT IDs for your accounts.
• KYB / supplier onboarding — get the register number and VAT ID to look up in the official register.
• Invoicing and compliance — collect checksum-valid VAT IDs for B2B invoices.
• Market mapping — split a domain list by legal form, city or country.

How to use it

1. Paste your domains into Domains or websites — one per line. Bare domains (firma.de), full URLs (https://www.firma.at/de/) and company e-mail addresses (info@firma.ch) all work. A URL that points straight at an Impressum page is read directly.
2. Optionally set Max companies to stop after a number of found companies.
3. Run it and download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON, or connect them to your CRM with Apify integrations.

Input example

{
  "domains": ["sipgate.de", "hetzner.com", "world4you.com"],
  "maxItems": 0,
  "includeRoleEmails": true,
  "includeMisses": true
}

Option	What it does
Domains or websites	Domains, URLs or company e-mail addresses. Personal mail providers (gmail.com, gmx.de, web.de …) are skipped. Duplicates are checked once.
Max companies	Stop after this many companies were found. 0 = the whole list.
Country hint	Only used to tell Austrian and Swiss 4-digit postcodes apart when a page doesn't say.
Include role mailboxes	Adds the company's own role mailboxes (info@, kontakt@, office@ …).
One row for every domain	Adds a free status row for domains without company data, so every input has a row.
Websites at a time	5–20 different websites side by side (default 10; above 10 needs more run memory — 512 MB for 20).

Output example

A real row (from sipgate.de, checked 2026-10-29), trimmed:

{
  "domain": "sipgate.de",
  "status": "found",
  "legalName": "sipgate GmbH",
  "legalForm": "GmbH",
  "entityType": "company",
  "street": "Gladbacher Straße 74",
  "postalCode": "40219",
  "city": "Düsseldorf",
  "country": "DE",
  "phone": "+49 211 635555-0",
  "emails": ["info@sipgate.de"],
  "registerCourt": "Amtsgericht Düsseldorf",
  "registerType": "HRB",
  "registerNumber": "HRB 39841",
  "vatId": "DE219349391",
  "vatIdChecksumValid": true,
  "registeredSeat": "Düsseldorf",
  "impressumUrl": "https://www.sipgate.de/impressum",
  "websiteUrl": "https://www.sipgate.de/",
  "foundOn": "impressum",
  "confidence": "high",
  "confidenceScore": 100
}

Domains without company data get a free status row (when "One row for every domain" is on), for example {"domain": "example-shop.com", "status": "no-impressum", "note": "No Impressum / legal-notice page was found …"}. Statuses: found (charged) · no-company-data · no-impressum · blocked · rate-limited · disallowed · unreachable · timeout · parked · not-html · crawl-delay · invalid-input (all free).

Pricing

• $2.50 per 1,000 companies found ($0.0025 per company with a register number, a VAT ID, or a legal name with its address from the legal notice).
• $0.002 per run (start).
• Misses are free: no Impressum, no identifiers, refused, unreachable, parked, invalid input.

Example: 1,000 domains of which 700 have an Impressum with company data → 700 × $0.0025 + $0.002 = $1.75.

Tips

• The Actor reads the Impressum that German, Austrian, Swiss and Liechtenstein websites publish. Domains from other countries rarely have one; a list made mostly of them stops early (misses are free, and the run tells you why).
• Paste the Impressum URL itself (firma.de/impressum) when you already know it — that saves a request.
• Use confidence / confidenceScore to filter: high means a legal name, a register number with its court and/or a checksum-valid VAT ID were found together.
• Use the register number to look the company up in the official Handelsregister / Firmenbuch / Zefix when you need certified data.
• The vatIdChecksumValid flag checks the official check digit. To confirm a VAT ID is currently active, check it in the EU VIES service.
• Some large corporate websites refuse automated visits. Those domains come back as blocked and are free; the Actor never tries to get around a refusal.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Impressum pages? The Impressum is a legally required, public disclosure: German (§ 5 DDG), Austrian (§ 5 ECG, § 25 MedienG) and Swiss law require businesses to publish exactly this information so anyone can identify and contact them. The Actor reads only these public pages, without logging in, respects each website's robots.txt (including its Crawl-delay), and visits each website only a few times. As with any data, how you use it (for example for marketing e-mails) must follow the GDPR, UWG and similar rules in your country. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

Does it access any private data? No. It reads public pages only — no login, no cookies, no forms. It does not collect personal names: managing directors, board members, contact persons and data-protection officers named on an Impressum are never saved. Only the company's own role mailboxes (info@, kontakt@, office@ …) are kept; personal addresses such as firstname.lastname@ are skipped. For one-person businesses without a legal form, the owner's name, street, phone and e-mail are left out.

What does "found" mean, and when am I charged? A domain counts as found — and is charged — when its legal notice (or homepage footer) gives a commercial register number, a VAT ID, or the legal company name together with its address. Everything else is free.

Why is a domain blocked? The website refused the visit (HTTP 403, a bot check, or "too many requests"). The Actor respects that, doesn't retry, and doesn't charge.

Why crawl-delay or disallowed? The website's robots.txt either forbids the pages needed or asks for more than 10 seconds between visits. Those websites are skipped for free.

How fast is it? Roughly 1–2 domains per second with the default 10 websites at a time. Websites that ask for a pause between visits (robots.txt Crawl-delay) take longer.

Can I get the managing directors? No — this Actor deliberately leaves out people's names.