French Company Search (SIRENE) in English + Insights

Search every company registered in France — about 30 million businesses from the official SIRENE / RNE registry — and get clean, English, lead-list-ready rows: one row per company with its headquarters, directors, activity, size, VAT number and published financials. Every search also comes with a free market-insight summary, and scheduled runs can tell you which companies are new or closed since last time.

No API key, no login, no French needed.

Why this actor

• English everywhere. Field names, NAF/APE activity labels (all 732 codes), legal forms (SAS, SARL, SASU… with an English description), director roles (Président → President, Gérant → Managing Director, Commissaire aux comptes → Statutory Auditor), regions and headcount ranges ("10-19 employees" plus numeric min/max).
• One row per company, ready for a CRM. Normalized HQ address (street number ranges, expanded street types, proper casing, department and region names, GPS), computed intra-EU VAT number, link to the official company page.
• Filters that matter for prospecting. Activity code or section, department, region, postal code, employee range, size category, legal form, creation date, revenue range, active only, employers only, headquarters in the area only, director name.
• Brand-new companies. Set a "created after" date without search terms and the actor reads the official BODACC creation notices (newest first) and returns the freshly registered companies — the earliest moment to reach a new business.
• Change tracking. Enable it on a schedule and get a free change row per search with new and closed companies, plus an isNew flag on every company.
• Free insight summary per search: total matching companies, top activities, top departments and regions, headcount distribution, size categories, legal forms, creations per year (10 years) and per month (12 months), median company age, and plain-English takeaways.
• Clean billing. You pay only for company rows. Summary, change, info and error rows are free, and non-public records are skipped and never charged.

How to use

1. Enter search terms (e.g. boulangerie, agence web, a company name) and/or filters.
2. Set Max companies per search.
3. Run. Results are in the dataset (views: Companies, Insight summaries, Changes, Errors) and a self-check report is in the key-value store (RUN_REPORT).

Example inputs

Software companies with 10–49 employees in Lyon's department:

{
  "activityCodes": ["62.01Z", "62.02A"],
  "departments": ["69"],
  "headcountRanges": ["10-19", "20-49"],
  "maxResults": 500
}

Restaurants registered in Gironde since 1 September, every week (schedule it with change tracking):

{
  "activityCodes": ["56.10A"],
  "departments": ["Gironde"],
  "createdAfter": "2026-09-01",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "trackChanges": true,
  "monitorName": "gironde-restaurants"
}

Look up specific companies:

{ "sirenList": ["552032534", "542107651"] }

Output

A company row (shortened):

{
  "type": "company",
  "siren": "878623164",
  "siretHQ": "87862316400018",
  "name": "SINARI PSX",
  "status": "active",
  "legalFormCode": "5710",
  "legalFormEn": "Simplified joint-stock company (SAS)",
  "activityCode": "62.01Z",
  "activityLabelEn": "Computer programming activities",
  "activityLabelFr": "Programmation informatique",
  "sectionEn": "Information and Communication",
  "companyCategory": "Intermediate-sized enterprise",
  "headcountRange": "10-19 employees",
  "headcountMin": 10,
  "headcountMax": 19,
  "isEmployer": true,
  "createdAt": "2019-10-25",
  "ageYears": 7,
  "hq": {
    "address": "Technoparc Bat A, 4 Avenue des Peupliers, 35510 Cesson-Sevigne",
    "postalCode": "35510",
    "city": "Cesson-Sevigne",
    "department": "35",
    "departmentName": "Ille-et-Vilaine",
    "regionName": "Brittany",
    "lat": 48.1137,
    "lng": -1.6053
  },
  "matchedEstablishment": { "siret": "87862316400042", "city": "Craponne", "isHQ": false },
  "directors": [{ "name": "FINANCIÈRE PORTHOS", "role": "Président de SAS", "roleEn": "President", "type": "company" }],
  "revenueEur": 0,
  "netIncomeEur": 189302,
  "financialYear": 2022,
  "vatNumber": "FR40878623164",
  "companyUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/878623164"
}

Also included: trade names, acronym, closing date, establishment counts, financial history, NAF 2025 code, collective agreement IDs, and certification flags (RGE, Qualiopi, organic, social economy, mission-driven company…).

Location filters match any establishment of a company, so a company headquartered in Brittany with a branch in Lyon appears in a Lyon search — its branch is shown in matchedEstablishment. Turn on Headquarters must be in the area to keep only local headquarters.

A summary row (free) includes totalAvailable, topActivities, topDepartments, topRegions, headcountDistribution, companyCategoryShares, legalFormShares, creationsByYear, creationsByMonthLast12, medianAgeYears and insights, for example:

["93 companies match this search in the French registry.",
 "Most common activity: 62.01Z Computer programming activities (100% of 93 fetched).",
 "Top region: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (66.7%)."]

Pricing

Pay per result: $1.50 per 1,000 companies ($0.0015 per company row). Summary, change, info and error rows are free. In summary-only mode, each analyzed company is billed like a row. Set a maximum charge per run in the run options to cap spending.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official French government open-data company search API (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr), which aggregates INSEE SIRENE, the national companies register (RNE) and other public sources, and the official BODACC legal notices (bodacc.fr) for new-company mode. Data is published under the French Open Licence (Licence Ouverte / Etalab). Company pages link to annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr.

Are emails and phone numbers included? No. The official registry does not publish them. Use the company name, address and website search of your choice to enrich.

What about directors and GDPR? Director names and roles are public registry data. Birth years are off by default; enable them only if you have a lawful basis. Companies whose owners opted out of public disclosure are skipped by default. You are responsible for using personal data in line with GDPR (e.g. legitimate interest assessment and opt-out handling for B2B prospecting).

Is there a limit on results? The registry returns up to 10,000 records per filter combination. When a search without a location filter matches more, the actor automatically splits it by department. With a location filter, narrow the activity codes or areas instead (you get a free error row explaining this).

How fast is it? The public API allows 7 requests per second; the actor uses 4 by default and retries politely on rate limits. 1,000 companies usually take well under a minute. New-company mode checks each notice individually, so it is slower.

Why is a brand-new company missing? Companies appear in BODACC and in the search index a few days apart. Those not yet indexed are skipped and counted in the run report.

Is revenue available for every company? Only for companies that publish their accounts. revenueEur is empty otherwise.