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France BODACC Business Legal Gazette Scraper
parseforge/france-bodacc-gazette-scraper
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Scrapes French business legal announcements from the BODACC gazette. Filter by company name, event category, notice type, and date range. Returns each announcement as a flat row with publication date, company identifier, event type, and full descriptive text.
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Overview
France BODACC Business Legal Gazette Scraper
Scrape French business legal announcements from the BODACC gazette by company name, category, or date range. Every notice returns the publication date, company identifier, event type, and full descriptive text. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.
The Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales (BODACC) is the French government's daily gazette of mandatory business events, from new company registrations to insolvency proceedings. Searching it manually means navigating a dated web interface with limited export options. This Actor reads the public announcements feed directly, letting you filter by company name, event category, notice type, and date range, and returns each match in one fixed schema.
| Who uses it | What they scrape BODACC for |
|---|---|
| Compliance officers | Monitor insolvency proceedings and strike-offs for counterparty risk. |
| Sales and marketing teams | Build a fresh lead list from new company registrations and modifications. |
| Business intelligence analysts | Track sector activity by scraping creation and modification announcements. |
| Legal professionals | Stay current on conciliation and professional recovery proceedings. |
What it does
This Actor collects BODACC legal announcements by free-text query, announcement category, notice type, and publication date range, and returns each one as a flat row.
- 🔍 Free-text search: Find announcements by company name, address, or any descriptive text like 'boulangerie Lyon'.
- 📂 Category filter: Restrict results to creations, registrations, modifications, strike-offs, sales, insolvency proceedings, conciliations, professional recovery, account filings, or miscellaneous events.
- 📝 Notice type filter: Choose between initial notices, corrections, or cancellations.
- 📅 Date range: Narrow results to announcements published between two dates.
Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.
What you can do with BODACC data
📊 Monitor corporate risk events.
A credit analyst runs the Actor daily with the insolvency proceedings category to flag companies entering collective procedures before the news reaches commercial databases.
🏢 Generate B2B leads from new registrations.
A sales team scrapes the creations category filtered by date range to build a weekly list of newly registered French companies for outreach.
📈 Track sector trends.
A market researcher searches for a keyword like 'restaurant' combined with the modifications category to measure churn and restructuring activity in the hospitality sector.
⚖️ Support legal due diligence.
A law firm searches a target company name across all categories to pull every BODACC announcement for a pre-acquisition review.
Why choose this scraper
| What you get | |
|---|---|
| Official source | Data comes directly from the public BODACC gazette, the authoritative French business register. |
| No login required | Scrapes the public feed without any account, API key, or OAuth setup. |
| Structured output | Every announcement is returned in a clean, flat schema ready for analysis. |
| Flexible filtering | Combine free-text search with category, notice type, and date filters in one run. |
How it compares
This Actor focuses on direct, filterable access to the BODACC gazette feed, while other actors on the platform either target a different French gazette or enrich BODACC data with additional company information.
| Feature | ParseForge | France Company Risk Monitor | France Fresh Company Leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct BODACC feed access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free-text company name search | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Filter by announcement category | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Filter by notice type | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Enriched NAF activity codes | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| Officer and founder details | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
Configure the run
Drive the Actor with a free-text query, announcement category, notice type, and a date range, alone or together, and filters run as each announcement is read so only matches reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.
A first run with the defaults:
{
"maxItems": 10
}
A larger pull:
{
"maxItems": 200
}
Pricing
Pay-per-result: $0.00898 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.
| Results collected | Approximate cost |
|---|---|
| 100 results | $0.90 |
| 1,000 results | $8.98 |
| 10,000 results | $89.80 |
New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.
Free users
Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.
Run it
- Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
- Open the France BODACC Business Legal Gazette Scraper.
- Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
- Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.
Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
Use with AI agents (MCP)
Give an AI agent live access to BODACC through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/france-bodacc-gazette-scraper"
Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.
Troubleshooting
Why am I getting no results?
Check that your query spelling is correct and that your date range and category filters are not too restrictive. Try running with all filters empty first to confirm the Actor can reach the BODACC feed.
Why are my results limited even though I set a high maxItems?
The BODACC public feed only returns announcements that match your filters. If fewer announcements exist for your criteria, the Actor will return whatever is available. Broaden your date range or remove category filters to get more results.
The Actor is running slowly. Is that normal?
The BODACC website can be slow to respond. If you are requesting a large number of announcements, the run will take longer. Try reducing maxItems or narrowing your date range.
Can I search by SIREN or SIRET number?
The free-text query field searches the announcement text. If the SIREN or SIRET appears in the published notice, it will match. For structured company lookups by identifier, consider a dedicated French company registry scraper.
FAQ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the BODACC? | The Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales is the official French government gazette that publishes mandatory legal announcements about companies, including registrations, modifications, strike-offs, insolvency proceedings, and account filings. |
| Do I need an API key or login to scrape BODACC? | No. This Actor reads the public BODACC announcements feed directly. You do not need to register an application, obtain an API key, or log in. |
| What announcement categories can I filter by? | You can filter by creations, registrations (immatriculations), modifications, strike-offs (radiations), sales and disposals (ventes), insolvency proceedings (procédures collectives), conciliations, professional recovery, account filings (dépôts des comptes), and miscellaneous. |
| Can I search for a specific company? | Yes. Use the free-text query field to search by company name, address, or any descriptive text that appears in the announcement. |
| How many announcements can I collect in one run? | You can set the maximum from 1 up to 1,000,000 announcements per run. |
| What date format should I use for the date filters? | Use the YYYY-MM-DD format, for example 2025-01-01 for January 1st, 2025. |
| What is the difference between an initial notice and a correction? | An initial notice (annonce) is the first publication of a business event. A correction (rectificatif) amends a previously published notice. A cancellation (annulation) withdraws a notice entirely. |
| Can I get the full text of each announcement? | Yes. Each result includes the full descriptive text of the announcement as published in the BODACC gazette. |
| Is this Actor suitable for ongoing monitoring? | Yes. You can schedule the Actor to run daily with a date range filter to collect only the latest announcements, making it suitable for compliance monitoring or lead generation workflows. |
| What export formats are supported? | You can export your dataset to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML from the Apify platform. |
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🆘 Need help? Email parseforge@protonmail.com with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.
⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Direction de l'information légale et administrative. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.
Input
| Field | Type | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Free text to search across announcements (company name, address, descriptive text). For example 'Carrefour' or 'boulangerie Lyon'. Leave empty to list the most recent announcements. | not set |
| announcementCategory | string (11 options) | Restrict results to one business event category (the BODACC 'famille d'avis'). | not set |
| noticeType | string (4 options) | Restrict results to a notice type (the BODACC 'type d'avis'). | not set |
| dateFrom | string | Only return announcements published on or after this date. Format YYYY-MM-DD, for example 2025-01-01. | not set |
| dateTo | string | Only return announcements published on or before this date. Format YYYY-MM-DD, for example 2025-12-31. | not set |
| maxItems | integer | How many gazette announcements to collect per run. | 10 |
Pricing
from $4.06 per 1,000 results
| Charged for | What it is | Price each |
|---|---|---|
| result | Single result in the default dataset. | $0.00406 to $0.00449 |
| result details | Detailed result with additional fields. | $0.00813 to $0.00898 |
Tiered: the lower figure is the price on a higher Apify plan. Billing and the free credit live on Apify.
API
One POST returns the dataset directly. Same shape for every scraper in the library, so swapping the slug is the only change.
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~france-bodacc-gazette-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"helloWorld": 123
}' Examples
Input that runs as-is.
{
"helloWorld": 123
} Reviews
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Issues
We build and maintain this scraper, so a problem with it comes to us. Report it on the Apify listing and the thread stays attached to the scraper where the next person can find it: open an issue.
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