Bodacc.fr French Legal Gazette Scraper

This Apify actor scrapes structured data from BODACC.fr, France's official civil and commercial bulletin. It extracts public legal notices covering company events, registrations, insolvencies, and commercial updates. The output is formatted data suitable for compliance monitoring, risk assessment, and market intelligence.

Key Features

• Scrapes commercial announcements, legal notices, and insolvency updates.
• Retrieves structured metadata for establishments, persons, and legal acts.
• Captures publication dates, edition numbers, and court jurisdictions.
• Automatically paginates through search results and respects a configurable item limit.

How to Use

Configure the actor with input parameters via the Apify console or API. It will navigate from provided listing pages, scrape all notice details, and output structured JSON data.

Input

The actor accepts a JSON input object with the following properties:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales/?sort=dateparution#resultarea"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

• startUrls: An array of Bodacc.fr URLs to start scraping from. You can use:
  • Listing pages: The main search results (default).
  • Filtered searches: URLs with query parameters for department, notice type, etc. (e.g., ?numerodepartement=75&familleavis=creation).
  • Detail pages: Direct links to specific announcements.
• maxItems: The maximum number of notices to scrape (default: 20).
• proxyConfiguration: Optional Apify Proxy settings.

Output

The actor outputs a dataset where each item is a structured JSON object representing a single legal notice. The schema includes fields such as:
* recordId: A unique identifier for the notice.
* establishments: Details about the involved business establishment(s).
* persons: Information on related individuals.
* act: Data about the legal act being announced.
* publication: Metadata including publication date and edition.

The data is ready for download as JSON, CSV, or via the Apify API for integration into compliance systems, databases, or analytics platforms.