Finland PRH Company Registry Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

PRH's YTJ open-data API is Finland's authoritative company registry — free, keyless and public — but its JSON nests names, addresses, company forms and industry codes three or four levels deep, and a shallow clone cluster already scrapes it inconsistently (one live competitor fails 10 of every 51 runs). This Actor flattens every registered company into one row with English field names, keeps running cleanly through malformed entries and empty result sets, and prices at $4.20 per 1,000 results — matching or undercutting every live competitor on this exact API.

What we handle for you

• 🧊 Flattens PRH's nested JSON — company names, forms, addresses and industry codes flattened into one clean, English-labelled row per company.
• 🧱 Honest zero-match handling — a narrow filter combination that matches nothing still finishes SUCCEEDED with a clear status message, never billed as a failed run.
• 🩹 Per-row fault isolation — one malformed registry entry is logged and skipped; it never crashes the rest of the page.
• 🔁 Retries transient 429/5xx responses with exponential backoff instead of failing the whole run.
• 🎯 Typed, validated dataset rows — Pydantic-checked, stable business IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• Build a Nordic B2B prospect list filtered by city, industry code or registration date.
• Run a KYC/AML supplier or counterparty check against Finland's authoritative company register.
• Screen a partner list for dissolved companies or special situations before contracting.
• Support market-entry research by pulling every registered company in a city or industry line.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "location": "Helsinki",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

business_idbusiness_id_registeredcompany_namecompany_form_codecompany_formmain_business_line_codemain_business_lineregistration_dateend_dateis_dissolvedstreet_addresspostal_codecitywebsitehas_special_situationlast_modified

{
  "business_id": "0100123-2",
  "business_id_registered": "1978-03-15",
  "company_name": "Oy Emar Ab",
  "company_form_code": "16",
  "company_form": "Limited company",
  "main_business_line_code": "66190",
  "main_business_line": "Other activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding",
  "registration_date": "1968-04-26",
  "end_date": null,
  "is_dissolved": false,
  "street_address": null,
  "postal_code": "00131",
  "city": "HELSINKI",
  "website": null,
  "has_special_situation": false,
  "last_modified": "2026-04-03T10:17:56",
  "url": "https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/yritys/0100123-2"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Returns current registry data only — no financials, shareholders, beneficial owners or historical name/address change logs.
• No company-form filter — PRH's API accepts one but silently ignores it, so it isn't exposed here to avoid a misleading no-op input.
• The url field links to PRH's official lookup page, which renders client-side and cannot be verified per-ID without a browser.