Check a French company by API: Sirene and BODACC

Sirene (INSEE) and RNE (INPI) · read from the national register · checked 11 November 2026

The official route

The French state runs the API Recherche d'entreprises at https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search. It needs no key. It serves Sirene data from INSEE and RNE data from INPI: legal name, legal form, status, creation date, head-office address, NAF code, employee band and directors. Its OpenAPI description (read 2026-11-05) sets the limit at 7 requests per second per IP address, with a 429 and Retry-After beyond that. The datasets behind it carry the Licence Ouverte 2.0. That licence grants reuse for commercial and other purposes if you name the source and the date of its last update.

Insolvency notices (procédures collectives) are published in BODACC by DILA, as open data under the same licence. You can query them by SIREN.

Where it gets hard

Status and insolvency are two sources. Sirene keeps a company "active" during a liquidation, so the register alone can mislead you.
Accounts of unlisted companies: INPI's annual-accounts API needs an INPI account. An open dataset of financial ratios exists, but when we checked it against Danone's own reports it filed figures under the wrong fiscal year. We don't use it.
Companies marked non-diffusible are not served by the API at all.
The licence lets you reuse personal data only within data protection law. Sole traders (entrepreneurs individuels) are natural persons and sit in the same register.

One call

{"query": "TotalEnergies SE", "country": "FR"}

That is the body for POST https://api.boscolabs.dev/v1/counterparty-check. If you have the SIREN (542051180 here), pass it instead of the name.

Check	Source for this country
Register status	Sirene, through the API Recherche d'entreprises
Insolvency	BODACC procédures collectives, by SIREN
People on sanctions lists	Directors from the RNE
Recent accounts	ESEF annual reports, listed companies only
VAT number	VIES
Company on sanctions lists	OFAC, UN, UK, EU and US export lists
LEI status	GLEIF

$0.05 per company checked, empty and failed calls are free.

What we do not cover

Figures for unlisted French companies.
Sole traders: a lookup of one fails without a charge.
Non-diffusible companies, because the source does not serve them.
For directors we read name, role and birth month only.

Sources

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