Impressum & EU Legal Notice Extractor — Company & VAT Data

Impressum & EU Legal Notice Extractor — Company Name, VAT, Managing Director, Commercial Register & Contacts

Turn any list of domains, URLs, or email addresses into verified B2B company records extracted directly from each website's mandatory European legal notice — the German Impressum (§ 5 DDG / TMG), Austrian Offenlegung (§ 25 MedienG / ECG), Swiss Impressum (UWG), French Mentions légales, Spanish Aviso legal, Italian Note legali, and Dutch Colofon.

For every domain you scrape Impressum data into one clean, deduplicated row: legal company name (GmbH, AG, UG, GmbH & Co. KG, SAS, S.L., S.r.l., B.V.), EU/EFTA VAT ID (USt-IdNr. / UID), managing director (Geschäftsführer / Vorstand), commercial register number (Handelsregister HRB/HRA, SIREN, KvK, REA), register court (Amtsgericht), full street and postal address, direct email addresses, and phone number. No login, no API key, no browser overhead.

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, or the Apify REST API.

Built for DACH & European B2B lead generation agencies, SDR/RevOps teams, KYB/KYC compliance officers, M&A analysts, and CRM data enrichment pipelines that need the real legal entity and decision-maker behind every domain.

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⚡ At a glance

Feature	Details
Target Pages	German/Austrian/Swiss Impressum, French Mentions légales, Spanish Aviso legal, Italian Note legali, Dutch Colofon, UK/EU Imprint / Legal Notice, plus /kontakt & /contact fallback
Accepted Inputs	Bare domains (heise.de), full URLs (https://www.heise.de/kontakt), or email addresses (info@heise.de) — automatically normalized and deduplicated
Core Extracted Fields	companyName, managingDirector, vatId, registrationNumber, registerCourt, address, emails, phone, legalPageUrl, legalPageType, foundVia
Supported Legal Forms	GmbH, GmbH & Co. KG, GmbH & Co. KGaA, UG (haftungsbeschränkt), AG, SE, OHG, KG, GbR, e.K., SAS, SASU, SARL, S.A., S.L., S.L.U., B.V., N.V., S.p.A., S.r.l., Ltd, AB, Oy, A/S, Sp. z o.o.
VAT Format Coverage	All 27 EU Member States + Switzerland & UK (DE, ATU, CHE, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, PL, SE, DK, FI, IE, PT, CZ, HU, RO, BG, HR, SI, SK, LT, LV, EE, LU, MT, CY, EL, GB)
Scale & Speed	Parallel lookup pool (up to 100 concurrent workers); processes 1,000+ domains in minutes with 0 duplicates
Empty-Input Behavior	Running with {} automatically processes a curated sample of 20 German & European companies
Authentication	None required — 100% keyless
Export Formats	JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel (XLSX), HTML table, XML, RSS, and REST API

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🔎 Why scrape Impressum & EU legal-notice pages for B2B intelligence?

Across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and the European Union, nearly every commercial website is required by law to publish a complete corporate disclosure page:

• Germany (§ 5 DDG, formerly § 5 TMG): Mandatory Impressum disclosing the full legal entity name (Firmenname), legal form (Rechtsform), authorized representatives (Vertretungsberechtigte / Geschäftsführer / Vorstand), full street address (ladungsfähige Anschrift), phone/email contact, commercial register court (Registergericht) and number (Handelsregisternummer HRB/HRA), and VAT identification number (Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer USt-IdNr.).
• Austria (§ 5 ECG & § 25 MedienG): Mandatory Impressum / Offenlegung with Firmenbuchnummer (FN), Firmenbuchgericht, UID-Nummer (ATU...), and managing directors.
• Switzerland (Art. 3 Abs. 1 lit. s UWG): Mandatory corporate identity, postal address, contact email, and CHE-xxx.xxx.xxx UID.
• France (LCEN), Spain (LSSI-CE), Italy (Codice Civile), Netherlands (Burgerlijk Wetboek): Mandatory Mentions légales, Aviso legal, Note legali, and Colofon with SIREN/SIRET/RCS, NIF/CIF, Partita IVA/REA, and KvK/BTW numbers.

While generic website email scrapers crawl dozens of random subpages only to return noisy newsletter addresses or broken links, this Impressum scraper goes straight to the legally mandated corporate disclosure page and extracts the structured legal entity record.

Key business benefits

1. Decision-maker identification (Geschäftsführer / Vorstand): Stop pitching generic info@ inboxes without a name. Address your DACH outbound sequences to the legally registered managing director or board member.
2. Instant KYB & vendor verification: Cross-check companyName, vatId, registrationNumber, and registerCourt before onboarding merchants, suppliers, or B2B customers.
3. CRM deduplication & account mapping: Resolve thousands of brand domains, product microsites, and regional TLDs (.de, .at, .ch, .eu, .com) to their parent GmbH or AG legal entity.
4. High-speed bulk enrichment: Enrich 1,000 to 100,000+ domains exported from Google Maps, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, BuiltWith, or exhibition directories in a single automated run.

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✨ Key features

• ✅ 3-stage page discovery engine:
  1. Footer & page link detection (footer-link): Scans homepage links in 7 European languages (Impressum, Imprint, Mentions légales, Aviso legal, Note legali, Colofon, Legal notice, Dati societari, Juridische informatie).
  2. Direct path probing (common-path): Automatically probes 18 standard legal-notice URL paths (/impressum, /de/impressum, /imprint, /legal-notice, /mentions-legales, /aviso-legal, /note-legali, /colofon, etc.) and validates legal content signatures when SPAs hide footer links.
  3. Contact page fallback (contact-page): When contactPageFallback: true and no formal Impressum exists (e.g. non-EU domains), falls back to /kontakt or /contact so you still capture verified email and phone contacts.
• ✅ Smart company name & legal form parser: Accurately extracts German and European corporate entities while stripping surrounding sentence noise, copyright prefixes, and template placeholders (Max Mustermann, Musterfirma).
• ✅ Named executive extraction: Captures the person name(s) listed after Geschäftsführer, Geschäftsführung, Vorstand, Vertreten durch, Inhaber, Managing Director, Gérant, Amministratore Unico/Delegato, or Bestuurder.
• ✅ Format-first EU & EFTA VAT validation: Recognizes all 29 European VAT/UID patterns (DE123456789, ATU12345678, CHE-123.456.789, FRXX123456789, IT12345678901, NL123456789B01, etc.) plus labeled tax numbers.
• ✅ Commercial register & court extraction: Captures German HRB / HRA numbers, Amtsgericht / Registergericht cities, French RCS / SIREN, Dutch KvK, and Italian REA / Registro Imprese.
• ✅ Automatic input normalization & 0-duplicate guarantee: Paste bare domains, full https:// URLs, or name@company.de email addresses — all inputs are normalized to canonical root domains and deduplicated before crawling.

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🎯 Use cases

1. DACH B2B outbound sales & cold outreach

German, Austrian, and Swiss outbound campaigns perform dramatically better when personalized with the managing director's name (Geschäftsführer), local city, and exact legal entity name. Feed your prospect domain list into this extractor and push enriched rows straight into HubSpot, Lemlist, Instantly, Smartlead, or Salesforce.

2. KYB, KYC & merchant onboarding automation

Fintechs, payment processors, marketplaces, and B2B SaaS platforms use this Actor to automatically verify a corporate applicant's website Impressum against their submitted USt-IdNr., Handelsregisternummer (HRB/HRA), and Amtsgericht.

3. Enriching e-commerce & agency lead lists

Combine store lists (Shopify, Shopware, WooCommerce, Magento) with Impressum extraction to uncover the operating GmbH or UG, warehouse/headquarters postal code, phone number, and owner name behind online shops.

4. M&A deal sourcing & private-company mapping

Private equity analysts and corporate development teams map fragmented Mittelstand industries across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland by turning trade-association member links or regional directories into structured firmographic tables.

5. CRM data hygiene & account consolidation

Clean up legacy CRM databases where reps entered bare domains or brand names. Populate missing billing addresses, VAT numbers, and official legal names in bulk.

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📥 Input parameters

All input fields are optional. Running with an empty input ({}) automatically processes a built-in sample of 20 German and European company domains so you can inspect the output structure right away.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
domains	array<string>	Sample of 20 EU domains	Companies to enrich — one per line. Accepts bare domains (heise.de), full URLs (https://www.heise.de/kontakt), or email addresses (info@heise.de). Automatically normalized and deduplicated.
contactPageFallback	boolean	true	When no legal-notice page is found, also check /kontakt and /contact pages so you still capture email and phone numbers.
maxItems	integer	0 (prefill 100)	Stop after processing this many domains. Set 0 to process your entire domain list without limit (supports 1,000+ domains per run).
maxConcurrency	integer	20	Number of domains processed in parallel (1–100). Increase to 40–60 for large multi-thousand domain lists.
proxyConfiguration	object	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Off by default for maximum speed and zero proxy cost; enable if specific target hosts rate-limit direct connections.

Example input — DACH B2B lead enrichment

{
  "domains": [
    "heise.de",
    "golem.de",
    "contabo.com",
    "hetzner.com",
    "sevdesk.de",
    "personio.de",
    "sipgate.de",
    "shopware.com"
  ],
  "contactPageFallback": true,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 25,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Example input — 1,000+ domain bulk enrichment run

{
  "domains": [
    "https://www.westwing.de/de/",
    "info@verivox.de",
    "flaconi.de",
    "doctolib.fr",
    "bol.com"
  ],
  "contactPageFallback": true,
  "maxItems": 5000,
  "maxConcurrency": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

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📤 Output schema & field reference

Each domain produces one structured JSON record. Fields are organized into four logical groups:

🏢 Corporate Identity & Legal Registration

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
domain	string	🟢 High (100%)	Normalized root domain processed (e.g. westwing.de, hetzner.com). Primary deduplication key.
companyName	string	🟢 High (DACH ~80%+)	Official legal entity name including corporate suffix (e.g. Westwing GmbH, Hetzner Online GmbH).
managingDirector	string	🟢 High (DACH ~70%+)	Authorized managing director(s), board member(s), or owner (Geschäftsführer, Vorstand, Inhaber).
vatId	string	🟢 High (DACH ~75%+)	Validated EU/EFTA VAT identification number (USt-IdNr., UID, TVA, P.IVA, BTW), e.g. DE815289147.
registrationNumber	string	🟡 Conditional (~65%)	Commercial register entry (Handelsregisternummer such as HRB 191901, HRA 51246, SIREN, KvK).
registerCourt	string	🟡 Conditional (~60%)	Registering court or chamber (Amtsgericht München, Mannheim, Charlottenburg, Tribunal de Commerce).

📍 Address & Direct Contact Details

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
address	string	🟢 High (~85%)	Full street address, postal code, and city (e.g. Moosacher Str. 88, 80809 München).
emails	string	🟢 High (~80%)	Up to 5 deduplicated email addresses found on the legal/contact page, comma-separated (filtered for image/Sentry noise).
phone	string	🟢 High (~75%)	Direct telephone number extracted from tel: links or labeled Tel / Telefon / Phone lines.

🔗 Discovery & Run Metadata

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
legalPageUrl	string	🟢 High (~95%)	Exact URL of the Impressum, legal notice, or contact page that was parsed.
legalPageType	string	🟢 High (~95%)	'legal-notice' when extracted from an Impressum/legal page, or 'contact' when contact fallback was used.
foundVia	string	🟢 High (~95%)	Discovery method: 'footer-link', 'common-path', or 'contact-page'.
error	string	🟡 Conditional	Empty string "" on success; diagnostic note when a host is unreachable or renders exclusively via client-side JS.
scrapedAt	string	🟢 High (100%)	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of extraction.

Sample output records

[
  {
    "domain": "westwing.de",
    "companyName": "Westwing GmbH",
    "address": "Moosacher Str. 88, 80809 München",
    "emails": "impressum@westwing.de, service@westwing.de",
    "phone": "+49 (89) 550 544 -0",
    "vatId": "DE815289147",
    "managingDirector": "Dr. Andreas Hoerning",
    "registrationNumber": "HRB 191901",
    "registerCourt": "München",
    "legalPageUrl": "https://www.westwing.de/i/imprint/",
    "legalPageType": "legal-notice",
    "foundVia": "footer-link",
    "error": "",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T02:00:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "domain": "verivox.de",
    "companyName": "Verivox GmbH",
    "address": "Max-Jarecki-Straße 21, 69115 Heidelberg",
    "emails": "finanzen@verivox.de, versicherungen@verivox.de",
    "phone": "+49 6221 777 00 50",
    "vatId": "DE464574039",
    "managingDirector": "Daniel Puschmann",
    "registrationNumber": "HRB 754408",
    "registerCourt": "Mannheim",
    "legalPageUrl": "https://www.verivox.de/impressum/",
    "legalPageType": "legal-notice",
    "foundVia": "footer-link",
    "error": "",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T02:00:00.000Z"
  }
]

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🔁 Bulk processing & 1,000+ domain scale

Unlike search scrapers that paginate through a single directory, this Actor operates as a high-throughput parallel domain enrichment engine:

• Zero artificial caps: Set maxItems: 0 (the default) to process 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000+ domains in a single run.
• Fast fail on dead hosts: Unreachable or expired domains fail fast on the initial check without wasting time probing fallback paths, keeping bulk runs snappy.
• Automatic deduplication: If your input list contains https://www.hetzner.com/de/, hetzner.com, and info@hetzner.com, the normalizer collapses them into a single hetzner.com lookup — guaranteeing 0 duplicate rows.
• Configurable concurrency: Tune maxConcurrency between 20 and 100 to match your throughput targets.

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⚙️ How to use & integrate

1. Run in the Apify Console

1. Open the Impressum & EU Legal Notice Extractor on Apify.
2. Paste your list of domains, URLs, or emails into Domains to look up.
3. Leave Max results at 0 to process your full list (or set 100 for a quick test).
4. Click Start and download your enriched dataset as CSV, Excel, or JSON.

2. Run via Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("haketa/impressum-legal-notice-extractor").call(run_input={
    "domains": [
        "heise.de",
        "golem.de",
        "contabo.com",
        "hetzner.com",
        "sevdesk.de",
        "personio.de"
    ],
    "contactPageFallback": True,
    "maxItems": 0,
    "maxConcurrency": 30,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['domain']} -> {item['companyName']} | CEO: {item['managingDirector']} | VAT: {item['vatId']} | {item['emails']}")

3. Run via Node.js SDK

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('haketa/impressum-legal-notice-extractor').call({
    domains: ['heise.de', 'hetzner.com', 'sevdesk.de', 'shopware.com'],
    contactPageFallback: true,
    maxItems: 0,
    maxConcurrency: 25,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.table(items.map(({ domain, companyName, managingDirector, vatId, emails }) => ({
    domain, companyName, managingDirector, vatId, emails,
})));

4. Connect to Make, Zapier, n8n, Clay, or HubSpot

• Clay / n8n / Make: Trigger the Actor via HTTP webhook whenever new leads enter your pipeline, and map companyName, managingDirector, vatId, and phone back to your CRM.
• Google Sheets: Export directly to Google Sheets or schedule weekly enrichment jobs.

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💡 Pro tips for maximum extraction rates

• Focus on .de, .at, .ch, .fr, .it, .es, .nl, and .eu business domains: DACH websites have the strictest Impressum laws (§ 5 DDG), delivering the highest fill rates on managingDirector, vatId, registrationNumber, and registerCourt.
• Keep contactPageFallback: true enabled: For international .com domains that don't publish a German-style Impressum, the fallback still captures verified email addresses and phone numbers from /contact or /kontakt.
• Use vatId and registrationNumber as unique join keys: When enriching CRM accounts, joining on vatId (DE..., ATU..., CHE...) or registrationNumber (HRB ...) eliminates duplicate accounts across multiple brand domains.
• Enable Apify Proxy only when needed: Direct requests work for 95%+ of corporate websites and use zero proxy bandwidth. If a small subset of domains sits behind strict firewall rules, re-run just those domains with useApifyProxy: true.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Which countries and legal-notice types are supported?

The extractor is optimized for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) (Impressum / Offenlegung), and also supports France (Mentions légales), Spain (Aviso legal), Italy (Note legali / Dati societari), Netherlands & Belgium (Colofon / Juridische informatie), and English-language Imprint / Legal Notice pages across all 27 EU member states and the UK.

Can I paste full URLs or email addresses instead of bare domains?

Yes. You can paste https://www.company.de/en/about, company.de, or contact@company.de. The Actor automatically normalizes every entry to its bare domain (company.de) and removes duplicates before running.

How many domains can I enrich in a single run?

There is no hard cap. Set maxItems: 0 to process 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000+ domains. With maxConcurrency: 40, the Actor processes roughly 1,000 domains in 15–20 minutes on standard compute.

Why are some fields empty on certain domains?

Legal disclosure requirements vary by legal form and country. For example, a sole proprietor (Einzelunternehmen) or small partnership (GbR) does not have a Handelsregisternummer (HRB) or Amtsgericht, and some non-DACH sites only list company name, address, and email without a VAT ID. If a site renders its entire legal notice inside a client-side image or canvas, the error field notes that no static fields were found.

Does this require a proxy or third-party API key?

No API keys or logins are required, and proxy is off by default so runs are fast and economical.

How does the extractor distinguish between a real managing director and random page text?

The parser locates the statutory representative label (Geschäftsführer, Geschäftsführung, Vorstand, Vertreten durch, Inhaber, Managing Director, Gérant, Amministratore, Bestuurder) and validates that the extracted value starts with an uppercase personal name, contains both given and family name tokens, excludes corporate suffixes or street patterns, and strips academic/parenthetical noise.

Can I enrich a list of 10,000+ domains from Google Maps or LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

Yes. Export your prospect website column from Google Maps, Apollo, Clay, Crunchbase, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator, paste the URLs directly into domains, set maxItems: 0 and maxConcurrency: 50, and export the resulting CSV/XLSX with companyName, managingDirector, vatId, registrationNumber, address, emails, and phone.

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🌍 Supported European legal-notice standards by country

Country / Region	Legal Notice Term	Statutory Basis	Typical Register & Tax Identifiers Extracted
🇩🇪 Germany	Impressum / Anbieterkennzeichnung	§ 5 DDG (ex-§ 5 TMG), § 18 MStV	USt-IdNr. (DE + 9 digits), Handelsregister (HRB / HRA), Amtsgericht, Geschäftsführer / Vorstand
🇦🇹 Austria	Impressum / Offenlegung	§ 5 ECG, § 25 MedienG, § 14 UGB	UID-Nummer (ATU + 8 digits), Firmenbuchnummer (FN), Handelsgericht / Landesgericht
🇨🇭 Switzerland	Impressum	Art. 3 Abs. 1 lit. s UWG	UID / MWST (CHE-xxx.xxx.xxx), Handelsregisteramt, Geschäftsführer / Verwaltungsrat
🇫🇷 France	Mentions légales	Art. 6 LCEN	N° TVA intracommunautaire (FR + 11 chars), SIREN / SIRET, RCS + Greffe (Tribunal de Commerce), Gérant / Président
🇪🇸 Spain	Aviso legal	Art. 10 LSSI-CE	NIF / CIF (ES + 9 chars), Registro Mercantil, Administrador
🇮🇹 Italy	Note legali / Dati societari	Art. 2250 Codice Civile	Partita IVA (IT + 11 digits), Registro Imprese, REA, Amministratore Unico / Delegato
🇳🇱 Netherlands	Colofon / Juridische informatie	Art. 3:15d BW	BTW-nummer (NL + 9 digits + Bxx), KvK-nummer (Kamer van Koophandel), Bestuurder
🇧🇪 Belgium	Mentions légales / Wettelijke vermeldingen	Code de droit économique	TVA / BTW (BE0 + 9 digits), BCE / KBO, Gérant / Zaakvoerder
🇬🇧 United Kingdom & IE	Imprint / Legal Notice / Legal Disclosure	Companies Act 2006	VAT Reg No (GB / IE), Company Registration No, Directors

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🛠️ Ready-to-run workflow recipes

Recipe 1: Enriching a German Mittelstand prospect list for cold email & phone outreach

{
  "domains": [
    "https://www.personio.de",
    "https://www.sevdesk.de",
    "https://www.lexoffice.de",
    "https://www.shopware.com",
    "https://www.hetzner.com",
    "https://www.contabo.com"
  ],
  "contactPageFallback": true,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 30
}

Recipe 2: High-speed KYB VAT & Commercial Register verification

{
  "domains": [
    "westwing.de",
    "verivox.de",
    "flaconi.de",
    "doctolib.fr",
    "bol.com",
    "ionos.de"
  ],
  "contactPageFallback": false,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 40
}

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🔗 Related B2B & company intelligence scrapers

Pair the Impressum & EU Legal Notice Extractor with these company and lead-generation Actors:

• Dun & Bradstreet Scraper — Companies, DUNS & Revenue
• North Data Scraper — European Company Register & Financials
• Unternehmensregister Scraper — German Commercial Register
• OpenCorporates Scraper — Global Corporate Registry Data
• WLW (Wer liefert was) Scraper — DACH B2B Suppliers
• Europages Scraper — European B2B Supplier Directory

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📋 Changelog

• v1.2 (2026-11) — Unlocked 1,000+ domain scale & faster execution: Added fast-fail handling on unreachable root hosts so dead domains never probe fallback paths, reduced per-probe timeouts for faster batch throughput, expanded built-in DACH/EU sample domains for zero-input runs, and enhanced README documentation with field coverage tables.
• v1.1 (2026-08) — Improved German company name and Geschäftsführer extraction accuracy; added filters against template placeholder names (Max Mustermann) and mid-sentence fragments.
• v1.0 (2026-05) — Initial release with 3-stage legal page discovery (footer-link, common-path, contact-page), 29 EU/EFTA VAT formats, commercial register (HRB/HRA/Amtsgericht) extraction, and parallel concurrency pool.