# CNPJ Lookup — Dados Publicos de Empresas BR (`gangary/cnpj-lookup`) Actor

Recebe uma lista de CNPJs e devolve os dados publicos da Receita (razao social, nome fantasia, CNAE, situacao cadastral, endereco, socios, capital) via BrasilAPI.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gangary/cnpj-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Gangary](https://apify.com/gangary) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 per company fetcheds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## CNPJ Lookup — Brazilian Company Registry Data

Send a list of CNPJs (Brazilian company tax IDs) — get back the **official registry data** for each company: legal name, trade name, economic activity (CNAE), registration status, address, partners and share capital. Public data, no login, no API key.

![Cover](https://empresas-por-cnae.vercel.app/covers/cnpj-lookup.png)

**Multi-source with automatic fallback:** the Actor queries BrasilAPI → cnpj.ws → ReceitaWS in order and returns the first source that answers. When one public source is down or rate-limited (it happens weekly), your run keeps working — you don't even notice.

### Input example

```json
{
  "cnpjs": ["11.222.333/0001-81", "00000000000191"]
}
```

Formatted or digits-only, both work. Invalid CNPJs (wrong check digit) are flagged and skipped — they **never crash the run and are never charged**.

### Output example

```json
{
  "cnpj": "11222333000181",
  "cnpj_formatado": "11.222.333/0001-81",
  "razao_social": "EMPRESA EXEMPLO LTDA",
  "nome_fantasia": "Exemplo",
  "situacao": "ATIVA",
  "cnae": { "codigo": 6201501, "descricao": "Desenvolvimento de programas de computador sob encomenda" },
  "porte": "MICRO EMPRESA",
  "capital_social": 10000,
  "data_abertura": "2020-01-01",
  "endereco": { "logradouro": "RUA X", "numero": "100", "bairro": "CENTRO", "municipio": "SAO PAULO", "uf": "SP", "cep": "01000000" },
  "telefone": "1130000000",
  "email": "contato@exemplo.com",
  "socios": [{ "nome": "FULANO DE TAL", "qualificacao": "Sócio-Administrador" }],
  "fonte": "brasilapi"
}
```

### Output fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `razao_social` | Exact legal name from the federal registry (unmodified). |
| `situacao` | Registration status (ATIVA = active, BAIXADA = closed, etc.). |
| `cnae` | Primary economic activity (code + description). |
| `socios` | Public partner/shareholder list (name + role). |
| `capital_social` | Declared share capital (BRL). |
| `fonte` | Which source answered (`brasilapi`, `cnpj.ws` or `receitaws`). |

### Use cases

- **KYB / vendor screening** — confirm a Brazilian company exists, is active, and who its partners are before signing
- **Lead qualification** — enrich a B2B lead list with official activity, size and location before outreach
- **CRM enrichment** — turn a bare CNPJ column into full firmographic data
- **Compliance checks** — flag companies with BAIXADA/SUSPENSA status in your supplier base

### Pricing (Pay per event)

| Event | When | Price |
|---|---|---|
| `actor-start` | once per run | $0.005 |
| `company-fetched` | once per company successfully returned | $0.01 |

Invalid or not-found CNPJs are **not charged**. A 500-company batch costs $0.005 + 500 × $0.01 = **$5.01**.

### Is this compliant?

Yes — CNPJ registry data is **public information** published by Brazil's Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal), accessed through public APIs. No login, no private data, no scraping behind authentication.

### Limitations

- Availability depends on the public sources; under heavy rate limiting a few CNPJs may return a temporary error (re-running resolves it — thanks to the fallback this is rare).
- Lookup is **by CNPJ** (you provide the list). Search by filters (state/CNAE) is not in this version.

### From the same maker

- **[Brazilian Companies Finder (CNPJ Discovery)](https://apify.com/gangary/cnpj-discovery)** — don't have the CNPJs yet? Search 27.8M active companies by CNAE activity + state and build the list this Actor consumes.
- **[Lead Enricher & ICP Scorer](https://apify.com/gangary/lead-enricher-icp)** — send raw leads, get them verified, deduplicated and scored 0–100 against your ideal customer profile.
- **[B2B Leads Brazil — Find, Enrich & Score in One Run](https://apify.com/gangary/b2b-leads-brazil)** — the whole funnel in a single run: it discovers the companies by activity + state, pulls each one's contact data and scores every lead 0–100, sorted best-first.

**Full pipeline:** Discovery finds the companies → this Actor pulls the official record → the Enricher scores what's worth contacting. **Want all three in one step?** [B2B Leads Brazil](https://apify.com/gangary/b2b-leads-brazil) runs the whole funnel and returns the finished list.

# Actor input Schema

## `cnpjs` (type: `array`):

Lista de CNPJs (com ou sem pontuacao). CNPJs invalidos sao marcados no output, nao quebram o run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cnpjs": [
    "11.222.333/0001-81"
  ]
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "cnpjs": [
        "11.222.333/0001-81"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gangary/cnpj-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "cnpjs": ["11.222.333/0001-81"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gangary/cnpj-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "cnpjs": [
    "11.222.333/0001-81"
  ]
}' |
apify call gangary/cnpj-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=gangary/cnpj-lookup",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/VM7YLtWTaf9CggC3c/builds/OSyHMDsNamGFtf8Ho/openapi.json