/brreg/companies/search

POST /api/brreg/companies/search

Price: 5 credits

Search Norwegian legal entities in the Central Coordinating Register (Enhetsregisteret) by name and filters: organization number, organization form, NACE industry code, municipality, county, employee count range, registration date range, bankruptcy/liquidation status and registration flags. Returns the same record shape as brreg/companies.

How to use it

Search Norwegian companies by name and optional filters (organization_form, industry_code, municipality_number, county, employee count range, registration date range, status flags). Returns a list of full company records. Use brreg/companies to fetch one entity by organization number.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• name string nullable — Company name to search for (examples: "Equinor")
• organization_number string nullable — Filter by organization number
• organization_form string nullable — Filter by organization form (one of: "AAFY", "ADOS", "ANNA", "ANS", "AS", "ASA", "BA", "BBL", "BEDR", "BO", "BRL", "DA", "ENK", "EOFG", "ESEK", "FKF", "FLI", "FYLK", "GFS", "IKJP", "IKS", "KBO", "KF", "KIRK", "KOMM", "KS", "KTRF", "NUF", "OPMV", "ORGL", "PERS", "PK", "PRE", "SA", "SAM", "SE", "SF", "SPA", "STAT", "STI", "SÆR", "TVAM", "UTLA", "VPFO"; examples: "AS")
• industry_code string nullable — Filter by NACE industry code (examples: "62.01", "06.100")
• municipality_number string nullable — Filter by municipality number (examples: "1103")
• county string nullable — Filter by county (fylke) (examples: "Rogaland")
• from_employee_count integer nullable — Minimum number of employees (min: 0)
• to_employee_count integer nullable — Maximum number of employees (min: 0)
• from_registration_date string nullable — Earliest registration date (YYYY-MM-DD) (examples: "2020-01-01")
• to_registration_date string nullable — Latest registration date (YYYY-MM-DD) (examples: "2024-12-31")
• bankruptcy boolean nullable — Filter by bankruptcy status
• under_liquidation boolean nullable — Filter by liquidation status
• under_forced_liquidation boolean nullable — Filter by forced liquidation status
• registered_in_business_register boolean nullable — Filter by registration in the Register of Business Enterprises
• registered_in_vat_register boolean nullable — Filter by registration in the VAT register
• registered_in_voluntary_register boolean nullable — Filter by registration in the Register of Non-profit Organisations
• registered_in_foundation_register boolean nullable — Filter by registration in the Register of Foundations
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "BrregCompany")
• organization_number string required
• name string required
• organization_form string nullable
• organization_form_description string nullable
• registration_date string nullable
• foundation_date string nullable
• statute_date string nullable
• deregistered_date string nullable
• homepage string nullable
• email string nullable
• phone string nullable
• mobile string nullable
• language_form string nullable
• employee_count integer nullable
• has_registered_employee_count boolean (default: false)
• business_address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregAddress")
  • address array (default: [])
  • postal_code string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • municipality string nullable
  • municipality_number string nullable
  • country string nullable
  • country_code string nullable
• postal_address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregAddress")
  • address array (default: [])
  • postal_code string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • municipality string nullable
  • municipality_number string nullable
  • country string nullable
  • country_code string nullable
• industry_code_1 object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregIndustryCode")
  • code string nullable
  • description string nullable
• industry_code_2 object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregIndustryCode")
  • code string nullable
  • description string nullable
• industry_code_3 object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregIndustryCode")
  • code string nullable
  • description string nullable
• sector object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregSector")
  • code string nullable
  • description string nullable
• capital object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BrregCapital")
  • capital_amount number nullable
  • capital_currency string nullable
  • capital_type string nullable
  • share_count integer nullable
  • registered_at string nullable
• historic_names array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "BrregHistoricName")
  • name string required
  • from_date string nullable
  • to_date string nullable
• purpose array (default: [])
• activity array (default: [])
• last_submitted_annual_accounts string nullable
• in_group boolean (default: false)
• bankruptcy boolean (default: false)
• under_liquidation boolean (default: false)
• under_forced_liquidation boolean (default: false)
• registered_in_business_register boolean (default: false)
• registered_in_vat_register boolean (default: false)
• registered_in_foundation_register boolean (default: false)
• registered_in_voluntary_register boolean (default: false)
• registered_in_party_register boolean (default: false)

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.