API Sirene provides web services to access the content of the French business register Sirene. 23 million legal units and 28 million establishments are accessible with their complete history. With the ID of the legal unit or the establishment, the API provides access to name, address, creation date, legal status, main activity. The API also enables search of legal units and establishments with these same variables. It provides much easier access to business register data compared to the current file exchanges and updates.
The reuse of business register identification data facilitates egovernment for businesses, helps fight fraud and eases the links between different databases containing business information.
Insee developped the solution based on user feedback within the "Tell Us Once" program of the French government.
The API is available through Insee's API catalogue http://api.insee.fr
Documentation on the data and services and a user-friendly search and selection tool are available throught http://sirene.fr
Full data files are available on the French government's open data repository at https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/base-sirene-des-entreprises-et-de-leurs-etablissements-siren-siret/
The solution uses open source software (Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Solr, WSO2). It is free of charge.
API Sirene is used among others by the API Enterprise web services offered by SGMAP https://apientreprise.fr/
By offering a ready access to business register information, we expect to have more feedback on the data itself and use the feedback to improve the quality of the data. The documentation will be translated into English at some point in time.