French Company Directors

Returns publicly listed directors and legal representatives of a French company from a SIREN or SIRET.

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When to use this API?

Use for

  • You need the publicly listed directors or legal representatives of a French company.
  • You need normalized names, roles and available public identity fields for company leadership.

Avoid when

  • You need beneficial owners or shareholder ownership information; this endpoint does not provide an ownership register.
  • You need personal contact details or non-public information about directors.

Limitations

  • Only directors and representatives exposed by the public company source are returned.
  • Some person or role fields can be missing or incomplete in the source.

Sources and provenance

API Recherche d'entreprises

recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr

Input / Output schemas

Simplified endpoint contracts. The complete schema remains available in OpenAPI 3.1.

OpenAPI 3.1 →

Input schema
identifierstring

Required · 9-digit SIREN or 14-digit SIRET

View full JSON Schema
{
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "identifier": {
            "type": "string",
            "pattern": "^[0-9]{9}([0-9]{5})?$",
            "description": "9-digit SIREN or 14-digit SIRET"
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "identifier"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}
Output schema
identifierstring

Required

identifier_typestring

Required

existsboolean

Required

sirenstring | null

Required

namestring | null

Required

directorsarray

Required

View full JSON Schema
{
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "identifier": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "identifier_type": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
                "siren",
                "siret"
            ]
        },
        "exists": {
            "type": "boolean"
        },
        "siren": {
            "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
            ]
        },
        "name": {
            "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
            ]
        },
        "directors": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "type": {
                        "type": [
                            "string",
                            "null"
                        ],
                        "enum": [
                            "person",
                            "company",
                            null
                        ]
                    },
                    "role": {
                        "type": [
                            "string",
                            "null"
                        ]
                    },
                    "name": {
                        "type": [
                            "string",
                            "null"
                        ]
                    },
                    "first_names": {
                        "type": [
                            "string",
                            "null"
                        ]
                    },
                    "birth_year": {
                        "type": [
                            "string",
                            "null"
                        ]
                    },
                    "siren": {
                        "type": [
                            "string",
                            "null"
                        ]
                    }
                },
                "required": [
                    "type",
                    "role",
                    "name",
                    "first_names",
                    "birth_year",
                    "siren"
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "identifier",
        "identifier_type",
        "exists",
        "siren",
        "name",
        "directors"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Example queries

Who are the public directors of SIREN 356000000?
List the legal representatives of this French company.
Which companies or people are listed as directors?