Comparison · Infoempresa

Infoempresa Alternative

An API-first alternative to Infoempresa for Spanish company-registry data — daily-fresh, structured JSON, no scraping or rate-limit battles. 14-day free trial, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.

TL;DR

Infoempresa is a web-first directory built for browsers and SEO traffic, not for production integration. Teams that need to look up Spanish companies programmatically typically end up scraping the site — and fighting anti-bot layers, IP bans, captchas, and intermittent HTML shape changes. Prometiam is a REST API over the same official source (BORME), plus the other official registries it covers, with daily-fresh data, sanctions screening (beta), and predictable pricing from €9.99/month.

Why teams look for an Infoempresa alternative

1. No official API. Infoempresa publishes a directory, not a developer product. You can browse a page, but there’s no documented endpoint, auth, or pagination for integration use.
2. Scraping is fragile. Active anti-bot defences, JavaScript-rendered fields, intermittent layout changes, and rate-limit traps — typical maintenance cost is several engineering hours per month per team.
3. Licensing risk. Operating against the ToS exposes you legally and reputationally. The underlying BORME data is public, but the directory presentation is copyrighted.
4. No sanctions screening. KYB workflows need it; Infoempresa doesn’t cover sanctions, PEPs, or watchlists.
5. Spain-only. If your portfolio crosses into FR or UK, you’re stitching together three different scraping pipelines.

Prometiam in one paragraph

A REST API that unifies official company-registry data across Europe under one schema, with daily updates, sanctions (beta) and US export-control screening (EU + UN + OFAC + UK + Australia (DFAT) + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List), and corporate-event monitoring. Public pricing from €9.99/month, 14-day free trial available, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.

At a glance

What teams actually pay for scraping Infoempresa

Talking to teams that scrape: typical cost structure is ~10 engineering hours per month of maintenance against layout changes and anti-bot updates, plus a residential-proxy bill (often €300-€800/month depending on volume), plus occasional Cloudflare-bypass tooling, plus the risk of being blocked entirely for hours or days at a time. Net annualised cost: typically €5,000-€15,000 just on the workaround. At €9.99/month Prometiam removes the entire fragility surface for a fraction of that.

Migrating from Infoempresa scraping

1. Sign up free at prometiam.com/signup — nothing charged for 14 days. rk_live_* key arrives in email.
2. Map endpoints. If you scrape infoempresa.com/es/empresa/<slug>, the equivalents are GET /companies/search?name=…&country=ES and GET /companies/{id}. NIF lookup uses ?vat_number=B12345678. Director list is included in the company response; the Spain company registry API guide walks through the NIF lookup, the administrators and the BORME events.
3. Test on a sample portfolio. Query 100 of your real counterparties via the API, compare against your scraped JSON. The structural fields (name, NIF, address, capital, directors, events) match BORME exactly.
4. Switch over. Decommission the scraping pipeline, the proxies, the captcha-bypass service, the layout-change alerts. Your maintenance burden drops to zero.

Who should still use Infoempresa

Pick Infoempresa if:

• You only need to look up a single company occasionally via the website (no integration)
• You need the marketing-style HTML page (CSS, layout, ads) that ranks in SEO results
• You’re comparing competing directories rather than building a production workflow

Who should choose Prometiam

• You need programmatic, durable access to Spanish company-registry data
• You want the same data for France and the UK in a single integration
• You need sanctions screening (beta) alongside the registry lookup
• You value not maintaining a scraping pipeline against active anti-bot defences
• You want public pricing and no annual contract

Beyond the registry record

Two derived signals, neither of them a rating. Both are dated facts carrying the source they came from, so whoever reviews your file can check them.

• Companies that stopped filing. A company that quietly stops trading rarely dissolves; the register notices first. The registry_compliance flag returns that state in one shape for Spain (provisional closure of the registry sheet), the United Kingdom (a strike-off proposal, or annual accounts overdue), Ireland (the strike-off list) and Norway (compulsory liquidation). Read it on GET /companies/{id}?include=risk_flags, or list those companies with risk_flag_type=registry_compliance. It is a compliance signal, not an insolvency: read it together with status.
• Public contracts, and the buyer behind them. GET /procurement/awards returns public-contract awards from Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway by supplier, buyer, identifier, CPV code and date, linked to the supplier’s registry record where the identifier resolves. GET /procurement/buyer/{id} scores the contracting body itself: the probability that its next award draws a single bid, and the probability that a supplier it awards to enters insolvency within two years.

Both are ordinary REST calls on the published price and included in the 14-day trial. Procurement awards cover Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway (Ireland, Poland and Norway above the EU thresholds only), the buyer scores are Spain and France and in beta, and a score is a prompt to look, never a finding of wrongdoing.

FAQ

Is there an Infoempresa API?
Not publicly documented for production integration. Most teams end up scraping. Prometiam offers a real REST API over the same underlying BORME data.

Is the data the same?
Yes — both pull from BORME (Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil), the official Spanish company gazette.

How fresh is Prometiam?
Daily — same-day BORME publications are reflected each business morning (UTC).

Is scraping Infoempresa legal?
Contested. The underlying data is public, but operating against the directory’s ToS exposes you legally and reputationally. Prometiam licenses the same data cleanly.

Does Prometiam cover French and UK companies too?
Yes — Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Norway in one unified schema, plus Ireland, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Cyprus, Romania, Lithuania, Canada, Australia, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Colombia, Taiwan, Germany, Brazil and the United States at company level.

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