Swedish Company Search API — Search All Swedish Companies

Updated April 25, 2026 · 4 min read

Sweden has about 1.3 million registered companies. If you want to search them in code, you quickly run into client certificates, OAuth2 flows, and two separate government APIs: SCB for search and Bolagsverket for lookup.

Apiverket puts both behind the same API key.

The Problem with Direct Access

Direct access usually means setting up both of these:

1. SCB Företagsregister — name search, but requires a client certificate (.pfx) and a separate agreement
2. Bolagsverket HVD — org.nr lookup, but requires OAuth2 client credentials

Both paths involve registration, approval, and custom auth. For a simple "find companies named Volvo", that is a lot of setup before you even get data back.

One GET Request Instead

// 1. Load client certificate
const agent = new https.Agent({
  pfx: fs.readFileSync("cert.pfx"),
  passphrase: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
});

// 2. POST search query
const res = await fetch(
  "https://privateapi.scb.se/..." +
  "/api/je/hamtaforetag",
  { method: "POST", agent,
    body: JSON.stringify({
      "Företagsstatus": "1",
      variabler: [{
        Variabel: "Namn",
        Operator: "Innehaller",
        Varde1: "Volvo", Varde2: ""
      }]
    })
  }
);

const res = await fetch(
  "https://apiverket.se/v1/companies" +
  "/search?q=Volvo",
  {
    headers: {
      Authorization:
        "Bearer sk_live_YOUR_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const { data } = await res.json();
// data.total = 81
// data.companies[0].name
//   = "AKTIEBOLAGET VOLVO"
// data.companies[0].city
//   = "GÖTEBORG"

What You Get

The company endpoints give you the fields teams usually need for search, enrichment, and internal tools:

• Company details — legal name, org.nr, registration date, status
• Legal form — Aktiebolag, Handelsbolag, Enskild firma, and 20+ types
• SNI codes — up to 5 industry classifications with descriptions
• Address — postal address, care-of, visit address, municipality, county
• Employee count — size class (0, 1-4, 5-9, ... 500+)
• Tax and registry status — active/deregistered state, F-skatt, moms registration, employer status
• Business context — revenue year, sector, ownership category, and export/import classes when available
• Search by name — substring search across 1.3M+ registered companies

Fields are normalized for stable integrations and may be null when SCB or Bolagsverket does not provide a value. Apiverket does not expose raw source payloads, owner names, or detailed workplace/CFAR rows on this endpoint.

Available Endpoints

The usual flow is simple: search by name, save the org_number, then use organisation-number lookup whenever you need to enrich the same company again.

Try It Now

# Search by name
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_demo" \
  "https://apiverket.se/v1/companies/search?q=spotify"

# Look up by org.nr
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_demo" \
  https://apiverket.se/v1/companies/5560125790

Test keys return curated sandbox companies only. Use a live key when you need to search or look up real organisations from SCB and Bolagsverket. The lookup response is normalized; it does not dump raw registry payloads.

Handling company-search limits

/v1/companies/search has its own daily quota because it protects the shared SCB certificate: free 20/day, starter 100/day, pro 500/day, business 2,000/day, enterprise 10,000/day. Organisation-number lookups use your regular API quota.

If search returns 429 with error.rate_limit.scope = "company_search_daily", pause the search job until error.rate_limit.reset_at. Do not retry in a loop. For per-minute limits, respect Retry-After and use exponential backoff with jitter.