| name | business-register-open-data |
| description | Download Estonian Business Register snapshots for legal entities, registry cards, persons, shareholders, beneficial owners, and related company records. |
Business Register Open Data
Access
Public ZIP snapshots from https://avaandmed.ariregister.rik.ee/en/downloading-open-data. No login. Send a normal user agent if Cloudflare returns 403.
Retrieve
- Fetch the download page and select the dataset family and format.
- Resolve relative links against
https://avaandmed.ariregister.rik.ee.
- Download the archive, record its filename and retrieval time, and verify the ZIP before parsing.
Known direct snapshot:
https://avaandmed.ariregister.rik.ee/sites/default/files/avaandmed/ettevotja_rekvisiidid__lihtandmed.csv.zip
Other published families include yldandmed, registrikaardid, kaardile_kantud_isikud, osanikud, kasusaajad, kommertspandid, and maarused, commonly as JSON or XML ZIPs.
Return
Preserve source filename, snapshot/retrieval date, registry code (ariregistri_kood where present), legal form and status, registration dates, names, addresses, and source-specific relationship fields. Keep beneficial-owner and person records separate from core entity records.
Limits
- Archives are large; inspect headers and stream/process them instead of loading several complete snapshots into memory.
- Static snapshots are open; WSDL/API services linked from the site can have different terms or fees.
- Schemas differ across dataset families and formats.
Verify
Require HTTP 200, application/zip, ZIP magic bytes PK, and a valid archive member. For the simple CSV snapshot, require a header containing the registry identifier before analysis.
