OpenMercantil

Search Spanish companies and BORME event timelines

🏛 GovernmentHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Look up Spanish companies by name and get back their CIF, slug, status, and activity counts, with deeper BORME (official gazette) event timelines available per company. No auth, open CORS, JSON only.

96HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 96 · healthy
Uptime history
96.1%90 days
94.8%30 days
55P50 · ms
3973P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 26 ms, slowest 1249 ms, most recent 47 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://openmercantil.es/api/v1/search?q=mercadona&limit=5

{
  "query": "mercadona",
  "count": 5,
  "items": [
    {
      "slug": "mercadona-sa",
      "name": "MERCADONA SA",
      "cif": "A46103834",
      "acts_count": 112,
      "last_seen": "2026-06-09"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://openmercantil.es/api/v1/search?q=mercadona&limit=5"
const res = await fetch("https://openmercantil.es/api/v1/search?q=mercadona&limit=5");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://openmercantil.es/api/v1/search?q=mercadona&limit=5")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/v1/search?q=mercadona&limit=555 mschecked 12h ago
GET/api/v1/search?q=mercadona&limit=5PROBED

Search Spanish companies and BORME event timelines

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/api/v1/search?limit=5

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

OpenMercantil: common questions

Is OpenMercantil free to use?

Yes — OpenMercantil is a free government API. Free tier: Free — anonymous, no key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does OpenMercantil need an API key?

No — OpenMercantil needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (60 req/min, 200 req/day per IP (anonymous)).

Can I call OpenMercantil from the browser?

Yes — OpenMercantil returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is OpenMercantil up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, OpenMercantil is healthy with 96.1% uptime over 90 days and a 55 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.