
KNF Scraper: 75K+ Polish Financial Entities
TL;DR Poland's KNF (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego) maintains registries of all regulated financial entities - banks, insurers, payment institutions, lending companies, brokers There are 75,000+ entities across 3 registries with no official API The web portals use undocumented JSON APIs behind jQuery DataTables - no authentication required I built an Apify actor that queries all 3 registries and returns structured JSON for $0.008 per entity Why KNF Has No Public API If you work in fintech compliance, you regularly need to answer: "Is this company licensed by the Polish financial regulator?" KNF - the Polish Financial Supervision Authority - is responsible for supervising banks, insurance companies, investment firms, payment institutions, and the capital market in Poland. It was established in 2006 by merging three separate regulators (banking, insurance, and securities) into a single authority. Today, it oversees the entire Polish financial sector. Despite the scale of its regulatory role
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