By name: virk-dk description: virk.dk — the Danish government portal for businesses. Covers the anonymous editorial surface (9 themes, ~2000 articles, agency tree, self-service launchers), Mit Virk dashboard, GraphQL gateway, and CVR data portals. Use when looking up Danish business-admin procedures, self-service forms, or querying virk.dk's GraphQL or Elasticsearch endpoints. last-updated: 2026-05-31
virk.dk — Danish business portal
Official entrypoint for businesses and advisors dealing with Danish authorities, run by Erhvervsstyrelsen. Two surfaces:
- Editorial surface (
virk.dk) — anonymous themes/articles, agency tree, self-service launchers, plus the GraphQL gateway behind the SSR front-end. - CVR data — the Central Business Register: company, P-unit, and participant data, served system-to-system from an Elasticsearch distribution API.
Personalised pages (Mit Virk dashboard) need MitID Erhverv and have no programmatic path. Site language is Danish, so answer the user in Danish unless they write in another language.
CLI — use this first
Programmatic access goes through the virk CLI. It wraps both the GraphQL gateway and the CVR Elasticsearch API, so always use it — there is no other supported way to do these tasks. For anything the CLI's named commands do not expose, the escape hatches are virk web query '<graphql>' (arbitrary GraphQL) and virk cvr raw <index> <type> <body-file> (arbitrary Elasticsearch query body).
The CLI runs from anywhere; no need to point at the skill directory. Two subcommand groups:
virk web <command> [options] # virk.dk editorial content + GraphQL gateway (anonymous)
virk cvr <command> [options] # CVR distribution API (Elasticsearch; needs credentials)
Install / prerequisites
which virk # check if already installed
If missing, install editable with pipx:
which pipx || python3 -m pip install --user pipx
python3 -m pipx ensurepath
pipx install -e <path-to-virk-dk-skill>
which virk # confirm on PATH (restart shell if ensurepath just ran)
Pure Python standard library — no extra dependencies. The web group is anonymous. The cvr group reads DATACVR_USER / DATACVR_PASS env vars (free, long-lived creds — email cvrselvbetjening@erst.dk with name, org, CVR, and use-case). Most commands accept --raw for unformatted JSON.
virk web — editorial content + GraphQL gateway
| Command | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
article <slug> |
Fetch one Artikel by slug | virk web article start-virksomhed |
search-articles <text> [--limit N] |
Substring match on Artikel.overskrift |
virk web search-articles moms --limit 20 |
ordninger [--limit N] |
List Ordninger (schemes) | virk web ordninger |
myndigheder [--type stat|kommune|region] [--limit N] |
List agencies | virk web myndigheder --type stat |
ministerier |
Ministry → agency tree (backs /nye-regler/) |
virk web ministerier |
mv-services |
Mit Virk backend service status (anon) | virk web mv-services |
ressourceset <slug> [--locale da] |
Key/value strings of an i18n bundle | virk web ressourceset <slug> |
redirect <url> [--realm virk] |
Resolve a vanity URL via redirectQuery |
virk web redirect /start |
sitemap [--limit N] [--prefix /emner/] |
URLs from /sitemap.xml |
virk web sitemap --prefix /emner/ |
query '<graphql>' [--variables JSON] |
Run an arbitrary GraphQL query string | virk web query '{ ordningCollection { total } }' |
raw <file> [--variables JSON] |
POST a GraphQL document from a file | virk web raw query.graphql |
All virk web commands take --raw to print the unformatted GraphQL JSON response.
virk cvr — CVR distribution API
Needs DATACVR_USER / DATACVR_PASS. All commands print the matched _source (or --raw for the full ES response).
| Command | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
virksomhed <cvr> [--field <dot-path>] |
Company by CVR number; --field extracts a path under virksomhedMetadata (then Vrvirksomhed) |
virk cvr virksomhed 10103940 --field nyesteNavn.navn |
p-enhed <pnr> |
Production unit by P-number | virk cvr p-enhed 1003393495 |
deltager <enhedsNummer> |
Participant by enhedsNummer |
virk cvr deltager 4000004072 |
search <name> [--limit N] |
Company name search (match on nyesteNavn.navn) |
virk cvr search carlsberg --limit 10 |
count <index> <type> |
Document count for an index/type (match_all) |
virk cvr count cvr-permanent virksomhed |
raw <index> <type> <body-file> |
POST a raw ES query body to <index>/<type>/_search |
virk cvr raw cvr-permanent virksomhed query.json |
CVR field shortcuts
Use these as the --field value for virk cvr virksomhed --field <path> (paths are relative to virksomhedMetadata, then Vrvirksomhed) and as the full field paths when building virk cvr raw query bodies:
| Lookup | --field path |
Full field path (for virk cvr raw) |
|---|---|---|
| CVR number | — | Vrvirksomhed.cvrNummer |
| Name (full text) | nyesteNavn.navn |
Vrvirksomhed.virksomhedMetadata.nyesteNavn.navn |
| Postal code | nyesteBeliggenhedsadresse.postnummer |
Vrvirksomhed.virksomhedMetadata.nyesteBeliggenhedsadresse.postnummer |
| Industry (DB07) | nyesteHovedbranche.branchekode |
Vrvirksomhed.virksomhedMetadata.nyesteHovedbranche.branchekode |
| Company form | nyesteVirksomhedsform.virksomhedsformkode |
Vrvirksomhed.virksomhedMetadata.nyesteVirksomhedsform.virksomhedsformkode |
| P-number | — | VrproduktionsEnhed.pNummer |
| Participant | — | Vrdeltagerperson.enhedsNummer / Vrvirksomhed.enhedsNummer |
Out of scope
The datacvr.virk.dk web UI (Cloudflare-gated SPA) and the MitID-gated Mit Virk dashboard are not covered by this skill. The CVR distribution API retires end of 2026; Datafordeler is its successor.