# Government Tenders Scraper — EU / TED (`masked_hacker/government-tenders-scraper`) Actor

Scrape EU public-procurement tenders from the official TED API into normalized, country-agnostic rows: title, buyer, CPV, value, deadline and document links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/masked\_hacker/government-tenders-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Masked Hacker](https://apify.com/masked_hacker) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 tenders

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Government Tenders Scraper: EU / TED

Pull **EU public-procurement tenders** straight from the official **TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
API** into one clean, normalized dataset: one row per notice, with buyer, CPV category, value,
deadline and document links. Filter by **CPV category, country and publication date**, or pass a
raw TED expert query for full control.

No API key, no login, no anti-bot. TED is an open government API.

### What you get

- 🇪🇺 **EU-wide coverage:** every notice in TED, ~130k+ per CPV category.
- 🏷️ **Filter by CPV, country and date:** or a raw expert query for anything else.
- 🧾 **Normalized rows:** title, buyer, description, CPV, value, deadline, document links.
- 🌍 **Country-agnostic schema:** the same shape other portals can plug into later.
- 🔑 **No API key or login required.**
- 📄 Clean JSON / CSV / Excel export.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchQuery` | string | Optional raw TED expert-query clause, AND-ed with the filters below. |
| `cpvCodes` | string\[] | CPV category codes; any one matches (e.g. `72000000` for IT services). |
| `countries` | string\[] | Buyer countries as ISO-3 codes; any one matches (e.g. `ESP`, `FRA`). |
| `dateFrom` | string | Only notices published on/after this date, `YYYYMMDD`. |
| `dateTo` | string | Only notices published on/before this date, `YYYYMMDD`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Stop after collecting this many rows. Default 200. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Optional. Not needed. TED is an open API. |

At least one of `searchQuery`, `cpvCodes`, `countries`, `dateFrom`, or `dateTo` is required.

#### Example input

```json
{
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
    "countries": ["ESP", "FRA"],
    "dateFrom": "20240101",
    "maxItems": 500
}
```

### Output

Each row: `publicationNumber`, `noticeType`, `title`, `buyerName`, `description`, `cpv`, `value`,
`currency`, `publishDate`, `deadlineDate`, `sourceCountry`, `noticeUrl`, `documentLinks`,
`sourcePortal`, `query`, `scrapedAt`.

Multilingual TED fields (title, buyer, description) are resolved to English where present, else the
first available language.

### Notes

- Pagination uses TED's page-number mode; very deep result sets (beyond ~10k) are best narrowed
  with tighter filters.
- `value` / `deadlineDate` are populated only when the notice publishes them (award and some
  modification notices omit them).

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Optional raw TED expert-query clause, AND-ed with the filters below (e.g. "notice-title~"software"").

## `cpvCodes` (type: `array`):

CPV category codes to match (any one matches), e.g. "72000000" for IT services.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Buyer countries as ISO-3 codes (any one matches), e.g. "ESP", "FRA", "DEU".

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Only notices published on/after this date, format YYYYMMDD.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Only notices published on/before this date, format YYYYMMDD.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after collecting this many tender rows.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. TED is an open API and needs no proxy; leave empty unless your network requires one.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cpvCodes": [
    "72000000"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "ESP",
    "FRA"
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped tender rows in the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("masked_hacker/government-tenders-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("masked_hacker/government-tenders-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call masked_hacker/government-tenders-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=masked_hacker/government-tenders-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2oelvc7HttpyzJSE3/builds/ShA7svzf2FspEr2bY/openapi.json