# Elering Nord Pool Electricity Prices Scraper (`parseforge/elering-nordpool-prices-scraper`) Actor

Track Nord Pool day ahead electricity spot prices across the Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, and Lithuanian bidding zones from the Elering dashboard. Each record carries the zone, ISO time, unix timestamp, and price in EUR per MWh. Handy for energy trading, billing models, and grid analytics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/elering-nordpool-prices-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.6% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.63 / 1,000 results

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

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## ⚡ Elering Nord Pool Electricity Prices Scraper

> 🚀 **Pull Baltic and Finnish day-ahead power prices in one run.** Get Nord Pool spot prices for Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania straight from the public Elering dashboard, with no key or login.

Turn the Elering dashboard into a clean, structured price feed you can drop into a trading model, a billing engine, or an energy dashboard. Choose a date range and the bidding zones you care about, and get one tidy record per price point per zone with the timestamp and the price in EUR/MWh.

Coverage is the Nord Pool day-ahead spot market as Elering publishes it for the Baltic and Finnish bidding zones: Estonia (ee), Finland (fi), Latvia (lv), and Lithuania (lt). Elering reports prices for recent days and history at the resolution the market uses, currently 15 minute intervals, so a single day returns close to a hundred price points per zone.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Energy traders and analysts | Line up zone prices for spread and arbitrage analysis |
| Utilities and retailers | Feed billing and tariff models with spot prices |
| Smart home and EV developers | Schedule loads for the cheapest hours |
| Researchers and data teams | Study Baltic and Nordic power market behavior |

### 📋 What the Elering Nord Pool Prices Scraper does

This Actor calls the public Elering dashboard API and returns one clean record per price point for each bidding zone you request:

- **Zone** — the bidding zone code and a readable country name.
- **Time** — both an ISO timestamp and the raw unix timestamp for the price interval.
- **Price** — the Nord Pool day-ahead spot price in EUR/MWh, plus a convenience value in EUR/kWh.

You pick the date range, choose any mix of the four zones, and cap how many records come back. Every record carries a `scrapedAt` timestamp.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `isoTime`, `priceEurKwh`, `priceEurMwh`, `scrapedAt`, `unixTimestamp`, `zone`, `zoneName`. All 7 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

### 🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using [this sign-up link](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).
2. Open the Elering Nord Pool Electricity Prices Scraper.
3. Set the `start` and `end` dates for the range you want.
4. Choose the `zones` and set `maxItems`.
5. Click **Start** and grab your results when the run finishes.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

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- More reference and data Actors in the [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge)

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** independent tool, not affiliated with Elering or Nord Pool. Only publicly available data is collected.

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `start` (type: `string`):

Start of the date range, inclusive. Accepts a date like 2026-06-06 or a full ISO timestamp like 2026-06-06T00:00:00.000Z. Defaults to the start of the previous day if left empty.

## `end` (type: `string`):

End of the date range, exclusive. Accepts a date like 2026-06-07 or a full ISO timestamp. Defaults to the start of the current day if left empty.

## `zones` (type: `array`):

Which Nord Pool bidding zones to include. Estonia (ee), Finland (fi), Latvia (lv), Lithuania (lt). Leave empty to include all four.

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

How many records to collect per run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "zones": [
    "ee",
    "fi",
    "lv",
    "lt"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/elering-nordpool-prices-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 = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/elering-nordpool-prices-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 '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/elering-nordpool-prices-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ibFEqBTufwgelAKDK/builds/xjhVSmUmIoBzWBH6B/openapi.json