# Energy-Charts Power Mix Scraper (`parseforge/energy-charts-power-mix-scraper`) Actor

Track the live electricity generation mix for Germany, France, Spain, and dozens more countries from the Fraunhofer ISE Energy Charts API. Returns country, ISO timestamp, unix time, production type such as solar, wind, nuclear, gas, and megawatt values. Great for grid research and graphs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/energy-charts-power-mix-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.7% 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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## ⚡ Energy-Charts Power Mix Scraper

> 🚀 **Export a country's electricity generation mix in one run.** Pull 15 minute solar, wind, nuclear, gas, hydro, and load values straight from the Fraunhofer ISE Energy-Charts public API.

Turn the Fraunhofer ISE Energy-Charts data into clean, structured records you can drop into a dashboard, a forecasting model, or a research notebook. Pick a country and a date range and get one normalized record per timestamp and production type, with the value in megawatts.

Coverage spans Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and dozens more European countries plus the aggregated Europe view. Each day returns up to 96 time steps (15 minute intervals) across every production type the source reports, including solar, wind onshore and offshore, nuclear, fossil gas, brown and hard coal, hydro, biomass, cross border trading, and total load.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Energy analysts and traders | Track the daily generation mix per country |
| Grid and renewables researchers | Study solar and wind share over time |
| Data scientists and forecasters | Feed clean time series into models |
| Dashboard and app builders | Power a live energy mix visualization |

### 📋 What the Energy-Charts Power Mix Scraper does

This Actor calls the public Energy-Charts `public_power` endpoint and flattens its arrays into one clean record per time step and production type:

- **One record per (timestamp, production type)** so the data drops straight into a table or a chart.
- **Both unix and ISO time** on every record for easy joining and plotting.
- **Megawatt values** for each production type, including negative values where the source reports consumption (for example pumped storage).
- **Country and date range** echoed onto every record so multi country pulls stay self describing.

You control the country, the start and end date, and how many records come back. Every record carries a `scrapedAt` timestamp.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `country`, `end`, `isoTime`, `productionType`, `scrapedAt`, `start`, `unixTimestamp`, `valueMw`. All 8 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 Energy-Charts Power Mix Scraper.
3. Choose a `country` and set a `start` and `end` date.
4. Set `maxItems` to the number of records you want.
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 Energy-Charts or Fraunhofer ISE. 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

## `country` (type: `string`):

The country (or bidding zone) whose electricity generation mix you want. Backed by the Fraunhofer ISE Energy-Charts public\_power endpoint.

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

First day to include, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD (for example 2026-06-06). Defaults to a recent day.

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

Last day to include, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. Use the same value as the start date for a single day.

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

How many data points to collect per run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "de",
  "start": "2026-06-06",
  "end": "2026-06-06",
  "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/energy-charts-power-mix-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/energy-charts-power-mix-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/energy-charts-power-mix-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gl1fRxx1fdIUbq9ec/builds/Yg6Orab3Sp6x3CfiS/openapi.json