🌲 Carbonmark Carbon Credits Scraper

Export the carbon credit projects listed on Carbonmark as flat rows: project name, registry, registry listing id and project country. No account, no API key, no login.

Carbonmark is a public marketplace for carbon credits. Its catalogue is a scrolling grid of project cards with no export button, so building a list of who is offering what means copying projects by hand. This Actor walks the catalogue, applies the filters you set, and writes one row per project into a dataset you can open in a spreadsheet.

Read the Output section before you buy. Carbonmark leaves several listing fields blank on the catalogue page, and the Actor reports them as null rather than guessing.

Who uses it	What they use the catalogue for
🌍 Corporate offset buyers	Building a shortlist of projects by registry and country before asking anyone for a quote
🔍 Diligence analysts	Checking whether a target's claimed offset projects are listed on a public marketplace at all
📑 Sustainability and reporting teams	Keeping a tracked list of projects by registry identifier rather than by marketing name
📊 Market researchers	Counting projects by registry and country to measure where supply is concentrated

📋 What it does

💡 Why it matters: every serious check on a carbon credit starts with the registry identifier, because the project name is marketing and the identifier is the record. This returns the identifier for every listed project in one pass.

• 🗂 Walks the Carbonmark catalogue and returns one row per project, rather than one screenshot per page.
• 🆔 Returns the registry listing id, for example VCS-844, which is what a registry lookup or a retirement record will ask for.
• 🏛 Filters by registry: VCS, GS, ACR, CAR or PURO.
• 🌐 Filters by country and category as free text, and by minimum vintage year.
• 📦 The same 12 fields every run, so several filtered runs append into one clean dataset.
• 💾 Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, from the run page or the API.

📊 Output

Every project is one flat row with 12 fields. null means the marketplace page carried no value for that field on that listing.

Be aware: in the sample run below, only projectName, registry, country and listingId carried values. price came back as 0 and methodology, vintage, supply, category and retiredCredits came back null on every row. Treat the commercial fields as present when Carbonmark publishes them and empty when it does not, and size your expectations on the catalogue rather than on this field list.

Field	Type	Description
🌲 projectName	string	Project name as Carbonmark shows it
🏛 registry	string	Issuing registry, for example VCS
📐 methodology	string	Registry methodology the project was issued under, where the listing publishes one
📅 vintage	integer	Vintage year of the credits, where the listing publishes one
💵 price	number	Listed price per credit. 0 where the listing carries no price
📦 supply	number	Credits available on the listing, where published
🌍 country	string	Project country, for example Peru
🏷 category	string	Project category, for example forestry or renewable energy, where published
🆔 listingId	string	Registry listing identifier, for example VCS-844
♻️ retiredCredits	number	Credits already retired against the project, where published
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection
⚠️ error	string	null on a normal row

Example rows

{
  "projectName": "Madre De Dios Amazon REDD+ Project",
  "registry": "VCS",
  "methodology": null,
  "vintage": null,
  "price": 0,
  "supply": null,
  "country": "Peru",
  "category": null,
  "listingId": "VCS-844",
  "retiredCredits": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T17:17:18.215Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "projectName": "Guyuan Wuhuaping 49.5 MW Wind Power Project",
  "registry": "VCS",
  "methodology": null,
  "vintage": null,
  "price": 0,
  "supply": null,
  "country": "China",
  "category": null,
  "listingId": "VCS-736",
  "retiredCredits": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T17:17:18.307Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
The registry id, not the brand name	VCS-844 is what you carry into a registry lookup. The project name is not.
No credentials	The Carbonmark catalogue is public. No account, no key, no quota to negotiate.
Filters at the source	Registry, country, category and minimum vintage are applied during the run, so you pay for rows you asked for.
The same fields every run	Append a dozen filtered runs into one sheet without reconciling columns.
You pay per row	No subscription. A filter that matches nothing costs nothing.

🚀 How to use it

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts start with $5 of credit.
2. Open the Actor and select Try for free.
3. Leave the filters blank for the whole catalogue, or set registry, country, category or minVintage.
4. Set maxItems to cap the run.
5. Select Start, then export from the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

A first run:

{
  "maxItems": 10
}

One registry, one country:

{
  "maxItems": 500,
  "registry": "VCS",
  "country": "Peru"
}

⚙️ Input

Field	Required	Description
maxItems	No	Maximum projects to collect per run. Default 10
country	No	Filter by project country, free text match
category	No	Filter by category, free text match
registry	No	One of VCS, GS, ACR, CAR, PURO. Blank means every registry
minVintage	No	Only include credits with a vintage year at or after this value

💰 Pricing

Pay per result. No subscription, and no Apify platform usage on top.

Apify plan	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Per project row	$0.0085	$0.0082	$0.0078	$0.0075	$0.0075	$0.0075

Rows collected	Cost on the Free plan
100	$0.85
1,000	$8.50
10,000	$85.00

Free plan runs return up to 10 rows as a preview. Any paid Apify plan lifts that to 1,000,000 per run.

🔌 Integrate with any app

The dataset is available through the Apify API as soon as the run finishes. Use run-sync-get-dataset-items for a one-shot call, webhooks to trigger what happens next, or the Make, Zapier, Airbyte and LangChain integrations listed on the Actor page.

🤖 Use with an AI agent

Give an agent live access to the Carbonmark catalogue over the Model Context Protocol:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=acquistion-automation/carbonmark-credits-scraper"

Then ask it in plain language which projects a registry has listed in a given country and have it read the result back.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Why is price zero and vintage empty on my rows? Carbonmark does not publish every field on every catalogue listing. Where the page shows nothing, the Actor writes 0 for price and null for the rest rather than inventing a value. In the sample run above that applied to every row.

Can I filter by price? Not in the input. Export the dataset and filter in a spreadsheet.

What does listingId refer to? The identifier the issuing registry uses for the project, for example VCS-844 for a Verra project. Use it to look the project up on the registry's own site.

Why did I get fewer rows than maxItems? Fewer listings matched your filters than the cap you set. Remove one filter at a time to see which is excluding everything.

Does this include retired or already sold credits? The Actor returns what the catalogue lists. retiredCredits reports retirements when the listing publishes them, and is null otherwise.

Do I need a proxy? No. Requests and retries are handled inside the Actor and included in the price.

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About Acquisition Automation Co.

We build automation for people buying businesses. The repetitive part of an acquisition search, checking listings, pulling public records, tracking owners and assets, is work a machine should do, so the buyer's time goes into judging deals instead of collecting them.

We add new Actors regularly. If there is a source you need and do not see here, tell us.

🆘 Support

Open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor with your run ID, the input you used, and what you expected to get back.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Carbonmark or any carbon registry. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using that data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable law.