TradingEconomics Scraper

Extract economic indicators from TradingEconomics.com — the world's largest economic data platform covering 20 million indicators across 196 countries. No API key required. No subscription needed. Get GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and hundreds more indicators in seconds.

🌍 What does TradingEconomics Scraper do?

TradingEconomics Scraper lets you extract structured economic indicator data from TradingEconomics.com without paying their $25–$500/month API subscription. The scraper handles all three main page types:

• Country indicators page (/united-states/indicators) — all indicators for one or more countries, organized by category (GDP, Labour, Prices, Money, Trade, Government, Business, Consumer, Housing, Energy, Health)
• Country list for indicator (/country-list/gdp) — a specific indicator (e.g., GDP or inflation rate) across all available countries
• Direct URL — any TradingEconomics URL of either type above

Every scraped item includes: country, indicator name, latest value, previous value, highest recorded, lowest recorded, unit, reference period, and a direct URL to the indicator page.

👤 Who is it for?

Economists and researchers tracking macroeconomic trends across multiple countries

• 🔹 Compare GDP growth rates across G20 nations for a quarterly report
• 🔹 Build a database of inflation data spanning 50 countries over time
• 🔹 Cross-reference unemployment data with consumer confidence metrics

Financial analysts and traders monitoring economic calendars

• 🔹 Pull the latest interest rate decisions across all central banks
• 🔹 Monitor inflation and CPI data to inform trading decisions
• 🔹 Track government debt-to-GDP ratios for sovereign risk analysis

Data scientists and developers building economic dashboards

• 🔹 Feed economic indicator data into Pandas for analysis
• 🔹 Power a Bloomberg-style dashboard with live macroeconomic data
• 🔹 Automate weekly downloads of economic indicator snapshots

Business intelligence teams in multinational corporations

• 🔹 Monitor economic conditions in countries where the company operates
• 🔹 Compare cost-of-living indicators across office locations
• 🔹 Track trade balance and exchange rate data for procurement planning

✅ Why use TradingEconomics Scraper?

• 📊 20M+ indicators across 196 countries — the most comprehensive free economic dataset available
• 💸 No API key required — TradingEconomics charges $25–$500/month for API access; this scraper gets the same data from the public website
• ⚡ Pure HTTP scraping — no browser overhead. Requests complete in under 1 second per page
• 🗂️ Organized by category — filter by GDP, Labour, Prices, Money, Trade, Government, Business, Consumer, Housing, Energy, or Health
• 🔄 Schedule regular runs — set up daily or weekly snapshots to track trends over time
• 📤 Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel — one click from the Apify Console
• 🔗 Direct URL support — paste any TradingEconomics URL for ad-hoc lookups

📦 What data can you extract?

Every output item contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
country	string	Country name (e.g., "United States")
countrySlug	string	URL slug (e.g., "united-states")
indicator	string	Indicator name (e.g., "GDP Growth Rate")
indicatorSlug	string	URL slug (e.g., "gdp-growth-rate")
value	number	Latest reported value
previous	number	Previous period value
highest	number	All-time highest recorded value
lowest	number	All-time lowest recorded value
unit	string	Unit of measurement (e.g., "percent", "USD Billion")
reference	string	Reference period (e.g., "Mar/26", "Dec/24")
category	string	Indicator category (e.g., "gdp", "labour", "prices")
url	string	Direct link to the indicator page
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the data was extracted

Available indicator categories:

Category	Examples
📈 Overview	GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Interest Rate, Stock Market
💰 GDP	GDP Growth Rate, GDP Per Capita, GDP from Manufacturing
👷 Labour	Unemployment Rate, Employment Change, Wage Growth, Labor Force
💵 Prices	Inflation Rate, CPI, PPI, Core Inflation
🏦 Money	Interest Rate, Money Supply, Central Bank Balance Sheet
🌐 Trade	Balance of Trade, Exports, Imports, Current Account
🏛️ Government	Government Debt to GDP, Budget, Tax Rate
🏭 Business	Business Confidence, PMI, Industrial Production
🛒 Consumer	Consumer Confidence, Retail Sales, Consumer Spending
🏠 Housing	Housing Starts, Building Permits, Home Prices
⚡ Energy	Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Coal Production
🏥 Health	Hospital Beds, Healthcare Spending, Life Expectancy

💵 How much does it cost to scrape TradingEconomics data?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you pay only for what you scrape. No monthly subscription. All platform compute costs are included.

	Free	Starter ($29/mo)	Scale ($199/mo)	Business ($999/mo)
Per indicator	$0.00115	$0.001	$0.00078	$0.0006
100 indicators	$0.115	$0.10	$0.078	$0.06
1,000 indicators	$1.15	$1.00	$0.78	$0.60

Higher-tier plans (Platinum, Diamond) get additional volume discounts.

Real-world cost examples:

Task	Indicators	Duration	Cost (Free tier)
US overview indicators	~20	~2s	~$0.023
All US categories	~408	~3s	~$0.47
GDP across all countries	~200	~2s	~$0.23
5 countries, overview only	~100	~8s	~$0.115

Free plan estimate: Apify gives $5 in free credits. At Free tier pricing, you can scrape approximately 4,350 indicators before spending your first dollar.

vs. TradingEconomics official API: Their API costs $25–$500/month. This scraper extracts the same public data at a fraction of the cost for occasional or scheduled use.

🚀 How to scrape TradingEconomics data

1. Open TradingEconomics Scraper on Apify Store
2. Click Try for free
3. Select your scrape mode:
   • Country indicators — enter country slugs like united-states, germany, china
   • Country list for indicator — enter an indicator slug like gdp, inflation-rate
   • Direct URL — paste any TradingEconomics URL
4. Click Save & Run
5. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel when the run completes

Example inputs for different scenarios:

Scrape key economic indicators for the US and Germany:

{
    "mode": "country-indicators",
    "countries": ["united-states", "germany"],
    "categories": ["overview"],
    "maxIndicators": 0
}

Compare GDP across all countries:

{
    "mode": "country-list",
    "indicator": "gdp",
    "maxIndicators": 0
}

Scrape a specific TradingEconomics page:

{
    "mode": "direct-url",
    "directUrl": "https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate",
    "maxIndicators": 0
}

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	country-indicators	Scraping mode: country-indicators, country-list, or direct-url
countries	array	["united-states"]	List of country slugs. Used in country-indicators mode
categories	array	[] (all)	Indicator categories to filter. Empty = all categories
indicator	string	gdp	Indicator slug for country-list mode
directUrl	string	—	Full URL for direct-url mode
maxIndicators	integer	0 (no limit)	Max results to return. 0 = no limit
proxy	object	datacenter	Proxy configuration

Country slugs match TradingEconomics URLs: united-states, germany, china, japan, united-kingdom, france, india, brazil, canada, australia, etc.

Indicator category options: overview, gdp, labour, prices, money, trade, government, business, consumer, housing, energy, health

Common indicator slugs: gdp, gdp-growth-rate, unemployment-rate, inflation-rate, interest-rate, balance-of-trade, current-account, government-debt-to-gdp, business-confidence, consumer-confidence, industrial-production

📊 Output examples

Country indicators mode:

{
    "country": "United States",
    "countrySlug": "united-states",
    "indicator": "Inflation Rate",
    "indicatorSlug": "inflation-rate",
    "value": 2.4,
    "previous": 2.4,
    "highest": 23.7,
    "lowest": -15.8,
    "unit": "percent",
    "reference": "Feb/26",
    "category": "prices",
    "url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-rate",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-06T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Country list mode:

{
    "country": "Germany",
    "countrySlug": "germany",
    "indicator": "GDP",
    "indicatorSlug": "gdp",
    "value": 4659.93,
    "previous": 4456.49,
    "highest": null,
    "lowest": null,
    "unit": "USD Billion",
    "reference": "Dec/24",
    "category": "country-list",
    "url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-06T10:00:00.000Z"
}

💡 Tips for best results

• 🗂️ Use categories to filter — if you only need GDP data, set categories: ["gdp"] instead of scraping all 408+ indicators per country
• 🔄 Schedule for monitoring — set up a daily or weekly run to track economic trends over time. The data updates whenever TradingEconomics publishes new releases
• 📦 Country list mode is faster — use country-list to compare one indicator across many countries (single page load) vs. country-indicators which loads one page per country
• 🌍 Batch multiple countries — pass several countries in one run to minimize overhead: ["united-states", "germany", "china", "japan", "uk"]
• 📊 Start small for testing — set maxIndicators: 50 when testing to keep runs fast and cheap, then remove the limit for production runs

🔌 Integrations

TradingEconomics Scraper → Google Sheets Use Apify's Google Sheets integration to automatically push economic data into a spreadsheet. Schedule weekly runs to build a time-series database of GDP, inflation, and unemployment across your target countries.

TradingEconomics Scraper → Slack/Discord alerts Combine with Apify webhooks to send alerts when economic indicators cross thresholds. Trigger a Slack notification when the US unemployment rate changes month-over-month.

TradingEconomics Scraper → Make / Zapier Use Apify's Make or Zapier integration to feed economic data into your existing workflows — route to Airtable, Notion, Power BI, or any app your team uses for reporting.

Scheduled monitoring Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run the scraper daily or weekly. Compare each run's dataset to the previous one to detect new data releases and flag significant changes.

Webhook-driven processing Configure an Apify webhook to POST dataset URLs to your backend when a run completes. Your service can then pull the data and update dashboards in real time.

🔧 API usage

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/tradingeconomics-scraper').call({
    mode: 'country-list',
    indicator: 'gdp',
    maxIndicators: 0,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token='YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('automation-lab/tradingeconomics-scraper').call(run_input={
    'mode': 'country-indicators',
    'countries': ['united-states', 'germany', 'china'],
    'categories': ['overview'],
    'maxIndicators': 0,
})

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item['country'], item['indicator'], item['value'], item['unit'])

cURL

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~tradingeconomics-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "mode": "country-list",
    "indicator": "inflation-rate",
    "maxIndicators": 0
  }'

🤖 Use with AI agents via MCP

TradingEconomics Scraper is available as a tool for AI assistants that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Add the Apify MCP server to your AI client — this gives you access to all Apify actors, including this one:

Setup for Claude Code

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com"

Setup for Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code

Add this to your MCP config file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com"
        }
    }
}

Your AI assistant will use OAuth to authenticate with your Apify account on first use.

Example prompts

Once connected, try asking your AI assistant:

• "Use automation-lab/tradingeconomics-scraper to get GDP data for all countries and show me the top 10 economies"
• "Scrape inflation rates across G7 countries and compare them to last year's data"
• "Get all economic indicators for Japan and identify which ones are at all-time highs"

Learn more in the Apify MCP documentation.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape TradingEconomics?

TradingEconomics displays publicly available economic data sourced from official government agencies, central banks, and international organizations (IMF, World Bank, Eurostat, etc.). The data is publicly available without login.

This scraper operates by reading publicly accessible web pages — the same data any browser user can view. It does not bypass authentication, access private data, or circumvent any technical protection measures.

As with any web scraping project, users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable laws and the website's terms of service. This scraper is intended for legitimate research, analysis, and monitoring purposes. Do not use it to build competing data products.

For more information on ethical web scraping, see Apify's guide to web scraping legality.

❓ FAQ

How many indicators are available? TradingEconomics covers 20 million economic indicators across 196 countries. A typical country page shows 100–500 indicators organized across 12 categories. The US indicators page, for example, returns ~408 items when all categories are scraped.

How often is the data updated? Data frequency varies by indicator — GDP is typically quarterly, unemployment is monthly, interest rates are event-driven (central bank meetings), and financial market indicators (stock indices, currency) update daily or in real-time on the TradingEconomics website. Each scraped item includes a reference field showing the most recent reporting period.

How fast is the scraper? Each page loads in about 1–2 seconds. Scraping all indicators for one country (one page load) takes ~2–3 seconds. Scraping 10 countries takes ~20–30 seconds. A country-list page (e.g., GDP for all 200 countries) is a single page load taking ~2 seconds.

Why are some indicators missing highest/lowest values? The highest and lowest fields are only available on the country indicators page. The country-list pages (e.g., /country-list/gdp) don't show those columns, so they'll be null for country-list mode results.

Why do I see fewer results than expected on country-list pages? TradingEconomics country-list pages typically show the top 20–30 countries by default. This is the data available on those pages without additional pagination or JavaScript. If you need all countries, use country-indicators mode and list all countries you need.

Can I scrape historical data? This scraper extracts the current snapshot (latest value + previous period). Historical time-series data would require scraping individual indicator detail pages, which is not currently supported. For historical data, consider using TradingEconomics' API directly.

The actor returned 0 results — what happened? This usually means TradingEconomics changed their HTML structure or the country/indicator slug you entered is incorrect. Check that your country slug matches the URL format exactly (e.g., united-states not USA or us). If the issue persists, please open an issue in the Apify console.

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