Economic Calendar & Macro Releases

Economic calendar events and the macro data behind them, pulled from four official feeds in one run and normalised to a single schema:

• ForexFactory — the official JSON calendar feed for the current week, with the trader-facing impact rating (High / Medium / Low) per event and currency.
• Nasdaq economic events — any date range (past releases with actual values, and dates beyond the current week).
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — the actual value of the underlying series behind an event (CPI, unemployment rate, nonfarm payrolls, average hourly earnings, or any series ID you pass).
• European Central Bank (ECB) — the latest press releases, speeches and interviews.

No API key. No login. No browser. No personal data — the output is events, countries, currencies and numbers.

Why this one

Most economic-calendar scrapers read the HTML of ForexFactory or Investing.com, which is anti-bot protected and fails a noticeable share of runs. This Actor reads the official JSON feeds instead, so runs don't break on a bot challenge. On top of that it does two things a plain calendar does not:

1. Keeps ForexFactory's impact rating (what FX traders actually filter on), which government-feed calendars don't carry.
2. Attaches the actual released value of the underlying macro series from BLS — not just the release schedule.

Sources & limits (read this)

• ForexFactory publishes only the current week. Its thismonth / nextweek / lastweek feeds do not exist. For any other date, enable the Nasdaq calendar and set a date range — that is the source for history and for dates beyond this week.
• BLS and ECB are public, key-free official APIs.
• Weekends are skipped automatically on the Nasdaq date range; the range is capped at 92 days.

Input

Field	What it does
includeForexFactory	ForexFactory current-week calendar with impact rating. Default on.
impactLevels	Keep only these ForexFactory impacts: High, Medium, Low, Holiday. Empty = all.
countries	Keep only these countries/currencies. FF uses currency codes (USD, EUR…), Nasdaq uses country names.
includeNasdaqCalendar	Nasdaq economic calendar for a date range (history + future). Default off.
nasdaqDateFrom / nasdaqDateTo	Date range for Nasdaq, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to yesterday…+7 days if left empty.
includeMacroObservations	Attach BLS macro values. Default on.
blsSeries	BLS series IDs, e.g. CUUR0000SA0, LNS14000000. Empty = curated default set.
blsObservations	Recent observations per series (newest first). Default 3.
includeEcbPress	Latest ECB press releases. Default on.
ecbItems	Max ECB items. Default 20.
useApifyProxy	Off by default; the feeds answer fine without a proxy.

Leave the input empty to run a demo: the current ForexFactory week plus the default BLS series and ECB press releases.

Output

One flat row per record. recordType tells them apart.

Calendar event (recordType: "calendarEvent"):

{
  "recordType": "calendarEvent",
  "source": "forexfactory",
  "event": "Core CPI m/m",
  "country": "USD",
  "date": "2026-08-12",
  "timeUtc": "12:30",
  "dateTimeUtc": "2026-08-12T12:30:00+00:00",
  "impact": "High",
  "actual": null,
  "forecast": "0.3%",
  "previous": "0.2%"
}

Nasdaq events add a plain-text description and carry actual once released; impact is null for Nasdaq (impact comes from ForexFactory).

Macro observation (recordType: "macroObservation") — BLS series value:

{
  "recordType": "macroObservation",
  "source": "bls",
  "seriesId": "LNS14000000",
  "seriesName": "Unemployment Rate (SA)",
  "year": "2026",
  "period": "M07",
  "periodName": "July",
  "value": "4.1",
  "latest": true
}

…or an ECB press item (source: "ecb-press") with title, link and published.

Pricing (pay per event)

• Run start — once per run.
• Calendar event — one scheduled economic event. Primary charge.
• Macro observation — one BLS value or ECB press item. Cheap: one request brings a whole series.

An empty result is free.

Not included

• No full article text — the feeds provide structured event data only.
• No personal data. author / dc:creator fields from the ECB feed are not collected.