# Colombia SECOP Procurement Scraper (`barefoot_grade/colombia-secop-scraper`) Actor

Search Colombia's public procurement system (SECOP) for contract awards — counterparties, values, dates and process URLs, from the open-data mirror. Structured records ready for analysis.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/barefoot\_grade/colombia-secop-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Philip Kirkbride](https://apify.com/barefoot_grade) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.40 / 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.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## colombia-secop-scraper

Apify Actor for Colombia's SECOP II public procurement awards: awarded
state contracts (buyer, supplier NIT, amount COP, dates) read from the
national open-data mirror `datos.gov.co` (Socrata dataset `jbjy-vk9h`,
"SECOP II - Contratos Electrónicos") over plain HTTP — no browser, no
proxy, no key (see `docs/FINDINGS.md` for the probe matrix that settled
this lane; the SECOP portals themselves are IP-gated).

### Input

All filters are optional; an unscoped run returns the most recently
signed contracts:

```json
{"keyword": "computador"}
{"buyer": "MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION"}
{"supplier": "900156264"}
{"dateFrom": "2026-08-01", "dateTo": "2026-08-31"}
{"keyword": "aeronaves", "dateFrom": "2026-08-01", "dateTo": "2026-08-31", "maxResults": 500}
```

- `keyword` / `buyer`: text fragments matched case-insensitively against
  the contract object and the buyer entity name (3-char minimum).
- `supplier`: NIT/document number (e.g. `900156264`) **or** name
  fragment (e.g. `NUEVA EPS`).
- `contractId`: exact SECOP contract id, e.g. `CO1.PCCNTR.3524727`.
- `dateFrom` + `dateTo` (ISO `YYYY-MM-DD`, both or neither): inclusive
  window on the contract-signing date.
- `maxResults` (1–5000, default 100): the Actor pages through the
  mirror 1000 rows at a time and slices.

Unpublished drafts (`estado_contrato = Borrador` — no date, placeholder
suppliers) are excluded from every query. The unscoped default also
requires a signing date — Socrata would otherwise sort undated
contracts ahead of the `fecha_de_firma DESC` "latest" page.

### Output

One dataset item per awarded contract: `contractKey`
(`datos.gov.co:contrato:{idContrato}`), `idContrato`,
`referenciaContrato`, `idProceso` (notice ref), `buyerNit`/`buyerName`,
`departamento`/`ciudad`, `supplierDocType`/`supplierNit`/`supplierName`,
`amount` + `currency` (always COP) + `amountPaid` (valor pagado),
`signedAt`/`startDate`/`endDate` (ISO), `objeto` (description),
`tipoContrato`, `modalidad`, `estado`, `url` (SECOP process page),
`sourceQuery`, `source`, `scrapedAt`. Registry placeholders
("No Definido", "Sin Descripcion") are null.

### How it works

1. `GET https://www.datos.gov.co/resource/jbjy-vk9h.json` with SoQL
   params: `$select` (20 columns), `$where` (draft exclusion + scopes;
   text fragments as `upper(field) LIKE '%…%'`, dates on
   `fecha_de_firma`), `$order` (`fecha_de_firma DESC, id_contrato DESC`
   for stable offsets), `$limit`/`$offset` (1000-row pages).
2. Keyless, cookieless, plain datacenter egress — 6.0M-row mirror of
   the contracts table, updated by Colombia Compra Eficiente.
3. Records are normalized to the unified award shape (same conventions
   as the SEACE registry actor: composite key, `sourceQuery`,
   null-for-blank).
4. Slow-lane hardening (issue #189): 180 s read timeout plus a 4-attempt
   2/4/8s-backoff retry on 429/5xx/transport/JSON failures — a cold
   unscoped sort can take minutes before the first byte. If the query
   still fails, the run exits SUCCEEDED with a one-item dataset note
   (`note`/`error`) instead of crashing.

### Run tests

```bash
uv venv .venv && uv pip install -p .venv/bin/python httpx
PYTHONPATH=src .venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
```

Fixtures under `tests/fixtures/` are live captures from 2026-09-05.

### Cost

One JSON request per 1000 records, no proxy: a 40-record date-window
run is ~1 request/~1.5 s — ≈ **$0.0002/run**; a 5000-record pull
(5 pages) is ≈ $0.0006.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Free-text fragment matched against the contract's object (objeto del contrato), e.g. 'computador'. Minimum 3 characters.

## `buyer` (type: `string`):

Contracting entity name fragment, e.g. 'MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION'. Minimum 3 characters.

## `supplier` (type: `string`):

Supplier NIT / document number (e.g. '900156264') or name fragment (e.g. 'NUEVA EPS'). Minimum 3 characters.

## `contractId` (type: `string`):

Exact SECOP contract id, e.g. 'CO1.PCCNTR.3524727'.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Start of the contract-signing date window (ISO YYYY-MM-DD). Provide together with dateTo.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

End of the contract-signing date window (ISO YYYY-MM-DD). Provide together with dateFrom.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many award records (the Actor pages through the mirror 1000 rows at a time).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "",
  "buyer": "",
  "supplier": "",
  "contractId": "",
  "dateFrom": "",
  "dateTo": "",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# 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 = {
    "keyword": "",
    "buyer": "",
    "supplier": "",
    "contractId": "",
    "dateFrom": "",
    "dateTo": "",
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("barefoot_grade/colombia-secop-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 = {
    "keyword": "",
    "buyer": "",
    "supplier": "",
    "contractId": "",
    "dateFrom": "",
    "dateTo": "",
    "maxResults": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("barefoot_grade/colombia-secop-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keyword": "",
  "buyer": "",
  "supplier": "",
  "contractId": "",
  "dateFrom": "",
  "dateTo": "",
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call barefoot_grade/colombia-secop-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,barefoot_grade/colombia-secop-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/712yds15y0y9U0B5t/builds/dpIyafFuPZfCRGa8l/openapi.json