ForexFactory Economic Calendar Scraper

For forex/futures traders, quant research pipelines, and AI trading agents that need structured economic-release data — no API key, no login, no headless browser.

No API key required. No ForexFactory account. Pay Per Event — you're charged one event_row per calendar event returned. Every record includes parseConfidence (0.0–1.0) and warnings.

Scrape ForexFactory's public economic calendar (forexfactory.com/calendar) — one of the most widely used free forex-trader calendars on the web. Date/time (UTC), currency, impact level, actual/forecast/previous/revised values with parsed numeric variants, and — with detail mode switched on — the data source, release frequency, and a plain-English description of what each indicator measures.

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Why this actor over the alternatives

Most ForexFactory scrapers on the Store only read the base calendar page. That page genuinely does not carry a data source, release frequency, or indicator description — those live on a separate per-indicator detail page. The common result: source / frequency / description fields declared in the output schema but sitting at 0% fill-rate forever, on every rival that only reads the base page.

This actor closes that gap. With includeDetail: true, it fetches each distinct indicator's ForexFactory detail page once per run (deduped by indicator — one extra request per unique indicator in your result set, not per event row) and folds source, sourceUrl, frequency, eventDescription, usualEffect, alsoCalled, and eventType into every matching event.

Field	Base calendar page	This actor (includeDetail: true)
date / time / currency / impact	✅	✅
actual / forecast / previous / revised (+ numeric)	✅	✅
source, sourceUrl	❌ not on this page	✅
frequency	❌ not on this page	✅
eventDescription (what the indicator measures)	❌ not on this page	✅
usualEffect, alsoCalled, eventType	❌ not on this page	✅ (bonus — not on the base page at all)

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What data you get

One record per calendar event:

• eventId — stable composite key, <date>-<currency>-<slug(eventTitle)> (e.g. 2026-07-21-GBP-claimant-count-change)
• url, soloUrl — deep link into the calendar and the indicator's own detail page
• date, time, timestamp — UTC (derived from ForexFactory's own event epoch, not a display-timezone guess), displayTimezone
• country, currency, impact (low/medium/high/holiday), eventTitle, isAllDay, leaked
• actual, actualNumeric, forecast, forecastNumeric, previous, previousNumeric, revised, revisedNumeric, unit
• Detail mode only: source, sourceUrl, frequency, eventDescription, usualEffect, alsoCalled, eventType, detailFetched
• scrapedAt, parseConfidence, warnings

actual/revised are legitimately empty for events that haven't happened yet (a forward-looking this_week / next_week window) — that's the real state of the data, not a parser gap.

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How to use

This week's high/medium impact USD/EUR/GBP/JPY events

{
  "range": "this_week",
  "currencies": ["USD", "EUR", "GBP", "JPY"],
  "impactLevels": ["high", "medium"],
  "includeDetail": false,
  "maxEvents": 50
}

Today's events with full indicator detail (source/frequency/description)

{
  "range": "today",
  "includeDetail": true,
  "maxEvents": 30
}

All currencies, next month, high impact only

{
  "range": "next_month",
  "impactLevels": ["high"],
  "maxEvents": 300
}

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Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
range	enum	this_week	today / tomorrow / yesterday / this_week / next_week / last_week / this_month / next_month / last_month
currencies	array of string	[] (all)	Currency codes to keep, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP, JPY
impactLevels	array of string	[] (all)	Subset of low / medium / high / holiday
includeDetail	boolean	false	Fetch each distinct indicator's detail page once to fill source/frequency/description
maxEvents	integer	200	Cap on rows returned (after filtering), hard max 1000
proxyConfiguration	object	RESIDENTIAL	Apify Proxy settings — works out of the box, no proxy key needed from you

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Pricing

Pay Per Event: event_row — one charge per calendar-event record returned. includeDetail: true adds no extra per-row charge; the indicator detail fetch is internal COGS, deduped by indicator across your whole run.

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Legal

ForexFactory's /calendar is a public, unauthenticated page — no login wall, no paywall. This actor reads only that publicly available economic-release schedule; it does not access any account-gated ForexFactory content (forums, trade-journal, member tools). Data is provided for informational purposes; it is not investment advice.

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MCP / AI agent integration

This actor works as an Apify MCP tool — call it from Claude, GPT, or any MCP-compatible agent to pull a structured economic calendar into a trading research pipeline without scraping code of your own.