US State Department Travel Advisories Scraper

Extract every active US State Department travel advisory — country risk levels, extracted risk factors, and clean plain-text advisory summaries — as structured JSON ready for dashboards, alerts, and AI pipelines.

The US State Department maintains travel advisories for roughly 200 countries and territories, rated on a four-level scale from Level 1 (Exercise Normal Precautions) to Level 4 (Do Not Travel). These advisories drive corporate travel policy, insurance underwriting, and duty-of-care obligations worldwide. This Actor pulls the full advisory list from the State Department's public API in a single run, parses the risk level out of each title, extracts the highlighted risk factors (crime, terrorism, kidnapping, civil unrest, health infrastructure…), and converts the HTML advisory body into clean, LLM/RAG-ready plain text.

Who uses this data?

• Travel risk management and duty-of-care platforms keeping country risk ratings current
• Corporate security teams triggering policy reviews when a destination's level changes
• Travel insurers and underwriters pricing country risk
• Airlines, OTAs, and tour operators surfacing advisory levels at booking time
• Expat services and relocation firms briefing clients on destination risk
• AI travel assistants grounding answers in official government advisories

Data fields

Field	Description
country	Country or territory name
advisoryLevel	Numeric risk level 1–4
advisoryLevelText	Level description (e.g. "Reconsider Travel")
riskFactors	Extracted risk keywords (crime, terrorism, kidnapping…)
summaryText	Full advisory text, HTML stripped — plain text, RAG-ready
countryCodes	Country code(s) from the State Department feed
link	Direct URL to the official advisory page
title	Original advisory title
fetchedAt	Timestamp of the run

How to scrape US travel advisories

1. Run with empty input to get all ~200 advisories, sorted highest-risk first.
2. Or set Minimum Advisory Level (e.g. 3) to get only Reconsider Travel / Do Not Travel countries.
3. Or set a Country Filter (e.g. mexico) for a single destination.
4. Download results from the Dataset tab as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Input example

{
    "minLevel": 3,
    "countryFilter": "",
    "maxResults": 500
}

Output example

{
    "country": "Venezuela",
    "advisoryLevel": 3,
    "advisoryLevelText": "Reconsider Travel",
    "riskFactors": ["crime", "kidnapping", "terrorism", "poor health infrastructure"],
    "summaryText": "Reconsider travel to Venezuela due to risk of crime, kidnapping, terrorism, and poor health infrastructure...",
    "countryCodes": ["VE"],
    "link": "https://travel.state.gov/content/tsg_aem/us/en/home/international-travel/travel-advisories/destination.ven.html"
}

Pricing

You pay a small fee per result plus standard Apify compute. A full run (~200 advisories) completes in seconds at the smallest memory setting — schedule it daily for change monitoring.

FAQ

How often do advisories change? The State Department reviews Level 1–2 advisories at least every 12 months and Level 3–4 advisories at least every 6 months, plus immediate updates after significant events.

How do I detect level changes? Schedule this Actor daily and diff advisoryLevel per country between runs.

Are regional advisories within a country included? The dataset is one record per country-level advisory; regional detail is preserved inside summaryText.

Legal disclaimer

This Actor extracts publicly available data published by the US Department of State, a US government agency. The data is in the public domain. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of State. Advisory data is informational; always check the official advisory page before making travel decisions.