🇪🇺 European Commission News Scraper

Official EU policy and institutional news moves fast, and getting it straight from the source is crucial. The European Commission Press corner is where the Commission publishes its official press releases, statements, speeches, and background briefings on everything from tech regulation and defence to climate policy and funding.

This actor turns those pages into structured, actionable data—without manual copying. Set your filters on the website, paste the URL, and let the scraper extract up to 150 full articles, complete with downloadable PDF links, metadata, and press contact details.

💡 Perfect for…

• Regulatory & Compliance Teams: Stay ahead of incoming EU regulations. Extract the exact phrasing of new rules and access the official PDF documents for audit trails.
• Newsrooms & Journalists: Automatically track EU announcements by theme (e.g., AI, antitrust, trade), quote official wording, and build timelines of Commission positions.
• Public Affairs & Lobbyists: Monitor specific dossiers or commissioners. Share structured updates with your stakeholders the moment a statement drops.
• Data & NLP Pipelines: Run classification, summarisation, or entity extraction on title + content; use date and category as metadata to track policy shifts over time.
• RAG & AI Assistants: Chunk the content into vector stores so your AI tools can answer questions like "What did the Commission say about the Digital Markets Act?" with direct citations to official EU pages and PDFs.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🎯 Custom Search Filters: Start from any Press corner search URL. Apply filters on the website for specific commissioners, document types, or keywords, paste the input_url, and the scraper respects your search context.
• ⚙️ Deep Content Extraction: Extracts the headline, publication date, document category, and the full article body cleanly.
• 📄 Direct PDF Downloads: Automatically captures the direct link to the official, downloadable PDF version of the release for offline archiving or document parsing.
• 👤 Press Contacts: Need to follow up? The scraper extracts the official press contact's name and phone number directly from the page.

📦 What’s inside the data?

For every single release, you get:

Field	Description
url	Canonical Press corner detail URL
title	Headline of the press release or statement
category	Document type (e.g. Press release, Statement, Speech)
date	Publication date as shown on the page
content	Full visible body text from the main article block
content_pdf	Absolute URL to the official PDF download
contact_name	Official press/media contact name
contact_number	Official contact phone number

🚀 Quick start

1. Go to the European Commission Press corner and apply any filters you want (e.g., search by keyword, date, or commissioner).
2. Copy the URL from your browser and paste it into the input_url field of the scraper. (If you leave it blank or use the default URL, it will simply scrape the latest chronological news.)
3. Set max_articles (how many items you want to collect, up to 150).
4. Click Start and let it run! Export your structured dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

Input Example

{
  "input_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en?dotyp=&commissioner=",
  "max_articles": 25
}

Output Example

{
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_687",
  "title": "Commission presents €115 million Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)",
  "category": "Press release",
  "date": "Mar 25, 2026",
  "content": "The European Commission has adopted …\n\n(Full body text as on the page.)",
  "content_pdf": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/document/print/en/ip_26_687/IP_26_687_EN.pdf",
  "contact_name": "Thomas REGNIER",
  "contact_number": "+32 2 29 91099"
}

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
input_url	string	Yes	The target URL to start scraping from. You can apply filters on the website and paste the resulting URL here. If left as the default, it scrapes the latest general news feed.
max_articles	integer	No	Target number of articles to collect from the listing (increments as pagination loads). Min 10, max 150, default 100.