🇪🇺 European Commission News Scraper

Official EU policy news moves fast. The European Commission Press corner publishes press releases, statements, speeches, and briefings on regulation, climate, funding, defence, and more.

This actor turns those pages into structured data. Apply filters on the website, paste the URL, set how many items you want (up to 250), and get titles, full text, PDF links, and press contacts.

💡 Perfect for…

• Regulatory & compliance teams: Capture official wording and PDF documents for audit trails.
• Newsrooms & journalists: Track announcements by theme or commissioner and quote official text.
• Public affairs: Monitor dossiers and share structured updates with stakeholders.
• 📚 RAG & research: Index content so tools can answer what the Commission said — with citations.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🎯 Paste your filtered search: Start from any Press corner URL after you filter in the browser.
• 📄 PDF links included: Captures the downloadable PDF when available.
• 👤 Press contacts: Name and phone number when listed on the page.
• 📰 Full body text: Headline, date, document type, and article content.

📦 What's inside the data?

Field	Description
url	Press corner detail URL
title	Headline
category	Document type (e.g. Press release, Statement, Speech)
date	Publication date as shown on the page
content	Full body text
content_pdf	URL to the official PDF (when available)
contact_name	Press contact name
contact_number	Press contact phone

🚀 Quick start

1. Open the Press corner and apply any filters you want.
2. Copy the browser URL and paste it into input_url. (Leave the default to scrape the latest general feed.)
3. Set max_articles (up to 250).
4. Click Start and export JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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Example input

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

Example output

{
  "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 …",
  "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"
}

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
input_url	string	No	Press corner URL after filters (or the default latest feed).
max_articles	integer	No	How many items to collect. Min 10, max 250, default 100.