# European Commission Scraper (`dadhalfdev/european-commission-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the European Commission Press Corner, and extract press releases, statements, speeches, and background briefings on everything from tech regulation and defence to climate policy. Set your filters on the website, paste the URL, and let the scraper extract up to 150 full articles.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/european-commission-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marco Rodrigues](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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```bash
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```

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```bash

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# README

## 🇪🇺 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](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en)** 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.

![European Commission Website](https://i.postimg.cc/9fL2cCXb/Screenshot-From-2026-03-30-17-29-10.png)

### 💡 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](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en)** 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.

---

#### Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

**Input Example**

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

**Output Example**

```json
{
  "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. |

# Actor input Schema

## `input_url` (type: `string`):

The input URL with the filters applied.

## `max_articles` (type: `integer`):

The maximum number of articles to be scraped.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "input_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en?dotyp=&commissioner=",
  "max_articles": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view of scraped Commission press items using the dataset 'overview' view.

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped Press corner items from the default dataset without view transformation.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dadhalfdev/european-commission-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dadhalfdev/european-commission-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call dadhalfdev/european-commission-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=dadhalfdev/european-commission-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "tHQ8iTqhmVNHDIySN"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/dadhalfdev~european-commission-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-dadhalfdev-european-commission-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
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        "/acts/dadhalfdev~european-commission-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "input_url": {
                        "title": "Input URL",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The input URL with the filters applied.",
                        "default": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en?dotyp=&commissioner="
                    },
                    "max_articles": {
                        "title": "Maximum number of articles",
                        "minimum": 10,
                        "maximum": 150,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "The maximum number of articles to be scraped.",
                        "default": 100
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
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                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
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                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
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                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
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                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
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                                "properties": {
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}
```