Carbon Emission Factors Scraper — ADEME Base Carbone (CO2) API

Query the official ADEME Base Carbone® — France's reference database of CO2 emission factors used for every regulated carbon footprint (Bilan Carbone, BEGES, ACV/LCA). 12,800+ emission factors. Search by keyword (electricity, beef, flight, cement, diesel...) or by category, and get the value in kgCO2e, unit, uncertainty, data quality, source, geographic scope, validity period, ADEME id and per-gas breakdown. HTTP-only, $0.002 per factor.

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What is the Carbon Emission Factors Scraper?

The Carbon Emission Factors Scraper is an Apify actor that turns the official ADEME Base Carbone into a clean, queryable, exportable dataset. Base Carbone is the French government's authoritative emission-factor database, maintained by ADEME (Agence de la transition écologique). It is the source every French carbon-accounting tool, consultancy and Bilan Carbone® study draws on.

This scraper hits the free official ADEME open-data API — no authentication, no API key, no rate limits to fight. Pass a keyword and/or a category, set how many factors you want, and receive one structured row per emission factor with its value in kgCO2 equivalent, the unit it applies to, the uncertainty, the underlying programme (AGRIBALYSE, ADEME, etc.) and a per-greenhouse-gas breakdown (CO2, CH4, N2O...).

Why it matters: CSRD, ESG and carbon accounting

EU sustainability regulation (CSRD, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) now forces tens of thousands of companies to measure and report their greenhouse-gas emissions. Every one of those calculations multiplies an activity (kWh of electricity, kg of beef, km flown) by an emission factor. Base Carbone is the reference for those factors in France. Having the catalog as structured data is the difference between hand-copying numbers from a web UI and powering an automated carbon-accounting pipeline.

Use cases

• Carbon-accounting SaaS — seed or refresh your emission-factor library from the authoritative source.
• ESG / CSRD reporting — pull the exact kgCO2e factors and uncertainty for a Bilan Carbone or BEGES.
• LCA / ACV tooling — enrich life-cycle models with AGRIBALYSE food factors and ADEME energy factors.
• Sustainability consultancies — build a searchable internal factor database, filtered by category.
• Research & data science — analyse emission-factor distributions across categories, programmes and time.

Input

{
  "query": "electricity",
  "category": "",
  "maxResults": 200
}

• query — full-text keyword (matches French and English names + tags). Examples: electricity, beef, flight, cement, diesel.
• category — filter by ADEME category path; every word must appear, e.g. Combustibles, Transport, agro alimentaires.
• maxResults — cap on factors returned (aliases: limit, max). The full catalog is ~12,800 factors.

Output

{
  "type": "emission_factor",
  "ademe_id": "14034",
  "name_en": "Electricity",
  "name_fr": "Electricité",
  "category": "Energie > Electricité > Usages",
  "value_kgco2e": 0.0742,
  "unit_en": "kgCO2e/kWh",
  "uncertainty_pct": 30,
  "geo_scope": "France continentale",
  "programme": "ADEME",
  "source": "https://www.bilans-ges.ademe.fr/",
  "valid_until": "31/12/2025",
  "status": "Valide",
  "ghg_breakdown": { "CO2f": 0.06, "CH4f": 0.001, "N2O": 0.0002 }
}

The status field (Valide / Archivé) lets you keep only current factors.

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.002 per emission factor (= $2 per 1,000 factors). Free actor starts. No charge when nothing matches.

FAQ — ADEME Base Carbone API

Where does the data come from? The official ADEME Base Carbone, served through the free ADEME open-data API (data.ademe.fr). All public open data, no key required.

Does it include AGRIBALYSE food factors? Yes — AGRIBALYSE food/agriculture factors are part of Base Carbone and are returned, tagged by programme.

Can I export the whole catalog? Yes — leave query and category empty and set maxResults high; the actor paginates through all ~12,800 factors.

FR or EN? Each factor row includes both French and English names, units and tags.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik