France Lobbying & Public Officials Scraper — HATVP Transparency API

Query the official HATVP open data (Haute Autorité pour la Transparence de la Vie Publique). Two datasets in one actor: the AGORA lobbying registry (interest representatives, SIREN, declared activities, budget band, targeted public decisions and domains) and the declarations of public officials (interests/assets, mandate, function, deposit date). Filter by person or organisation name and get a clean, exportable dataset. HTTP-only, $0.003 per record.

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What is the HATVP Transparency Scraper?

The France Lobbying & Public Officials Scraper turns the official HATVP open data into a filterable, exportable dataset. The HATVP is the independent French authority that publishes, as open data, both the register of interest representatives (lobbyists) and the declarations of interests and assets filed by public officials. This is already-public legal transparency data; the actor simply surfaces it as published.

The source files are large bulk dumps (a multi-megabyte XML for declarations, a 100MB+ JSON for the lobbying registry). This actor streams and parses them, applies your filter, and returns one clean row per record — so you never have to download or parse the raw files yourself.

Why it matters: compliance, public affairs and journalism

Anyone doing lobbying intelligence, public-affairs mapping, compliance due diligence or investigative journalism needs structured access to the HATVP. Who is registered to lobby which ministry? How much do they spend? Which public decisions are they targeting? Which officials have declared which interests? The answers are public but locked in bulk files — this scraper makes them queryable.

Use cases

• Public affairs / lobbying intelligence — map who lobbies on a topic, their budget band and targeted decisions.
• Compliance & due diligence — check whether a counterparty is a registered interest representative.
• Investigative journalism — cross-reference officials' declared interests and lobbying activity.
• Competitive intelligence — see competitors' declared lobbying domains and spend bands.
• Research — analyse the French lobbying landscape by sector, level and budget.

Input

{
  "dataset": "lobbying",
  "query": "sanofi",
  "maxResults": 100
}

• dataset — lobbying (AGORA registry) or declarations (public officials).
• query — person/organisation keyword. Lobbying matches name or SIREN; declarations match declarant name, function or organe.
• maxResults — cap on rows (aliases limit, max).

Output

Lobbying (one row per interest representative, latest filed exercise):

{
  "type": "lobbying_representative",
  "denomination": "SANOFI-AVENTIS GROUPE",
  "siren": "403335938",
  "category": "Société commerciale et civile",
  "exercise_year": "2022",
  "budget_band": "> = 1 250 000 euros et < 1 500 000 euros",
  "activities_count": 15,
  "domains": ["Médicaments", "Recherche et innovation"],
  "targeted_decisions": ["Lois, y compris constitutionnelles", "Actes réglementaires"],
  "sectors": ["Santé", "Commerce extérieur"],
  "city": "PARIS"
}

Declarations (one row per declaration):

{
  "type": "declaration",
  "declarant_name": "Joelle ABADIE",
  "declaration_type": "Déclaration d'intérêts",
  "mandate_type": "Elu départemental",
  "function": "vice-Président titulaire d'une délégation",
  "organe": "Hautes-Pyrénées (65)",
  "deposit_date": "20/09/2021 13:41:36",
  "uuid": "8e8182a2-...",
  "document_url": "https://www.hatvp.fr/fiche-nominative/?declaration=8e8182a2-..."
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.003 per record (= $3 per 1,000). Free actor starts. No charge when nothing matches.

FAQ — HATVP open data

Where does the data come from? The official HATVP open data (hatvp.fr/open-data): the AGORA lobbying registry JSON and the declarations XML. Public legal-transparency data, no key required.

Is this legal / GDPR-safe? Yes — these are already-public legal declarations published by the HATVP itself. The actor surfaces only the published fields; personal data the HATVP withholds ("Données non publiées") is returned as null.

Which lobbying year is returned? The most recent filed exercise that has activity or a budget band, so empty latest-year filings don't hide a representative's real record.

Can I export everything? Yes — leave query empty and set maxResults high. Streaming keeps memory flat even on the large source files.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik