Brazil TCU Acórdãos Keyword Monitor

Search a keyword slice of official TCU acórdãos from Brazil’s open-data webservice. Get decision titles, rapporteurs, session dates, summaries and links to original DOC/PDF documents — structured open data Brazil for compliance, legal intel and procurement risk.

The Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) publishes rulings via dados-abertos.apps.tcu.gov.br. The public API is offset-based (inicio / quantidade) and does not accept keyword filters server-side, so this Actor fetches a bounded slice and matches keywords locally in titulo / sumario.

Store: brazil-tcu-acordaos-keyword-monitor

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What it does

1. Calls the official TCU open-data acórdão webservice for a bounded batch (startOffset + pageSize).
2. Filters locally by keywords, optional year (anoAcordao) and colegiado (panel).
3. Writes Dataset rows with document URLs (urlArquivo, urlArquivoPDF, urlAcordao).

No login, browser or HTML scraping.

Who it's for

• Legal / compliance teams tracking TCU decisions on procurement and public spend
• Bid desks watching rulings that affect clients or competitors
• Researchers and agents needing TCU acórdãos as JSON

Input summary

Field	Required	Description
keywords	yes	Match ANY term in title or summary (empty list keeps all fetched rows)
startOffset	no	API index (inicio); 0 = newest available slice
pageSize	no	Records requested per call (default 50, max 100)
maxItems	no	Hard Dataset cap after filtering (default 100)
year	no	Exact anoAcordao filter
colegiado	no	Case-insensitive panel filter (e.g. Plenário)

Output fields

One Dataset row per matching acórdão:

source, key, tipo, titulo, numeroAcordao, anoAcordao, colegiado, dataSessao, relator, situacao, sumario, urlArquivo, urlArquivoPDF, urlAcordao, scrapedAt.

Pricing

Pay-per-event is already set (Actor start + matching result rows). Cap pageSize / maxItems for predictable runs. See the Store pricing panel for current prices.

Quick start (Apify Console)

1. Open brazil-tcu-acordaos-keyword-monitor → Start.
2. Set keywords (e.g. ["licitação", "pregão"]).
3. Optionally set year / colegiado; keep a modest pageSize.
4. Run → open Dataset for JSON/CSV and follow urlAcordao / PDF links.

{
  "keywords": ["licitação", "pregão"],
  "startOffset": 0,
  "pageSize": 50,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "year": 2026
}

Related Actors

• Brazil PNCP Public Tenders Monitor
• Brazil PNCP Awarded Contracts
• Brazil CEIS/CNEP Sanctions Delta
• Brazil NCM / TIPI Lookup

Legal / data source

Official TCU dados abertos webservice. Public open data; no credentials. Respect service limits. Keyword matching is local to the fetched slice — widen pageSize / offset walks if you need broader coverage.

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Português (resumo)

Monitora acórdãos do TCU via webservice oficial de dados abertos. Busca uma fatia (inicio/quantidade) e filtra localmente por palavras-chave em título/sumário, ano e colegiado. Entrega links DOC/PDF. Pay-per-event na Store.