# Economic Calendar Pro (ForexFactory) (`ichigowa/economic-calendar-pro`) Actor

Fetch and normalize the ForexFactory economic calendar (FOMC, CPI, NFP...) as clean JSON with currency/impact/keyword filters, change-detection alerts and webhook delivery. Unofficial, not affiliated with ForexFactory.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ichigowa/economic-calendar-pro.md
- **Developed by:** [kyle herman](https://apify.com/ichigowa) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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```bash
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```

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```bash
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```

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```bash

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# README

## Economic Calendar API — ForexFactory Calendar as Clean JSON (FOMC, CPI, NFP)

**Economic Calendar Pro** is an economic calendar API that turns the free **ForexFactory calendar** feed into clean, normalized JSON you can pipe into trading bots, dashboards, n8n/Make automations, or cron jobs. It covers every scheduled macro release — **FOMC statements, CPI, Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP), rate decisions, PMI, GDP** and more — for USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CAD, AUD, NZD, CHF, CNY and other major currencies.

> ⚠️ **Unofficial.** This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ForexFactory or Fair Economy, Inc. It consumes their publicly available calendar feed.

### What it does

- Fetches the ForexFactory economic calendar for **this week, next week, and/or last week**.
- **Normalizes** every event: stable `event_id`, ISO 8601 **UTC** timestamps, consistent field names.
- **Filters** by currency (`USD`, `EUR`, …), impact (`High` / `Medium` / `Low` / `Holiday`), and event-name keyword (`CPI`, `FOMC`, `Non-Farm`…).
- **Change detection**: run it on a schedule with `changesOnly: true` and get only *new* events or events whose forecast/previous/actual/time changed — perfect for alerts.
- **Webhook delivery**: optionally POSTs changed events to your endpoint as JSON.

### Output schema

Each dataset row:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `source` | string | Always `forexfactory` |
| `event_id` | string | Stable 16-char hash of title + currency + scheduled time |
| `title` | string | Event name, e.g. `CPI m/m`, `Non-Farm Employment Change`, `FOMC Statement` |
| `country` / `currency` | string | Currency code the event affects, e.g. `USD` |
| `date_utc` | string | Scheduled time as ISO 8601 UTC, e.g. `2026-07-22T12:30:00Z` |
| `impact` | string | `High`, `Medium`, `Low`, or `Holiday` |
| `forecast` | string | Consensus forecast, e.g. `2.1%` (may be empty) |
| `previous` | string | Previous reading (may be empty) |
| `actual` | string | Released value (the free feed does not publish it; kept for schema stability) |
| `url` | string | Deep link to the ForexFactory calendar day page |
| `week` | string | Which fetch window the event came from: `this` / `next` / `last` |

In changes-only mode rows additionally carry:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `change_type` | string | `new` or `updated` |
| `changed_fields` | array | Which watched fields changed, e.g. `["forecast"]` |
| `old_<field>` | string | Previous value for each changed field |

### Input examples

**Default (empty input `{}`):** this week + next week, all currencies, all impacts.

**High-impact USD events only:**

```json
{
  "currencies": ["USD"],
  "impacts": ["High"]
}
````

**CPI releases across all majors, next week included:**

```json
{
  "weeks": ["this", "next"],
  "keyword": "CPI"
}
```

**Scheduled change alerts with webhook (run hourly):**

```json
{
  "currencies": ["USD", "EUR"],
  "impacts": ["High"],
  "changesOnly": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.example.com/econ-calendar"
}
```

### Use cases

- **n8n / Make.com pipelines** — trigger workflows when a high-impact event is added or a forecast is revised; the webhook payload plugs straight into an HTTP trigger node.
- **Trading bots** — pause strategies around FOMC/NFP windows using `date_utc` (already UTC, no timezone math).
- **Cron + API** — schedule the Actor on Apify and read the dataset via the Apify API as your own **forexfactory calendar API** endpoint (JSON/CSV/Excel export built in).
- **Dashboards & research** — join `event_id` across runs to track forecast revisions over time.

### Change detection details

The Actor keeps a snapshot of every event (keyed by `event_id`) in the named key-value store **`economic-calendar-state`**. On each run it diffs the fresh calendar against the snapshot. With `changesOnly: true`, only new/updated events are pushed to the dataset; with the default `false`, the full filtered calendar is pushed and the snapshot is still updated, so you can warm up the state before enabling alerts.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: you are charged a small fee per calendar row delivered (`event-fetched`) and per change alert (`change-alert`) — no subscriptions, no minimums. Exact prices are shown on the Actor's Apify Store page.

### FAQ

**Is this a free economic calendar API?** The data source is the free public ForexFactory feed; running the Actor is billed per event delivered (see Pricing).

**What timezone are the dates in?** Everything is normalized to UTC ISO 8601 (`...Z`). The upstream feed publishes US/Eastern offsets; conversion is handled for you.

**Does it include actual/released values?** The free JSON feed only carries `forecast` and `previous`. The `actual` field is present in the schema but empty; time/forecast/previous revisions are still detected.

**Why is next week's calendar sometimes empty?** The upstream CDN occasionally hasn't published the `nextweek` file yet (HTTP 404). The Actor logs a warning and continues with the available weeks.

**How often should I schedule it?** Hourly is plenty for forecast-revision alerts; every 5–15 minutes if you want to catch late schedule changes before big releases.

**Is `event_id` stable?** Yes — it is a hash of title + currency + the feed's scheduled time, so it is identical across runs until the event itself is rescheduled (which is then reported as a change).

# Actor input Schema

## `weeks` (type: `array`):

Which calendar weeks to download. Options: `this` (current week), `next` (upcoming week), `last` (previous week). Note: the upstream feed occasionally has no `next`/`last` file published yet; those weeks are then skipped with a warning.

## `currencies` (type: `array`):

Only output events for these currency codes (e.g. `USD`, `EUR`, `GBP`, `JPY`, `CAD`, `AUD`, `NZD`, `CHF`, `CNY`). Leave empty for all currencies.

## `impacts` (type: `array`):

Only output events with these impact levels. Leave empty for all levels (including `Holiday`).

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive substring match on the event title, e.g. `CPI`, `Non-Farm`, `FOMC`, `Rate`. Leave empty to disable.

## `changesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, the Actor compares the calendar against the snapshot saved by the previous run (in the named key-value store `economic-calendar-state`) and outputs only new events or events whose forecast/previous/actual/time/impact changed, annotated with `change_type` and `changed_fields`. Ideal for scheduled alert pipelines.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional HTTPS endpoint. When set and changes are detected, the changed rows are POSTed there as JSON (`{source, count, events}`). Webhook failures are logged but never fail the run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "weeks": [
    "this",
    "next"
  ],
  "currencies": [
    "USD",
    "EUR"
  ],
  "impacts": [],
  "keyword": "CPI",
  "changesOnly": false,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.example.com/economic-calendar"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "weeks": [
        "this",
        "next"
    ],
    "currencies": [],
    "impacts": [],
    "keyword": "",
    "changesOnly": false,
    "webhookUrl": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ichigowa/economic-calendar-pro").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 = {
    "weeks": [
        "this",
        "next",
    ],
    "currencies": [],
    "impacts": [],
    "keyword": "",
    "changesOnly": False,
    "webhookUrl": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ichigowa/economic-calendar-pro").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 '{
  "weeks": [
    "this",
    "next"
  ],
  "currencies": [],
  "impacts": [],
  "keyword": "",
  "changesOnly": false,
  "webhookUrl": ""
}' |
apify call ichigowa/economic-calendar-pro --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ichigowa/economic-calendar-pro",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Economic Calendar Pro (ForexFactory)",
        "description": "Fetch and normalize the ForexFactory economic calendar (FOMC, CPI, NFP...) as clean JSON with currency/impact/keyword filters, change-detection alerts and webhook delivery. Unofficial, not affiliated with ForexFactory.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "iDdbPNw2YNN4QgHVR"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/ichigowa~economic-calendar-pro/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-ichigowa-economic-calendar-pro",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ichigowa~economic-calendar-pro/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-ichigowa-economic-calendar-pro",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ichigowa~economic-calendar-pro/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-ichigowa-economic-calendar-pro",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                    "weeks": {
                        "title": "Weeks to fetch",
                        "uniqueItems": true,
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Which calendar weeks to download. Options: `this` (current week), `next` (upcoming week), `last` (previous week). Note: the upstream feed occasionally has no `next`/`last` file published yet; those weeks are then skipped with a warning.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "enum": [
                                "this",
                                "next",
                                "last"
                            ],
                            "enumTitles": [
                                "This week",
                                "Next week",
                                "Last week"
                            ]
                        },
                        "default": [
                            "this",
                            "next"
                        ]
                    },
                    "currencies": {
                        "title": "Currency filter",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Only output events for these currency codes (e.g. `USD`, `EUR`, `GBP`, `JPY`, `CAD`, `AUD`, `NZD`, `CHF`, `CNY`). Leave empty for all currencies.",
                        "default": [],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "impacts": {
                        "title": "Impact filter",
                        "uniqueItems": true,
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Only output events with these impact levels. Leave empty for all levels (including `Holiday`).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "enum": [
                                "High",
                                "Medium",
                                "Low",
                                "Holiday"
                            ],
                            "enumTitles": [
                                "High impact",
                                "Medium impact",
                                "Low impact",
                                "Bank holiday"
                            ]
                        },
                        "default": []
                    },
                    "keyword": {
                        "title": "Event name keyword",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Case-insensitive substring match on the event title, e.g. `CPI`, `Non-Farm`, `FOMC`, `Rate`. Leave empty to disable.",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "changesOnly": {
                        "title": "Output only new/changed events",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "When enabled, the Actor compares the calendar against the snapshot saved by the previous run (in the named key-value store `economic-calendar-state`) and outputs only new events or events whose forecast/previous/actual/time/impact changed, annotated with `change_type` and `changed_fields`. Ideal for scheduled alert pipelines.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "webhookUrl": {
                        "title": "Webhook URL for change alerts",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional HTTPS endpoint. When set and changes are detected, the changed rows are POSTed there as JSON (`{source, count, events}`). Webhook failures are logged but never fail the run.",
                        "default": ""
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```