# TED Tenders Scraper — EU Procurement | $8/1K notices (`icy_current/ted-tenders`) Actor

Search EU TED procurement notices via the official anonymous Search API. Filter by date, country, CPV, keywords. No API key, no HTML scrape. Returns title, buyer, deadline, CPV, procedure type, XML/PDF links. Pay per notice.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/icy\_current/ted-tenders.md
- **Developed by:** [zwaihub Studio](https://apify.com/icy_current) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $8.00 / 1,000 ted notices

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## TED Tenders (ZWAiHub)

Search **Tenders Electronic Daily (TED)** procurement notices using the official TED Search API v3. This actor is anonymous and keyless: it uses `POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search`, never scrapes TED HTML, and does not require a proxy.

### Output

Each dataset item contains `publicationNumber`, English-preferred `title`, `buyerName`, `buyerCountry`, `publicationDate`, earliest lot `deadlineDate`, deduplicated `cpvCodes`, `procedureType`, `formType`, `estimatedValue`, `currency`, `xmlUrl`, `pdfUrlEn`, and `source` (`TED`). Missing optional fields are `null` or an empty list.

### Input

- `dateFrom` / `dateTo`: inclusive publication dates (`YYYY-MM-DD`), defaulting to the trailing seven days.
- `countries`: buyer country codes, ISO alpha-2 or alpha-3.
- `cpvCodes`: CPV codes or prefixes such as `72*`.
- `keywords`: full-text terms, combined with TED `FT~` expressions.
- `expertQuery`: optional complete TED Expert Search expression; overrides filters.
- `maxNotices`: maximum notices (default 100).

Example:

```json
{
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-06",
  "countries": ["DE", "FR"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72*"],
  "keywords": ["cloud computing"],
  "maxNotices": 100
}
```

### Fair usage and pricing

TED's official Search API is a public service. Use reasonable run sizes and avoid excessive concurrent runs; this actor requests at most 100 notices per API page and follows the API's iteration token. It does not bypass access controls or download notice HTML.

Pay-per-event: `start` is $0.005 per run and `notice-record` is $0.008 per delivered notice (about $8 per 1,000 notices).

### Local tests

```bash
cd actors/ted-tenders
pip install -e ./shared_vendor pytest httpx
PYTHONPATH=. pytest -q
```

Tests use the recorded Search API response in `test/fixtures/search_page1.json`; they do not call the network.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/icy\_current/ted-tenders/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `expertQuery` (type: `string`):

Optional complete TED Expert Search query; overrides the other filters.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Inclusive YYYY-MM-DD publication date. Defaults to seven days ago.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Inclusive YYYY-MM-DD publication date. Defaults to today.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO alpha-2 or alpha-3 buyer country codes.

## `cpvCodes` (type: `array`):

CPV codes or prefixes such as 72\*.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Full-text terms combined with OR.

## `maxNotices` (type: `integer`):

Maximum notices to fetch and deliver.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [],
  "cpvCodes": [],
  "keywords": [],
  "maxNotices": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `notices` (type: `string`):

Default dataset items: publicationNumber, title, buyer, dates, CPV, links.

# 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("icy_current/ted-tenders").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("icy_current/ted-tenders").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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 icy_current/ted-tenders --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,icy_current/ted-tenders"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ZBCF0d9HtIiyRJftl/builds/w2XiUnjgxvgoi0D27/openapi.json