# EU Safety Gate Dangerous Product Alerts & GTIN Recall Check (`itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts`) Actor

Weekly EU Safety Gate (ex-RAPEX) dangerous non-food product alerts from the European Commission's official CC0 XML: filter by country, category, risk; only-new monitor mode; screen your catalogue by GTIN/EAN, ASIN or brand+model. Product-level only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts.md
- **Developed by:** [Italo Armenti](https://apify.com/itulo) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 safety gate alert records

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

## EU Safety Gate Dangerous Product Alerts & GTIN Recall Check (`itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts`)

Official **Safety Gate** (ex-RAPEX) alerts on dangerous non-food products, straight from the European Commission's weekly-report XML (published every Friday, **CC0 1.0**). No key, no scraping of web pages.

### What you get

- **alerts mode** — every alert in the latest N weekly reports: case number, alert link, report date, category, product, brand, name, model, batch, **GTIN/EAN barcodes**, risk type and level, danger description, measures taken (recall, withdrawal, import rejection…), notifying country, country of origin, marketplace platform names and listing ids (e.g. ASINs), photo links.
  Filter by notifying country, origin, category, risk type, risk level, free text or report date.
- **Monitor (`onlyNew: true`)** — schedule it weekly and get only alerts you have not seen before.
- **match mode** — screen your catalogue (`gtin`, `listingId`, `brand` + `model`, or `brand` + `name`) against the last 1–52 weeks. One record per product checked: `matched`, `matchCount`, `bestMatchType` (gtin › listing_id › brand_model › brand_name › brand_only) and the matching alerts. Useful for GPSR due diligence, marketplace compliance and recall checks.

```json
{ "mode": "alerts", "weeks": 4, "category": "Toys", "riskLevel": "Serious" }
```

```json
{ "mode": "match", "weeks": 12, "products": [{ "gtin": "5901234123457" }, { "brand": "Example", "model": "X-100" }] }
```

### Pricing (pay per event)

- `actor-start`: **$0.01** per run
- `alert-record`: **$0.0015** per alert written ($1.50 per 1,000)
- `product-match`: **$0.0005** per catalogue product checked ($0.50 per 1,000)

A typical weekly report has a few dozen to a few hundred alerts.

### Data, licence and personal data

- Source: European Commission, Safety Gate weekly reports (`ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts`), CC0 1.0 (data.europa.eu distribution). © European Union. Every record carries the attribution.
- **Product-level only.** Seller free text is reduced to platform names and listing ids; photos are linked, not re-hosted.
- Requests are spaced ≥ 1 s; published weekly reports are cached in memory.
- Informational only, not legal advice. Brand/model matches can be false positives — always check the official alert. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Commission.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

alerts: alert records from the latest weekly reports (filterable). match: check your products (GTIN/EAN, marketplace listing id, brand + model) against recent alerts; one record per product checked.

## `weeks` (type: `integer`):

Number of latest weekly reports. Default 1 in alerts mode, 8 in match mode.

## `notifyingCountry` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: e.g. Finland, Germany (text match).

## `countryOfOrigin` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: e.g. China (text match).

## `category` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: e.g. Toys, Cosmetics, Electrical appliances.

## `riskType` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: e.g. Chemical, Choking, Electric shock.

## `riskLevel` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: e.g. Serious.

## `query` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: free text over product, brand, name, model, description.

## `fromDate` (type: `string`):

alerts mode: only reports on/after this date.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

alerts mode: for a weekly schedule. Remembers case numbers in the named key-value store 'eu-safety-gate-alerts-state' and outputs (and charges) only new alerts.

## `products` (type: `array`):

match mode: array of {gtin?, brand?, model?, name?, listingId?}. Max 10,000 per run.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

alerts mode: cap on records written (and charged).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "alerts",
  "weeks": 1,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "products": [
    {
      "gtin": "5901234123457"
    },
    {
      "brand": "Example",
      "model": "X-100"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Alert or product-check records.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Reports scanned, counts and attribution.

# 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": 1,
    "products": [
        {
            "gtin": "5901234123457"
        },
        {
            "brand": "Example",
            "model": "X-100"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts").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": 1,
    "products": [
        { "gtin": "5901234123457" },
        {
            "brand": "Example",
            "model": "X-100",
        },
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts").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 '{
  "weeks": 1,
  "products": [
    {
      "gtin": "5901234123457"
    },
    {
      "brand": "Example",
      "model": "X-100"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,itulo/eu-safety-gate-alerts"
        }
    }
}
```

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/QFuXCPH5KWJOFBqKw/builds/joU7TkUmS4XbqULml/openapi.json