EU Transparency Register scraper for lobby organisation leads

Turn the official EU Transparency Register into a clean lead list. This actor pulls every organisation registered to lobby the European Commission and the European Parliament, and returns the part most tools leave out: the named contact people, the declared lobbying budget, the Brussels address and the policy files each organisation follows.

Around 12,000 organisations are on the register at any time: companies, trade associations, NGOs, law firms, public affairs consultancies, think tanks, trade unions and regional offices. They all declare who runs EU relations, what they spend and what they care about. That is a prospect list for anyone selling into the Brussels bubble, and a research set for journalists and academics.

The data is public EU open data. No login, no API key, no captcha, no proxy.

What you get

One row per organisation, with:

• Identity: organisation name, acronym, REG number, legal form, category of registration, status
• Contact: website, phone, full head office address, city, postcode, country, separate EU office address
• People: person with legal responsibility and their job title, person in charge of EU relations and their job title, European Parliament badge holders
• Money and size: estimated annual lobbying costs, closed financial year, EU grants received, total people involved, full time equivalent
• Policy: fields of interest, level of interest represented, whose interests are represented, main EU legislative proposals targeted, goals and remit
• Network: memberships in federations and networks, list of members and partner organisations
• Housekeeping: registration date, last update, next update due, link to the profile on the register, scrape timestamp

Filters

• Keyword searches names, goals and declared activities. A REG number works too.
• Categories of registration covers the register's own 13 groups, from companies to religious organisations.
• Head office countries takes ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes in lowercase, such as be, de, fr, us.
• Fields of interest covers the 39 EU policy areas, from climate action to taxation.
• Registration status separates currently activated registrants from suspended ones.
• Fetch full profiles can be switched off when you only need names and REG numbers, which makes a run near instant.
• Maximum organisations caps the run.

Example input

{
  "categories": ["trade-business-associations"],
  "countries": ["be"],
  "status": "ACTIVATED",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 25
}

That returns Brussels trade associations with a named director, a phone number and a lobbying budget band for each one.

Other useful runs:

• Public affairs firms to partner with or benchmark: {"categories": ["professional-consultancies"], "countries": ["be"]}
• Everyone lobbying on one policy file: {"interests": ["climateaction"], "maxItems": 500}
• Corporate lobbying in one member state: {"categories": ["companies-groups"], "countries": ["de"]}
• Keyword sweep across the whole register: {"searchQuery": "hydrogen"}

Who uses this

Public affairs agencies building prospect lists. Event organisers selling sponsorships and speaking slots in Brussels. SaaS vendors selling monitoring, CRM and compliance tools to lobbyists. Journalists and researchers mapping who lobbies on a file and how much they spend. Compliance teams checking whether a counterparty is registered.

How it works

The actor queries the register's own advanced search and export endpoints, then opens each organisation's public profile page and parses the declared fields. Requests are rate limited and retried with a growing backoff so the register is not hammered. Only public pages are read.

Notes and limits

• Financial figures are self-declared bands, not audited accounts. The register publishes them as the organisation entered them.
• Some organisations leave optional fields empty. Those come back as empty strings rather than being dropped.
• The register updates continuously. An organisation that misses its annual update deadline moves to suspended and is later removed.
• Source: the EU Transparency Register, run jointly by the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission.

Output sample

{
  "regNumber": "9852147102921-88",
  "organisationName": "EUROPEAN CARPET AND RUG ASSOCIATION",
  "acronym": "ECRA",
  "categoryOfRegistration": "Trade and business associations",
  "website": "https://ecra.eu/",
  "phone": "(+ 49 ) 1757509846",
  "headOfficeAddress": "Rue Belliard 40, 1040, Etterbeek, BELGIUM",
  "headOfficeCity": "Etterbeek",
  "headOfficeCountry": "BELGIUM",
  "legalResponsiblePerson": "Mr Hans-Peter Breuer",
  "legalResponsiblePosition": "director",
  "annualLobbyingCosts": "€200,000 - €299,999",
  "personsInvolvedTotal": "2",
  "fullTimeEquivalent": "0.8",
  "fieldsOfInterest": "Business and industry; Climate action; Competition; Consumers; Customs; Energy; Environment; Trade"
}