EU Tenders Scraper — TED notices, deadlines and contract values

Search the official EU TED procurement feed and get one row per notice. Filter by CPV category, buyer country, publication date, notice type or a word/phrase. Each result keeps the source notice number, original language, published deadlines, estimated value and awarded value with their separate currencies.

No API key, browser or proxy is needed. Empty input returns up to 20 recent notices from the last 30 days. Notices are ordered by publication date, newest first, and only the latest notice versions are requested.

Useful searches

{"cpvCodes":["72000000"],"lookbackDays":30,"maxItems":20}

This finds IT services procurement notices in TED's CPV hierarchy. To focus on German competition notices:

{"buyerCountries":["DEU"],"noticeTypes":["cn-standard"],"maxItems":20}

For software notices across countries:

{"keywords":"software","maxItems":20}

What the results mean

Output	Meaning
publicationNumber, noticeId, noticeVersion	Stable source identifiers. One publication number per row.
publicationDate, publicationDateRaw	Calendar date plus the source value, which may include an offset.
title, titleLanguage, description	Preferred language when published; otherwise an explicitly identified fallback. No translation.
noticeType, noticeStage	Source code and broad planning/competition/award-or-result/other grouping. This is not a bidding-eligibility decision.
buyerNames, buyerCountries	Buying organizations and where they are based. Countries may differ from the place of performance.
cpvCodes	Deduplicated procurement classification codes.
estimatedValue, estimatedCurrency	Procedure-level estimate when published.
awardedValue, awardedCurrency	Notice-level result value when published. Kept separate from the estimate; never converted to another currency.
deadlineDates, deadlineDatesRaw, deadlineTimesRaw	Published lot submission dates and times. TED's search response does not reliably pair these arrays to individual lots; the Actor does not invent that relationship.
earliestFutureDeadlineDate, daysUntilEarliestFutureDeadline	Earliest published date on or after today's UTC calendar date, and calendar days until it. A deadline today may already have passed at its local time.
deadlineStatus	Whether a date is absent, unparseable, all past, or includes today/future. This does not assert that a procedure is open.
sourceUrl, xmlUrl, retrievedAt	Official records to verify details and the collection time.

Budget and awarded values are frequently absent, especially for planning/competition notices. Missing values are null, never zero. The Actor does not add personal contact details or download procurement attachments.

Inputs

Input	Default	Meaning
keywords	empty	Full-text search. Multiple words are one exact phrase.
cpvCodes	empty	8-digit codes or prefixes such as 72*; any may match. Parent codes include the source's CPV hierarchy.
buyerCountries	empty	Any three-letter country codes, e.g. DEU, FRA, IRL.
noticeTypes	empty	Any TED codes, e.g. cn-standard, can-standard, pin-only.
fromDate, toDate	recent window / no end	Inclusive publication dates, YYYY-MM-DD.
lookbackDays	30	Recent window used when fromDate is absent.
preferredLanguage	eng	Three-letter language code; fallback language is shown.
maxItems	20	Maximum saved notices, 1–10,000.
pageSize	50	API results per request, 1–100.
includeRaw	false	Include selected API fields, not full XML.
maxRunSeconds	240	Wall-clock budget, at least 30 seconds.

Filters are combined with AND; entries within a list use OR. SUMMARY records the exact query sent to TED, so results can be audited against the source.

Coverage and recurring use

The Actor follows TED iteration tokens and deduplicates publication numbers. SUMMARY reports the source match count, scanned and saved counts, pages, skipped malformed records, field fill counts and the stop reason. complete: true means the requested source query was exhausted without detected errors. The default 20-row sample is usually capped and therefore has complete: false; this is expected. A larger limit or narrower filters returns more of the query. When the platform's spending cap is reached, stoppedOnChargeLimit: true identifies the stop, only notices actually saved are counted, and the run warns rather than reporting a source outage or an empty search.

Schedule the same search for current snapshots. This version does not keep a cross-run change baseline; deduplicate or compare publicationNumber and noticeVersion in your workflow. A broad newest-first query can contain award notices, planning notices and corrections as well as bidding opportunities. Read the official notice before acting on a deadline.

An honestly empty search warns and returns no rows. Transient network/server failures and rate limits retry up to three attempts while honoring Retry-After and the run budget. An API outage, malformed response or exhausted time budget before the first usable notice fails visibly. Later failures preserve already collected rows and mark the coverage partial.

Data source and reuse

The TED Search API is public and requires no authentication. TED's legal notice allows commercial and noncommercial reuse of procurement notices unless otherwise noted and dedicates system metadata to CC0. Source: TED / Publications Office of the European Union. Fields are selected, normalized and derived as described above. This Actor is independent of TED.

Pricing

Launch price: $0.002 per saved notice on FREE/BRONZE, with plan discounts. Actor Start: $0.00005. Check the live Pricing tab for the applied rate. A 20-notice run costs $0.04 in result charges; empty searches have no result charge. Run summaries and errors are not dataset result rows.