⚖️ FTC Enforcement Actions Scraper — Antitrust, consumer-protection, and Section 5 cases — straight from FTC.gov

Scrape Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions — antitrust merger challenges, consumer-protection cases, Section 5 (unfair or deceptive practices) actions, and FTC Act violations. Get defendant company, case docket, filing date, allegations, settlement terms, civil penalties, and conduct remedies.

One actor. One token. Real-time regulator-direct data delivered in structured JSON.

Why This Actor Beats LexisNexis, Westlaw, Cornell LII

• Westlaw and LexisNexis are $200+/user/month: Both keep FTC cases behind general-purpose legal subscriptions. We extract the structured action data — defendants, dockets, settlements — at per-case pricing.
• Settlement and penalty structured: Each case has a settlement amount, monetary judgment, and conduct remedies (cease-and-desist, divestiture, monitoring) extracted as separate fields.
• Merger challenge tracking: Filter to HSR antitrust merger challenges (Section 7 Clayton Act) to monitor M&A blockage risk in your sector.
• Press release + complaint linked: We surface the FTC press release URL and the underlying complaint/consent decree PDF so you can dig deeper.

Feature	This Actor ⚖️	LexisNexis	Westlaw	Cornell LII
Pricing model	Pay-per-result (cents per record)	Per-seat license $5K-30K/yr	Per-seat license $10K-25K/yr	Per-seat license $10K-30K/yr
Free tier	Yes (Apify free credits)	No	No	Limited search only
Real-time freshness	Minutes after source publish	End-of-day refresh	Hourly refresh	Hourly refresh
Data source	Direct from regulator	Mixed proprietary + scraped	Mixed proprietary + scraped	Mixed proprietary + scraped
API access	REST + webhooks built in	Add-on; extra licence	Add-on; extra licence	Limited
Bulk historical	Yes — date-range backfill	Limited download caps	Limited download caps	Limited download caps
Setup time	5 minutes (token + run)	Procurement + onboarding	Procurement + onboarding	Procurement + onboarding

What You Get

Every record returned by this actor is structured JSON with the following fields populated wherever the source filing provides them:

• Case name, FTC matter number, docket number (when in court)
• Defendant company name, parent company, state of incorporation
• Case type — antitrust merger, antitrust conduct, consumer protection, COPPA, privacy
• Filing date, complaint date, settlement date, status
• Allegations narrative (parsed from complaint)
• Settlement type — consent order, civil penalty, court judgment
• Settlement amount, civil penalty, restitution
• Conduct remedies — divestiture, monitoring, cease-and-desist
• Statute cited — FTC Act Section 5, Clayton Act Section 7, COPPA, GLBA, etc.
• FTC press release URL and complaint document URL

The full output schema is stable across runs — safe to load into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, or your data warehouse without re-mapping each refresh.

Use Cases

• M&A antitrust counsel — Track FTC merger challenges in your sector — what conduct theories the FTC is litigating.
• Compliance officers — Build a precedent library of FTC consumer-protection actions in your industry.
• Plaintiff law firms — Source FTC settlements as predicate for follow-on private class actions.
• Investors — Monitor FTC enforcement risk against portfolio companies.
• Privacy/data-rights researchers — Track FTC privacy enforcement (Section 5, COPPA, GLBA) for empirical study.
• Journalists — Build a beat-feed of new FTC complaints and settlements.
• Academic researchers — Empirical antitrust enforcement datasets across decades.

Quick Start

Install the Apify Python client, set your token, and call the actor:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("nexgendata/ftc-enforcement-actions-scraper").call(run_input={
    "maxItems": 100,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

You can also trigger via cURL:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~ftc-enforcement-actions-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 100}'

Schedule it on Apify's built-in scheduler for daily, hourly, or every-5-minute refreshes — no infra required.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing on Apify. Primary event: Enforcement case at $0.08 per record. An Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run (charged per GB of memory, minimum 1). No subscription, no seat licence, no procurement cycle — pay only for the rows you receive.

For high-volume use cases (100K+ records/month), contact us at NexGenData for volume discounts.

Sister Actors in the NexGenData Fleet

NexGenData publishes the deepest SEC/regulatory actor catalog on Apify. Pair this actor with:

Use case	Actor
Track CFPB consumer complaints in financial services	cfpb-consumer-complaints-scraper
Federal court dockets via CourtListener	courtlistener-federal-docket-scraper
EPA enforcement and environmental violations	epa-echo-enforcement-scraper
Federal Register rule filings	federal-register-rules-scraper
SEC 8-K material events — corporate enforcement disclosures	sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper
LDA lobbying disclosure — antitrust lobbying filings	lda-lobbying-disclosure-scraper

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FAQ

Q: Is this legal?

A: Yes. FTC enforcement actions and consent decrees are public records under federal administrative law.

Q: How fresh is the data?

A: FTC publishes cases as they're filed. Our actor reads ftc.gov on demand.

Q: Can I filter by case type?

A: Yes — pass case_type to capture antitrust, consumer protection, COPPA, or privacy cases separately.

Q: Do you cover state-AG actions?

A: No — this actor is FTC only. State attorneys general parallel actions are not included; multistate AG cases would be a separate actor.

Q: Are administrative orders included?

A: Yes — Part 3 administrative actions (in front of an FTC ALJ) are captured alongside federal court actions.

Q: What's historical coverage?

A: FTC's online case database goes back to the 1990s with full text. Older actions have summary metadata only.

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes 200+ buyer-intent Apify actors covering SEC filings, federal regulatory data (EPA, FTC, CFPB, FEC, IRS 990, FAA), private-market intelligence (Form D, IPO, 13F, 13D/G), stock screeners across 30+ exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, TSX, ASX, HKEX, KOSPI, SGX, B3, BSE), B2B lead generation, and competitive intelligence. All actors are pay-per-result with no seat licences and no minimum commitments.

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