World Bank Project Records — Development Pipeline

Official source. No API key. Pay per record.

This actor turns the World Bank's Projects & Operations database into clean, per-project records — the full development-finance pipeline, at the grain an organization tracks when it follows where multilateral money is going. Each run reads the official search.worldbank.org API and delivers one row per project: the project id and name, the country and region, the sector and themes, the financing stage and commitment amounts, and the approval and closing dates — project and organization grain, licensed CC BY 4.0, with no task-team-leader or other person data.

What this is, in one paragraph

The World Bank publishes every lending project — active, pipeline, closed, and dropped — through a keyless API. This actor reads that API, paginates through the full set, and flattens each project into a single analysis-ready row: what it is, which country and region it serves, which sector and themes it addresses, how it is financed (IBRD/IDA commitments and totals), and when it was approved and closes. Values are verbatim. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• Development-finance and consulting firms tracking the World Bank pipeline by country, sector, or financing instrument to find and size opportunities.
• Suppliers and contractors watching which projects are moving toward procurement in their markets.
• Researchers, NGOs, and journalists analyzing where development commitments flow, by region and theme.
• Analysts and data engineers who want a keyless, one-call feed of the World Bank project pipeline already reduced to project/org fields.

Licence — CC BY 4.0, commercial use permitted

World Bank Projects & Operations data is a World Bank-produced dataset and carries the World Bank's default dataset licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The World Bank states this licence lets you "copy, modify and distribute data in any format for any purpose, including commercial use", provided you give appropriate credit. Every record carries the required attribution: "The World Bank: World Bank Projects & Operations: search.worldbank.org (CC BY 4.0)." These are project metadata records for pipeline tracking — not investment, development, or financial advice.

Project / organization grain — no person data

This actor works at project and organization grain. The World Bank's project data includes a task-team-leader (TTL) name — a natural person — which this actor never requests and never emits: it is left out of the field list entirely, so it cannot enter a record. As a second, structural safeguard, the project abstract (a free-text field that occasionally echoes a contact) is scrubbed before emit — the TTL name is redacted if present, and any email address or phone-number pattern is removed. This is enforced by an acceptance test that feeds a project whose abstract contains a name, email, and phone and asserts none survive, plus a live sweep over real projects (100 projects each carrying a real TTL name in the source → 0 emitted).

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
project_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Optional. Keep only projects for this country ISO code (e.g. RW, IN, BRA).
status	select	Any	Optional status filter: Active, Closed, Pipeline, Dropped.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

The actor paginates the API's offset window and paces between pages.

Output

One JSON object per project. Real example (values verbatim):

{
  "record_id": "P505244",
  "project_id": "P505244",
  "project_name": "Boosting Green Finance, Investment and Trade in Rwanda",
  "country": "Rwanda",
  "country_code": "RW",
  "region": "Eastern and Southern Africa",
  "status": "Active",
  "lending_instrument": "Development Policy Lending",
  "total_commitment": "200,000,000",
  "ibrd_commitment": "0",
  "ida_commitment": "200,000,000",
  "sector": "Public administration",
  "themes": ["Finance"],
  "board_approval_date": "2024-12-20T00:00:00Z",
  "closing_date": "12/20/2025 12:00:00 AM",
  "approval_fy": "2025",
  "project_abstract": "The development objective ... (scrubbed of any contact) ...",
  "source": "World Bank Projects & Operations API",
  "source_url": "https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P505244",
  "licence": "World Bank Projects & Operations ... CC BY 4.0 ... including commercial use ...",
  "attribution": "The World Bank: World Bank Projects & Operations: search.worldbank.org (CC BY 4.0).",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-19T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, the total matched, projects seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is a flat set of pipeline-tracking fields. Identity: record_id / project_id and project_name. Where: country, country_code, and region. Status and instrument: status, lending_instrument, lending_instrument_type, and product_line. Money: total_commitment, total_amount, ibrd_commitment, ida_commitment, project_cost, and current_total_commitment (all verbatim strings as published). Classification: sector and themes. Timing: board_approval_date, closing_date, and approval_fy. Substance: project_abstract (the development objective, scrubbed of any contact). Provenance: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source's robots posture from your runtime (the API host serves no robots file, a no-policy posture) and stops at the door if that ever changes. It then builds a single filtered query from your country and status inputs and reads the first page of projects, recording the API's own total match count into the run receipt. Each project is flattened to one record — the task-team-leader name dropped, the abstract scrubbed — and delivered before it is charged, so a run that is blocked or finds nothing costs you nothing. The actor then walks the offset window page by page, pausing briefly between pages, and stops as soon as either your maxRecords ceiling or the total match count is reached. The receipt's charge_equals_delivered flag lets you confirm you were billed for exactly what you received.

Cost guidance

One project_record per delivered project: cost = projects delivered × your plan's per-record price. The full pipeline is about 22,729 projects at the time of writing, so an unfiltered pull is roughly $1,136 (Free) / $761 (Gold). A country- or status-scoped pull keeps runs small — Active projects alone number in the low thousands, and a single country is typically a few hundred.

Honest limitations

• Project/org grain. Full project documents, results frameworks, and disbursement histories are not included — this is the project record plus the abstract.
• Amounts are verbatim strings as published (with the World Bank's own formatting), not normalized numbers.
• Point-in-time. Commitments, status, and closing dates change; re-run to refresh.
• No task-team-leader or other person data is emitted, by design.

Differentiation

Distinct from the procurement cells in this fleet — eu-tender-bid-signals (EU TED tenders) and uk-contract-opportunity-records (UK Contracts Finder): a tender is a specific contract being competed; this is the development-finance project pipeline upstream of any tender. It is also distinct from fleet-1's korea-ipo-pipeline (private-capital IPO pipeline, a different institution and market entirely). All named so buyers pick the right one.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of official-source, pay-per-record products:

• Federal Rulemaking Records — US Federal Register
• Grant Opportunity Records — US Grants.gov
• EU Tender Bid Signals — TED
• UK Contract Opportunity Records — Contracts Finder
• Organization Sanctions & LEI Risk

Source: World Bank Projects & Operations via the search.worldbank.org API. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (the World Bank's default dataset licence — commercial use permitted with attribution). Reformatted to project/org records; values verbatim; no task-team-leader or other person data emitted.