🏦 EU FTS Beneficiary Records Scraper

One funding_record per official EU Financial Transparency System beneficiary row (beneficiary, registration/VAT, contracted + committed + consumed amounts, programme, budget line, geography, references, project) from the Commission's annual FTS XLSX — the full 38-column schema carried verbatim, canaried on drift. Annual publication-timing drift handled loud.

Public, robots-honoured.

Output is one eu_fts_beneficiary row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one funding record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.05 per funding record). Source: ec.europa.eu.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.

Who buys this

Buyers usually search for EU FTS or EU financial transparency system.

• Grant consultants and research-development offices tracking EU FTS.
• Universities, nonprofits and companies watching EU financial transparency system relevant to their field.
• Analysts and journalists following where public funding goes.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run vbzpuEbaiZeOWCOmt on build 0.1.20 (2026-09-23), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

budget	reference_budget	name_of_beneficiary	main_registration_number_of_beneficiary	address	beneficiary_s_contracted_amount_eur
EU Budget - European Commission	4500086758.00010	UKRAINA	N/A - Not applicable	-	1500000000
EU Budget - European Commission	4500062360.00260	EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR THE SPACE PROG RAMME	N/A - Not applicable	JANOVSKEHO 438/2	1034732673
EU Budget - European Commission	4500121101.00010	UKRAINA	N/A - Not applicable	-	617785498.64
EU Budget - European Commission	4500120880.00010	UKRAINA	N/A - Not applicable	-	611372388.88
EU Budget - European Commission	4500062473.00280	EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY LE EUROPEENNE	N/A - Not applicable	8-10 RUE MARIO-NIKIS	492000000
EU Budget - European Commission	4500058889.00030	REPUBLIKA BALGARIA - PILOT AGENCIES	N/A - Not applicable	-	479327545
EU Budget - European Commission	4500100418.00020	CHIPS JOINT UNDERTAKING	N/A - Not applicable	AVENUE DE LA TOISON D OR56-60	458335909
EU Budget - European Commission	4500075201.00010	EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AN D TECHNOLOGY	N/A - Not applicable	NEUMANN JANOS UTCA1 E	409933366

The run finished with the status message: CAPPED: delivered 10 of 82464 available source rows (maxRecords=10) — a buyer bound, not an outage. billable=10 [requested_cap=10, delivered=10]

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string) — e.g. eu_fts_beneficiary
• year (string/null) — e.g. 2025
• budget (string/null) — e.g. EU Budget - European Commission
• reference_of_the_legal_commitment_lc (string/null) — e.g. -
• reference_budget (string/null) — e.g. 4500086758.00010
• name_of_beneficiary (string/null) — e.g. UKRAINA
• main_registration_number_of_beneficiary (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• vat_number_of_beneficiary (string/null) — null in every sample row
• not_for_profit_organisation_nfpo (string/null) — e.g. No
• non_governmental_organisation_ngo (string/null) — e.g. No
• coordinator (string/null) — e.g. Yes
• address (string/null) — e.g. -
• city (string/null) — e.g. -
• postal_code (string/null) — e.g. 000
• beneficiary_country (string/null) — e.g. Ukraine
• nuts2 (string/null) — e.g. Praha
• beneficiary_s_contracted_amount_eur (string/null) — e.g. 1500000000
• beneficiary_s_estimated_contracted_amoun (string/null) — e.g. 1500000000
• beneficiary_s_estimated_consumed_amount_ (string/null) — e.g. 924252880
• commitment_contracted_amount_eur_a (string/null) — e.g. 1500000000
• additional_reduced_amount_eur_b (string/null) — e.g. 0
• commitment_total_amount_eur_a_b (string/null) — e.g. 1500000000
• commitment_consumed_amount_eur (string/null) — e.g. 924252880
• source_of_estimated_detailed_amount (string/null) — e.g. The total commitment amount was attributed to a single beneficiary or in cases i
• expense_type (string/null) — e.g. Operational
• call_id (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• project_id (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• project_acronym (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• subject_of_grant_or_contract (string/null) — e.g. APPROPRIATIONS 2025
• responsible_department (string/null) — e.g. ENEST - Directorate-General for Enlargement and the Eastern Neighbourhood
• budget_line_number (string/null) — e.g. 16 06 01
• budget_line_name (string/null) — e.g. Pillar I: Ukraine Plan
• programme_name (string/null) — e.g. O.0.4 - Ukraine Facility
• beneficiary_group_code — null in every sample row
• beneficiary_type (string/null) — e.g. Third States
• project_start_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-03-11 00:00:00
• project_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2027-06-30 00:00:00
• type_of_contract (string/null) — e.g. Non-repayable support
• management_type (string/null) — e.g. Direct management
• benefiting_country (string/null) — e.g. Ukraine (100,00%)
• count_commitment_position_key — null in every sample row
• source (string/null) — e.g. eu-fts-beneficiary-records
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-FTS
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/download/2025_FTS_data
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-23T16:14:39Z
• terminal (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• reported_total (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• raw_seen (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• duplicates (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• unique_found (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• delivered (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• scope (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• note (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• license (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• attribution (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row

✅ What you get

• record_type (string) — e.g. eu_fts_beneficiary
• year (string/null) — e.g. 2025
• budget (string/null) — e.g. Other European Bodies
• reference_of_the_legal_commitment_lc (string/null) — e.g. EAS.572166
• reference_budget (string/null) — e.g. EAS.75201.1
• name_of_beneficiary (string/null) — e.g. 21 SOLUTIONS
• main_registration_number_of_beneficiary (string/null) — e.g. 895963264
• vat_number_of_beneficiary (string/null) — e.g. BE0895963264
• not_for_profit_organisation_nfpo (string/null) — e.g. No
• non_governmental_organisation_ngo (string/null) — e.g. No
• coordinator (string/null) — e.g. No
• address (string/null) — e.g. RUE DU MARCHE AUX HERBES 105 B.42
• city (string/null) — e.g. BRUXELLES
• postal_code (string/null) — e.g. 1000
• beneficiary_country (string/null) — e.g. Belgium
• nuts2 (string/null) — e.g. Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
• beneficiary_s_contracted_amount_eur (string/null) — e.g. 6464.3235
• beneficiary_s_estimated_contracted_amoun (string/null) — e.g. 19393
• beneficiary_s_estimated_consumed_amount_ (string/null) — e.g. 6464.3235
• commitment_contracted_amount_eur_a (string/null) — e.g. 19392.99
• additional_reduced_amount_eur_b (string/null) — e.g. 0
• commitment_total_amount_eur_a_b (string/null) — e.g. 19393
• commitment_consumed_amount_eur (string/null) — e.g. 19393
• source_of_estimated_detailed_amount (string/null) — e.g. The repartition for each beneficiary was not available in our central accounting
• expense_type (string/null) — e.g. Operational
• call_id (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• project_id (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• project_acronym (string/null) — e.g. N/A - Not applicable
• subject_of_grant_or_contract (string/null) — e.g. SCS6-EEAS/2021/OP/0050-RM.SCS.6/2025/10-COMASE SYSTÈME DE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONNEME
• responsible_department (string/null) — e.g. EEAS - European External Action Service
• budget_line_number (string/null) — e.g. 2014
• budget_line_name (string/null) — e.g. Other expenditure relating to buildings
• programme_name (string/null) — e.g. DA/JU/EUI - Decentralised Agencies, Joint Undertakings, EU institutions
• beneficiary_group_code — null in every sample row
• beneficiary_type (string/null) — e.g. Private Companies
• project_start_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-04-28 00:00:00
• project_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-12-31 00:00:00
• type_of_contract (string/null) — e.g. Building: Maintenance
• management_type (string/null) — e.g. Direct management
• benefiting_country (string/null) — e.g. Belgium 100%
• count_commitment_position_key — e.g. 1
• source (string/null) — e.g. eu-fts-beneficiary-records
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-FTS
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/download/2025_FTS_data
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-17T18:28:37Z
• terminal (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• reported_total (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• raw_seen (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• duplicates (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• unique_found (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• delivered (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• scope (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• note (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• license (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row
• attribution (string/integer/null) — null in every sample row

What you get

One funding_record per record, deduplicated on the source-native id. Fields the source does not publish are honest null. A run_receipt row carries the source URL, scope, reconciliation counts, and delivered/duplicate totals.

Every run also writes a RUN_RECEIPT record to its key-value store with the source checks it made and the counts it charged — diagnostics never land in the paid dataset.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "maxRecords": 10
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 10 × $0.05 funding_record = $0.52 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed. If you leave maxRecords out, the run delivers at most 10 rows (the schema default); pass a number up to 500000 for a bigger export. An explicit value is always honoured up to that maximum.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.27 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.05).

3. A full-size run

{
  "maxRecords": 5000
}

Up to 5000 rows — about $250.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5000 × $0.05) if the source has that many; maxRecords goes up to 500000.

4. A filtered run

{
  "maxRecords": 10,
  "fieldMatch": {
    "beneficiary_country": "Finland"
  }
}

Beneficiaries in Finland for the year served. The FTS dataset is one annual file with no query interface, so the actor reads the whole file, keeps the matches and then applies the cap — the cap counts matches and only delivered matches are billed; a no-match ends EMPTY_SELECTION unbilled.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run vbzpuEbaiZeOWCOmt, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "eu_fts_beneficiary",
  "year": "2025",
  "budget": "EU Budget - European Commission",
  "reference_of_the_legal_commitment_lc": "-",
  "reference_budget": "4500086758.00010",
  "name_of_beneficiary": "UKRAINA",
  "main_registration_number_of_beneficiary": "N/A - Not applicable",
  "vat_number_of_beneficiary": null,
  "not_for_profit_organisation_nfpo": "No",
  "non_governmental_organisation_ngo": "No",
  "coordinator": "Yes",
  "address": "-",
  "city": "-",
  "postal_code": "000",
  "beneficiary_country": "Ukraine",
  "nuts2": null,
  "beneficiary_s_contracted_amount_eur": "1500000000",
  "beneficiary_s_estimated_contracted_amoun": "1500000000",
  "beneficiary_s_estimated_consumed_amount_": "924252880",
  "commitment_contracted_amount_eur_a": "1500000000",
  "additional_reduced_amount_eur_b": "0",
  "commitment_total_amount_eur_a_b": "1500000000",
  "commitment_consumed_amount_eur": "924252880",
  "source_of_estimated_detailed_amount": "The total commitment amount was attributed to a single beneficiary or in cases involving a consortium, it is possible that only the invoicing party is displayed, even if there are multiple beneficiaries who are all jointly and severally lia",
  "expense_type": "Operational",
  "call_id": "N/A - Not applicable",
  "project_id": "N/A - Not applicable",
  "project_acronym": "N/A - Not applicable",
  "subject_of_grant_or_contract": "APPROPRIATIONS 2025",
  "responsible_department": "ENEST - Directorate-General for Enlargement and the Eastern Neighbourhood",
  "budget_line_number": "16 06 01",
  "budget_line_name": "Pillar I: Ukraine Plan",
  "programme_name": "O.0.4 - Ukraine Facility",
  "beneficiary_group_code": null,
  "beneficiary_type": "Third States",
  "project_start_date": "2025-03-11 00:00:00",
  "project_end_date": "2027-06-30 00:00:00",
  "type_of_contract": "Non-repayable support",
  "management_type": "Direct management",
  "benefiting_country": "Ukraine (100,00%)",
  "count_commitment_position_key": null,
  "source": "eu-fts-beneficiary-records",
  "release_date": "2025-FTS",
  "source_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/download/2025_FTS_dataset_en.xlsx",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-23T16:14:39Z"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads ec.europa.eu — endpoints: https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/download/. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. robots.txt is read first and a disallowed path is never fetched. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent. Pacing: CRAWL_DELAY=0.0.

Charging. Each funding record is charged at the moment it is pushed (funding_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

How it behaves

The annual FTS XLSX is downloaded (year input; default latest, falling back to the prior year with a note), the 38-column header canaried, and rows streamed read-only into one record each, deduped on legal-commitment + beneficiary + amount + budget line. Bulk-proof: streamed, memory bounded, never a full-file self-charged pull.

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/download/{year}_FTS_dataset_en.xlsx

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Funding Record (funding_record)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 funding records: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.05 = $0.42
• 10 funding records: $0.02 start + 10 × $0.05 = $0.52
• 25 funding records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.05 = $1.27

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 1024 MB.

Yield on the sample run: CAPPED: delivered 10 of 82464 available source rows (maxRecords=10) — a buyer bound, not an outage. billable=10 [requested_cap=10, delivered=10]. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by ec.europa.eu. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, keeps to the source's robots rules (checked on every run), identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (ec.europa.eu) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 10). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other public funding registries actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers ec.europa.eu. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source (CRAWL_DELAY=0.0) and honours its robots rules; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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