🎪 TradeFairDates Scraper - Trade Fairs, Organizers & E-mails

Extract upcoming trade fairs worldwide from TradeFairDates.com, an exhibition calendar with 9,000+ upcoming trade shows in 110+ countries. For each fair you get the name, subtitle, start and end dates (or the expected month), venue, city, country, audience (trade only or public), main sector, logo and whether it was cancelled. Turn on fair details to also get the organizer with phone, fax, address and website, the fair website, full description, product groups, every sector, cycle, year founded, admission, opening hours, street address, exhibitor and visitor counts and past editions. Turn on e-mails for the fair and organizer e-mail addresses. Filter by country, sector, city, dates, audience and keywords, paste links, or run it on a schedule to get only new fairs.

🎯 Who uses it?

🤝 B2B sales serving exhibitors

Stand builders, booth designers, freight forwarders, hotels, printers and event staffing firms get every fair in their sector and region with the organizer's e-mail and phone, plus the exhibitor count to size each lead.

📣 Marketing and event teams

Plan which shows to exhibit at or visit: compare exhibitors, visitors, cycle and past editions across countries and sectors.

🏢 Exhibitors and sales teams

Find the fairs where your buyers go: trade-only shows in your industry, in the countries you sell to, in the next 12 months.

📊 Market researchers and fair organizers

Track the global trade show calendar, new and cancelled fairs, competing events in the same city and the growth of each fair edition by edition.

✨ What it does

• The whole calendar. Every upcoming fair in 110+ countries, about 1,000 fairs in under 10 seconds (list fields).
• Filters. Countries, 400+ sectors, cities, date range, only confirmed dates, audience (trade only or public) and keywords.
• Fair details add-on: reads each fair page for organizer contacts, website, description, exhibitor and visitor figures and past editions.
• E-mails add-on: gets the fair and organizer e-mail addresses that the site shows on request.
• Or paste links. Country, sector, city and fair pages from tradefairdates.com. Filters are ignored with links.
• Monitoring: run it on a schedule with Only new fairs, and each run saves only the fairs you haven't received yet.

🏆 Why this scraper

• The only TradeFairDates scraper on the Apify Store (October 2026).
• E-mails for almost every fair. In our tests, nearly every fair had a fair and an organizer e-mail address.
• One row per fair. The site lists each fair once per upcoming edition; you get it once, with its next edition (or the one in your date range).
• Clean, flat, typed data. ISO dates, sortable expected months (2027-11), counts as numbers, cancelled as true or false. 45 fields.
• Nothing to set up. No proxy, no login.

📦 What data you get

Field	Description
logoUrl	Fair logo.
name, subtitle	Fair name and subtitle.
dates, expectedMonth	Dates as shown, and the expected month (2027-11) when the next date is not confirmed yet.
status	(Fair details) Scheduled, Postponed, Cancelled...
scope	(Fair details) Regional, when the site marks the fair as a regional one.
audience	Who may visit (professional visitors only, general public too...).
admission	(Fair details) Admission note, like "Free admission".
mainSector	Main sector of the fair.
productGroups	(Fair details) Products and topics shown.
description	(Fair details) Full description of the fair.
venue	Venue (exhibition center).
street, postalCode	(Fair details) Venue street, postal code and region.
city, region, country, countryCode	City, region, country and 2-letter country code.
email	(E-mails) E-mail address of the fair and of its organizer.
organizer, organizerEmail, organizerPhone, organizerFax, organizerAddress	(Fair details) Organizer company with its phone, fax and address.
cycle	(Fair details) How often it is held (annually, every 2 years...).
foundedYear	(Fair details) Year of the first edition.
lastExhibitors, lastExhibitorCountries, lastVisitors	(Fair details) Exhibitors, exhibitor countries and visitors of the latest edition that has figures.
lastFiguresYear	(Fair details) Year of the edition those figures are from.
parkingSpaces	(Fair details) Car parking spaces at the venue.
id, organizerId	TradeFairDates ID of the fair and of its organizer.
cancelled	The fair was cancelled (the site strikes its dates through).
url	Fair page on TradeFairDates.
website, organizerWebsite	(Fair details) Fair website and organizer website.
openingHours	(Fair details) Opening hours per day.
sectors	(Fair details) Every sector and topic of the fair.
pastEditions	(Fair details) Earlier editions: dates, exhibitors, exhibitor countries, visitors, notes.
startDate, endDate	First and last day (empty when the date is not confirmed yet).
scrapedAt	When this row was saved.
error	Only on rows whose add-on page could not be read.
error	Only present when a row failed. The fields that loaded are still there.

Fields marked Fair details or E-mails only appear when that add-on is on.

Example row (trimmed)

{
  "logoUrl": "https://www.tradefairdates.com/vorschau/suedback_logo_613.png",
  "name": "südback",
  "subtitle": "Trade fair for the bakers and confectioners",
  "dates": "24. - 27. October 2026",
  "status": "Scheduled",
  "audience": "professional visitors only",
  "mainSector": "Bakery Trade Fairs",
  "productGroups": "advertising material, bakery equipment, bakery ovens, bakery products, basic materials, beverages, catering equipment, chillers, cleaning equipment, coffee, coffee machines, ...",
  "description": "südback in Stuttgart is regarded as Germany’s largest and most important trade fair for the bakery and confectionery industry, and is an essential event for the sector. Since its ...",
  "venue": "Messe Stuttgart",
  "street": "Messepiazza 1",
  "postalCode": "70629",
  "city": "Stuttgart",
  "region": "Baden-Wurttemberg",
  "country": "Germany",
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "email": "info@messe-stuttgart.de",
  "organizer": "Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG",
  "organizerEmail": "info@messe-stuttgart.de",
  "organizerPhone": "+49 (0)711 185600",
  "organizerFax": "+49 (0)711 185602440",
  "organizerAddress": "Messepiazza 1, 70629 Stuttgart, Germany",
  "cycle": "biennially",
  "foundedYear": 1978,
  "lastExhibitors": 708,
  "lastVisitors": 37500,
  "lastFiguresYear": 2019,
  "parkingSpaces": 8200,
  "id": "613",
  "organizerId": "5",
  "cancelled": false,
  "url": "https://www.tradefairdates.com/s%C3%BCdback-M613/Stuttgart.html",
  "website": "http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/suedback",
  "organizerWebsite": "http://www.messe-stuttgart.de",
  "openingHours": ["Saturday, 24.10. 09:00 - 18:00 h", "Sunday, 25.10. 09:00 - 18:00 h", "Monday, 26.10. 09:00 - 18:00 h"],
  "sectors": ["Bakery", "Confectionery", "Coffee"],
  "pastEditions": [{ "dates": "26. - 29. October 2024", "startDate": "2024-10-26", "endDate": "2024-10-29", "exhibitors": null, "exhibitorCountries": null, "visitors": null, "notes": null }],
  "startDate": "2026-10-24",
  "endDate": "2026-10-27",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T14:34:29.555Z"
}

💡 Use cases

Trade-only fairs in Germany in the next 6 months, with organizer contacts and e-mails:

{
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "dateTo": "6 months",
  "audience": "trade",
  "includeEmails": true
}

Food and medical fairs in India, China and the UAE in 2027:

{
  "sectors": ["Food Trade Shows", "Medical Trade Shows"],
  "countries": ["IN", "CN", "AE"],
  "dateFrom": "2027-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2027-12-31",
  "includeDetails": true
}

Every fair in Las Vegas and Dubai:

{
  "cities": ["Las Vegas", "Dubai"]
}

Fairs about solar or batteries worldwide:

{
  "searchTerms": ["solar", "battery", "energy storage"]
}

The whole calendar, list fields only:

{}

New packaging fairs every week (schedule this run):

{
  "sectors": ["Packaging Trade Shows"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "packaging-weekly"
}

Links (filters are ignored):

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.tradefairdates.com/Fairs-Austria-Z13-S1.html" },
    { "url": "https://www.tradefairdates.com/Enlit+Europe-M8311/Vienna.html" }
  ]
}

⚙️ How the input is organised

Section	What it's for
Maximum results	Always first, caps the whole run. Empty means no limit.
What to scrape	Countries, sectors, cities, fair details (organizer, phone, exhibitors, visitors) and e-mail addresses.
Filters	Taking place from, starting until, only confirmed dates, audience and keywords.
Monitoring	Only new fairs and monitor name.
Links	Links instead of the fields above. Filters are ignored with links.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time $0.003 when the run starts, plus a price per fair saved to your dataset. The price depends on your Apify plan tier:

Plan	Per fair	Per 1,000 fairs
Free	$0.007	$7
Bronze	$0.0065	$6.50
Silver	$0.006	$6
Gold	$0.0055	$5.50

Fair details add-on: when Fair details is on, each fair whose page was read adds one more charge:

Plan	Per fair	Per 1,000 fairs
Free	$0.014	$14
Bronze	$0.0125	$12.50
Silver	$0.011	$11
Gold	$0.0095	$9.50

E-mails add-on: when E-mail addresses is on, each fair saved with at least one e-mail adds one more charge:

Plan	Per fair	Per 1,000 fairs
Free	$0.01	$10
Bronze	$0.009	$9
Silver	$0.008	$8
Gold	$0.007	$7

Fairs whose page could not be read pay only the base price, fairs without an e-mail don't pay the e-mail add-on, and fairs left out by filters are free. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan, a run saves up to 10 fairs.

🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the TradeFairDates Scraper.
3. Pick countries, sectors or cities (or leave them empty for every fair), then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Dataset tab.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, then ask in plain words, for example: "List every packaging trade fair in Europe next year with the organizer's e-mail and the number of exhibitors". The agent runs this Actor and reads the results.

🔧 Troubleshooting

• Some fairs have no start or end date. Their next date is not confirmed yet: expectedMonth says when it is expected (like 2027-11). Fairs marked "Date still unknown" have neither. Turn on Only confirmed dates to leave them out.
• The dates differ from the fair page. With a date range, a fair that runs every year comes with the edition in your range, while its page (and the details) describe the next edition.
• Exhibitor or visitor numbers are empty. Many organizers publish no figures. The numbers are those of the latest edition that has any (lastFiguresYear).
• A city was skipped. The log says which. The city is looked up with the site's search; add its country when several cities share the name.
• A sector was skipped. Pick sectors from the list: the site's own sector names, like "Food Trade Shows".
• It is slower with add-ons. Fair details read one page per fair (about 1,000 fairs in 2 to 3 minutes), and e-mails two more small requests.

❓ FAQ

How many fairs are there? About 9,500 upcoming fairs as of October 2026, around 2,900 of them in Germany.

Which fairs count as "public"? Fairs open to the general public (consumer shows, and trade fairs with public days). "Trade" keeps fairs for professional visitors only.

Can I pick several countries, sectors or cities? Yes. A fair matches any of the values you pick in a field, and every field you fill must match.

How do keywords match? A fair matches when its name, subtitle or main sector has a word starting with your keyword: "solar" finds "Solar Expo" and "Solartechnik".

Do I need a proxy? No.

🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor collects trade fair data that TradeFairDates publishes on its website, at a polite pace. Contact details are business contacts of fair organizers as published by the site. Use the data in line with the site's terms and data protection law (GDPR), especially for e-mail outreach.

📧 Contact

Questions, bugs or a field you need: norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

🧪 Local development

bun install
bun scripts/gen-schemas.mjs
sh test/run.sh first '{"maxItems":10}'