📊 BEA National Accounts Scraper

🚀 Export BEA national accounts data in seconds. Structured records direct from the public apps.bea.gov endpoint to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 9 fields per record · Public REST API · BEA national accounts

The BEA National Accounts Scraper turns the apps.bea.gov public REST endpoint into a clean, structured dataset. It calls the endpoint with the parameters you supply, parses the JSON, and flattens each record into one row.

Dataset coverage depends on the upstream source. All field names are clean snake_case / camelCase, numeric strings are auto-cast to numbers, and upstream rate-limit notes are surfaced as a clean error record instead of crashing your pipeline.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 Analysts	Pull structured records for analysis
🏢 Finance teams	Snapshot data for dashboards and reports
🤖 ML engineers	Build training sets from public sources
📰 Journalists	Verify numbers for stories with one click
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror upstream data into your own DB without writing client code
🎓 Researchers	Run reproducible studies on public data

📋 What the BEA National Accounts Scraper does

• Calls the public apps.bea.gov endpoint.
• Parses the JSON response and flattens each record into a clean row.
• Casts numeric fields to numbers so they import cleanly into Excel and BI tools.
• Surfaces upstream rate-limit or error notes as a single-row error record instead of crashing.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: The raw BEA national accounts JSON is verbose and hard to consume in spreadsheets. This actor normalizes the payload into one row per record so the data drops straight into pandas, BigQuery, or a Google Sheet.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
datasetName	enum	No	NIPA / Regional / etc.
tableName	string	No	e.g. T10101.
frequency	enum	No	A / Q / M.
year	string	No	e.g. 2025 or X.
maxItems	integer	No	Free users: 10. Paid users: up to 1,000,000. Prefill: 10.

Example 1:

{
  "datasetName": "NIPA",
  "tableName": "T10101",
  "frequency": "Q",
  "year": "X",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2:

{
  "datasetName": "NIPA",
  "tableName": "T20100",
  "frequency": "A",
  "year": "2024,2025",
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: The BEA national accounts API is rate-limited. This actor surfaces rate-limit notes as a clean error record so your downstream pipeline can decide how to retry.

📊 Output

Each record is a flat object. error is always last.

Field	Type	Description
📋 tableId	string	BEA table name.
🔢 lineNumber	number	Line number in the table.
📅 timePeriod	string	Reporting period.
💰 dataValue	number	Reported value.
📐 units	string	Units of measure.
🔖 seriesCode	string	Series code.
📝 lineDescription	string	Line description.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Fetch timestamp.
❌ error	string	Set on upstream error.

Sample record:

{
  "tableId": "T10101",
  "lineNumber": 1,
  "timePeriod": "2026Q1",
  "dataValue": 28350.4,
  "units": "Level",
  "seriesCode": "A191RL",
  "lineDescription": "Gross domestic product",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with the free, public BEA national accounts endpoint. | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case keys ready for BI. | | 🔢 | Auto-casts numeric strings to real numbers. | | 🛟 | Surfaces rate-limit notes as a clean error record. | | 🔌 | Drop-in dataset replacement for the raw API. | | 💾 | Push to dataset → instant CSV / Excel / JSON / XML / RSS / HTML export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Clean keys?	Numeric casting?	Rate-limit handling?
Roll your own fetch	30 min +	❌	❌	❌
Generic API client	1 hr install + script	partial	partial	partial
This Actor	5 sec, no install	✅	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust input fields (or leave defaults).
3. Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready — download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, or pipe to your warehouse.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Analytics & dashboards. Pull BEA national accounts data into a single CSV, feed BI tools, share with stakeholders.

🤖 ML feature engineering. Build clean training sets from BEA national accounts for downstream models.

📰 Newsroom fact-checking. Verify numbers for stories in 30 seconds.

🏢 Treasury / ops. Schedule daily runs and pipe to your dashboard.

🔌 Automating BEA National Accounts Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Google Sheets, or Slack.
• Cron schedule: native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks: POST to your endpoint the moment a run finishes.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres: native Apify integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach a class with real BEA national accounts data instead of toy datasets.

🧪 Personal research. Track BEA national accounts signals on your own schedule.

🤝 Non-profit & open data. Build public dashboards without writing client code.

🧰 Tinkering & prototyping. Spin up a feed in 5 seconds to test a new idea.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No setup needed. The operator pre-configures upstream access for paid runs.

❓ Which datasets are supported? NIPA, NI Underlying Detail, Fixed Assets, GDP by Industry, Regional.

❓ What table should I start with? T10101 (GDP) is the canonical starting point.

❓ Can I pull multiple years? Yes. Use a comma list (e.g. 2024,2025) or X for all.

❓ Is there a rate limit? BEA limits to 100 requests/min, 100 errors/min.

❓ What format can I download? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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