🇨🇴 Colombia Open Data Scraper

🚀 Export Colombia government datasets in seconds. Pull COVID epidemiology, public spending, healthcare, education, government contracts, public salaries, and thousands more datasets from the official datos.gov.co catalog. No login, no manual CSV stitching.

The Colombia Open Data Scraper taps the official datos.gov.co catalog and returns every row of any chosen dataset. The portal is the central transparency platform for the Colombian Government, hosting datasets from the Ministry of Health, DIAN tax authority, SECOP public-contracts system, DANE statistics agency, and dozens of other publishers.

Coverage spans health, public spending, education, security, transport, demographics, government contracts, public salaries, and environmental data. This Actor returns clean structured rows ready to download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, with optional field filters and sort order applied at the source so you skip the data wrangling.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
LATAM data analysts, health-policy researchers, anti-corruption journalists, NGOs, civic-tech builders, public-contract auditors	Health-policy dashboards, public-spending audits, COVID retrospective analyses, contract-fraud detection, education access tracking

📋 What the Colombia Open Data Scraper does

Three workflows in a single run:

• 🏛️ Pull any dataset. Provide a 4x4 dataset identifier and the Actor streams every row.
• 🎯 Exact-field filters. Combine column-level filters like department, sex, or status to slice the dataset.
• 🔤 Custom sort order. Sort rows ascending or descending by any field before download.

Each row is returned with its original column structure preserved under a data object, plus the resource identifier and a timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: Colombia is one of the most transparent governments in LATAM, but the catalog is huge and the column schemas vary wildly. This Actor handles pagination, filter encoding, and refresh logic so your analysts and journalists can focus on the story.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: data, resourceId, scrapedAt. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Colombia Open Data Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste a 4x4 dataset identifier from datos.gov.co, optionally add filters or sort order.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your rows.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Government of Colombia, the Colombian open-data portal, or any publishing agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

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