🇨🇴 DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper

🚀 Export DANE Colombia statistical indicators in seconds. Topic categories, indicator titles, periods, and links straight from the national statistics office.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 10 fields per record · 12 main topic categories · Live DANE portal

The DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper turns the dane.gov.co public indicator pages into a structured dataset. It crawls the topic category landing pages and returns one row per indicator with title, period, and source link.

Coverage spans every public DANE topic category: labor market, prices, national accounts, trade, industry, construction, agriculture, demography, poverty, education, health, and security.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 Macro analysts	Track Colombian inflation, unemployment, GDP
🏛️ Researchers	Pull indicator metadata for citation
📰 Journalists	Verify DANE numbers for stories
🤖 Data engineers	Mirror DANE catalogue links into a warehouse
🎓 Academics	Cite primary source data in papers
💼 Investors	Track Colombian macro indicators

📋 What the DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper does

• Fetches the DANE topic category landing page with a real browser fingerprint.
• Parses each indicator listed under the topic.
• Returns title, period (when extractable), category slug, and the link to the full release.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean diagnostic record.

💡 Why it matters: DANE publishes the official statistics for Colombia. Their pages are CMS-rendered HTML with no public API, so this actor wraps the parsing for you.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
category	enum	No	One of 12 DANE topic categories.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1 - Labor market indicators:

{ "category": "mercado-laboral", "maxItems": 25 }

Example 2 - Prices and costs:

{ "category": "precios-y-costos", "maxItems": 25 }

⚠️ Good to Know: DANE's CMS occasionally changes layout. The actor falls back to multiple selectors to stay resilient.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📊 indicator	string	Indicator title.
🔢 value	string	Reported value when present on the landing page.
📅 period	string	Reference period (extracted heuristically).
🗂️ category	string	Topic category slug.
📐 unit	string	Unit of measure when stated.
🏛️ source	string	DANE Colombia.
📆 release_date	string	Release date when present.
🔗 url	string	Link to the full release.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if upstream response was an error.

Sample record:

{
  "indicator": "Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH)",
  "value": null,
  "period": "abril 2025",
  "category": "mercado-laboral",
  "unit": null,
  "source": "DANE Colombia",
  "release_date": null,
  "url": "https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/mercado-laboral/empleo-y-desempleo",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T13:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with no API key. | | 🇨🇴 | Covers all 12 main DANE topic categories. | | 🛡️ | Real browser headers via got-scraping. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as a clean diagnostic row. | | 💾 | Push to dataset and export CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Coverage	Maintained
Manual DANE navigation	minutes per topic	full	manual
DANE bulk file dumps	hours	partial	quarterly
This Actor	5 sec, no install	full	live

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a topic category.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Macro dashboards. Feed Colombian indicators into a country risk dashboard.

📰 Newsroom verification. Confirm employment, inflation, and growth figures.

🤖 Quant pipelines. Ingest Colombian macro series alongside global indicators.

💼 Investor reports. Build sector-specific charts using authoritative DANE data.

🔌 Automating DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger and push to Airtable.
• Cron schedule: monthly refreshes aligned with DANE release calendars.
• Webhooks: POST to your endpoint after each run.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres: native integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach Latin American macro with real Colombian data.

🧪 Personal research. Track inflation against your household budget.

🤝 Non-profit. Build civic dashboards with DANE figures.

🧰 Prototyping. Mock up a data product with real numbers.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No.

❓ Which categories are covered? All 12 main DANE topic categories.

❓ Is the data official? Yes, DANE is Colombia's national statistical authority.

❓ Are values always populated? Not always; DANE varies the landing page format.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via the Apify scheduler.

❓ Is this scraping or API? HTML scraping of public DANE pages.

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

❓ What if a page is empty? A diagnostic record with error is pushed.

❓ Does it respect robots.txt? Only public pages are fetched.

❓ Will the schema change? Stable.

🔌 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.

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