🇭🇰 Hong Kong Open Data Scraper

🚀 Export the Hong Kong government open data catalog in seconds. Browse 4,000+ datasets from data.gov.hk, filter by keyword or fetch by ID, and pull every resource file, format, licence, and download link. No login, no manual catalog crawl.

The Hong Kong Open Data Scraper queries the official data.gov.hk portal and returns 19 structured fields per dataset, including title, publishing organization, description, tags, update frequency, licence, maintainer contact, every downloadable resource with its format, and the canonical catalog page. The portal is the HK government's central open-data hub and aggregates data from all bureaus and departments.

The catalog covers transport, weather, planning, environment, health, education, demographics, real estate, statistics, public safety, and more, across more than 4,000 datasets contributed by every major HK department. This Actor turns the catalog into a clean CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML feed in under five minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Southeast Asia real-estate analysts, urban researchers, fintechs operating in HK, smart-city teams, journalists, transit planners, civic-tech builders	Real-estate trend monitoring, transit feed ingestion, weather and pollution dashboards, regulatory data automation, civic transparency apps, HK market research

📋 What the Hong Kong Open Data Scraper does

Two operating modes:

• 📑 Catalog mode. Walk every dataset in the portal, optionally filtered by a case-insensitive keyword on the dataset slug.
• 🎯 Dataset mode. Fetch a single dataset by its slug ID (e.g. aahk-team1-flight-info) for targeted ingestion.

Each record includes the dataset ID, title (English and Traditional Chinese where available), publishing organization, free-text description, topic tags, dataset groups, update frequency, licence string, maintainer name and email, metadata creation and modification timestamps, and the full list of downloadable resources with their file format and direct download URL.

💡 Why it matters: HK's open-data portal exposes everything from MTR rider counts to land-registry pulls to typhoon-track forecasts. Building a recurring ingest against it means parsing the catalog API, walking pagination, and threading resource lookups by hand. This Actor does all of that and returns ready-to-load rows.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: dataDictionaryUrl, datasetId, description, groups, logoUrl, maintainer, maintainerEmail, metadataCreated, metadataModified, numResources, organization, organizationTitle, resources, scrapedAt, title, updateFrequency, url. All 17 field names come from a real production run, 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 Hong Kong Open Data Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick catalog or dataset mode. In catalog mode add an optional keyword. In dataset mode supply a slug.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect records.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results from 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 the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or any of its departments. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available catalog data is collected, under the Hong Kong PSI Licence.

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