🦠 ECDC Disease Surveillance Data Scraper

🚀 Export ECDC surveillance records in seconds. Pull daily case and death counts by country and territory from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control open dataset. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 13 fields per record · 60,000+ rows · Global

The ECDC Disease Surveillance Data Scraper queries the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control public open data feed. Each row contains the reporting date, country and territory name, ISO geo identifier, continent, daily cases, daily deaths, population reference and the 14-day cumulative case rate per 100,000. The dataset underpins epidemiology research, dashboards and academic studies.

Coverage: every country and territory tracked by ECDC across all continents.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Epidemiologists	Surveillance time-series studies
Public-health agencies	Cross-country benchmarking
Researchers	Population-adjusted modelling
Data journalists	Build country comparison charts
Dashboard builders	Power live disease trackers
Students	Coursework datasets

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📋 What this scraper does

• Pulls the ECDC open data JSON feed
• Filters by country, geoId, continent or year
• Returns daily cases, deaths, population, 14-day rate
• Outputs JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

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💡 Why it matters: ECDC remains a primary EU public health source. Direct exports let teams skip manual CSV downloads.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
country	string	No		Country name substring.
geoId	string	No		Two-letter ISO geoId.
continent	select	No	Any	Continent filter.
year	integer	No		Reporting year.

Example 1 - All Spain records:

{ "geoId": "ES", "maxItems": 1000 }

Example 2 - 2020 European records:

{ "continent": "Europe", "year": 2020, "maxItems": 5000 }

⚠️ Good to Know: ECDC ended daily reporting on 14 December 2020; older records remain a complete daily archive.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
    "title": "Afghanistan",
    "dateRep": "14/12/2020",
    "year": 2020,
    "cases": 746,
    "deaths": 6,
    "country": "Afghanistan",
    "geoId": "AF",
    "countryterritoryCode": "AFG",
    "population": 38041757,
    "continent": "Asia"
}

Key fields: title, dateRep, day, month, year, cases, deaths, country, geoId, countryterritoryCode, population, continent, cumulativeNumberFor14Days.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Sourced directly from opendata.ecdc.europa.eu
• 🟢 No registration, no API key
• 🟢 Filter combinations supported
• 🟢 Up to 1,000,000 records per paid run

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
ECDC site download	Yes	Yes	Periodic
WHO dashboard	Yes	Limited	Yes
ParseForge ECDC Scraper	Yes	Yes	Live

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set filters, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Surveillance dashboards

Feed live disease counters with country granularity.

Health-tech analytics

Cross-reference cases with internal patient data.

Insurance modelling

Quantify regional risk exposure.

Government reporting

Benchmark domestic numbers against EU peers.

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🔌 Automating ECDC Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Drive epidemiological and modelling studies.

Personal

Track historical trends.

Non-profit

NGO health programmes.

Experimentation

Combine with WHO data for global coverage.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? opendata.ecdc.europa.eu.

Q: API key? No.

Q: Real-time? The actor downloads the latest published file on every run.

Q: Coverage? All ECDC-tracked countries and territories.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? Yes, 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: What disease? COVID-19 case distribution as published by ECDC.

Q: Is the 14-day rate per 100,000 included? Yes, when published by ECDC.

Q: Are population values current? Population reference is the ECDC popData2019 field.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Only publicly available data from opendata.ecdc.europa.eu is collected.