🧪 ECHA Europe Chemicals Registry Scraper

🚀 Export the European Chemicals Agency public registry in seconds. Substance names, CAS numbers, EC numbers, hazard classifications, and registrant counts.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 9 fields per record · 100,000+ substances · CLP and REACH coverage

The ECHA Europe Chemicals Registry Scraper turns the echa.europa.eu public substance search into a structured dataset. It queries ECHA's substance API and returns one row per matching substance with identifiers, classification, and registration metadata.

Coverage spans the substances published in ECHA's Information on Chemicals portal, including REACH-registered and CLP-classified substances.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🧪 Chemical regulatory teams	Look up CLP hazard classifications by CAS
🏭 EHS managers	Audit substance inventories against REACH
📰 Journalists	Verify hazard statements for stories
🤖 Data engineers	Mirror ECHA into a compliance warehouse
🎓 Researchers	Build substance cohorts for studies
💼 Supply chain leads	Screen incoming materials against ECHA listings

📋 What the ECHA Europe Chemicals Registry Scraper does

• Queries the public ECHA substance search API with a free text term.
• Flattens each substance result into a normalized record.
• Joins hazard statements into a single string for easy spreadsheet use.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a single diagnostic row.

💡 Why it matters: ECHA's public viewer is paginated and requires multiple clicks per substance. This actor returns the underlying API data directly.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
search	string	No	Substance name, CAS number, or EC number. Prefill: benzene.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1 - Benzene lookup:

{ "search": "benzene", "maxItems": 5 }

Example 2 - Specific CAS number:

{ "search": "71-43-2", "maxItems": 1 }

⚠️ Good to Know: ECHA's API throttles aggressive callers. This actor rotates residential proxies and retries to keep runs reliable.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🧪 substance_name	string	Official substance name.
🔬 cas_number	string	CAS registry number.
🧬 ec_number	string	EC (EINECS) number.
⚠️ classification	string	Harmonised CLP classification.
☣️ hazard_statements	string	H-statements joined by semicolon.
🏭 registrants	number	Number of REACH registrants.
⚖️ tonnage	string	Tonnage band reported under REACH.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if upstream response was an error.

Sample record:

{
  "substance_name": "Benzene",
  "cas_number": "71-43-2",
  "ec_number": "200-753-7",
  "classification": "Carc. 1A; Muta. 1B; Asp. Tox. 1",
  "hazard_statements": "H350; H340; H304; H225",
  "registrants": 312,
  "tonnage": "1 000 000 - 10 000 000 tonnes per annum",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T13:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with no API key. | | 🇪🇺 | Covers ECHA's full public substance index. | | 🧹 | Hazard statements joined into a single spreadsheet-friendly column. | | 🛟 | 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	Clean rows	Maintained
Manual ECHA portal lookup	minutes per substance	❌	manual
ECHA bulk dumps	hours to parse	partial	quarterly
This Actor	5 sec, no install	✅	live

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Type a substance name, CAS, or EC number.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

🧪 Regulatory screening. Run incoming SKUs against ECHA's hazard classifications.

🏭 EHS compliance. Audit warehouse inventories against REACH registration tonnage bands.

📰 Newsroom. Verify hazard statements quoted in industrial accident reporting.

🤖 Compliance pipelines. Pipe results into an internal MDM or SAP system.

🔌 Automating ECHA Europe Chemicals Registry Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger and push to Airtable or Google Sheets.
• Cron schedule: weekly hazards refresh.
• Webhooks: POST to your endpoint after each run.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres: native integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach chemical safety with real CLP data.

🧪 Personal research. Look up household chemical hazards before buying.

🤝 Non-profit. Power consumer advocacy and right-to-know apps.

🧰 Prototyping. Mock up a compliance dashboard quickly.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No.

❓ How fresh is the data? Live with ECHA's portal updates.

❓ Can I search by CAS? Yes, paste a CAS number into the search field.

❓ Are hazard statements included? Yes, joined into one string.

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

❓ Is this scraping or API? Public ECHA portal API.

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

❓ What if nothing matches? A diagnostic record with error is pushed.

❓ Will the schema change? Stable.

❓ Does it follow robots and ToS? Yes, only public data is fetched.

🔌 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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