🇪🇺 European Parliament MEPs Scraper

🚀 Export export european parliament members profiles and term data in seconds. Export Members of European Parliament records from the EU Open Data Portal: full name, identifier, given/family name, sort label and label. Combine with parliamentary terms for historical mapping. CSV, Excel, JSON or XML for political research and lobbying analysis. No account required for the source.

The European Parliament MEPs Scraper extracts structured records from European Parliament Open Data. Every record captures the canonical fields you would expect from the upstream source - ready for analytics, dashboards, BI tooling, or further enrichment.

The dataset spans european union (all parliamentary terms since 1979) and exposes the same data the official website publishes - normalised, paginated, and exportable.

Who uses this data?

Audience	Use Case
Lobbyists	Build longitudinal datasets for analysis
Compliance teams	Monitor regulated entities and filings
Journalists	Investigate public records at scale
Data analysts	Power BI dashboards and reports
Academic researchers	Run quantitative studies on public data
Product teams	Embed live european parliament meps records into apps

📋 What the European Parliament MEPs Scraper does

• Queries European Parliament Open Data for the latest records
• Supports targeted filtering via the input parameters (see below)
• Returns structured records with 11 fields, no scraping artifacts
• Handles pagination automatically up to your maxItems limit
• Cleans HTML entities and normalises dates and identifiers
• Delivers results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML via Apify dataset export

💡 Why it matters: Public-data sources rarely offer bulk export. This Actor turns the live site into a queryable dataset - useful for any team that needs european parliament meps data at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: countryOfRepresentation, familyName, givenName, identifier, label, meppage, scrapedAt, sortLabel, type, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 items.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 free credit
2. Open the European Parliament MEPs Scraper actor page
3. Configure your input - set filters or leave defaults
4. Set maxItems (10 for a quick preview, higher for bulk extraction)
5. Click Run and wait for the dataset to populate
6. Download your results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This Actor accesses publicly available data from European Parliament Open Data in compliance with the source's terms of service. Data is provided as-is for informational purposes. Verify all records against the official source before relying on them for legal or business decisions.

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