📊 INE Spain Scraper

🚀 Export the official Spanish statistical catalogue in seconds. Pull every INE Spain operation, table, observation, and time-series across CPI, IPRI, EPA labour, demographics, GDP, and trade. Bilingual labels (English + Spanish), no sign-up needed.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-15 · 📊 16 fields per record · 📦 100+ operations · 🇪🇸 National + autonomous community + provincial coverage

The INE Spain Scraper taps the official Instituto Nacional de Estadística catalogue and returns clean, structured records covering every published statistical operation. Pull operation codes (IPC, IPRI, EPA, etc.), the tables under each operation, full dataset observations with dimension labels, and any single time-series by SERIE code.

The catalogue spans 100+ statistical operations and tens of thousands of tables, including the monthly Consumer Price Index (IPC), Industrial Price Index (IPRI), Active Population Survey (EPA), demographic projections, foreign trade, GDP, tourism, and household spending. Coverage runs from the national level down to autonomous communities and provinces. Labels are available in English and Spanish. This Actor turns the entire catalogue, single-table observations, and individual SERIE time-series into downloadable CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Economists, journalists, banking & insurance teams, policy analysts, researchers, BI engineers, civic-tech developers	Inflation tracking, labour-market dashboards, regional analytics, ML feature engineering, Power BI / Tableau feeds, newsroom charts, academic research

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📋 What the INE Spain Scraper does

Four workflows in a single Actor:

• 📚 Operations mode. List every INE Spain statistical operation with its code, IOE code, name, and source URL.
• 🗂️ Tables mode. Browse every table belonging to an operation (e.g. all IPC tables) with start/end years, frequency, and last-modified timestamp.
• 📈 Dataset mode. Pull the full observation grid for any table, with every dimension fully decoded into code + label pairs and a pretty-printed dimension string for easy reading.
• 🔢 Series mode. Pull a single time-series by its SERIE code (e.g. IPC206449) with the latest N data points (up to 1000).

Every record carries the official INE Spain deep link, so you can verify any number against the source page in one click.

💡 Why it matters: Spanish official statistics underpin lending decisions, policy work, retail planning, journalism, and academic research. Building your own pipeline against the official catalogue means handling JSON-Stat decoding, dimension cross-products, and bilingual labels by hand. This Actor skips all of that and keeps your dataset fresh on every run.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
mode	enum	"operations"	One of operations, tables, dataset, series.
operationCode	string	""	INE operation code (e.g. IPC, IPRI, EPA). Required for tables mode.
datasetId	string	""	INE table ID (e.g. 24077). Required for dataset mode.
seriesCode	string	""	INE serie code (e.g. IPC206449). Required for series mode.
language	enum	"EN"	Response language for labels. EN or ES.
latestN	integer	12	Number of most recent periods (1-1000) for dataset and series modes.
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.

Example: full INE Spain operations list (English labels).

{
    "mode": "operations",
    "language": "EN",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example: latest 12 periods of CPI series IPC206449 (general index).

{
    "mode": "series",
    "seriesCode": "IPC206449",
    "language": "EN",
    "latestN": 12
}

⚠️ Good to Know: INE operation codes are short alphanumeric strings (IPC, IPRI, EPA). Table IDs are integers. SERIE codes look like IPC206449. Use operations mode first to discover operation codes, then tables mode to discover table IDs, then dataset mode to pull observations.

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📊 Output

Each record contains up to 16 fields depending on mode. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 id	integer	25
🔗 url	string	"https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176802"
🏷️ code	string	"IPC"
🏛️ ioeCode	string	"30138"
📛 name	string	"Consumer Price Index (CPI)"
🆔 operationCode	string	"IPC"
📅 startYear	integer	2002
📅 endYear	integer	2026
🔁 frequencyId	integer	12
🕒 lastModified	ISO 8601	"2026-04-12T08:00:00.000Z"
🔢 seriesCode	string	"IPC206449"
📛 seriesName	string	"General Index. Annual change"
📅 year	integer	2026
💰 value	number	2.3
📅 fecha	ISO 8601	"2026-04-30T22:00:00.000Z"
📐 dimensions	object	{ "Tipo de dato": { "code": "1", "label": "Index" }, ... }
📐 prettyDimensions	string	`"Tipo de dato=1:Index
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-15T10:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample record (operations mode)

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🇪🇸	Full INE Spain catalogue. 100+ operations spanning inflation, labour, demographics, GDP, trade, and tourism.
🌐	Bilingual labels. Operation, table, and dimension names in English or Spanish.
🔢	Series mode. Pull any SERIE code with up to 1000 historical data points.
📈	Dataset mode. Full observation grid with every dimension decoded into readable code + label pairs.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run reflects the current state of the official catalogue.
🧰	No setup. No sign-up, no key, no scraping CSS selectors.
🔗	Source-anchored. Every record carries the official INE Spain deep link.

📊 INE Spain is the most-cited reference for Spanish CPI, IPRI, EPA, and GDP data. This Actor makes it queryable in seconds.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ INE Spain Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	100+ operations, regional + provincial detail	Live per run	operations, tables, dataset, series	⚡ 2 min
Manual table downloads	Free	Per-table only	Manual	None	🐢 Hours per table
Macro-data terminals	$24,000+/year	Curated subset	Live	Many	⏳ Days
Build your own pipeline	Engineering hours	What you build	What you build	What you build	🕒 Weeks

Pick this Actor when you want broad Spanish coverage, bilingual labels, and no parser maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the INE Spain Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (start with operations to browse), set maxItems, and click Start.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in 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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💼 Business use cases

🏦 Banking, fintech, and insurance Live CPI feeds for retail-rate dashboards in Spain Mortgage and insurance underwriting fed by EPA labour data Macro-forecasting models with quarterly GDP estimates Risk dashboards aligned with INE Spain official numbers	🏘️ PropTech and real estate Provincial population and household projections for site selection Regional wage and employment data for valuation models Construction output and house-price indices Demographic shifts feeding tenant-targeting
📊 Market research and consulting Industry IPRI, productivity, and earnings benchmarks Retail trade, services turnover, and tourism arrivals Consumer trends from the household-spending survey Sector deliverables backed by official Spanish numbers	📰 Journalism and policy Live charts of inflation, jobs, and GDP for newsrooms Regional explainers backed by autonomous-community data Public-policy briefs with cited, versioned numbers Investigative reporting on housing, health, and demographics

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🔌 Automating INE Spain Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Daily refreshes for high-frequency series (IPC, IPRI, EPA) keep dashboards current with no engineering effort.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Macroeconomic theses with cited, versioned dataset pulls Public-health and demographic research at the regional level Reproducible studies with stable SERIE codes Open-data exercises in econometrics and stats courses	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, indie data dashboards, and portfolio demos Interactive Spain maps, inflation trackers, and visualizations Content research for data journalists and creators Hobbyist time-series for forecasters and analysts
🤝 Non-profit and civic Equity research on regional income, housing, and labour outcomes Civic transparency on public spending and services Investigative journalism backed by INE Spain official numbers Open data community contributions and visualizations	🧪 Experimentation Train forecasting and anomaly-detection ML models Validate macro hypotheses with real time-series Prototype agent pipelines that resolve operation codes Test BI dashboard concepts with live Spanish data

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Pick a mode (operations, tables, dataset, series), set the operation code or table ID, and click Start. The Actor pulls clean structured records straight from the official INE Spain catalogue. No browser automation, no captchas, no setup.

📏 How accurate is the data?

Every value comes directly from the official INE Spain catalogue, the canonical source for Spanish official statistics. No transformation is applied beyond field-name normalization and ISO timestamp stamping.

🔁 How often is the catalogue refreshed?

The catalogue is updated continuously as INE Spain releases new tables and revises existing ones. Every run of this Actor returns the live state of the catalogue.

🌐 Are labels available in Spanish?

Yes. Set language to ES to receive operation, table, and dimension labels in Spanish. The default is English (EN).

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval (hourly, daily, weekly) and keep your downstream database in sync with new INE Spain releases.

⚖️ Is this data legal to use?

INE Spain publishes its data under terms that permit free reuse with attribution to INE. Review the licence terms for your specific use case.

💼 Can I use this data commercially?

Yes. The underlying INE Spain data is open and permits commercial use with attribution. You are responsible for complying with the licence and with any downstream regulatory requirements.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to use this Actor?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs (10 records per run). A paid plan lifts the limit and gives you access to scheduling, higher concurrency, and larger datasets.

🔁 What happens if a run fails or gets interrupted?

Apify automatically retries transient errors. If a run still fails, you can inspect the log in the Runs tab, fix the input, and re-run. Partial datasets from failed runs are preserved so you never lose progress.

🔢 What is an operationCode vs a SERIE code?

An operationCode is a short alphabetic identifier for an INE Spain statistical operation (e.g. IPC, IPRI, EPA). A SERIE code is a unique identifier for a single time-series inside a table (e.g. IPC206449 = CPI general index annual change). Use operations mode to discover operation codes, then drill down.

🆘 What if I need help?

Our support team is here to help. Contact us through the Apify platform or use the Tally form linked below.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

INE Spain Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe INE records into your warehouse
• n8n - Self-hosted workflow automation
• Pipedream - Event-driven serverless workflows
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh CPI or EPA labour numbers into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack the minute a new release lands.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more reference-data scrapers.

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística or the Government of Spain. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.