# NBP Poland Exchange Rates Scraper (`parseforge/nbp-poland-rates-scraper`) Actor

Tap into the National Bank of Poland public API for daily PLN reference rates. Pick table A, B, or C and request the last N publications to receive currency code, mid rate, bid, ask, and publication date. Useful for treasury teams, accounting, and FX monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/nbp-poland-rates-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Integrations, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

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## 🇵🇱 NBP Poland Exchange Rates Scraper

> 🚀 **Export National Bank of Poland exchange rates in seconds. Daily mid-rate tables A, B, and C straight from the official NBP API.**

> 🕒 **Last updated:** 2026-06-05 · **📊 7 fields** per record · Public API · Real-time

The NBP Poland Exchange Rates turns the [nbp.pl](https://nbp.pl) public endpoint into a clean, structured dataset. Scrape National Bank of Poland daily exchange rate tables (A, B, C) with mid-rates and buy/sell quotes for every quoted currency.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 📊 Quant analysts | Pull series into backtests and dashboards |
| 💼 Finance teams | Snapshot rates, balances, and statistics |
| 🤖 ML engineers | Build economic feature datasets |
| 📰 Financial journalists | Verify official numbers fast |
| 👩‍💻 Developers | Mirror the source into your own DB without writing client code |
| 🎓 Researchers | Reproducible economic data pulls |

### 📋 What the NBP Poland Exchange Rates Scraper does

- Calls the official NBP Poland Exchange Rates endpoint with the parameters you supply.
- Parses the response and flattens each record into one row.
- Casts numeric fields to numbers so they import cleanly into BI tools.
- Surfaces upstream errors as a clean `error` record instead of crashing.
- Streams results to the Apify dataset for instant download.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** Official sources publish raw feeds that are hard to consume. This actor normalises the response so the data drops straight into pandas, BigQuery, or a Google Sheet.

### 🎬 Full Demo

_🚧 Coming soon._

### ⚙️ Input

<table>
<tr><th>Field</th><th>Type</th><th>Required</th><th>Description</th></tr>
<tr><td><code>table</code></td><td>string</td><td>No</td><td>NBP exchange rate table. A and B are average rates, C is buy/sell.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>lastN</code></td><td>integer</td><td>No</td><td>Fetch last N daily publications. Leave empty for current table only.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>maxItems</code></td><td>integer</td><td>No</td><td>Free users 10, paid users up to 1,000,000. Prefill 10.</td></tr>
</table>

**Example 1:**
```json
{
  "table": "A",
  "maxItems": 10
}
````

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** Free users are auto-limited to 10 records as a preview. Paid users get up to 1,000,000.

### 📊 Output

Each record is a flat object. `error` is always last.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 📋 Table `table` | string | NBP table (A, B, or C). |
| 📅 Effective Date `effective_date` | string | Date the table is effective. |
| 💱 Currency `currency` | string | Currency name. |
| 🔤 Code `code` | string | ISO currency code. |
| 💰 Mid Rate `mid_rate` | number | Mid rate vs PLN. |
| 🕒 `scrapedAt` | string | When this row was fetched. |
| ❌ `error` | string | Set if the upstream response was an error. |

**Sample record:**

```json
{
  "table": "A",
  "effective_date": "2026-06-04",
  "currency": "dolar amerykanski",
  "code": "USD",
  "mid_rate": 4.0123,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T13:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}
```

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with the free Apify tier. |
| 🧹 | Clean, snake\_case keys ready for BI. |
| 🔢 | Auto-casts numeric strings to real numbers. |
| 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as a clean `error` record. |
| 💾 | Push to dataset, instant CSV / Excel / JSON / XML / HTML export. |

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| Approach | Setup time | Clean keys | Numeric casting | Error handling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roll your own `fetch` | 30 min + | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Custom Python script | 1 hr install + script | ✅ | partial | partial |
| **This Actor** | 5 sec, no install | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |

### 🚀 How to use

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Adjust the inputs or leave defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Within seconds, your dataset is ready, download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, or pipe to your warehouse.

### 💼 Business use cases

**📊 Backtesting and quant research.** Pull series for your watchlist into a single table, feed pandas, run your strategy.

**💼 Treasury and risk.** Schedule a daily run and pipe to your finance dashboard.

**📰 Newsroom fact-checking.** Reporters can verify a published number for a story in 30 seconds.

**🤖 ML feature engineering.** Build a clean training set of economic features for any model.

### 🔌 Automating NBP Poland Exchange Rates Scraper

- **Make and Zapier**: trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Google Sheets, or Slack.
- **Cron schedule**: native Apify scheduler, run on any cadence.
- **Webhooks**: get a POST to your endpoint the moment a run finishes.
- **Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres**: native Apify integrations move datasets straight into your warehouse.

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

**🎓 Education.** Teach a finance class with reproducible, real-world datasets.

**🧪 Personal research.** Track your own portfolio, compute custom indicators, plot them in your favourite tool.

**🤝 Non-profit and open data.** Build public dashboards without writing client code.

**🧰 Tinkering and prototyping.** Spin up a feed in 5 seconds to test a new chart library.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your specific workflow to the actor inputs. The schema, examples, and field list above contain everything an LLM needs to design a working pipeline.

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

**❓ Do I need an API key?** No. The upstream endpoint is public.

**❓ Is there a rate limit?** Sources may rate-limit. This actor surfaces any rate-limit notes as a clean `error` record.

**❓ Are values cast to numbers?** Yes.

**❓ Can I schedule runs?** Yes, use Apify native scheduler or hook this up to Make / Zapier / cron.

**❓ Is this scraping or API?** API. The endpoint is fully public; we are only normalising the response.

**❓ Will the schema change?** Core fields are stable. New upstream fields will be passed through as added.

**❓ What format can I download?** CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML straight from the Apify dataset UI.

**❓ Can I use this commercially?** Yes, subject to the source terms of service.

**❓ Why is my run only 10 items?** Free plan preview limit. Upgrade for up to 1,000,000.

**❓ How fresh is the data?** As fresh as the upstream endpoint publishes.

### 🔌 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 endpoint. Trigger runs from a calendar event, a form submission, a cron job, or pipe results straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or a Postgres warehouse.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

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|---|---|
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> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for 900+ production-grade scrapers across business intelligence, real estate, e-commerce, sports, finance, and public records.

***

**Disclaimer:** This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the third-party services referenced. Users are responsible for complying with the target site terms of service and applicable law. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).

# Actor input Schema

## `table` (type: `string`):

NBP exchange rate table. A and B are average rates, C is buy/sell.

## `lastN` (type: `integer`):

Fetch last N daily publications. Leave empty for current table only.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users optional, max 1,000,000.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "table": "A",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/nbp-poland-rates-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/nbp-poland-rates-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/nbp-poland-rates-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/nbp-poland-rates-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "NBP Poland Exchange Rates Scraper",
        "description": "Tap into the National Bank of Poland public API for daily PLN reference rates. Pick table A, B, or C and request the last N publications to receive currency code, mid rate, bid, ask, and publication date. Useful for treasury teams, accounting, and FX monitoring.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "oANv09Pte3HIVTvYB"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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            "post": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~nbp-poland-rates-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-nbp-poland-rates-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                                }
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        },
        "/acts/parseforge~nbp-poland-rates-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-parseforge-nbp-poland-rates-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "table": {
                        "title": "Table",
                        "enum": [
                            "A",
                            "B",
                            "C"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "NBP exchange rate table. A and B are average rates, C is buy/sell.",
                        "default": "A"
                    },
                    "lastN": {
                        "title": "Last N publications",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 255,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Fetch last N daily publications. Leave empty for current table only."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users optional, max 1,000,000."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
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                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
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                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
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                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                        "type": "string",
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                                        "example": 2048
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                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```