📊 ONS UK Statistics Scraper

🚀 Export the official UK statistical catalogue in seconds. Pull the full ONS dataset catalogue, dataset metadata, editions, versions, available dimensions, and CSV-style observation values across inflation, the labour market, population, GDP, wellbeing, and more. No sign-up needed.

The ONS UK Statistics Scraper taps the official UK Office for National Statistics catalogue and returns clean, structured records covering every published dataset. Pull dataset titles, descriptions, release frequencies, next-release dates, methodologies, related publications, dimension lists, and observation values keyed by geography, time, and analytic dimensions.

The catalogue spans 300+ active datasets, including CPIH inflation, labour-force survey, GDP estimates, population projections, regional wellbeing, and dozens of bespoke survey publications. Coverage runs from the UK level down to local-authority districts. This Actor turns the entire catalogue, single-dataset metadata, dimension-options helper, and version-level observations into downloadable CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Economists, journalists, fintech & PropTech teams, policy analysts, researchers, BI engineers, civic-tech developers	Inflation tracking, GDP nowcasting, labour-market dashboards, regional analytics, BBC-style newsroom charts, ML feature engineering, Power BI / Tableau feeds

📋 What the ONS UK Scraper does

Four workflows in a single Actor:

• 📚 Catalogue mode. List every published ONS dataset with title, description, release frequency, next-release date, keywords, contacts, methodologies, related publications, and the latest version pointer.
• 🧾 Dataset mode. Pull the full metadata for one dataset or batch up to 100 dataset slugs in a single run. Includes editions, versions, taxonomy, and quality-management information.
• 🗂️ Available dimensions mode. Helper that lists every dimension and its full set of options for a dataset version - so you know which filter codes to plug into observations mode.
• 📈 Observations mode. Download observation values for any dataset version with optional dimension filters (geography codes, time, analytic axes).

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

💡 Why it matters: UK official statistics underpin lending decisions, public-policy research, regional economic strategy, journalism, and academic work. Building your own pipeline against the official catalogue means handling pagination, edition resolution, dimension decoding, and CSV parsing by hand. This Actor skips all of that and keeps your dataset fresh on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: contacts, description, id, keywords, last_updated, latest_version, methodologies, national_statistic, nextReleaseDate, next_release, publications, qmi, related_datasets, release_frequency, scrapedAt, state, taxonomy, title, unit_of_measure, url. All 20 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ONS UK Statistics Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (start with catalogue 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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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Office for National Statistics or the UK Government. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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