🖼 PDC Disaster Alerts Scraper

🚀 Scrape the Pacific Disaster Center hazards feed for active global disaster alerts including storms, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and volcanoes.

🕒 Last updated 2026-07-17 · 📊 11 fields per record · no API key needed

Every record is mapped to a consistent schema - hazard id, type, severity, lat, lon, country and more, so you can filter, join and export without any glue code. No account or API key required to try it.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Analysts, developers, researchers and operators who need this data as clean rows	Data collection, enrichment, monitoring, and feeding apps, sheets or models

📋 What the PDC Disaster Alerts Scraper does

• Collects the records you ask for as clean, structured rows
• Returns 11 fields per record including hazard id, type, severity, lat, lon, country
• Consistent, flat schema - ready for a spreadsheet, database or app
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💡 Why it matters: the raw source returns nested, paged responses. This Actor flattens them into one clean row per record, so the data drops straight into your workflow.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
hazardType	string	Restrict to one hazard type.
severity	string	Restrict to one severity level.
maxItems	integer	Cap on the number of results. Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.

{"maxItems":25}

📊 Output

Each item is one record with 11 fields:

Field	Type	Description
hazard_id	number	Hazard ID
type	string	Type
severity	string	Severity
lat	number	Latitude
lon	number	Longitude
country	string	Country
start_date	string	Start Date
last_update	number	Last Update
description	string	Description
source_url	string	Source URL
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Clean, flat schema - ready to use
• No API key or account needed
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
• Pay-per-event billing - only pay for records returned

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Actor on Apify Console
3. Fill in the input fields
4. Click Start
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Use cases

Research and analysis - study the data at scale in your own tools.

Enrichment - add structured records to a database, sheet or app.

Monitoring - track changes over time with scheduled runs.

Datasets - build clean datasets for reporting, dashboards or models.

🔌 Automating PDC Disaster Alerts Scraper

Trigger the Actor via Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, n8n or any HTTP webhook on Apify's integration platform.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Copilot and ask how to integrate the data into your workflow.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No - just set the input and run.

❓ Free users? Capped at 10 items per run - perfect for testing.

❓ What output formats? CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - pick on the Storage tab.

❓ Is the data live? Yes - fetched at run time from apps.pdc.org.

❓ Can I schedule it? Yes - use Apify's scheduler or any webhook integration.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify provides webhooks, REST API, scheduled runs, dataset downloads, and integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with any data source named above. Only publicly available data is collected.