🇳🇱 PDOK BAG Dutch Address Registry Scraper

🚀 Search the official Dutch address registry (BAG) and collect structured records with full addresses, GPS coordinates, municipalities, provinces, neighborhoods, and districts. Filter by type and free-text query.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-17

The Netherlands maintains one of the cleanest open address registries in the world through PDOK BAG. This Actor searches that registry and returns structured records with street names, house numbers, postal codes, cities, municipalities, provinces, districts, neighborhoods, water authorities, GPS coordinates, and BAG identifiers. You can search by address, postcode, street name, or city name, and filter by eight different object types.

Real estate platforms enriching listings, delivery companies resolving addresses to coordinates, govtech teams building address autocomplete, and GIS analysts mapping administrative boundaries all depend on clean, validated Dutch address data. This tool gives you bulk access to the official registry in seconds, with no coding or manual browsing required.

Target	PDOK BAG (Dutch Address and Building Registry)
Use Cases	Address validation, geocoding, real estate data enrichment, delivery logistics, GIS mapping

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📋 What it does

• 🏠 Full Dutch addresses. Street name, house number, letter suffix, postal code, and city for every record.
• 📍 GPS coordinates. WGS84 latitude and longitude for geocoding and mapping.
• 🗺️ Administrative hierarchy. Municipality, province, district (wijk), and neighborhood (buurt).
• 🏷️ 8 object types. Search addresses, streets, postcodes, cities, municipalities, provinces, districts, or neighborhoods.
• 🆔 BAG identifiers. Addressable object IDs and numbering IDs for integration with other Dutch registries.

Each record includes the object type, display name, street, house number, postal code, city, neighborhood, district, municipality (with code), province (with abbreviation), water authority, latitude, longitude, BAG IDs, source, and scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: Manually looking up Dutch addresses one by one in the PDOK interface is painfully slow for any bulk task. This Actor collects thousands of validated records with coordinates and administrative data in a single 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
searchQuery	string	"Amsterdam"	Address, street, postcode, or city name. Examples: "Dam 1 Amsterdam", "1012JS", "Rotterdam".
type	string	"adres"	Filter by object type: adres, weg, postcode, woonplaats, gemeente, provincie, wijk, or buurt.
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum records to return. Free users limited to 10. Paid users up to 1,000,000.

Example: Addresses in Amsterdam.

{
    "searchQuery": "Amsterdam",
    "type": "adres",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example: All postcodes matching "1012".

{
    "searchQuery": "1012",
    "type": "postcode",
    "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: The PDOK BAG registry is updated continuously by Dutch municipalities. Every run returns the latest published data. The API is public and does not require authentication.

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📊 Output

Each record contains 20+ fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏷️ type	string	"adres"
📋 displayName	string	"Dam 1, 1012JS Amsterdam"
🛣️ street	string	"Dam"
🔢 houseNumber	integer	1
📮 postalCode	string	"1012JS"
🏙️ city	string	"Amsterdam"
🏘️ neighborhood	string	"Burgwallen-Oude Zijde"
🏢 district	string	"Centrum-Oost"
🏛️ municipality	string	"Amsterdam"
🗺️ province	string	"Noord-Holland"
📍 latitude	number	52.37273
📍 longitude	number	4.89371
💧 waterAuthority	string	"Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht"
🆔 addressableObjectId	string	"0363010000123456"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🏠	Official BAG data. Direct access to the Dutch government's address registry.
🏷️	8 object types. Addresses, streets, postcodes, cities, municipalities, provinces, districts, and neighborhoods.
📍	GPS coordinates. WGS84 latitude and longitude for every matched record.
🗺️	Full administrative hierarchy. Neighborhood through province in every record.
🆔	BAG identifiers. Official IDs for integration with other Dutch registries.
⚡	Fast lookups. Hundreds of records returned in seconds.
📊	Multiple exports. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The Dutch BAG registry contains over 9 million address records, covering every building and address in the Netherlands with continuous updates from all 342 municipalities.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Setup
⭐ PDOK BAG Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	All NL addresses	Live per run	⚡ 2 min
Manual PDOK search	Free	Full registry	Manual	🕐 Hours
PDOK API integration	Free	Full registry	Per request	🔧 2-4 hours
Third-party geocoding services	$50-500/mo	Varies	Per request	📋 30 min

Pick this Actor when you need bulk Dutch address data with administrative boundaries and coordinates without building your own PDOK API integration.

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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 PDOK BAG Dutch Address Registry Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a search query, select an object type, and set your max items.
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

🏠 Real Estate Enrich property listings with validated addresses Add GPS coordinates for map-based search Pull neighborhood and district data for listings Validate customer-entered addresses against BAG	🚚 Logistics and Delivery Resolve delivery addresses to GPS coordinates Build route planning datasets with validated addresses Geocode customer databases in bulk Validate postal codes against official records
🏛️ Government and Civic Tech Build address autocomplete for Dutch forms Integrate BAG data into municipal applications Map administrative boundaries by district and neighborhood Generate reports by municipality or province	📊 Market Research and GIS Count addresses per neighborhood for density analysis Map commercial areas by postal code Study geographic distribution of building types Build datasets for spatial analysis tools

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🔌 Automating PDOK BAG 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. Schedule monthly runs to keep your Dutch address database current with registry updates.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

PDOK BAG Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PDOK, Kadaster, or the Dutch government. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.