🇪🇸 Spain datos.gob.es Open Data Catalog Scraper

🚀 Pull the Spanish national open data catalog in seconds. Datasets, distributions, themes, and publishers, straight from the official datos.gob.es DCAT-AP endpoint.

🕒 Last updated 2026-06-05 · 📊 11 fields per record · 80,000+ datasets · 4,000+ publishers · DCAT-AP compliant

The Spain datos.gob.es Open Data Catalog Scraper turns the official Iniciativa Aporta apidata/catalog/dataset endpoint into a clean dataset of open data resources. Filter by theme, publisher, or modification date, and the actor walks the paginated DCAT-AP response.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🏢 Data engineers	Inventory all Spanish public datasets in your warehouse
📰 Journalists	Discover datasets by theme for stories
🎓 Researchers	Build harvesting pipelines for academic work
👩‍💻 Civic tech	Power data portals on top of official metadata

📋 What the Spain datos.gob.es Catalog Scraper does

• Calls the official datos.gob.es DCAT-AP endpoint.
• Paginates with _pageSize and _page, sorted by most recently modified.
• Flattens multilingual titles to Spanish.
• Picks the distribution matching your format filter when set.

💡 Why it matters datos.gob.es is the official aggregator of Spanish open data. The catalog is huge and DCAT-AP encoded. This actor flattens it.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
theme	enum	No	DCAT theme slug. Empty for all.
publisher	string	No	Optional publisher slug.
format	enum	No	Distribution format filter.
modifiedSince	string	No	YYYY-MM-DD lower bound.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1, environment datasets:

{
  "theme": "medio-ambiente",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2, recent CSV releases:

{
  "format": "CSV",
  "modifiedSince": "2025-01-01",
  "maxItems": 200
}

⚠️ Good to Know Public endpoint, no key required. Data is DCAT-AP encoded by the Spanish national open data office.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 id	string	Persistent dataset identifier.
📄 title	string	Title in Spanish.
🏢 publisher	string	Issuing public body.
🎯 theme	string	DCAT theme.
📜 license	string	Distribution license.
🕒 modified	string	Last modified date.
📎 distributionUrl	string	Direct link to the picked distribution.
📦 format	string	Format of the picked distribution.
🏷️ keywords	string	Comma joined keyword list.
🌍 coverage	string	Spatial or temporal coverage.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set on upstream error.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public DCAT-AP endpoint, no key. | | 🇪🇸 | All Spanish public bodies in one feed. | | 🧹 | Multilingual fields flattened to Spanish. | | 🛟 | Errors surface as a clean record. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	DCAT flatten	Format picker
Roll your own fetch	30 min plus	❌	❌
This Actor	5 sec	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a theme or leave empty.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

🏢 Data inventory Mirror the national catalog into your warehouse.

📰 Newsroom Find datasets by theme for stories.

🎓 Research Build harvesting pipelines.

🤖 ML Train classifiers on open data metadata.

🔌 Automating Spain datos.gob.es Catalog Scraper

• Make and Zapier weekly catalog snapshot.
• Cron Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks on completion.
• Warehouses pipe to BigQuery or Snowflake.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education Use real DCAT-AP data in courses.

🧪 Personal research Discover datasets in your region.

🤝 Non-profit Power open-data discovery sites.

🧰 Tinkering Prototype harvesting pipelines.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need a key No.

❓ How big is the catalog 80,000+ datasets across 4,000+ publishers.

❓ Which languages Titles flattened to Spanish.

❓ How fresh Daily updates from the Aporta initiative.

❓ Can I filter by format Yes, via the format enum.

❓ Is this scraping No, official DCAT-AP API.

🔌 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 endpoint or webhook.

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