🦠 Swiss BAG Infectious Diseases Scraper

🚀 Pull weekly Swiss notifiable infectious disease counts in seconds. By canton, age group, sex, and disease, straight from the BAG idd.bag.admin.ch public API.

🕒 Last updated 2026-06-05 · 📊 10 fields per record · 26 cantons · Weekly resolution since 1988 · Source BAG

The Swiss BAG Infectious Diseases Scraper turns the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (Bundesamt für Gesundheit, BAG) idd.bag.admin.ch/api/v1/communicablediseases endpoint into a clean structured dataset. Filter by disease, canton, and year range, and the actor returns one row per stratum.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🧪 Epidemiologists	Build longitudinal time series of notifiable diseases
🏥 Public health teams	Monitor outbreak signals across cantons
📰 Health journalists	Verify case counts for stories
🎓 Academic researchers	Build training and validation cohorts
👩‍💻 Civic tech builders	Power public dashboards

📋 What the Swiss BAG Infectious Diseases Scraper does

• Calls the public BAG endpoint with your filters.
• Normalises field names across the API's German, French, Italian, and English variants.
• Returns one row per disease, week, year, canton, age group, sex stratum.

💡 Why it matters Notifiable disease data is fragmented across PDF reports and a JS dashboard. The API exists but is undocumented. This actor wraps it.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
disease	string	No	Disease name. Empty for all.
yearFrom	integer	No	Earliest year. Default 2024.
yearTo	integer	No	Latest year. Default current.
canton	enum	No	Canton code (ZH, BE, GE, etc.). Empty for all.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1, measles in Zurich 2024:

{
  "disease": "Masern",
  "canton": "ZH",
  "yearFrom": 2024,
  "yearTo": 2024,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2, all reported diseases nationwide 2025:

{
  "yearFrom": 2025,
  "yearTo": 2025,
  "maxItems": 500
}

⚠️ Good to Know The BAG API is public and free. No registration required.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🦠 disease	string	Disease name.
📅 week	integer	ISO week number.
📅 year	integer	Year.
🏔️ canton	string	Two-letter canton code.
🔢 cases	integer	Reported cases for this stratum.
👤 ageGroup	string	Age group bucket.
⚧ sex	string	Sex stratum.
🏥 hospitalizations	integer	Hospitalisations when reported.
⚰️ deaths	integer	Deaths when reported.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if the upstream response was an error.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public BAG endpoint, no key required. | | 🌍 | All 26 cantons covered. | | 📅 | Weekly resolution back to 1988. | | 🧹 | Field names normalised across language variants. | | 🛟 | Errors surface as a clean record, never a crash. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Multilang fields	Stratum normalisation
Manual PDF download	hours	❌	❌
Roll your own fetch	30 min plus	❌	❌
This Actor	5 sec	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a disease, canton, and year range.
3. Click Start.
4. Open the dataset.

💼 Business use cases

🏥 Public health Track outbreak signals across cantons.

🧪 Epidemiology Build longitudinal cohorts for time-series modelling.

📰 Newsrooms Verify case counts for stories.

🤖 ML training Feed structured surveillance data into forecasting models.

🔌 Automating Swiss BAG Infectious Diseases Scraper

• Make and Zapier trigger weekly when BAG publishes new numbers.
• Cron Apify scheduler runs every Friday.
• Webhooks receive POST on completion.
• Warehouses pipe to BigQuery or Snowflake.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education Real surveillance data for epidemiology courses.

🧪 Personal research Track outbreaks in your canton.

🤝 Non-profit Power health equity dashboards.

🧰 Tinkering Prototype a forecasting model.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any assistant.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an account No, the BAG endpoint is public.

❓ Which diseases are covered All notifiable diseases in the Swiss list (mandatory reporting).

❓ How fresh is the data BAG updates weekly.

❓ Is the language fixed No, the actor accepts German, French, Italian, and English disease names.

❓ Can I schedule runs Yes.

❓ Is this scraping No, it is the official public API.

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