🌏 World Bank Funded Projects Scraper

🚀 Pull World Bank-financed development projects from 1947 to present, with country, sector, status, and budget metadata.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-06 · 📊 35 fields per record · 500,000+ historical projects · 200+ countries · IBRD/IDA/grant breakdowns · sectors, themes, environmental categories, board approval dates

The World Bank Funded Projects Scraper pulls World Bank-financed development projects from 1947 to present. Output includes project ID, name, country, region, sectors, themes, life-cycle status, total commitment, IBRD/IDA/grant breakdown, board approval and closing dates, borrower, implementing agency, and direct link to the project's WB page.

The World Bank database covers 500,000+ historical projects across 200+ countries spanning loans, grants, technical assistance, and budget support. Filters run server-side, so a single run can isolate every active climate project in Africa, all India IDA loans, or Education-sector pipeline projects.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Development economists, NGOs, ESG analysts, contractors, policy researchers, journalists, ML pipelines	Development funding research, ESG and impact tracking, contractor opportunity scouting, policy analysis, journalism on aid flows

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📋 What the World Bank Funded Projects Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Free-text search. Match across project names, descriptions, and abstracts.
• 🌍 Country filter. ISO-2 codes, semicolon-separated for multi-country runs.
• 🟢 Status filter. Active, Closed, Pipeline, Dropped.
• 🏷️ Sector filter. Energy, Agriculture, Education, Health, Transport keyword.
• 📅 Board approval year range. From-to filter on board approval date.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering removes the parser-and-pagination work from your team and keeps your dataset fresh on every 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
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan up to 1,000,000.
query	string	"climate"	Free-text search.
country	string	""	ISO-2 codes (e.g. `IN;BR;NG`).
status	string	""	`Active`, `Closed`, `Pipeline`, `Dropped`.
sector	string	""	Sector-name substring.
approvalYearMin	integer	0	Earliest board-approval year.
approvalYearMax	integer	0	Latest board-approval year.

Example: all active climate projects.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "query": "climate",
    "status": "Active"
}

Example: Education projects in Brazil + Nigeria 2020-2024.

{
    "maxItems": 200,
    "country": "BR;NG",
    "sector": "Education",
    "approvalYearMin": 2020,
    "approvalYearMax": 2024
}

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📊 Output

Each record contains 35 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 projectId	string	"P145482"
📛 projectName	string	"Sustainable Private Investment in Renewable Energy"
🌍 countryName	string	"Maldives"
🌍 countryCode	string	"MV"
🌐 regionName	string	"South Asia"
🟢 status	string	"Active"
📋 productLine	string	null
📋 lendingInstrument	string	null
💰 totalCommitment	string	"16,000,000"
💰 ibrdCommitment	string	0
💰 idaCommitment	string	0
💰 grantAmount	string	null
📅 boardApprovalDate	string	"2014-12-15"
📅 boardApprovalFy	number	2015
📅 closingDate	string	"2026-12-31"
🏷️ sectors	array	["Renewable Energy Solar"]
🏷️ themes	array	["Climate change"]
👥 borrower	string	null
👥 implementingAgency	string	null
⚠️ environmentalCategory	string	null
🔗 projectUrl	string	"https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P145482"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
📚	500,000+ historical projects. Every loan, grant, and technical-assistance project the WB has financed since 1947.
🌍	200+ countries. Sovereign states plus regional aggregates.
💰	Full commitment breakdown. Total, IBRD, IDA, grant, and trust-fund splits per project.
🏷️	Rich classification. Sectors, themes, environmental category, lending instrument.
⚡	Fast. 100 records in under 30 seconds.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ This Actor	$5 free credit	500,000+ projects	Live per run	query, country, status, sector, year	⚡ 2 min
Manual projects.worldbank.org	Free	Manual	Live	Web filters	🕒 Manual
WB Open Data CSV exports	Free	All	Quarterly	Bulk only	🐢 ETL
DevTracker / commercial trackers	$200+/month	Different scope	Live	Yes	🐢 Account

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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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 World Bank Funded Projects Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick your filters and maxItems.
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

📊 Development Research Map aid flows by country and sector Track funding by theme over decades Compare IBRD vs IDA portfolio mix Analyze board-approval cycles	🌱 ESG & Sustainability Map climate-finance flows Track environmental-category projects Identify renewable-energy investments Build country ESG narratives
🏗️ Contractor Scouting Find pipeline projects in your sector Track active projects for sub-contracting Map implementing agencies Borrower analysis for outreach	📰 Journalism & Civic Investigate aid effectiveness Map controversial projects Track funding to fragile states Reporting on World Bank decisions

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🔌 Automating World Bank Funded Projects 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. Hourly, daily, or weekly refreshes keep downstream databases in sync automatically.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Development-economics dissertations Aid-effectiveness research Reproducible WB project snapshots Course materials with live data	🎨 Personal and creative Personal development-aid dashboards Side projects on global development Newsletter content Hobbyist civic-data exploration
🤝 Non-profit and civic NGO funding research Civic transparency dashboards Investigative reporting on aid Open-data contributions	🧪 Experimentation Train aid-classification models Prototype project-recommendation engines Build country-clustering experiments Test development-data viz libraries

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Provide a query, country, sector, status, or year filter. The Actor queries the World Bank Projects Operations API and emits one record per project.

📚 How many projects exist?

500,000+ records spanning 1947 to present. Active, Closed, Pipeline, and Dropped statuses are all included.

💰 What's the difference between IBRD and IDA?

IBRD lends to middle-income countries on near-market terms. IDA provides concessional loans and grants to the poorest countries. Most projects use one or both.

🌍 What does country: all return?

Every country plus regional aggregates. Multi-country projects appear once with a multi-country flag.

📅 How far back does data go?

1947, the year of the first IBRD loan. Coverage gets richer post-1990 as digital records become standard.

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to track new pipeline projects, status changes, or quarterly funding flows.

⚖️ Is this data public?

Yes. The World Bank publishes project data under its Open Data initiative with a permissive Creative Commons license.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs. A paid plan unlocks higher item counts and scheduling.

🆘 What if a run fails?

Apify retries transient errors. Partial datasets are preserved.

🔗 Where can I see the full project page?

Each record includes projectUrl linking to the official WB project page with documents, disbursements, and updates.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

World Bank Funded Projects Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• 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 the World Bank Group, the IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, ICSID, or any project borrower or implementing agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.