# TradingView Economic Calendar – Today (AU/US/GB) (`persimmon_yapok/tradingview-economic-calendar-today-au-us-gb`) Actor

Scrapes TradingView's economic calendar filtered to US/AU/GB and extracts events falling on 'today' in a given IANA timezone (default Australia/Sydney).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/persimmon_yapok/tradingview-economic-calendar-today-au-us-gb.md
- **Developed by:** [CloudStar](https://apify.com/persimmon_yapok) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.01 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## TradingView Economic Calendar — Today (AU/US/GB)

Apify actor that scrapes TradingView's economic calendar
(`https://www.tradingview.com/economic-calendar/`), filtered to a set of
countries (default `US,AU,GB`), and reports which events fall on **today**
in a given IANA timezone (default `Australia/Sydney`, i.e. AEDT/AEST — the
zone resolves daylight saving automatically, so no manual offset math is
needed across the switch).

### How it works

- No stable JSON API exists for this page (the data is backed by a
  WebSocket, not a plain XHR), so the actor drives a real headless Chromium
  via Playwright/Crawlee and reads the rendered DOM.
- The browser context's `timezoneId` is set to the target timezone, which
  makes TradingView itself render every row's timestamp in that zone —
  confirmed by reading each row's `<time datetime="...">` attribute (a real
  ISO-8601 UTC instant embedded in the DOM) and converting it with Luxon.
- "Today" is computed by comparing each event's timestamp to `now`, both in
  the target zone — not by trusting the page's own day-section headers.

### Run locally

```bash
npm install
npx playwright install chromium   # one-time
npm test                          # pure timezone logic, no network
npm run discover                  # dumps rendered HTML/screenshot to scripts/.out, for selector upkeep
npm run start:dev                 # runs the actor against the live site
```

Output lands in `storage/key_value_stores/default/OUTPUT.json` (summary) and
`storage/datasets/default/` (one JSON file per matching event). Set
`headless: false` via a local `storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json`
while iterating, to watch the browser.

### If TradingView changes their markup

Row extraction in `src/scraper.ts` relies on the stable `data-name`/
`data-country`/`data-symbol` attributes and a `<time datetime>` element,
plus a couple of `[class*="..."]` substring matches against CSS-module class
names that **will** rotate on TradingView's next frontend deploy. If the
actor starts returning zero rows: run `npm run discover`, open
`scripts/.out/calendar.html`, find the new class names for title/importance/
value cells, and update the selectors in `scraper.ts` (dated comment at the
top of that file).

### If TradingView starts blocking the actor

1. Set `proxyGroups: ["RESIDENTIAL"]` in the input — cheap, highest success
   rate.
2. If still blocked, add `playwright-extra` + a stealth plugin to patch
   headless-detection fingerprints Crawlee's built-in fingerprinting doesn't
   cover.

### Deploy to Apify

```bash
npx apify-cli@latest login
npx apify-cli@latest push
```

(No global Apify CLI install required — `npx` fetches it transiently.)

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Country codes to filter the calendar by (TradingView query param values).

## `timezone` (type: `string`):

IANA timezone used both for the Playwright browser context and for computing 'today'. Must be an IANA zone (e.g. Australia/Sydney), not a fixed offset, so DST is handled automatically.

## `minImportance` (type: `string`):

Only include events at or above this importance. Leave as 'low' to include everything.

## `useApifyProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Route requests through Apify Proxy. Turn off only for local testing without proxy credentials.

## `proxyGroups` (type: `array`):

Apify Proxy groups to use, e.g. RESIDENTIAL. Leave empty for the default datacenter proxy.

## `headless` (type: `boolean`):

Set to false only for local debugging.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many times to retry the page load/extraction if it fails (e.g. a transient network error or bot-detection block).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "US",
    "AU",
    "GB"
  ],
  "timezone": "Australia/Sydney",
  "minImportance": "low",
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "proxyGroups": [],
  "headless": true,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `todaysEvents` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("persimmon_yapok/tradingview-economic-calendar-today-au-us-gb").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("persimmon_yapok/tradingview-economic-calendar-today-au-us-gb").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call persimmon_yapok/tradingview-economic-calendar-today-au-us-gb --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,persimmon_yapok/tradingview-economic-calendar-today-au-us-gb"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GWkQwN2RCm2HiymFp/builds/ANYmUZHXF5NgtsbcA/openapi.json