# IDB Procurement Notices Scraper (`publicmoney/idb-procurement-scraper`) Actor

Extract Inter-American Development Bank procurement notices: general and specific procurement notices, expressions of interest and contract awards with country, project, loan number, sector, dates and the notice document link.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/publicmoney/idb-procurement-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Public Money](https://apify.com/publicmoney) (Apify)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 tenders

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

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# README

This Actor reads the Inter-American Development Bank's project procurement notices — general and specific procurement notices, expressions of interest, requests for information and contract awards in IDB-financed projects across Latin America and the Caribbean — and returns one record per notice with country, project, loan, sector, dates and the link to the notice document.

### What it does

- Returns **every notice IDB publishes**: 37,581 rows from July 2000 to October 2026 when this was verified, newest first.
- **Filters at the source**: notice type, country, publication-date range and a title keyword.
- Reads the same data the IDB notices page shows, including columns the page does not display: notice id, loan number, project link, the notice document link and both sector fields.
- Handles iadb.org's bot protection and the report's access token on every run; nothing needs configuring.

### Use cases

| You need to | How this Actor does it |
| --- | --- |
| Find IDB tenders in your sector | Filter by type `SPECIFIC` and a title keyword, read the deadline |
| Track who IDB projects award to | Filter by type `AWARD` and open `documentUrl` |
| Watch a country's pipeline | Filter by country and a recent publication date, schedule the run |
| Build a Latin American procurement feed | Run daily with `publishedFrom` set to yesterday |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it controls |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `noticeTypes` | array | empty | `SPECIFIC`, `AWARD`, `GENERAL`, `EOI`, `REQUEST FOR INFORMATION` |
| `countries` | array | empty | Country names as IDB writes them, e.g. `BRAZIL`, `COSTA RICA` |
| `keyword` | string | empty | Anywhere in the title, case-insensitive |
| `publishedFrom` / `publishedTo` | date | empty | Publication-date range |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Caps how many notices are returned, and so the cost |

```json
{
    "noticeTypes": ["SPECIFIC", "EOI"],
    "countries": ["COLOMBIA"],
    "publishedFrom": "2026-09-01"
}
```

### Output

```json
{
    "noticeId": 39193,
    "noticeType": "EOI",
    "country": "ARGENTINA",
    "projectNumber": "AR-L1386",
    "projectUrl": "https://www.iadb.org/en/project/AR-L1386",
    "loanNumber": "5824/OC-AR",
    "noticeTitle": "DISEÑO DE LA ESTRATEGIA INSTITUCIONAL DE PROSALTA",
    "documentUrl": "https://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=EZIDB0000029-1425284789-740",
    "projectName": "Programa de Desarrollo Productivo y Exportador de la Provincia de Salta",
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-02",
    "deadline": "2026-10-16",
    "sector": "COMERCIO",
    "sectorIdb": "Trade & Investment Division"
}
```

### Coverage and limits

- Titles are in the borrowing country's language (mostly Spanish and Portuguese), as published.
- The source data has no winner or amount column, award notices included; `documentUrl` links the notice document as IDB publishes it.
- A notice published with two values in one column (for example two sectors) appears once per value: 37,581 rows carry 37,544 distinct notice ids.

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `tender-scraper` event per notice written to the dataset. The optional schema.org block is charged once per run.

# Actor input Schema

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

Keeps notices of these types, filtered at the source. Leave empty for all five.

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

Borrowing countries as IDB names them, in capitals or not. Examples: 'BRAZIL' (7,000 notices when verified), 'PERU', 'COSTA RICA'.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Matched anywhere in the notice title, case-insensitive. Example: 'carretera' (353). Titles are in the borrower's language.

## `publishedFrom` (type: `string`):

Keeps notices published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `publishedTo` (type: `string`):

Keeps notices published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many notices are written to the dataset, and so caps the cost. Set to 0 for everything matched — 37,581 rows when verified.

## `schemaOrg` (type: `boolean`):

Appends a `schemaOrg` object to every record, mapping it to schema.org (Demand). Charged once per run, not per record.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 500,
  "schemaOrg": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Projects matched by the run, one item per record, in the default dataset.

# 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 = {
    "maxItems": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("publicmoney/idb-procurement-scraper").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 = { "maxItems": 500 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("publicmoney/idb-procurement-scraper").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 '{
  "maxItems": 500
}' |
apify call publicmoney/idb-procurement-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,publicmoney/idb-procurement-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/ZbnBEmdHeCLCH2INj/builds/boIUP9iPfvD4TGf48/openapi.json