ECB Euro Financial Data Scraper

Get official European Central Bank statistics as tidy, ready-to-use JSON rows: euro foreign-exchange reference rates (EUR vs ~40 currencies), the ECB key policy interest rates, euro-area HICP inflation, and euro-area government bond yields. Friendly one-click presets, a raw-series passthrough for power users, flexible date ranges, and an optional AI trend insight.

Perfect for fintech apps, treasury and FX operations, economic research, and compliance teams that convert to euros at the official ECB reference rate.

What you get

One clean row per observation, with the value already parsed as a number and labelled with its date, series title, frequency, and unit. No SDMX wrangling on your side.

{
  "dataset": "exchange_rates",
  "flowRef": "EXR",
  "seriesKey": "D.USD.EUR.SP00.A",
  "seriesLabel": "USD/EUR reference rate",
  "date": "2026-08-14",
  "value": 1.1567,
  "title": "ECB reference exchange rate, US dollar/Euro, 2.15 pm (C.E.T.)",
  "frequency": "Daily",
  "unit": "US dollar",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-16T20:23:07.055Z",
  "error": null
}

Datasets (presets)

Dataset	What it returns	Key options
exchange_rates	Daily euro FX reference rate, EUR vs a currency you choose (units of that currency per 1 euro)	currency (USD, GBP, JPY, CHF, CNY, AUD, CAD, SEK, PLN, ...)
policy_rates	ECB key interest rates: main refinancing, deposit facility, marginal lending	rateType (main, deposit, lending, all)
inflation_hicp	Euro-area HICP annual rate of change (headline inflation), monthly	date range / last N
yield_curve	Euro-area AAA government bond spot yield, 10Y, daily	date range / last N
raw	Any ECB series you want, using your own dataflow and key	flowRef + key

Input

Field	Type	Description
dataset	string	Preset to pull: exchange_rates, policy_rates, inflation_hicp, yield_curve, or raw.
currency	string	For exchange_rates: 3-letter ISO code quoted against the euro. Default USD.
rateType	string	For policy_rates: main, deposit, lending, or all.
flowRef	string	For raw: the ECB dataflow reference (EXR, FM, ICP, YC, BSI, MIR, ...).
key	string	For raw: the ECB series key, for example D.GBP.EUR.SP00.A.
lastNObservations	integer	Return the most recent N observations. Default 30. Free plans capped at 10.
dateFrom / dateTo	string	Optional period range (YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM / YYYY). When both are set they take precedence over lastNObservations.
withAiInsight	boolean	Opt-in AI trend summary of the returned series (paid add-on, one charge per run).

Output fields

Field	Description
dataset	The preset used (or raw).
flowRef	ECB dataflow used for the request.
seriesKey	ECB series key requested.
seriesLabel	Human-readable label (currency name or policy rate / series name).
date	Observation date or period.
value	Observation value as a number (null observations are skipped).
title	Full ECB series title.
frequency	Series frequency (Daily, Monthly, ...).
unit	Unit of the observation (US dollar, Percent per annum, Index, ...).
observedAt	Timestamp of the scrape.
error	Populated only if a request failed; that row is never billed.

Use cases

• FX and treasury: pull the official euro reference rate for USD, GBP, JPY, CHF, CNY and dozens more to price invoices, revalue balances, and hedge exposure.
• Compliance and accounting: convert to euros at the recognised ECB reference rate for VAT, transfer pricing, and financial reporting.
• Fintech and dashboards: feed live euro exchange rates, policy rates, inflation, and bond yields into apps, alerts, and analytics.
• Economic research: track ECB monetary policy, euro-area HICP inflation, and the government bond yield curve over any date range.
• Rate monitoring: watch the main refinancing, deposit facility, and marginal lending rates for policy changes.

Billing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• result ($0.008): one ECB observation row (FX rate, policy rate, inflation reading, bond yield, or raw series point). Failed requests emit an unbilled error row and are never charged.
• AI trend insight ($0.012): optional, opt-in via withAiInsight. After fetching the series, one AI call summarizes the trend in plain English (direction, quantified change, notable observations). Emitted as a single ai_insight row and charged once per run, only when usable output is produced. Disabled for free Apify users.

Free Apify plans are capped at 10 results per run. Data comes from the official ECB Data Portal.