EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) Product Recalls & Alerts Scraper

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns:

{
  "alertNumber": "SR/02169/26",
  "alertLevel": "Serious risk",
  "productName": "Camping chair",
  "productCategory": "Furniture",
  "brand": "Biltema",
  "model": "37-516",
  "specificName": "Campingstol, 8 positioner",
  "barcodes": [],
  "batchNumbers": [],
  "riskTypes": ["Injuries"],
  "riskDescription": "The aluminium chair frame breaks where the inner metal reinforcement ends and the chair may unexpectedly collapse, leading to injuries. The product does not comply with the General Product Safety Regulation nor with the European standards EN 581-1 and EN 581-2.",
  "description": "Outdoor folding chair for camping use.",
  "measures": [
    {
      "operator": "Manufacturer",
      "category": "Recall of the product from end users",
      "entryIntoForceDate": "29/06/2026"
    }
  ],
  "measuresText": "Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Manufacturer. Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users. Date of entry into force: 29/06/2026",
  "recallUrl": "https://www.biltema.se/om-biltema/kundservice/produktinformation/aterkallelser/aterkallelse-av-campingstol-37-516/",
  "companyRecallCode": null,
  "productionDates": null,
  "notifyingCountry": "Sweden",
  "countryOfOrigin": "People's Republic of China",
  "productType": "Consumer",
  "onlineTrader": "Other(https://www.biltema.se) /",
  "soldOnline": "Yes",
  "images": [
    "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/public/api/notification/image/11229134",
    "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/public/api/notification/image/11229135"
  ],
  "imageUrl": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/public/api/notification/image/11229134",
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10099512",
  "notificationId": 10099512,
  "reportReference": "Report-2026-31",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-07",
  "publicationWeek": 31,
  "publicationYear": 2026,
  "observedAt": "2026-08-11T23:18:25.409Z",
  "error": null
}

The most complete EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) scraper available. It returns every field the European Commission Safety Gate alerts portal exposes for each dangerous non-food product alert, including risk description, ordered measures, notifying country, country of origin and online-trader details, plus optional AI add-ons for summaries, severity scoring and structured extraction, and gives you nine filters to target exactly the alerts you need.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor collects dangerous non-food product alerts from the EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) portal run by the European Commission. It scans the weekly reports newest-first, applies the filters you pass as input, and writes one normalized record per alert to the run's dataset. Missing source values are returned as null, and structured fields such as measures, riskTypes, barcodes and images are parsed into clean arrays.

Three optional AI add-ons are available on paid Apify plans and off by default: a plain-language aiSummary, an aiSeverity risk classification with aiRiskScore and aiRiskRationale, and a structured aiExtract. Each is billed only when it produces output.

The source is reached through Apify Residential proxy in the EU (Germany) by default, which is the most reliable way to load the European Commission portal from a datacenter.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns up to 5 recent Safety Gate alerts.

{
  "maxAlerts": 5,
  "soldOnlineOnly": false
}

Every input field is optional. With an empty input the actor returns the most recent alerts (default maxAlerts is 10) with no AI add-ons.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxAlerts	integer	no	10	Maximum alerts to collect. Free Apify plans are capped at 10 per run.
publicationDateFrom	string	no	(empty)	Include alerts published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Alerts are scanned newest-first, so a from-date makes large pulls fast.
publicationDateTo	string	no	(empty)	Include alerts published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
productCategory	string	no	(empty)	Keyword matched against product category, for example toys, electrical, cosmetics, motor vehicles, childcare.
riskType	string	no	(empty)	Keyword matched against risk type, for example chemical, choking, strangulation, burns, electric shock, fire.
notifyingCountry	string	no	(empty)	Country that reported the alert. Name or ISO code, for example Germany or DE.
countryOfOrigin	string	no	(empty)	Country where the product was made. Name or ISO code, for example China or CN.
measureType	string	no	(empty)	Keyword matched against ordered measures, for example recall, withdrawal, ban, import rejection.
keyword	string	no	(empty)	Keyword matched against product name, brand, model, description and reference number, for example a brand or lithium battery.
soldOnlineOnly	boolean	no	false	If enabled, only include alerts for products sold online.
maxScan	integer	no	200	Safety cap on how many weekly reports (newest first) are opened. Each report holds roughly 40 to 70 alerts. Raise it for large historical pulls with narrow filters.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Residential (DE)	Standard Apify proxy configuration. Defaults to Apify Residential proxy in the EU.
withSummary	boolean	no	false	Paid AI add-on. Adds a plain-language aiSummary. Billed only when produced. Requires a paid Apify plan.
withSeverity	boolean	no	false	Paid AI add-on. Adds aiSeverity (low/medium/high/serious), a 0 to 100 aiRiskScore and aiRiskRationale. Billed only when produced. Requires a paid Apify plan.
withExtract	boolean	no	false	Paid AI add-on. Adds a structured aiExtract (product, hazard type, risk, brand, origin, measures). Billed only when produced. Requires a paid Apify plan.

Text filters are case-insensitive and match on "contains". Filters combine with logical AND.

Output reference

One dataset item per alert. Types: string, integer, string[], object[], or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
alertNumber	string	Safety Gate alert number, for example SR/02169/26.
alertLevel	string	Risk level, for example Serious risk.
productName	string	Product name.
productCategory	string	Product category, for example Furniture, Toys.
brand	string	Brand name.
model	string	Model or type number.
specificName	string	Specific product name as reported.
barcodes	string[]	Product barcodes / EAN codes.
batchNumbers	string[]	Affected batch numbers.
riskTypes	string[]	Risk types, for example Injuries, Chemical.
riskDescription	string	Full description of the hazard and non-compliance.
description	string	Product description.
measures	object[]	Ordered measures, each with operator, category, entryIntoForceDate.
measuresText	string	Measures as a single text block.
recallUrl	string	External company recall page, or null.
companyRecallCode	string	Company recall code, or null.
productionDates	string	Production dates, or null.
notifyingCountry	string	Country that reported the alert.
countryOfOrigin	string	Country where the product was made.
productType	string	Product type, for example Consumer.
onlineTrader	string	Online trader details, or null.
soldOnline	string	Whether the product was sold online (Yes / No).
images	string[]	Product image URLs.
imageUrl	string	Primary product image URL.
url	string	Canonical Safety Gate alert detail URL.
notificationId	integer	Internal Safety Gate notification ID.
reportReference	string	Weekly report reference, for example Report-2026-31.
publicationDate	string	Date the alert was published (YYYY-MM-DD).
publicationWeek	integer	Week number of publication.
publicationYear	integer	Year of publication.
aiSummary	string	AI plain-language summary. Present only when the withSummary add-on ran.
aiSeverity	string	AI severity class. Present only when withSeverity ran.
aiRiskScore	integer	AI risk score 0 to 100. Present only when withSeverity ran.
aiRiskRationale	string	One-sentence rationale. Present only when withSeverity ran.
aiExtract	object	AI structured extract. Present only when withExtract ran.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
error	string	null on success. On a failed run, a single item with a populated error field is written instead.

Example output record

Real record from a live run (input {"maxAlerts": 5, "soldOnlineOnly": false}):

{
  "alertNumber": "SR/02169/26",
  "alertLevel": "Serious risk",
  "productName": "Camping chair",
  "productCategory": "Furniture",
  "brand": "Biltema",
  "model": "37-516",
  "riskTypes": ["Injuries"],
  "riskDescription": "The aluminium chair frame breaks where the inner metal reinforcement ends and the chair may unexpectedly collapse, leading to injuries.",
  "measures": [
    { "operator": "Manufacturer", "category": "Recall of the product from end users", "entryIntoForceDate": "29/06/2026" }
  ],
  "recallUrl": "https://www.biltema.se/om-biltema/kundservice/produktinformation/aterkallelser/aterkallelse-av-campingstol-37-516/",
  "notifyingCountry": "Sweden",
  "countryOfOrigin": "People's Republic of China",
  "soldOnline": "Yes",
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10099512",
  "notificationId": 10099512,
  "reportReference": "Report-2026-31",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-07",
  "publicationWeek": 31,
  "publicationYear": 2026,
  "observedAt": "2026-08-11T23:18:25.409Z",
  "error": null
}

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~eu-safety-gate-recalls-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"productCategory":"toys","riskType":"choking","maxAlerts":25}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~eu-safety-gate-recalls-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countryOfOrigin":"China","publicationDateFrom":"2026-01-01","maxAlerts":100}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/eu-safety-gate-recalls-scraper \
  --input '{"keyword":"lithium battery","maxAlerts":10}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per alert record returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• Optional AI add-ons are billed as separate events only when they produce output: ai_summary, ai_severity and ai_extract. They are off by default and require a paid Apify plan.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors, the actor writes a single item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results and add-ons.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run and cannot use the AI add-ons. Upgrade for higher maxAlerts.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? The filter combination matched nothing within the weekly reports scanned. Loosen filters, widen the date range, or raise maxScan. Zero-result runs are not charged.

Why did a filtered historical pull stop early? Weekly reports are opened newest-first up to maxScan (default 200). Raise maxScan for large historical pulls with narrow filters.

Why are the ai* fields missing? The AI add-ons are off by default. Enable withSummary, withSeverity or withExtract on a paid Apify plan. Free plans cannot use them.

Why is recallUrl, companyRecallCode or productionDates null? The Safety Gate alert did not include that value. Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

Is this an official European Commission tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with the European Commission. It reads only data that is publicly available on the Safety Gate portal. Use it in accordance with the portal terms.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with the European Commission. Accesses only publicly available EU Safety Gate data. Use in accordance with the portal terms.