EU TED Tender Scraper

What does this Actor do?

EU TED Tender Scraper looks up published public procurement notices on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU.

It calls the public TED Search API v3 at https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search. That endpoint is documented for anonymous reuse of notices that are already on TED. No API key and no TED login are used. This Actor does not scrape the TED website HTML, does not bypass access controls, and does not retrieve unpublished notices.

Each matching notice is flattened into one dataset item (title, buyer, CPV codes, deadline, links, and value when TED publishes them).

Ready-to-run examples (no setup)

Click Run on a pre-configured task — ideal for first-time users:

• Latest EU tenders in Hungary
• EU construction tenders in Hungary (CPV 45)
• EU IT services tenders in Germany (CPV 72)

Why use it?

• Monitor above-threshold EU tenders for selected buyer countries (default: Hungary).
• Filter by keywords, CPV codes, and publication-date range.
• Keep a structured dataset you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, or consume through the Apify API and integrations.
• Schedule runs on Apify if you want a recurring check. Scheduling is a platform feature; this Actor only queries TED when a run starts.

This is a data retrieval tool for public notices. It does not bid on tenders, score win probability, generate leads, or produce income. Coverage is limited to what TED publishes through Search API v3.

What data can it extract?

Field	Type	Description
publicationNumber	string	TED publication number, e.g. 578401-2026
publicationDate	string	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
noticeTitle	string	Notice title (English when TED provides it, otherwise another language)
noticeType	string	TED notice type code (e.g. cn-standard)
procedureType	string	Procurement procedure type when published
buyerName	string	Contracting authority name
buyerCountry	string	Buyer country as TED returns it (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, e.g. HUN)
cpvCodes	string[]	Deduplicated CPV codes
deadline	string or null	Tender receipt deadline when present (YYYY-MM-DD)
noticeUrl	string	Human-readable TED notice page
xmlUrl	string	TED XML download URL
estimatedValue	object or null	{ amount, currency } from procedure estimated value, or TED total-value when that is all TED returns
scrapedAt	string	UTC time when this notice was stored (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ)

TED notices are multilingual and not every field is filled on every form type (contract notices, awards, modifications, etc.). Empty or missing values stay null or [].

How to use

1. Open the Input tab and set Buyer countries. Use ISO alpha-2 (HU, DE) or TED alpha-3 (HUN, DEU). Two-letter codes are mapped to TED’s alpha-3 buyer-country values.
2. Optionally add Keywords (full-text FT~ expert search) and CPV codes.
3. Optionally set Publication date from / to as YYYY-MM-DD.
4. Set Maximum notices (1–500, default 50).
5. Run the Actor. Results land in the default dataset.

Locally (after installing Apify CLI):

cd eu-ted-tender-scraper
apify run --input-file example_input.json

Do not put API tokens in the Actor input. TED Search for published notices needs none. Apify platform credentials are only required for apify push / cloud runs, and they stay in your CLI or Console environment.

Input

See the Input tab for the generated form. Fields:

Field	Required	Default	Notes
countries	no	["HU"]	Buyer country codes. TED rejects alpha-2 in expert search; this Actor maps them.
keywords	no	—	Combined with OR
cpvCodes	no	—	Passed to classification-cpv; wildcards such as 72* are allowed by TED
maxItems	no	50	Integer 1–500
dateFrom	no	—	Inclusive publication date YYYY-MM-DD
dateTo	no	—	Inclusive publication date YYYY-MM-DD

Example (example_input.json) — Hungarian notices published in the week of 21–28 August 2026, capped at five items:

{
  "countries": ["HU"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-08-21",
  "dateTo": "2026-08-28",
  "maxItems": 5
}

Output

You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Example item shape (illustrative):

{
  "publicationNumber": "578401-2026",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-21",
  "noticeTitle": "Hungary – Telecommunications services – …",
  "buyerName": "Budapest Környéki Törvényszék",
  "buyerCountry": "HUN",
  "cpvCodes": ["64200000"],
  "deadline": null,
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/578401-2026",
  "xmlUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/578401-2026/xml",
  "estimatedValue": {
    "amount": 14445600,
    "currency": "HUF"
  }
}

Pricing and usage cost

• TED Search API v3 access for published notices is public and does not require a TED API key.
• Pay-per-event: each stored notice is charged as event tender-notice (see Pricing tab).
• Typical cost: $0.005 per notice + small Actor start fee + platform compute.
• Apify FREE tier includes $5/month usage credits — enough for hundreds of test notices.
• Schedule recurring runs on Apify to monitor new tenders automatically.

Limitations

• Only published notices available through TED Search API v3.
• TED buyer-country is ISO alpha-3. Dataset buyerCountry keeps that TED value (HUN, not HU).
• maxItems is capped at 500 per run. TED is queried with ITERATION pagination, page size 100.
• Historical completeness, translations, estimated values, and deadlines vary by notice type.
• The Actor retries transient HTTP errors and TED timedOut: true responses; persistent API errors fail the run.
• Respect TED’s published conditions for reuse of OJ S / TED data. This Actor is a client of the official API, not an official EU Publications Office product.

FAQ

Does this need a TED API key?
No. Published-notice search is anonymous. Do not add keys to input.

Why did HU work as input but the dataset says HUN?
TED indexes buyer-country=HUN. The Actor accepts HU in input and maps it. Output preserves TED’s alpha-3 code.

Can I search all EU countries?
Yes. Pass several codes, e.g. ["HU", "DE", "AT"]. Very broad queries with a high maxItems take longer and cost more compute.

Does it scrape ted.europa.eu pages?
No. It only POSTs to https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search.

Source

• TED Search API: https://docs.ted.europa.eu/api/latest/search.html
• TED developers’ corner: https://ted.europa.eu/en/simap/developers-corner-for-reusers

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