Company ESG & Sustainability Data Extractor

What this Actor does

Extract ESG and sustainability metrics, carbon commitments, and net-zero targets from public company sustainability and ESG report web pages that you supply.

It processes user-provided public URLs, reads schema.org Organization JSON-LD for the company name, scans visible page text for ESG keywords grouped by metric category (carbon, energy, water, waste, diversity, governance), pairs those keywords with nearby numeric values and units, and optionally captures net-zero and reduction-target commitment sentences. It normalizes useful fields, deduplicates rows, and saves structured records to the Apify dataset.

Why this Actor is useful

Sustainability analysts, investors, and procurement teams pay for this kind of extraction because it converts unstructured ESG narrative reports into clean, comparable datasets. It saves manual reading, creates repeatable monitoring, feeds spreadsheets, dashboards, or scoring models, and turns public ESG pages into API-ready data.

Who this is for

• ESG and sustainability analysts
• Investment and ESG research teams
• Corporate sustainability and procurement teams
• Data providers and ESG rating builders
• Journalists and NGOs tracking corporate climate claims
• B2B teams enriching company sustainability profiles

Common use cases

• Build comparable ESG metric datasets across many companies
• Track net-zero and carbon-neutral commitments and target years
• Monitor reported Scope 1/2/3 emissions over time
• Enrich company profiles with sustainability data points
• Feed ESG scoring or screening models

Input

• startUrls: Public URLs to extract from. Use only pages you are allowed to access without login or bypassing access controls.
• keywords: Optional additional ESG or sustainability terms to match on top of the built-in keyword library.
• includeCommitments: Capture net-zero, carbon-neutral, and reduction-target sentences as commitment rows with an extracted target year.
• maxItems: Maximum number of rows to save.
• maxConcurrency: Number of pages processed in parallel. The default is intentionally conservative.
• requestTimeoutSecs: Maximum time to spend on a single page.
• proxyConfiguration: Optional Apify proxy configuration where permitted by your source review.

Output

• companyName: Company name when exposed in Organization structured data.
• sourceUrl: URL where the data was extracted.
• metricCategory: Category such as carbon, energy, water, waste, diversity, governance, commitment, or other.
• metricName: The matched metric label (for example, Scope 1 emissions).
• metricValue: The numeric value found near the metric keyword.
• unit: Detected unit such as %, tCO2e, MWh, or similar.
• reportingYear: Reporting year detected in the same sentence when available.
• targetYear: Target year detected for commitment rows.
• commitmentText: The captured net-zero or reduction-target sentence.
• framework: Reporting frameworks referenced on the page (GRI, SASB, TCFD, CDP, SDG).
• extractedAt: Timestamp when this Actor extracted the row.
• extractionMethod: structured_data, text_extraction, or commitment_text.
• confidenceScore: Heuristic confidence score (structured 0.9, text-derived 0.6-0.8).
• missingFields: Required fields (companyName, metricName, metricValue, reportingYear) not available from the source page.

Sample input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.apple.com/environment/"
    }
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "includeCommitments": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

Sample output

A real commitment row from Apple's environment page (metric rows look like the second example):

{
  "companyName": "Apple",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.apple.com/environment/",
  "metricCategory": "commitment",
  "metricName": "Net-zero / reduction commitment",
  "metricValue": null,
  "unit": null,
  "reportingYear": null,
  "targetYear": 2030,
  "commitmentText": "We’re closer than ever to Apple 2030: Our ambitious, science-based goal to become carbon neutral across our global footprint.",
  "framework": "CDP",
  "extractedAt": "2026-10-23T00:05:00.000Z",
  "extractionMethod": "text_extraction",
  "confidenceScore": 0.7,
  "missingFields": [
    "metricValue",
    "reportingYear"
  ]
}

{
  "companyName": "Example Manufacturing Group",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "metricCategory": "carbon",
  "metricName": "Scope 1 emissions",
  "metricValue": 125000,
  "unit": "tCO2e",
  "reportingYear": 2024,
  "targetYear": null,
  "commitmentText": null,
  "framework": "GRI",
  "extractedAt": "2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "extractionMethod": "structured_data",
  "confidenceScore": 0.9,
  "missingFields": []
}

How to use

Run this Actor on Apify with public URLs, export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or through the Apify API, then connect the output to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, a webhook, your CRM, or an internal dashboard. For monitoring, save the input as an Apify task and schedule recurring runs.

Pricing

This Actor uses a pay-per-event model: $0.01 per extraction. You pay only for the structured rows the Actor produces, which keeps costs predictable and tied directly to delivered data.

Best practices

• Start with a small set of reviewed public ESG and sustainability report URLs.
• Prefer the main sustainability or ESG data pages rather than PDF download links.
• Add domain-specific terms via keywords when a company uses non-standard metric names.
• Keep includeCommitments enabled to capture net-zero and target language.
• Keep maxConcurrency low for smaller websites.
• Review source website rules before scheduling recurring runs.
• Treat text-derived values as candidates for human review before downstream scoring.

Compliance and responsible use

This Actor is for public data only. It must not be used to bypass logins, paywalls, CAPTCHAs, or security systems, collect private data, gather sensitive personal data, or support spam or abuse. You are responsible for following applicable laws and source website rules.

Limitations

• Output quality depends on the public ESG content available on the source pages.
• Text-derived extraction is heuristic. Numeric values and units are matched near keywords and may need human verification before use in scoring.
• The Actor reads HTML pages and does not parse PDF reports.
• Some fields may be empty when the source does not publish them, and they are reported in missingFields rather than inferred.
• The Actor does not claim support for any specific third-party ESG platform.
• Website markup and access policies can change.

Troubleshooting

• Empty output usually means the page has no recognizable ESG keywords paired with numeric values.
• Invalid URL errors mean one or more input URLs are malformed.
• Slow runs can usually be improved by lowering maxConcurrency.
• Missing fields are source-data limitations, not inferred values.

Changelog

• v0.2.0: Production-readiness pass with improved positioning, samples, schema descriptions, and responsible-use notes.

Use Company ESG & Sustainability Data Extractor with AI agents (MCP)

Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client this Actor as a tool through the hosted Apify MCP server. The agent sees the input fields with descriptions and example values, runs the Actor, and reads the results.

MCP server URL (this Actor only):

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=technicaldost/company-esg-sustainability-extractor

Claude Code:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=technicaldost/company-esg-sustainability-extractor" --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"

Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop and other clients (mcp.json or the client's MCP settings):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=technicaldost/company-esg-sustainability-extractor",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Clients that support sign-in (such as Claude.ai connectors) can use the URL without a token and log in to Apify instead. Get your token in Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations, or generate a ready config for your client at mcp.apify.com. In the agent the tool is named technicaldost--company-esg-sustainability-extractor; ask it, for example, to "run Company ESG & Sustainability Data Extractor with {"startUrls": [{"url": "https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/"}], "maxItems": 20}".

AI agents without an Apify account can also run and pay for this Actor per request with x402 agentic payments.

Run Company ESG & Sustainability Data Extractor via API

Run the Actor and get its results in one call (replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/technicaldost~company-esg-sustainability-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/"}], "maxItems": 20}'

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("technicaldost/company-esg-sustainability-extractor").call(run_input={"startUrls": [{"url": "https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/"}], "maxItems": 20})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript / TypeScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('technicaldost/company-esg-sustainability-extractor').call({"startUrls": [{"url": "https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/"}], "maxItems": 20});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Long runs: start them with POST /v2/acts/technicaldost~company-esg-sustainability-extractor/runs and fetch the dataset when the run finishes, or receive a webhook.

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FAQ

Can I use Company ESG & Sustainability Data Extractor with AI agents like Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes. Connect the Apify MCP server with ?tools=technicaldost/company-esg-sustainability-extractor (see above) and the agent can run the Actor and read its results on its own.

Can I call Company ESG & Sustainability Data Extractor from my own code?

Yes. Use the REST API, or the official Python and JavaScript clients shown above. Results are available as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

How do I run it on a schedule?

Save your input as a task in Apify Console and add a schedule (for example, daily). Use webhooks or integrations to send each run's results onward.

Is it legal to use this Actor?

It works with publicly available data. Make sure your use complies with the source website's terms and with data protection laws such as GDPR, especially for personal data.

Something doesn't work or I need a feature. What should I do?

Open an issue in the Issues tab on this Actor's page with an example input, and we'll look into it.