USCG CGMIX Approved Equipment Scraper

Scrapes the US Coast Guard's CGMIX Approved Equipment database — approval, manufacturer, and status details for equipment certified for use on commercial vessels and recreational boats. Pulls directly from the official EquipmentData XML web service (the same data source behind the public https://cgmix.uscg.mil/Equipment search UI), so results are structured and authoritative rather than scraped HTML.

Use cases

1. Marine equipment manufacturers/distributors — monitor competitor approval filings, check status and expiration dates for products in a category (life rafts, immersion suits, EPIRBs, fire suppression, etc.).
2. Vessel operators and compliance consultants — verify a piece of equipment is currently USCG-approved (not expired/superseded) before purchase or inspection.
3. Procurement researchers — build a filtered export of approved equipment by manufacturer or keyword for sourcing or compliance audits, instead of paging through the ASP.NET search form by hand.

Input

Field	Type	Description
manufacturerName	string	Filter by manufacturer/organization name (partial match)
keyWord	string	Filter by keyword against the equipment description
maxItems	integer	Max equipment records to return (default 100)
delaySeconds	number	Delay before each detail-fetch request (default 1.0s)
concurrency	integer	Detail-fetch requests in flight at once (default 5)

Set at least one of manufacturerName/keyWord — an unfiltered search returns hundreds of records from a single summary call.

Output fields

Field	Description
approvedEquipmentId	Unique CGMIX equipment ID
manufacturingPartyId	Unique CGMIX manufacturer ID
organizationName	Manufacturer/organization name
approvalSeriesId	Approval series unique ID
formattedSeriesNumber	Full approval series number (e.g. 160.010/101/0)
seriesNumber / subSeriesNumber / sequenceNumber / modificationCount	Approval number components
statusLookupName	Equipment status (e.g. APPROVED, FORMER-MAY USE)
shortDescription / longDescription	Equipment description
identifyingData	Identifying data (schedule/drawing numbers)
longRemarks	Detail remarks (production tests, supersession notes)
effectiveDtTm / expirationDtTm	Approval effective/expiration dates
mutualRecognitionAgreement	Mutual Recognition Agreement description/flag
manufacturerFirstStreet / manufacturerCity / manufacturerStateAbbr / manufacturerProvince / manufacturerPostalCode / manufacturerCountry	Manufacturer address
approvalSeriesDescription	Approval series description
sourceUrl	Public UI equivalent of this data

Example output

{
  "approvedEquipmentId": "1677",
  "manufacturingPartyId": "671303",
  "organizationName": "SURVITEC GROUP LTD.",
  "approvalSeriesId": "8",
  "formattedSeriesNumber": "160.010/101/0",
  "seriesNumber": "160",
  "subSeriesNumber": "010",
  "sequenceNumber": "101",
  "modificationCount": "0",
  "statusLookupName": "APPROVED",
  "shortDescription": "\"FERRYMAN 25\" (also known as \"RFD ELLIOT\", \"RFD CREWSAVER\" or \"SURVITEC SURVIVAL PRODUCTS\"), 25-person capacity inflatable buoyant apparatus, packed in a rigid FRP container.",
  "longDescription": "Buoyant appartus and components may be manufactured in accordance with approved Quality Manual through Survitec Head Office at RFD Beaufort Ltd., Kingsway, Dunmurry, Belfast, BT17 9AF, UK...",
  "identifyingData": "Identifying Data:  Schedule No. D41832 with attached drawing index, Schedule No. D42311, Main Assembly drawing No. D41832 (issue 5), and RFD Design Change Sheets 7930, 8076, and 9247A3.",
  "longRemarks": "Production tests and inspections supervised by John H. MacIlwaine & Son at Dunmurry and China, by Element Cleveland at Sharon Center, by ABS at Vancouver, and by BV at Chevanceaux.",
  "effectiveDtTm": "2022-09-13T00:00:00-04:00",
  "expirationDtTm": "2027-09-13T00:00:00-04:00",
  "mutualRecognitionAgreement": "",
  "manufacturerFirstStreet": "KINGSWAY, DUNMURRY",
  "manufacturerCity": "BELFAST",
  "manufacturerStateAbbr": "",
  "manufacturerProvince": "",
  "manufacturerPostalCode": "BT17 9AF",
  "manufacturerCountry": "UNITED KINGDOM",
  "approvalSeriesDescription": "BUOYANT APPARATUS FOR MERCHANT VESSELS",
  "sourceUrl": "https://cgmix.uscg.mil/Equipment/EquipmentSearch.aspx"
}

Pricing

$5.00 per 1,000 results (Pay-Per-Event, ~$0.005/result).

Results	Cost
100	$0.50
500	$2.50
1,000	$5.00
5,000	$25.00