You can access the IMF World Economic Outlook Intelligence programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "countries": "USA,GBR,DEU",
10    "indicators": "NGDP_RPCH,PCPI",
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("wakey7dev/imf-weo-normalizer").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

IMF WEO Scraper | Economic Outlook Data API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use IMF World Economic Outlook Intelligence API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

IMF World Economic Outlook Intelligence API in JavaScript

IMF World Economic Outlook Intelligence API through CLI

IMF World Economic Outlook Intelligence OpenAPI definition

IMF World Economic Outlook Intelligence API

IMF World Economic Outlook Scraper

muhammadafzal/imf-world-economic-outlook-scraper

Extract normalized IMF World Economic Outlook indicators for countries, regions, and analytical groups by year, including GDP growth, inflation, GDP, debt, unemployment, and current-account series.

Muhammad Afzal

IMF Data Scraper

parseforge/imf-data-scraper

Scrapes IMF World Economic Outlook indicators by country and year range. Returns a flat dataset of country-year observations for inflation, GDP, unemployment, debt, and other series.

ParseForge

IMF World Economic Data Tracker

gochujang/imf-economic-data

Fetch GDP growth, inflation, current account, government debt, unemployment, and investment data for 190+ countries from the IMF DataMapper API. Filter by indicator, country, and year range. Free, no API key required. Ideal for macro research and economic dashboards.

Hojun Lee

IMF World Economic Outlook Data Scraper

automation-lab/imf-world-economic-outlook-data

Export normalized IMF World Economic Outlook country-indicator historical and forecast observations by country, indicator, and year.

Automation Lab

IMF Economic Data Search

ryanclinton/imf-economic-data

Access macroeconomic data from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) database covering 190+ countries.

Ryan Clinton

IMF World Economic Outlook Scraper

parseforge/imf-weo-scraper

Scrapes IMF World Economic Outlook indicator values by code and optional ISO-3 country. Returns a flat time series with country, indicator, year, and value.

ParseForge

IMF Forecasts: GDP, Inflation and Debt by Country

scrapemint/imf-economic-forecasts

The IMF's World Economic Outlook figures and projections for around 230 countries and blocs: GDP growth, inflation, government debt, unemployment and more, with each year marked as observed or forecast. Keyless, no browser and no proxy.

Ken M

IMF Macroeconomic Data & Indicators Scraper

scrapers_lat/imf-data-scraper

Scrape IMF macroeconomic time series as flat rows: indicator code and name, country, year, value, unit and dataset. Pick indicators, countries and a year range across World Economic Outlook, Fiscal Monitor, Global Debt Database and more. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Scrapers Lat

Imf Data Scraper

velvety_bedbug/imf-data-scraper

Fetch macroeconomic indicator data from the World Bank Open Data API. Get GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, and 10,000+ other indicators for 200+ countries by year range.