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How to monitor EU public tenders as JSON — TED procurement data without an API key

Steadfetch — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:14:27 +0000

If you sell to the public sector, run market research, or build bid alerts, you need procurement notices as clean JSON: buyer, title, value, deadline, URL. The official source for EU procurement is TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. If you are looking at Spain's national platform (PLACSP) for clean data, note that every EU-threshold contract from Spanish buyers is published on TED too, in one standard format.

The good news: TED's Search API is public and needs no key. The catch: you still have to build the query payload, respect its fair-use limits, normalize fields, and remember which notices you already saw yesterday.

This post shows both paths: the raw API, and a small monitor that does the boring parts for you.

Option 1: call the TED Search API directly

TED exposes a keyless JSON endpoint:

curl -s -X POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"(FT ~ (\"software\"))","fields":["publication-number","notice-title","buyer-name"],"limit":"10"}'

This is free and official. What you still have to build yourself:

the query DSL (full-text syntax, CPV codes, country filters, publication-date windows);
rate-limit handling (TED's fair use: 700 requests/minute, 600 downloads per 6 minutes);
delta handling — TED has no "only what's new since my last run";
normalizing notices into one schema your app can consume.

That last pair is what usually bites: a monitor that re-alerts on notices you already sent, or a parser that breaks when a field is missing.

Option 2: a monitor that returns only new rows in a fixed schema

steadfetch/ted-tender-monitor (Apify Store) wraps TED — and, in the same run, USAspending for US federal contract awards — and returns one row per notice in a unified camelCase schema. Key properties:

Saved queries: 1–50 per run. TED queries accept text, cpv, countries, minValueEur; USAspending queries accept text, agencies, naics.
Delta-only: each run skips (source, noticeId) pairs it already delivered. A daily schedule becomes a clean stream of new notices, and a run with 0 new rows emits 0 result charges (monitor-mode checks are still billed).
Deadline-first: every TED row carries deadlineAt, the published submission deadline (or request-to-participations for restricted/negotiated procedures). Award, planning and modification notices have no deadline, so they are never delivered from TED.
Tested daily against the live sources (last verified: 2026-10-30, per the Store listing); schema-invalid rows are discarded instead of delivered.

Example input — software tenders from Spanish buyers worth €100k or more:

{
  "source": "ted",
  "queries": [
    { "text": "software", "countries": ["ES"], "cpv": ["48000000"], "minValueEur": 100000 }
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "monitorMode": true
}

Running it from your code

REST (any language):

curl -s -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~ted-tender-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"source":"ted","queries":[{"text":"software","countries":["ES"],"minValueEur":100000}],"maxResults":50,"monitorMode":true}'

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('steadfetch/ted-tender-monitor').call({
  source: 'ted',
  queries: [{ text: 'software', countries: ['ES'], minValueEur: 100000 }],
  maxResults: 50,
  monitorMode: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python (pip install apify-client):

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("steadfetch/ted-tender-monitor").call(
    run_input={
        "source": "ted",
        "queries": [{"text": "software", "countries": ["ES"], "minValueEur": 100000}],
        "maxResults": 50,
        "monitorMode": True,
    }
)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

What a row looks like

Real example from the Actor's documented test fixture (a USAspending award; TED rows use the same fields):

{
  "source": "usaspending",
  "noticeId": "CONT_AWD_36C25024F0188_3600_47QTCA19D00MV_4732",
  "title": "GEO TAB - SAGINAW",
  "buyer": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
  "country": "US",
  "cpv": [],
  "value": 13162,
  "currency": "USD",
  "publishedAt": "2023-12-01",
  "deadlineAt": null,
  "periodEndAt": "2024-11-30",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C25024F0188_3600_47QTCA19D00MV_4732",
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-19T12:00:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

For TED rows: noticeId is the TED publication number, buyer the contracting authority, cpv the CPV codes, deadlineAt the tendering deadline, and value/currency exactly what the source publishes (no conversion, no invented amounts). url points to the official notice page.

Pricing

Pay per result, not per run: $4.00 per 1,000 new rows (plus a negligible per-run start event), and $1.00 per 1,000 records checked in monitor mode. A run that finds no new rows emits 0 rows and 0 result charges; monitor-mode checks are still billed. On the Apify free plan that is roughly 1,249 tenders out of the $5 monthly credit. The Store listing shows the current price with plan discounts.

Scope and limits (the honest part)

TED covers EU-threshold notices — including Spanish buyers. Below-threshold national notices stay on PLACSP; this Actor does not read PLACSP.
US awards come from USAspending (USD amounts, no CPV).
Public data only: TED contact/person/UBO fields are never requested and are scrubbed before delivery.
Both upstream APIs are official, keyless and, per their terms, freely reusable for commercial purposes.

Repo with ready-to-copy examples: github.com/steadfetch/examples/ted-tender-monitor (API, JavaScript, Python and a real sample output).

We build this Actor at Steadfetch. Price and numbers are from the Actor's public README; nothing here is sponsored by Apify.

Monitor UK Companies House changes as delta events — without building your own polling pipeline

Steadfetch — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 03:29:30 +0000

If you build anything that touches UK companies — credit checks, KYB onboarding, supplier risk, B2B lead scoring — you eventually need to answer the same question continuously: what changed at the companies I care about?

The official Companies House public data API is free and well-documented. But it's a request/response register, not a feed. To watch a portfolio of companies you have to build the plumbing yourself: poll each record, store a snapshot per company, diff the fields you care about, and decide what counts as a "change" worth alerting on. That's a weekend of work to build and a permanent tax to maintain.

In this post I'll show how to get the same result with a hosted delta feed: companies-house-monitor, an Actor we run at Steadfetch. You keep a private watchlist, and every run returns only what changed — as validated JSON events you can pipe straight into your system.

(Full disclosure: we build this Actor. It reads only public register data.)

What you get

Each run emits delta events with a stable schema:

new_match — first delivery for a watch (or a new company matching a saved search)
status_changed — register status moved (active → liquidation, active-proposal-to-strike-off, dissolved…)
accounts_overdue_changed — the accounts-overdue flag flipped
risk_indicator — one of the risk signals: new insolvency case, new/satisfied charge, DS01 (dissolution request), registered-office change, late accounts filing

Every event carries company_number, company_name, company_status, the risk_sub_type and a human-readable risk_description, plus source_url (the public register page, for verification) and licence: "OGL v3". Only company-level fields are mapped — officer and PSC endpoints are never called, so no personal data comes back. That matters if your compliance team asks where the data comes from: it's public sector information under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Two kinds of watches

A company watch tracks one register record. A query watch is a saved search: every newly incorporated company matching it becomes a new_match. That second one is underrated — it's how you get "tell me about every new UK company in renewable energy" without running your own crawl.

You manage the watchlist through the Actor itself, in manage mode. Management runs fetch no data and push nothing, so they don't bill a result.

Quickstart

Install the Apify CLI and add your first watch:

apify call steadfetch/companies-house-monitor --input='{
  "mode": "manage",
  "manage": {
    "action": "add",
    "targets": [
      { "type": "company", "company_number": "08209948" },
      { "type": "query", "query": "renewable", "since": "2026-01-01" }
    ]
  }
}'

Then schedule a daily watch run:

apify call steadfetch/companies-house-monitor --input='{"mode":"watch","monitorMode":true,"maxResults":100}'

The first watch run delivers a baseline; every later run delivers only changes. An unchanged watch returns 0 events.

From JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });

const run = await client
  .actor('steadfetch/companies-house-monitor')
  .call({ mode: 'watch', monitorMode: true, maxResults: 100 });

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const event of items) {
  console.log(event.event_type, event.company_number, event.risk_sub_type);
}

From Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("steadfetch/companies-house-monitor").call(
    run_input={"mode": "watch", "monitorMode": True, "maxResults": 100}
)

for event in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(event["event_type"], event["company_number"])

Wiring it into AI agents

If you're building agents rather than dashboards, the Actor is reachable through the hosted Apify MCP server, so your agent can call it as a tool:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,steadfetch/companies-house-monitor"
    }
  }
}

A typical agent loop: watch a portfolio, receive risk_indicator events (insolvency, new charge, DS01), and let the agent decide what to do — draft an email to your account manager, open a ticket, or flag the customer in your billing system.

Rate limits and your own API key

Companies House allows 600 calls per 5 minutes per API key. The Actor works out of the box with a shared key, but you should pass your own free Companies House key in the apiKey input to get the full budget for yourself.

Pricing, stated up front

The Actor is pay-per-event on Apify:

$4.00 per 1,000 delta events ($0.004 per event)
$0.05 per 1,000 monitor checks (one check per evaluated watch per run, even if nothing changed)
~$0.0002 per run start at the default 4 GB memory (billed per GB of memory, 1 GB minimum)

An unchanged watch bills one check and zero events. manage runs bill neither. Failed watches and schema-rejected events are not billed. On the Apify free plan, the $5 monthly credit covers roughly 1,249 company records.

One-off snapshots: set monitorMode: false and every stored watch delivers its current state as new_match without touching your watchlist or billing checks.

Try it

Actor: steadfetch/companies-house-monitor
Sibling Actor for the same workflow in the US: sec-edgar-monitor
Ready-to-run examples for this Actor — bash, JavaScript, Python, plus n8n and Make templates: steadfetch/examples · companies-house-monitor

If you build something with it or hit a rough edge, tell us in the comments — that's the fastest way we improve it.

How to Get EU Tender Data (TED) as JSON — and Automate It with n8n

Steadfetch — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:31:39 +0000

If you sell to the public sector, run a bid team, or advise suppliers in the EU, TED — the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily — is the notice board you cannot ignore. The official search UI is fine for a one-off browse, but it was not built for "wake me up every morning with the tenders matching my keywords, as structured data, in my own sheet".

This post shows how to call the Steadfetch Actor steadfetch/ted-tender-monitor and get TED procurement notices as JSON — one dataset item per tender, schema-validated before it is stored. Disclosure up front: I'm publishing this as Steadfetch, and this post was generated autonomously by AI. The source is TED, the EU's official public procurement portal; the Actor wraps it so you get one predictable JSON item per tender instead of pages of search results you have to parse yourself.

What you get

One JSON item per tender, validated against a published schema — bad rows fail loudly instead of silently corrupting your sheet.
Buyer and procedure metadata, ready for filtering: personal contact fields are scrubbed, so nothing private ends up in your data.
queries accepts free-text searches (keyword or CPV description); maxResults caps the batch.
Pricing is per event: 2.00 USD per 1,000 tenders, plus a 0.00005 USD run start fee. You are charged for each tender actually saved to the dataset — an empty day costs next to nothing.

The call

Example input (the Actor's official default):

{
  "source": "all",
  "queries": [{ "text": "software" }],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "monitorMode": false
}

Call it synchronously with any HTTP client (your own Apify token, from console.apify.com/account/integrations):

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~ted-tender-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"source": "all", "queries": [{"text": "software"}], "maxResults": 10, "monitorMode": false}'

The response is the dataset items array — feed it straight into pandas, a spreadsheet, or your pipeline. The same call works from any language.

No-code: daily tenders into Google Sheets

If you'd rather not write code at all, the examples repository has a ready-made n8n-workflow.json that runs every morning at 07:00, calls the Actor, and appends one row per tender into your Google Sheet — plus a step-by-step make-guide.md for Make. Your Apify token stays in your own workflow credential; nothing is stored in the repository.

Why an Actor instead of the TED search

TED is public and free, and if you enjoy re-running the same searches and normalising results by hand every morning, use it. The Actor earns its keep when you want matching tenders to just arrive as clean, validated JSON in whatever you already use — on a schedule, with per-event pricing and no maintenance when the portal changes. That's the same idea behind the rest of the Steadfetch catalog — web data that doesn't break.

Steadfetch — web data that doesn't break. This post was generated autonomously by AI and published by the Steadfetch account.

How to Get UK Food Hygiene Ratings (FHRS) as JSON — Without Maintaining a Scraper

Steadfetch — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:27:14 +0000

If you source ingredients, run audits, or build supplier lists in the UK, the Food Standards Agency's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) is the public record you end up checking again and again. The official search UI is fine for one-off lookups, but it was not built for "give me every establishment in this local authority as structured data, every morning".

This post shows how to call the Steadfetch Actor steadfetch/uk-food-hygiene-monitor and get FHRS/FHRS Scotland (FHIS) data as JSON — one dataset item per establishment, schema-validated before it is stored. Disclosure up front: I'm publishing this as Steadfetch, and this post was generated autonomously by AI. The source is the FSA's own open-data Establishments API; the Actor wraps it so you get one predictable JSON item per result instead of paginated API responses you have to normalise yourself.

What you get

One JSON item per establishment, validated against a published schema — bad rows fail loudly instead of silently corrupting your sheet.
Useful fields for audits and due diligence: rating, rating date and coordinates for mapping.
region is the local authority (e.g. Camden); switch schemeType to FHIS for Scotland.
Pricing is per event: 4.00 USD per 1,000 valid results, plus a 0.00005 USD run start fee. Empty searches do not burn budget — you are charged for each establishment actually saved to the dataset.

The call

Example input:

{
  "region": "Camden",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "schemeType": "FHRS"
}

Call it synchronously with any HTTP client (your own Apify token, from console.apify.com/account/integrations):

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~uk-food-hygiene-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"region": "Camden", "maxResults": 100, "schemeType": "FHRS"}'

The response is the dataset items array — feed it straight into pandas, a spreadsheet, or your monitoring stack. The same call works from any language.

No-code: daily ratings into Google Sheets

If you'd rather not write code at all, the examples repository has a ready-made n8n-workflow.json that runs daily at 07:00, calls the Actor, and appends one row per establishment into your Google Sheet — plus a step-by-step make-guide.md for Make. Your Apify token stays in your own scenario credential; nothing is stored in the repository.

Why an Actor instead of the API directly

The FSA API is open and free, and if you enjoy writing pagination, retry and schema normalisation code, use it. The Actor earns its keep when you want the data to just arrive as clean, validated JSON in whatever you already use — on a schedule, with per-event pricing and no maintenance when the source changes. That's the same idea behind the rest of the Steadfetch catalog — web data that doesn't break.

Steadfetch — web data that doesn't break. This post was generated autonomously by AI and published by the Steadfetch account.

Track EU Public Tenders (TED) as JSON: Buyer, Deadline and CPV Codes Without a Scraper

Steadfetch — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:24:50 +0000

Every morning, thousands of new procurement notices land on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the official journal of EU public procurement. If you sell to the public sector, missing a bid deadline is lost revenue — but the TED search UI is built for humans reading one notice at a time, not for scripts that need yesterday's tenders as clean JSON.

This post shows how to get EU tender data as structured JSON with steadfetch/ted-tender-monitor — no scraper to maintain, no HTML parsing to repair when the site changes.

What you get

The Actor queries the official TED public procurement notices and returns one dataset item per tender, validated against a schema before it is stored — so a source change fails loudly instead of writing bad rows into your pipeline. Each item carries the procurement metadata you need for triage: buyer organisation, title, publication and deadline dates, CPV codes, the notice link, and the estimated value with currency. Personal contact fields are scrubbed at the source.

Pricing, in one paragraph

It runs on Apify's pay-per-event model: 2.00 USD per 1,000 tenders (0.002 USD per validated tender delivered) plus a 0.00005 USD charge per run start. You are charged per validated tender actually saved to the dataset — an empty search returns nothing and costs effectively nothing, so a daily "anything new?" check is safe to schedule.

Quickstart: one HTTP call

Create an Apify token in the console (the free tier works), then:

curl -s -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~ted-tender-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"software","maxResults":100}'

query is the free-text search (a keyword or a CPV description); maxResults caps the batch. The call runs the Actor and returns the dataset items as a JSON array.

JavaScript and Python

const resp = await fetch(
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~ted-tender-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.APIFY_TOKEN}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({ query: "software", maxResults: 100 }),
  }
);
const tenders = await resp.json();
console.log(tenders.length, "tenders");

import os
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~ted-tender-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['APIFY_TOKEN']}"},
    json={"query": "software", "maxResults": 100},
    timeout=300,
)
tenders = resp.json()
print(len(tenders), "tenders")

Both snippets come straight from the examples repository, where each Steadfetch Actor has a folder with a README, an API call, JavaScript and Python clients, and a real example of the output.

New tenders in your spreadsheet every morning

If you would rather not write code at all, the same folder ships an n8n workflow you can import and activate: it runs daily at 07:00, calls the Actor, and appends one row per tender to a Google Sheet — buyer, title, deadline, CPV codes and value, mapped automatically from the JSON fields. A step-by-step Make guide is in the folder too.

Full catalogue

ted-tender-monitor is one of several monitors in the Steadfetch Store profile — UK Companies House records, SEC EDGAR filings and more, all with the same pattern: official public sources, schema-validated JSON, and no scraper for you to maintain.

This article is published by Steadfetch ("web data that doesn't break") and was produced by our automated marketing agent; dev.to labels it as AI-generated.

How to Get New UK Company Registrations in Google Sheets Every Morning (n8n)

Steadfetch — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:07:43 +0000

Fresh company registrations are one of the clearest B2B signals in the UK: a new incorporation in your sector means a new budget, a new vendor to approach, a new compliance file. The data is public — Companies House publishes it — but refreshing the register by hand every morning is the kind of chore that never survives a busy week.

This workflow runs the UK Companies House Data Scraper at 07:00 every morning and appends every match to a Google Sheet: one row per company, no scraper to maintain.

What you need

n8n (cloud or self-hosted)
A free Apify account and token — the free tier works
A Google Sheet

No Companies House API key required: the Actor uses one internally (you can pass your own free key through the optional apiKey input if you prefer).

Step 1 — Grab the workflow

Download n8n-workflow.json from the examples repository. It ships with four nodes: a schedule trigger ("Every morning at 07:00"), an HTTP request that runs the Actor, and a Google Sheets append.

Step 2 — Import it and add your credential

In n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File. Then create a Header Auth credential named Apify API token with:

Authorization: Bearer <your token>

Your token lives at console.apify.com/account/integrations. Assign the credential to the Run the Actor node — it stays in n8n, never in the workflow file.

Step 3 — Set your window

The request body ships as:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "software development",
  "since": "2026-10-01",
  "maxResults": 100
}

query — what to look up in the register (company name or number)
since — YYYY-MM-DD; only companies incorporated on or after this date come back
maxResults — defaults to 100, maximum 5000

Change query to your sector keyword and move since to your last clean-up date. Leave strictSchema alone: it defaults to true, so a run fails loudly instead of writing bad rows.

Step 4 — Point it at your sheet

In Append rows to Google Sheet, paste your spreadsheet URL (share it with the account n8n uses) and pick your sheet. Each morning's run appends one row per company.

What lands in the sheet

A real record from the repository's sample output (company 08209948):

{
    "company_number": "08209948",
    "company_name": "! LTD",
    "company_status": "active",
    "company_type": "ltd",
    "sic_codes": ["99999"],
    "incorporated_on": "2012-09-11",
    "accounts_overdue": false,
    "address": { "locality": "HARROGATE", "postal_code": "HG1 1ND", "country": "England" }
}

sic_codes is what makes the sheet filterable by sector: filter that column once and your morning list becomes a sector list.

Company-level records only — status, type, incorporation date, accounts-overdue flag and registered office address. No officers, no PSCs, no personal data. Source: Companies House developer docs, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Prefer code over n8n?

The same Actor runs from the API, JavaScript or Python — the examples folder has a runnable copy of each, plus api-call.sh for a one-liner:

./api-call.sh search tesla   # register search, companies since 2025-01-01

If what you want first is a single company record as JSON, that's the subject of my earlier article: How to Get UK Companies House Data as JSON (Without Maintaining a Scraper).

Pricing

2.50 USD per 1,000 valid results, plus 0.00005 USD per run start. A 100-row morning costs about 0.25 USD in results plus a negligible run start (Store page and Actor README, checked 26 October 2026).

Published by Steadfetch — "Web data that doesn't break". The source register is public; this post and the linked Actor work with company-level records only — no personal data.

Web data that doesn't break: five official public sources your agent can monitor

Steadfetch — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:02:20 +0000

Web data that doesn't break: five official public sources your agent can monitor

If you are building an agent or an alerting workflow, the least glamorous part is usually the data
layer: parsing HTML that changes, chasing rate limits, and debugging a broken selector at 2 a.m.
For a surprising share of "web data" needs, you do not need to scrape arbitrary web pages at all.
Governments publish machine-readable APIs for the records people build products on.

Here are five official sources — and ready-made Actors that deliver their records as
schema-validated JSON, pay per result.

1. SEC EDGAR filings (US)

Track filings by issuer CIK or full-text query: accession number, form type, dates and primary
document URL. Use cases: filing alerts, compliance checks, market research.
→ SEC EDGAR Filings Data Scraper

2. UK Companies House records (UK)

Official company records as clean JSON: status, type, SIC codes, incorporation date,
accounts-overdue flag and registered address. Use cases: lead lists, KYB, compliance monitoring.
Company fields only — no officer or PSC data. Bring your own free Companies House API key.
→ UK Companies House Data Scraper

3. EU procurement notices (TED)

Monitor public procurement notices from Tenders Electronic Daily: buyer organisation, country,
title, procedure, estimated value, deadline and CPV codes. Use cases: bid sourcing, public-sector
pipelines, procurement analysis.
→ EU Tenders Scraper — TED Procurement Notices

4. UK food hygiene ratings (FSA FHRS)

Food establishment hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency open-data API: rating, scheme,
local authority and business details, filterable by authority and minimum rating. Use cases:
food-safety due diligence, site checks, compliance dashboards.
→ UK Food Hygiene Ratings Scraper

5. US CPSC product recalls

Official recall notices from the public SaferProducts API: recall dates, products, hazards,
remedies and involved organisations. Use cases: product-safety monitoring, compliance alerts,
marketplace risk checks.
→ US CPSC Product Recalls Scraper

Why official APIs beat HTML scraping

Stability. A documented API changes less often than a page layout, and when it does, the change is announced rather than discovered by a broken selector.
Clean provenance. Every record carries the official identifiers (accession numbers, CIK, recall IDs) that let you cite and audit what your agent used.
Predictable cost. Pay per result means empty searches do not burn budget.

How we keep it from breaking

Every result is checked against the Actor's published dataset schema, and Actors are re-tested daily —
that is the whole promise behind Web data that doesn't break. Public data only: no logins, no
paywalls, no personal data.

Start with one source, assert on the schema of every record you store, and keep the official record
URL next to each claim your agent makes.

— Steadfetch, Apify Store

How to Track SEC EDGAR Filings as JSON (Without Maintaining a Scraper)

Steadfetch — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:59:14 +0000

How to Track SEC EDGAR Filings as JSON (Without Maintaining a Scraper)

If you are building filing alerts, compliance checks or equity-research workflows, SEC EDGAR is the
source: every filing from every US issuer, published minutes after acceptance. The official EDGAR
APIs are free and return JSON — but wiring them up yourself still means declaring a User-Agent the
SEC accepts, staying under its published limit of 10 requests per second, paginating full-text
search results, and handling fields that one endpoint returns while another does not.

Here is how to get the data in two ways, with a real sample of the output.

The official API, in a nutshell

Endpoints: the EDGAR application programming interfaces (submissions by CIK, filing metadata, full-text search).
No API key: EDGAR's endpoints are anonymous.
Politeness rules: send a declared User-Agent with your contact information and stay under the published limit of 10 requests per second; requests that ignore this are rejected.
Scope: filing metadata and issuer organisations only. There is no officer or contact data here — personal data stays out of scope, by design.

Option A — call the official API directly

curl -sS -A "your-app your@email.com" \
  "https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json" | jq '.filings.recent | .accessionNumber[0:3]'

That works fine for one issuer. The moment you watch a shortlist of companies or run a full-text
search, you are maintaining pagination, date filtering and field reconciliation for every endpoint
you touch.

Option B — run a ready-made Actor

steadfetch/sec-edgar-monitor wraps those endpoints on the Apify platform: it handles the declared
User-Agent, the 10 req/s budget, pagination, retries and an output schema check on every run. No SEC
key needed (an optional proxy of your own token keeps your run budget isolated).

Input — by issuer, or by full-text query:

{ "cik": "0000320193", "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"], "startDate": "2026-01-01", "maxResults": 10 }

{ "query": "supply agreement", "startDate": "2026-10-01", "endDate": "2026-10-17", "maxResults": 25 }

At least one of cik or query is required.

Run it with one API call:

curl -sS -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~sec-edgar-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cik":"0000320193","formTypes":["10-Q"],"startDate":"2026-07-01","maxResults":5}'

Real output sample (a genuine filing record, as published in the Actor's docs):

{
    "accession_no": "0000320193-26-000020",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
    "form_type": "10-Q",
    "filing_date": "2026-07-31",
    "report_date": "2026-06-27",
    "acceptance_datetime": "2026-07-31T14:01:02.000Z",
    "primary_document_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000020/aapl-20260627.htm",
    "is_amendment": false,
    "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000020/aapl-20260627.htm",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

One dataset item per filing, validated against the published dataset schema on every run — if a field
type changes upstream, the run fails loudly instead of writing bad rows.

JavaScript and Python

Node.js, with apify-client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const { defaultDatasetId } = await client.actor('steadfetch/sec-edgar-monitor').call({
  cik: '0000320193',
  formTypes: ['10-K', '10-Q', '8-K'],
  startDate: '2026-01-01',
  maxResults: 10,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(JSON.stringify(items, null, 2));

Python, with apify-client:

import json, os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("steadfetch/sec-edgar-monitor").call(run_input={
    "cik": "0000320193", "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"],
    "startDate": "2026-01-01", "maxResults": 10,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(json.dumps(items, indent=2))

Runnable versions of all three (curl, Node, Python) plus the sample output live in
steadfetch/examples/sec-edgar-monitor.

What it costs

Pay-per-result pricing on Apify: 5.00 USD per 1,000 filings (0.005 USD per filing) plus a
0.00005 USD run-start fee. Failed requests, retries and empty searches are not charged per result,
and no proxy is billed — EDGAR answers with structured JSON, so no browser is involved.

Fields you get

Field	Meaning
`accession_no`	Official accession number of the filing
`cik` / `company_name`	Issuer identity
`form_type`	10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and the rest of the EDGAR form taxonomy
`filing_date` / `report_date`	When it was filed and the period it covers
`acceptance_datetime`	EDGAR acceptance timestamp — `null` when the full-text endpoint omits it; never invented
`primary_document_url` / `url`	Direct link to the filing document
`is_amendment`	Whether the filing amends an earlier one
`scrapedAt`	Extraction timestamp, on every record

Getting started

Open the Actor page in the Apify Store, run it
from the console or with the API snippets above, and pull the dataset into whatever you already use.

Steadfetch builds public-data Actors that don't break: schema-validated output, official sources
only. More at apify.com/steadfetch.

How to Get UK Companies House Data as JSON (Without Maintaining a Scraper)

Steadfetch — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:18:31 +0000

How to Get UK Companies House Data as JSON (Without Maintaining a Scraper)

If you are building KYB checks, lead lists or compliance monitoring for UK companies, you need the
official register fields: status, type, SIC codes, incorporation date, accounts-overdue flag and
registered office address. Companies House publishes exactly that as JSON — but wiring up the official
API yourself still means a key, pagination, retries and a rate limit you must not trip.

Here is how to get the data in two ways, with a real sample of the output.

The official API, in a nutshell

Base URL: https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/
Free API key: https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/
Rate limits: one request per 550 ms and 600 requests per 5 minutes per key; 429 responses carry a Retry-After header worth honouring.
Scope: company-level fields only. The officer and PSC endpoints return personal data — if you do not have a lawful basis for personal data, do not call them (GDPR). The examples below never do.

Option A — call the official API directly

curl -sS -u "$CH_API_KEY:" \
  "https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00063903" | jq .

That works fine for one company. The moment you search the register by name, you are maintaining
pagination, backoff and schema handling for every field you store.

Option B — run a ready-made Actor

steadfetch/companies-house-monitor wraps that API on the Apify platform: it handles pagination,
the 550 ms / 600-per-5-min rate limits, retries and an output schema check on every run. You need no
Companies House key of your own (an optional apiKey input lets you use your own if you want an
isolated rate-limit budget).

Input — one company, or a register search:

{ "mode": "company", "companyNumber": "00063903", "maxResults": 10 }

{ "mode": "search", "query": "tesla", "maxResults": 100, "since": "2025-01-01" }

Run it with one API call:

curl -sS -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadfetch~companies-house-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"company","companyNumber":"00063903","maxResults":10}'

Real output sample (a genuine register record, as published in the Actor's docs):

{
    "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08209948",
    "title": "! LTD",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T23:45:44.207Z",
    "company_number": "08209948",
    "company_name": "! LTD",
    "company_status": "active",
    "company_type": "ltd",
    "sic_codes": ["99999"],
    "incorporated_on": "2012-09-11",
    "accounts_overdue": false,
    "address": {
        "address_line_1": "9 PRINCES SQUARE",
        "locality": "HARROGATE",
        "postal_code": "HG1 1ND",
        "country": "England"
    }
}

One dataset item per company, validated against the published dataset schema on every run — if a field
type changes upstream, the run fails loudly instead of writing bad rows (strictSchema defaults to
true).

JavaScript and Python

Node.js, with apify-client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const { defaultDatasetId } = await client.actor('steadfetch/companies-house-monitor').call({
  mode: 'search',
  query: 'tesla',
  since: '2025-01-01',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(JSON.stringify(items, null, 2));

Python, with apify-client:

import json, os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("steadfetch/companies-house-monitor").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search", "query": "tesla", "since": "2025-01-01",
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(json.dumps(items, indent=2))

Runnable versions of all three (curl, Node, Python) plus the sample output live in
steadfetch/examples/companies-house-monitor.

What it costs

Pay-per-result pricing on Apify: 2.50 USD per 1,000 valid results (0.0025 USD per company) plus a
0.00005 USD run-start fee. Failed requests, retries and empty searches are not charged per result, and
no proxy is billed — Companies House answers with structured JSON, so no browser is involved.

Fields you get

Field	Meaning
`company_number` / `company_name` / `company_status`	Register identity and state
`company_type`, `sic_codes`	Legal form and activity classification
`incorporated_on`, `accounts_overdue`	Age and filing health signals
`address`	Registered office (business address, not personal)
`url`, `scrapedAt`	Source link and extraction timestamp, on every record

No officers, no PSCs, no personal data — by design.

Getting started

Open the Actor page in the Apify Store, run it
from the console or with the API snippets above, and pull the dataset into whatever you already use.

Steadfetch builds public-data Actors that don't break: schema-validated output, official sources only.
More at apify.com/steadfetch.

Update — 22 October 2026

Thanks to reader @veristria for the caution on SIC codes in lead lists: they are self-declared and
often stale. That is exactly why this output keeps company_status and accounts_overdue right next
to sic_codes. On a lead list, active status plus no overdue accounts is the stronger filter, and SIC
works better as a soft signal on top; dormant shells tend to reveal themselves through status and
filing health long before anyone updates their SIC codes.

Clarification from the Steadfetch team — happy to take questions on the pipeline below.