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⚖️ FTC Enforcement Actions Scraper — Antitrust, consumer-protection, and Section 5 cases — straight from FTC.gov

Scrape Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions — antitrust merger challenges, consumer-protection cases, Section 5 (unfair or deceptive practices) actions, and FTC Act violations. Get defendant company, case docket, filing date, allegations, settlement terms, civil penalties, and conduct remedies.

One actor. One token. Real-time regulator-direct data delivered in structured JSON.

Why This Actor Beats LexisNexis, Westlaw, Cornell LII

• Westlaw and LexisNexis are $200+/user/month: Both keep FTC cases behind general-purpose legal subscriptions. We extract the structured action data — defendants, dockets, settlements — at per-case pricing.
• Settlement and penalty structured: Each case has a settlement amount, monetary judgment, and conduct remedies (cease-and-desist, divestiture, monitoring) extracted as separate fields.
• Merger challenge tracking: Filter to HSR antitrust merger challenges (Section 7 Clayton Act) to monitor M&A blockage risk in your sector.
• Press release + complaint linked: We surface the FTC press release URL and the underlying complaint/consent decree PDF so you can dig deeper.

What You Get

Every record returned by this actor is structured JSON with the following fields populated wherever the source filing provides them:

• Case name, FTC matter number, docket number (when in court)
• Defendant company name, parent company, state of incorporation
• Case type — antitrust merger, antitrust conduct, consumer protection, COPPA, privacy
• Filing date, complaint date, settlement date, status
• Allegations narrative (parsed from complaint)
• Settlement type — consent order, civil penalty, court judgment
• Settlement amount, civil penalty, restitution
• Conduct remedies — divestiture, monitoring, cease-and-desist
• Statute cited — FTC Act Section 5, Clayton Act Section 7, COPPA, GLBA, etc.
• FTC press release URL and complaint document URL

The full output schema is stable across runs — safe to load into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, or your data warehouse without re-mapping each refresh.

Use Cases

• M&A antitrust counsel — Track FTC merger challenges in your sector — what conduct theories the FTC is litigating.
• Compliance officers — Build a precedent library of FTC consumer-protection actions in your industry.
• Plaintiff law firms — Source FTC settlements as predicate for follow-on private class actions.
• Investors — Monitor FTC enforcement risk against portfolio companies.
• Privacy/data-rights researchers — Track FTC privacy enforcement (Section 5, COPPA, GLBA) for empirical study.
• Journalists — Build a beat-feed of new FTC complaints and settlements.
• Academic researchers — Empirical antitrust enforcement datasets across decades.

Quick Start

Install the Apify Python client, set your token, and call the actor:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/ftc-enforcement-actions-scraper").call(run_input={
"maxItems":100,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)

You can also trigger via cURL:

curl-X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~ftc-enforcement-actions-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{"maxItems": 100}'

Schedule it on Apify's built-in scheduler for daily, hourly, or every-5-minute refreshes — no infra required.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing on Apify. Primary event: Enforcement case at $0.08 per record. An Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run (charged per GB of memory, minimum 1). No subscription, no seat licence, no procurement cycle — pay only for the rows you receive.

For high-volume use cases (100K+ records/month), contact us at NexGenData for volume discounts.

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FAQ

Q: Is this legal?

A: Yes. FTC enforcement actions and consent decrees are public records under federal administrative law.

Q: How fresh is the data?

A: FTC publishes cases as they're filed. Our actor reads ftc.gov on demand.

Q: Can I filter by case type?

A: Yes — pass case_type to capture antitrust, consumer protection, COPPA, or privacy cases separately.

Q: Do you cover state-AG actions?

A: No — this actor is FTC only. State attorneys general parallel actions are not included; multistate AG cases would be a separate actor.

Q: Are administrative orders included?

A: Yes — Part 3 administrative actions (in front of an FTC ALJ) are captured alongside federal court actions.

Q: What's historical coverage?

A: FTC's online case database goes back to the 1990s with full text. Older actions have summary metadata only.

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes 200+ buyer-intent Apify actors covering SEC filings, federal regulatory data (EPA, FTC, CFPB, FEC, IRS 990, FAA), private-market intelligence (Form D, IPO, 13F, 13D/G), stock screeners across 30+ exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, TSX, ASX, HKEX, KOSPI, SGX, B3, BSE), B2B lead generation, and competitive intelligence. All actors are pay-per-result with no seat licences and no minimum commitments.

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