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🇨🇴 DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper

🚀 Export DANE Colombia statistical indicators in seconds. Topic categories, indicator titles, periods, and links straight from the national statistics office.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 10 fields per record · 12 main topic categories · Live DANE portal

The DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper turns the dane.gov.co public indicator pages into a structured dataset. It crawls the topic category landing pages and returns one row per indicator with title, period, and source link.

Coverage spans every public DANE topic category: labor market, prices, national accounts, trade, industry, construction, agriculture, demography, poverty, education, health, and security.

📋 What the DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper does

• Fetches the DANE topic category landing page with a real browser fingerprint.
• Parses each indicator listed under the topic.
• Returns title, period (when extractable), category slug, and the link to the full release.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean diagnostic record.

💡 Why it matters: DANE publishes the official statistics for Colombia. Their pages are CMS-rendered HTML with no public API, so this actor wraps the parsing for you.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Example 1 - Labor market indicators:

{"category":"mercado-laboral","maxItems":25}

Example 2 - Prices and costs:

{"category":"precios-y-costos","maxItems":25}

⚠️ Good to Know: DANE's CMS occasionally changes layout. The actor falls back to multiple selectors to stay resilient.

📊 Output

Sample record:

{
"indicator":"Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH)",
"value":null,
"period":"abril 2025",
"category":"mercado-laboral",
"unit":null,
"source":"DANE Colombia",
"release_date":null,
"url":"https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/mercado-laboral/empleo-y-desempleo",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-29T13:00:00.000Z",
"error":null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with no API key. | | 🇨🇴 | Covers all 12 main DANE topic categories. | | 🛡️ | Real browser headers via got-scraping. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as a clean diagnostic row. | | 💾 | Push to dataset and export CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a topic category.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Macro dashboards. Feed Colombian indicators into a country risk dashboard.

📰 Newsroom verification. Confirm employment, inflation, and growth figures.

🤖 Quant pipelines. Ingest Colombian macro series alongside global indicators.

💼 Investor reports. Build sector-specific charts using authoritative DANE data.

🔌 Automating DANE Colombia Statistics Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger and push to Airtable.
• Cron schedule: monthly refreshes aligned with DANE release calendars.
• Webhooks: POST to your endpoint after each run.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres: native integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach Latin American macro with real Colombian data.

🧪 Personal research. Track inflation against your household budget.

🤝 Non-profit. Build civic dashboards with DANE figures.

🧰 Prototyping. Mock up a data product with real numbers.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No.

❓ Which categories are covered? All 12 main DANE topic categories.

❓ Is the data official? Yes, DANE is Colombia's national statistical authority.

❓ Are values always populated? Not always; DANE varies the landing page format.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via the Apify scheduler.

❓ Is this scraping or API? HTML scraping of public DANE pages.

❓ What format can I download? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

❓ What if a page is empty? A diagnostic record with error is pushed.

❓ Does it respect robots.txt? Only public pages are fetched.

❓ Will the schema change? Stable.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook.

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