Investing.com Economic Calendar Scraper - 107 Countries

📅 Investing.com Economic Calendar Scraper

🚀 Export the Investing.com economic calendar in seconds. 107 countries, 8 categories, 3 importance levels, 24 fields per row, and a full week of the global calendar (439 rows across 62 countries in the verification week) in about one minute.

The Actor reads the Investing.com economic calendar through the same request the page itself makes, and turns every scheduled entry into one clean row: data releases, central bank speeches, reports and market holidays, each with the actual, forecast, previous and revised values once they are published, the release time in UTC and in a time zone of your choice, the volatility rating, the currency and the country. Ask for today, tomorrow, this week, next week or any custom date range (the archive is verified back to 2020), narrow it down by country, importance or category, and download the result as CSV, JSON, Excel or XML.

Coverage is the whole calendar: 107 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, the euro zone included, 8 event categories (central banks, confidence, balance of payments, bonds, credit, economic activity, employment, inflation) and the three volatility levels the site uses. Filters are applied by Investing.com itself, so Max Items is spent only on rows you asked for. Values the source has not published yet come back as Not Disclosed and fields that cannot apply to a row (the figures of a holiday) come back as N/A, never as an empty cell.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Traders and quant researchers	Build the week's event risk calendar for FX, rates, index and crypto desks
Macro analysts and economists	Track actual vs forecast surprises for CPI, NFP, GDP, PMI and rate decisions
Fintech and data teams	Feed a calendar widget, an alert bot or a backtest with a clean structured source
Newsrooms and content teams	Publish "the week ahead" pieces from a machine-readable schedule

📋 What the Investing.com Economic Calendar Scraper does

💡 Why it matters: the calendar page loads its rows through a client-side request, sits behind Cloudflare and rate limits every IP, so copying it by hand or with a plain script breaks quickly. This Actor speaks the page's own listing endpoint, takes a fresh exit IP for every request, walks your date range one day at a time so a busy week never drops rows, and never bills for a row it did not deliver.

• 📊 Every entry type: data releases, reports, central bank speeches and market holidays, flagged with eventType, isSpeech, isReport and isHoliday.
• 🔢 The figures that matter: actual, forecast, previous, the original figure when the previous one was revised, and actualVsForecast (better, worse or in line) read from the site's own colour coding.
• ⏰ Exact timing: dateTimeUtc as an ISO 8601 instant computed from the offset the site reports, plus dateLocal and timeLocal in any IANA time zone you pick.
• 🌍 107 countries and 8 categories as validated pick lists, so a typo cannot silently return the whole world.
• 🔔 Importance as a number (1 to 3), a label (low, moderate, high) and the site's own wording (High Volatility Expected).
• 🔗 Stable identifiers: the event id, the occurrence id of this particular release and the event's page URL on Investing.com.
• 🗓️ Any date range: today, tomorrow, this week, next week or a custom range, past or future.
• 📖 Optional depth, per indicator: the official description and the institution that publishes it, up to 100 past releases as numbers, and the latest and next scheduled print. All three are off by default and billed only when they actually carry data.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

A short walkthrough video is in production.

📊 Output

Each row is one calendar entry. Fields, in dataset order:

Field	Description
📌 eventName	Event title without the period suffix, for example Initial Jobless Claims
🌍 country	Country or zone as Investing.com names it (United States, Euro Zone)
💱 currency	ISO currency code of the release (USD, EUR); N/A for holidays
🔗 eventUrl	The event's page on Investing.com
🆔 eventId	Investing.com id of the indicator, stable across releases
🔢 occurrenceId	Id of this specific release or holiday row
🏷 eventType	release, report, speech or holiday
⏰ dateTimeUtc	Release instant in ISO 8601 UTC
📅 dateLocal / 🕓 timeLocal	Same instant in your chosen time zone; holidays show All Day
🗓 referencePeriod	The period the figure covers (Aug, Q2), when the title carries one
📊 actual	Published value, or Not Disclosed until the release
🔮 forecast	Consensus forecast
⏮ previous	Previous value
✏️ previousRevisedFrom	Original figure when the previous value was revised
⚖️ actualVsForecast	better than forecast, worse than forecast, in line with forecast, or N/A before release
🔔 importance	1, 2 or 3 (the site's volatility bullets)
🚨 importanceLabel	low, moderate or high
📈 volatilityExpected	The site's own wording, for example High Volatility Expected
🎤 isSpeech / 📄 isReport / 🏖 isHoliday	Yes or No
📖 description	Optional block. Official definition of the indicator and how to read a higher or lower print
🏛 source / 🔗 sourceUrl	Optional block. The institution that publishes the figure and its home page
🏷 category	Optional block. inflation, employment, economic activity and so on
🆔 countryId	Optional block. Investing.com's numeric country id
📛 eventLongName / eventMetaTitle	Optional block. The indicator's full and qualified names
📜 history	Optional block. Past releases, each with actual, forecast, previous, previousRevisedFrom, referencePeriod, isPreliminary and the release time in UTC, as numbers
⏱ latestRelease / nextRelease	Optional block. The most recent published figure and the next scheduled one
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of the collection
❌ error	null on success; error rows carry only this field and are never charged

Three real rows from the verification run (this week, United States, Max Items 5):

[
  {
    "eventName": "OPEC Meeting",
    "country": "United States",
    "currency": "USD",
    "eventUrl": "https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/opec-meeting-230",
    "eventId": "230",
    "occurrenceId": "556230",
    "eventType": "speech",
    "dateTimeUtc": "2026-09-06T10:00:00.000Z",
    "dateLocal": "2026-09-06",
    "timeLocal": "10:00",
    "referencePeriod": "Not Disclosed",
    "actual": "Not Disclosed",
    "forecast": "Not Disclosed",
    "previous": "Not Disclosed",
    "previousRevisedFrom": "Not Disclosed",
    "actualVsForecast": "N/A",
    "importance": 2,
    "importanceLabel": "moderate",
    "volatilityExpected": "Moderate Volatility Expected",
    "isSpeech": "Yes",
    "isReport": "No",
    "isHoliday": "No",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T04:52:41.709Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "eventName": "United States - Labor Day",
    "country": "United States",
    "currency": "N/A",
    "eventUrl": "N/A",
    "eventId": "N/A",
    "occurrenceId": "98",
    "eventType": "holiday",
    "dateTimeUtc": "N/A",
    "dateLocal": "2026-09-07",
    "timeLocal": "All Day",
    "referencePeriod": "N/A",
    "actual": "N/A",
    "forecast": "N/A",
    "previous": "N/A",
    "previousRevisedFrom": "N/A",
    "actualVsForecast": "N/A",
    "importance": "N/A",
    "importanceLabel": "N/A",
    "volatilityExpected": "N/A",
    "isSpeech": "No",
    "isReport": "No",
    "isHoliday": "Yes",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T04:52:42.357Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "eventName": "NFIB Small Business Optimism",
    "country": "United States",
    "currency": "USD",
    "eventUrl": "https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/nfib-small-business-optimism-537",
    "eventId": "537",
    "occurrenceId": "555661",
    "eventType": "release",
    "dateTimeUtc": "2026-09-08T10:00:00.000Z",
    "dateLocal": "2026-09-08",
    "timeLocal": "10:00",
    "referencePeriod": "Aug",
    "actual": "Not Disclosed",
    "forecast": "99.2",
    "previous": "99.8",
    "previousRevisedFrom": "Not Disclosed",
    "actualVsForecast": "N/A",
    "importance": 1,
    "importanceLabel": "low",
    "volatilityExpected": "Low Volatility Expected",
    "isSpeech": "No",
    "isReport": "No",
    "isHoliday": "No",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T04:52:42.891Z",
    "error": null
  }
]

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
The whole calendar	107 countries, not a hand-picked subset; holidays included or excluded with one switch.
Exact release instants	UTC computed from the offset the site reports, plus your own time zone, so 08:30 New York never becomes 12:30 by accident.
Surprise ready	actualVsForecast and previousRevisedFrom are extracted, not left for you to infer.
Filters at the source	Country, importance and category are applied by Investing.com, so Max Items 100 means 100 rows you wanted.
Any date, past or future	Custom ranges are walked day by day; the archive is verified back to March 2020.
Honest blanks	Not Disclosed and N/A instead of empty cells, so filters in Excel and pandas behave.
No browser, no key	Plain HTTP with a real browser TLS fingerprint and a fresh exit IP per request; runs in 256 MB.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Other Investing.com calendar scrapers	ForexFactory scrapers	By hand
Countries	107 (validated pick list)	Often 45 or fewer	Major currencies only	One page at a time
Holidays	Yes, optional	Rare	No	Manual
Revised previous value	Yes	Rare	Rare	Manual
Actual vs forecast verdict	Yes	Rare	Some	Manual
Time zone	UTC plus any IANA zone	Site time only	Site time only	Manual
Rows per request ceiling	200, paged automatically and walked per day	Varies	Varies	Scroll
Setup	Zero, run it now	Zero	Zero	Hours per week

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Investing.com Economic Calendar Scraper.
3. Pick a time frame (or a custom date range), choose countries, importance and categories, set Max Items and click Start.
4. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Storage tab, or read it through the API.

A first run:

{
  "timeFrame": "custom",
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-08",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-12",
  "countries": ["United States", "Euro Zone"],
  "importance": ["high"],
  "outputTimeZone": "America/New_York",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Free-plan runs return up to 10 rows as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 rows per run.

💼 Business use cases

📉 Event risk for trading desks. Run nextWeek with importance: ["high"] every Friday and push the rows to the desk's shared calendar, so FOMC, CPI, NFP and ECB decisions are on every screen with the exact UTC instant.

📊 Surprise index research. Pull a custom range for the United States, the Euro Zone, the United Kingdom and Japan, keep rows where actualVsForecast is not N/A, and build a rolling surprise score per country from actual, forecast and previous.

🔔 Alerting products. Schedule the Actor hourly for today, diff actual against the previous run and fire a Slack or Telegram message the moment a figure prints.

📰 Editorial calendars. Newsrooms export thisWeek for a handful of countries on Sunday evening and draft the "week ahead" piece from the table, with eventUrl linking readers to each indicator.

🔌 Automating Investing.com Economic Calendar Scraper

• Make and Zapier: run the Actor on a schedule and append new rows to Google Sheets or Airtable.
• Slack: post a message when a high importance release prints worse than forecast.
• Airbyte: sync the dataset into BigQuery, Snowflake or Postgres for dashboards.
• GitHub Actions: rebuild a static "week ahead" page on every push.
• Google Drive: save each run as CSV or Excel for a shared folder.

Every integration starts from the Apify API or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: collect two years of releases for a thesis on how markets react to inflation surprises.
• Personal: know before a trip which markets are closed for a holiday.
• Non-profit: economics educators can hand students a clean weekly dataset instead of screenshots.
• Experimentation: feed the rows to an LLM to prototype a plain-language daily macro briefing.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Give an AI agent live access to the calendar through the Model Context Protocol:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/investing-com-economic-calendar-scraper"

Then ask in plain language, for example "List the high importance US and Euro Zone releases next week in New York time".

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🌍 Which countries can I filter on?

All 107 countries Investing.com offers in its own country picker, from Albania to Zimbabwe, including the Euro Zone. Pick them by name in the Countries field; leave it empty for the whole world.

🗓️ How far back does the archive go?

Years. The Actor was verified against March 2020 and January 2026 weeks. Use timeFrame: "custom" with dateFrom and dateTo.

⏰ What time zone are the times in?

dateTimeUtc is always UTC, computed from the offset the site reports with each response. dateLocal and timeLocal use the Output time zone field (any IANA name such as Europe/London); it defaults to UTC.

📦 How many rows can I collect?

Free users get 10 rows as a preview. Paid Apify users can set Max Items up to 1,000,000 per run. A full unfiltered week is a few hundred rows (439 in the verification week).

🔢 Why do some rows say Not Disclosed?

The value has not been published yet (a future release has no actual), or the site does not carry it for that event (speeches have no forecast). N/A marks fields that cannot apply, such as the figures of a market holiday.

🏖️ Can I drop the holidays?

Yes. Turn off "Include market holidays" and only releases, reports and speeches are delivered.

⚖️ How is actualVsForecast computed?

From the colour Investing.com assigns to the published figure: green is better than forecast, red is worse than forecast, black is in line with forecast. It stays N/A until both actual and forecast exist.

🔁 What is the 200-row ceiling?

The listing endpoint returns at most 200 rows per request. The Actor walks your range one day at a time and pages inside a day when needed, so the ceiling never costs you rows.

🛡️ Do I need a proxy?

Investing.com sits behind Cloudflare and rate limits each IP after roughly a dozen requests, so the Actor uses Apify Proxy (datacenter) by default and takes a fresh exit IP for every request. If datacenter IPs run out for a request, it switches the rest of the run to residential IPs; turn "Fall back to residential IPs" off if you prefer the run to stop instead.

❌ What happens if a day fails?

The other days are still delivered. The failed day adds one row containing only an error field, which is never charged, and the run status message says so.

🕒 Can I run this on a schedule?

Yes. Create an Apify schedule to run the Actor hourly, daily or weekly and connect the dataset to your pipeline.

📄 What output formats are supported?

CSV, JSON, Excel and XML from the Apify Console or the API.

🔌 Integrate with any app

The dataset is available through the Apify API the moment the run finishes. Use the run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint for one-shot calls, webhooks to trigger downstream jobs, or the Make, Zapier, Airbyte and LangChain integrations listed on the Actor page.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Investing.com or Fusion Media Limited. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Investing.com's terms of use and applicable laws.