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