ENTSO-E European Power Market Scraper

Pull EU electricity-market data from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform REST API. Extracts day-ahead prices, actual load, generation by fuel type (nuclear, gas, wind, solar, hydro), cross-border physical flows, and installed capacity across all 61 EU bidding zones.

The actor calls https://web-api.tp.entsoe.eu/api directly — no API key or signup on your side. The API returns XML in IEC 62325 format; the actor parses it into flat time-series rows ready for spreadsheet or database ingestion.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
datasetType	select	day_ahead_price	Dataset to fetch: day_ahead_price, actual_load, actual_generation_by_type, installed_capacity_by_type, or cross_border_flow.
biddingZones	string list	(all 20 major zones)	EIC codes or short labels (e.g. DE_LU, FR, NL, IT_NORD, NO_4). Leave empty to query all 20 major zones.
periodFrom	string	24 hours ago	UTC start of the query window. ISO 8601 format: 2026-05-01T00:00Z or 2026-05-01. Slash-separated dates (05/01/2026) are rejected — they're ambiguous between month-first and day-first.
periodTo	string	now	UTC end of the query window. ISO 8601 format: 2026-05-02T00:00Z or 2026-05-02. Slash-separated dates (05/01/2026) are rejected — they're ambiguous between month-first and day-first.
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of time-series rows to return. Set to 0 for unlimited.

Supported Datasets

Dataset	ENTSO-E Code	Typical Resolution	Description
Day-Ahead Price	A44	PT60M / PT15M	EUR/MWh prices published daily by 13:00 CET for the next day
Actual Total Load	A65	PT60M / PT15M	Realised system load with ~1h lag
Actual Generation by Type	A75	PT60M / PT15M	Realised generation per fuel type (nuclear, gas, wind, solar, hydro, etc.)
Installed Capacity by Type	A68	PT60M / monthly	Installed capacity per fuel type — rarely changes
Cross-Border Physical Flow	A88	PT60M	Net directional MW flow between adjacent zones

Bidding Zone Labels

The actor accepts both short labels and raw EIC codes:

Short Label	EIC Code	Zone
DE_LU (also accepts DE or Germany)	10YDE-VE-------2	Germany + Luxembourg
FR	10YFR-RTE------C	France
NL	10YNL----------L	Netherlands
BE	10YBE----------2	Belgium
ES	10YES-REE------0	Spain
IT_NORD	10YIT-GRTN-----B	Italy North
NO_4	10YNO-4--------9	Norway 4

Leave biddingZones empty to query the 20 major EU zones automatically.

Output Schema

Each dataset row is a flat object with fields relevant to the requested dataset type. Fields not applicable to the dataset type are omitted.

Field	Type	Description
dataset_type	string	One of: day_ahead_price, actual_load, actual_generation_by_type, installed_capacity_by_type, cross_border_flow
bidding_zone	string	EIC code of the bidding zone
bidding_zone_label	string	Human-readable label (e.g. DE_LU, FR)
period_start	string	UTC start of the interval (ISO 8601)
period_end	string	UTC end of the interval (ISO 8601)
resolution	string	PT60M (hourly) or PT15M (15-minute)
market	string	day_ahead, actual, installed_capacity, or cross_border
price_eur_per_mwh	number	Day-ahead price in EUR/MWh (day_ahead_price only)
generation_mw	number	Actual generation in MW (actual_generation_by_type only)
installed_capacity_mw	number	Installed capacity in MW (installed_capacity_by_type only)
actual_load_mw	number	Actual total load in MW (actual_load only)
flow_mw	number	Cross-border flow in MW, positive = net export from in_area to out_area (cross_border_flow only)
production_type	string	Fuel/technology label (e.g. Nuclear, Fossil_Gas, Wind_Onshore, Solar) (generation/capacity only)
in_area	string	Source zone EIC code (cross_border_flow only)
out_area	string	Destination zone EIC code (cross_border_flow only)
currency	string	Always EUR
scraped_at	string	UTC timestamp of when the row was returned to you (ISO 8601)

Use Cases

• Energy trading and analytics — Pull day-ahead price curves for arbitrage analysis or portfolio valuation across all CWE/Nordic/Iberian zones
• Grid operations research — Analyse actual load vs. generation by fuel mix for a given zone and time window
• Carbon footprint modeling — Combine generation-by-type data with emission factors for real-time or historical carbon intensity estimates
• Academic research — Download multi-year historical data for econometric or ML studies on European electricity markets
• Cross-border flow monitoring — Track hourly MW flows on interconnectors for congestion analysis

Limits

400 requests per minute is shared across all concurrent runs of this actor. Heavy back-fill jobs over many zones may queue.

For zones / periods that return no data (HTTP 400 "No matching data found"), this is normal — the zone simply doesn't publish that dataset for that window.