How to Scrape Import Export Trade — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Import Export Trade data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Import Export Trade Data Scraper - UN Comtrade, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Import Export Trade login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

reporter
flow
partner
period
hsCode
commodity
tradeValueUsd
netWeightKg
qty
qtyUnit
reporterISO
reporterCode
partnerISO
partnerCode

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/comtrade-trade-data-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install comtrade-trade-data-scraper

const scrape = require("comtrade-trade-data-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install comtrade-trade-data-scraper

from comtrade_trade_data_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`reporters`	string	Reporter country
`partners`	string	Partner country
`flow`	string	Trade flow
`commodities`	string	Commodities
`periods`	string	Period (year)
`frequency`	string	Frequency
`maxResults`	integer	Max results
`throttleMs`	integer	Throttle (ms)
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy configuration

Common use cases

Build a fresh Import Export Trade dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Import Export Trade records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Import Export Trade data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.