European Central Bank RSS feeds

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Load ECB press-release RSS into pandas and Parquet. Checked against the provider's documentation on Oct 30, 2026.

Access

• No account or key. The RSS XML is a public file.

Request

curl 'https://www.ecb.europa.eu/rss/press.html'

Format

RSS 2.0 XML. Press items include title, link, category, description and an RFC 822 pubDate.

Load into pandas and Parquet

Needs Python 3 with requests, pandas and pyarrow.

"""ECB press-release RSS -> pandas -> Parquet. No key."""
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import requests
import pandas as pd

URL = "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/rss/press.html"
r = requests.get(URL, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
root = ET.fromstring(r.content)
rows = []
for item in root.findall("./channel/item"):
    rows.append({name: item.findtext(name) for name in ("title", "link", "category", "pubDate")})
df = pd.DataFrame(rows)
df["pubDate"] = pd.to_datetime(df["pubDate"], utc=True)
df.to_parquet("ecb_press.parquet", index=False)
print(len(df), "items", df["pubDate"].min().isoformat(), "to", df["pubDate"].max().isoformat())

Run by us on 2026-10-30 (python 3.13.5 | pandas 3.1.0 | pyarrow 26.0.0 | requests 2.34.2). Result: 15 items 2026-10-19T06:00:00+00:00 to 2026-10-30T14:00:00+00:00

Limits

• Rate limit: Not stated.
• Feed retention and item count are not stated; observed 2026-10-30: the press feed contained 15 items.

Quirks

• Parse pubDate with utc=True; the source timestamp includes an offset.
• Archive items for history because the feed is a rolling list.
• The RSS page also lists speeches, interviews, publications and exchange-rate feeds.

Terms and attribution

• Reproduce ECB information accurately and cite the ECB.
• State modifications. If the information is put in a document that is sold, notify buyers that it is available free on the ECB site.
• Named-author papers have a separate prior-written-permission rule.

Sources

• https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/rss.en.html: “Subscribe to the ECB news feeds to receive press releases, speeches, publications, exchange rates etc. as they are issued.”
• https://www.ecb.europa.eu/services/disclaimer/html/index.en.html: “When such information is distributed or reproduced, it must appear accurately and the ECB must be cited as the source.”
• https://www.ecb.europa.eu/services/disclaimer/html/index.en.html: “If the information is modified by the user (e.g. by seasonal adjustment of statistical data or calculation of growth rates) this must be stated explicitly.”
• https://www.ecb.europa.eu/services/disclaimer/html/index.en.html: “Where the information is incorporated in documents that are sold (regardless of the medium), the natural or legal person publishing the information must inform buyers”