Grants Scraper API (Duke + NIH + Grants.gov)

Search and extract grant opportunities and funding announcements from multiple sources and return them in a single unified JSON output schema.

Sources currently supported:

• Duke Research Funding
• NIH RePORTER
• Grants.gov

Built for grant discovery, internal dashboards, automation workflows, and downstream ranking/LLM pipelines.

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🔎 What This Actor Provides

For every run, this Actor searches by keyword and outputs normalized records with consistent fields across sources:

• Title
• Sponsor / agency
• Posted date / deadlines (when available)
• Funding amount (when available)
• Eligibility / tags / topics (when available)
• Source URL + stable source id

✅ Unified schema across all sources ✅ Supports selecting which sources to run ✅ Best-effort enrichment (some fields are source-specific)

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⚙️ Input Parameters

Example Input

{
  "keyword": "cancer",
  "sources": ["duke", "nih", "grants.gov"],
  "maxCountPerSource": 50
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
keyword	string	Yes	-	Keyword to search across selected sources
sources	string[]	No	all	Which sources to scrape: duke, nih, grants.gov
maxCountPerSource	number	No	50	Maximum number of records to return per selected source

Important: output size

If you select multiple sources, the Actor may return up to:

(# of selected sources) × maxCountPerSource

Example: if sources=["duke","nih","grants.gov"] and maxCountPerSource=50, you may receive up to 150 records.

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💵 Pricing (Pay per event)

This Actor uses Pay per event and charges per dataset item pushed.

• NIH + Grants.gov records use event: basic_result (cheaper)
• Duke records use event: duke_result (more expensive)

Notes:

• You will be charged based on the number of records saved to the dataset, not just the number of pages visited.
• If your max charge is reached, the Actor exits early.
• Increasing maxCountPerSource increases the potential number of charged results.

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📤 Output Schema (Unified)

Each dataset item is a unified record (fields may be null if not available from that source).

Example Output Record

{
  "source": "grants.gov",
  "sourceId": "PAR-26-107",
  "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/dd8d7a29-5191-4919-95ce-f7ac57922cff",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-03T22:42:37.165Z",

  "title": "Title Discovery of the Genetic Basis of Childhood Cancers...",
  "description": "As part of the Gabriella Miller Kids First...",

  "sponsorName": "National Institutes of Health",

  "amount": null,
  "amountMin": null,
  "amountMax": null,
  "amountCurrency": "USD",

  "status": "Forecasted",

  "postedDate": "May 19, 2026",
  "deadlineSponsor": "July 19, 2026",
  "startDate": "August 15, 2026",

  "topics": null,
  "eligibility": ["Nonprofit", "Government", "Business"],
  "fundingType": ["Other"],

  "nih": null,
  "grants_gov": {
    "opportunityNumber": "PAR-26-107",
    "closeDate": "TBD",
    "detail": { "fiscalYear": 2026, "contactEmails": ["kidsfirst@od.nih.gov"] }
  }
}

Key fields

Field	Description
source	duke | nih | grants.gov
sourceId	Best-effort stable id per source
url	Canonical detail URL
title	Opportunity title
description	Plain-text description/abstract (when available)
sponsorName	Sponsor / agency
amount, amountMin, amountMax	Funding amounts (when available)
status	e.g. Open / Forecasted (when available)
postedDate, deadlineSponsor, startDate, endDate	Dates (best-effort; may be null)
eligibility, topics, fundingType, disciplines	Tags/classification (when available)
nih	NIH-only structured fields (when source = nih)
grants_gov	Grants.gov-only structured fields (when source = grants.gov)

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🚀 How It Works

1. You provide a keyword
2. The Actor runs the selected sources
3. Each source returns up to maxCountPerSource normalized records
4. Results are saved to the default dataset

👥 Who This Actor Is For

• Research ops / grant offices
• Founders and teams building grant discovery tools
• Analysts tracking funding programs
• Automation pipelines that need structured grant data

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📞 Support & Feedback

For issues or feature requests, contact the Actor author via Apify.