# USASpending GovCon Awards & Grants Scraper (`chrisp1211/usaspending-scraper-max`) Actor

Scrape US federal government contracts and grants from USASpending. Filter by keyword, recipient, agency, award type and date. Returns award amount, recipient, agency and more. No API key. Pay per award; empty runs are free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/chrisp1211/usaspending-scraper-max.md
- **Developed by:** [Christian Pichichero](https://apify.com/chrisp1211) (community)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.60 / 1,000 records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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```bash

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# README

## USASpending GovCon Awards & Grants Scraper

**USASpending GovCon Awards & Grants Scraper** — a fast, reliable usaspending scraper that needs **no API key**. You pay only for the results you get: failed or empty runs are always free.

This usaspending scraper runs on the [Apify platform](https://apify.com), so you can call it from the API, run it on a schedule, or export results to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets.

### What this scraper does

- Extracts structured **usaspending** data with no browser or API key required
- Returns clean JSON, one record per result — ready for sheets, databases, or apps
- Pay-per-result pricing: you are never charged for a run that returns nothing
- Runs on demand or on a schedule, and integrates with 5,000+ apps via the Apify API and webhooks

### What data you get

Each result record includes fields such as:

- **Award Id** (`awardId`) — e.g. `"FA862118F6251"`
- **Recipient Name** (`recipientName`) — e.g. `"LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION"`
- **Amount** (`amount`) — e.g. `632998084.56`
- **Awarding Agency** (`awardingAgency`) — e.g. `"Department of Defense"`
- **Award Type** (`awardType`) — e.g. `"DELIVERY ORDER"`
- **Award Category** (`awardCategory`) — e.g. `"contracts"`
- **Description** (`description`) — e.g. `"IGF::OT::IGF  AFSOC ACTS AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR CLS, ENGI...`
- **Start Date** (`startDate`) — e.g. `"2018-02-08"`
- **End Date** (`endDate`) — e.g. `"2027-01-31"`
- **Place** (`place`) — e.g. `"FL"`
- **Naics Code** (`naicsCode`) — e.g. `"336413"`
- **Recipient Id** (`recipientId`) — e.g. `"ea75ddee-2d00-ac7f-5e72-6f42d7c88c8c-C"`
- **Generated Internal Id** (`generatedInternalId`) — e.g. `"CONT_AWD_FA862118F6251_9700_FA862115D6276_9700"`
- **Url** (`url`) — e.g. `"https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA862118F6251...`

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `keywords` | array | Free-text keywords to match against award descriptions/recipients (e.g. cybersecurity, HVAC). Combined serv... |
| `recipientName` | string | Company/organization name to fuzzy-match the awardee (e.g. Lockheed Martin, Stanford). |
| `agencyName` | string | Toptier awarding agency name exactly as USASpending lists it (e.g. Department of Defense, National Science ... |
| `awardType` | string | Which award family to pull: contracts, grants, or all (both). |
| `fromDate` | string | Start of the award action time window, ISO YYYY-MM-DD (default 2008-01-01). |
| `toDate` | string | End of the award action time window, ISO YYYY-MM-DD (default ~1 year ahead of today). |
| `maxResults` | number | Maximum award records to return per award-type bucket (default 50, capped at 500). |
| `minAmount` | number | Optional client-side floor: drop awards whose dollar amount is below this value. |

### Example output

```json
{
  "type": "award",
  "awardId": "FA862118F6251",
  "recipientName": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION",
  "amount": 632998084.56,
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
  "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
  "awardCategory": "contracts",
  "description": "IGF::OT::IGF  AFSOC ACTS AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR CLS, ENGINEERING, INSTRUCTION, CYBERSECURITY, DMO",
  "startDate": "2018-02-08",
  "endDate": "2027-01-31",
  "place": "FL",
  "naicsCode": "336413",
  "recipientId": "ea75ddee-2d00-ac7f-5e72-6f42d7c88c8c-C",
  "generatedInternalId": "CONT_AWD_FA862118F6251_9700_FA862115D6276_9700",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA862118F6251_9700_FA862115D6276_9700",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-10T00:00:00Z"
}
````

### Use cases

- Run market and competitor research
- Enrich due-diligence and financial analysis
- Feed dashboards and reporting pipelines
- Power fintech and investment tools

### Run it as a monitor (alerts on new usaspending)

Schedule this usaspending scraper to run automatically — hourly, daily, or on any cron schedule — with the built-in [Apify Scheduler](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules), and have results pushed to you by **webhook, email, Slack, or your own app** the moment they're ready. It's the easiest way to **monitor usaspending for changes over time** and get alerted the instant something new appears — no manual runs. Because pricing is per result, a scheduled monitor only ever charges you for the data each run actually returns.

### Pricing

This actor uses **pay-per-result** pricing at **$0.0006 per record**. There is no monthly fee and no start fee — and **empty or failed runs cost $0**, so you only ever pay for data you actually receive.

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need an API key or account for the source?** No. This usaspending scraper works out of the box with no API key required.

**What happens if a run returns no results?** You are not charged. Billing is per result, so empty or failed runs are free.

**Can I run the usaspending scraper on a schedule?** Yes. Use the Apify Scheduler to run it hourly, daily, or on any cron schedule, and get results by webhook or API.

**What export formats are supported?** Results can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or pushed to Google Sheets, a database, or your own app via the Apify API.

**Is the data structured?** Yes. Every usaspending result is a clean, flat JSON record you can use immediately.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Free-text keywords to match against award descriptions/recipients (e.g. cybersecurity, HVAC). Combined server-side.

## `recipientName` (type: `string`):

Company/organization name to fuzzy-match the awardee (e.g. Lockheed Martin, Stanford).

## `agencyName` (type: `string`):

Toptier awarding agency name exactly as USASpending lists it (e.g. Department of Defense, National Science Foundation).

## `awardType` (type: `string`):

Which award family to pull: contracts, grants, or all (both).

## `fromDate` (type: `string`):

Start of the award action time window, ISO YYYY-MM-DD (default 2008-01-01).

## `toDate` (type: `string`):

End of the award action time window, ISO YYYY-MM-DD (default ~1 year ahead of today).

## `maxResults` (type: `number`):

Maximum award records to return per award-type bucket (default 50, capped at 500).

## `minAmount` (type: `number`):

Optional client-side floor: drop awards whose dollar amount is below this value.

## `maxCostUsd` (type: `integer`):

HARD budget cap. The run stops cleanly before exceeding this.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

This is an open API; no proxy needed. Default is fine.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "awardType": "all",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("chrisp1211/usaspending-scraper-max").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("chrisp1211/usaspending-scraper-max").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call chrisp1211/usaspending-scraper-max --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=chrisp1211/usaspending-scraper-max",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "USASpending GovCon Awards & Grants Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape US federal government contracts and grants from USASpending. Filter by keyword, recipient, agency, award type and date. Returns award amount, recipient, agency and more. No API key. Pay per award; empty runs are free.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "KzMdEDAdNwGhqCKqD"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/chrisp1211~usaspending-scraper-max/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-chrisp1211-usaspending-scraper-max",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/chrisp1211~usaspending-scraper-max/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-chrisp1211-usaspending-scraper-max",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/chrisp1211~usaspending-scraper-max/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-chrisp1211-usaspending-scraper-max",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "keywords": {
                        "title": "Keywords",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Free-text keywords to match against award descriptions/recipients (e.g. cybersecurity, HVAC). Combined server-side.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "recipientName": {
                        "title": "Recipient Name",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Company/organization name to fuzzy-match the awardee (e.g. Lockheed Martin, Stanford)."
                    },
                    "agencyName": {
                        "title": "Awarding Agency",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Toptier awarding agency name exactly as USASpending lists it (e.g. Department of Defense, National Science Foundation)."
                    },
                    "awardType": {
                        "title": "Award Type",
                        "enum": [
                            "contracts",
                            "grants",
                            "all"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Which award family to pull: contracts, grants, or all (both).",
                        "default": "all"
                    },
                    "fromDate": {
                        "title": "From Date",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Start of the award action time window, ISO YYYY-MM-DD (default 2008-01-01)."
                    },
                    "toDate": {
                        "title": "To Date",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "End of the award action time window, ISO YYYY-MM-DD (default ~1 year ahead of today)."
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Max Results",
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Maximum award records to return per award-type bucket (default 50, capped at 500).",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "minAmount": {
                        "title": "Minimum Amount",
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Optional client-side floor: drop awards whose dollar amount is below this value."
                    },
                    "maxCostUsd": {
                        "title": "Max cost per run (USD)",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "HARD budget cap. The run stops cleanly before exceeding this."
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "This is an open API; no proxy needed. Default is fine.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": false
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```