Scholarship Finder Scraper

Extract comprehensive US scholarship data from CollegeScholarships.org — 23,000+ scholarships with 20+ fields per record.

Features

• 🎓 23,000+ scholarships from CollegeScholarships.org
• 📊 20+ fields per scholarship (award min/max, deadline, eligibility, sponsor, etc.)
• 🔍 Keyword search — server-side filter by title, description, or major
• 💰 Award sorting — sort by highest/lowest award or deadline (chronological)
• 🏷️ Min award filter — applied before detail fetching, no wasted requests
• 📄 Detail page enrichment — concurrent fetching for full data
• 🚀 Fast & reliable — pure HTTP, no JavaScript rendering needed

Output Fields

Field	Description	Source
title	Scholarship name	Listing
detail_url	Full URL to scholarship page	Listing
award	Award amount (text)	Listing
award_amount	Award amount (numeric)	Listing
deadline	Application deadline	Listing
description	Scholarship description	Listing
geographic_restrictions	Geographic eligibility	Listing
enrollment_level	Required enrollment level	Listing
majors	Eligible majors/fields	Listing
min_award	Minimum award amount	Detail
max_award	Maximum award amount	Detail
award_type	Type (Scholarship/Grant/Fellowship)	Detail
renewable	Whether award is renewable	Detail
awarded_annually	Whether awarded every year	Detail
repay_required	Whether repayment is required	Detail
unlimited_awards	Whether awards are unlimited	Detail
enrollment_detail	Detailed enrollment requirements	Detail
ethnicity	Ethnicity requirements	Detail
gender	Gender requirements	Detail
requirements	Additional requirements	Detail
gpa	GPA requirement	Detail
sponsor_name	Scholarship sponsor	Detail
sponsor_url	Sponsor website	Detail
sponsor_phone	Sponsor phone	Detail
sponsor_address	Sponsor address	Detail
apply_url	Direct application link	Detail
full_description	Full description from detail page	Detail
source	Data source identifier	—

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keyword	String	—	Filter by keyword (e.g., "engineering", "nursing"). Uses the site's own search when provided
maxResults	Select	100	Max results: 50/100/200/500/1000/2000/5000
maxPages	Select	10	Max pages to scrape (30/page): 5/10/20/50/100/769
fetchDetails	Checkbox	✓	Fetch detail pages for enriched data
minAward	Select	—	Only scholarships with award ≥ this value (applied before detail fetching)
requestConcurrency	Select	8	Parallel detail-page fetches: 3/5/8/12
sortBy	Select	none	Sort by: none / award_high / award_low / deadline (chronological)

Changelog

v1.1 (2026-09-28)

• Concurrent detail fetching: detail pages now fetched in parallel (configurable via requestConcurrency, default 8) instead of serially with a 1s sleep — 5 detail pages complete in ~2s instead of ~10s+
• Server-side keyword/award search: when keyword or minAward is set, the actor POSTs the site's own search form (with CSRF token) so listing pages arrive pre-filtered — no more fetching thousands of pages just to filter locally
• Concurrent listing pages: up to 4 listing pages fetched in parallel instead of strictly serial with 1.5s sleeps
• Correct deadline sorting: sortBy=deadline now parses real month/day (February before April); vague deadlines ("Rolling", "Varies") sort last
• Dedup by detail_url: previously deduped by title only, which dropped distinct scholarships sharing a name
• minAward applied before detail fetching: previously filtered after all detail pages were fetched
• Retries with backoff for transient HTTP statuses (429/500/502/503/504)
• Hardened inputs: invalid maxResults/maxPages/requestConcurrency values fall back to defaults instead of crashing
• Fixed httpx crash on bracketed IPv6 entries in NO_PROXY (sandbox environments)
• Added output schema + dataset schema; removed committed __pycache__ artifacts from the source bundle
• New optional input requestConcurrency (3/5/8/12)

v1.0 (2026-09-28)

• Initial release: listing + detail scraping from CollegeScholarships.org, keyword filter, award/deadline sorting, min-award filter.