GlobalGiving Scraper

Scrape GlobalGiving.org — the world's largest global crowdfunding community connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies. Extract active projects with funding progress, donor counts, organization details, themes, countries, and more.

Features

• Browse all active projects — get the full catalog of live fundraising projects
• Search by theme — filter by cause areas like Education, Health, Climate Change, Water & Sanitation, and more
• Search by country — find projects in a specific country using ISO alpha-3 codes
• Project details — fetch specific projects by their GlobalGiving project IDs

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	browseProjects, searchByTheme, searchByCountry, projectDetails
theme	select	Cause theme (for searchByTheme mode)
country	string	ISO alpha-3 country code, e.g. KEN, IND, USA
projectIds	array	Project IDs (for projectDetails mode)
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of projects to return (default: 20)

Available Themes

animals, arts-music-culture, children, climate-change, democracy-and-government, education, environment, food-and-hunger, gender-equality-and-women, health-and-wellness, human-rights, migrant-and-refugee, poverty-alleviation, sport, technology, water-and-sanitation

Output

Each project record includes:

Field	Description
projectId	GlobalGiving project ID
title	Project title
summary	Project description
organization	Nonprofit organization name
organizationUrl	Organization website
country	Country where project operates
region	Geographic region
theme	Primary cause theme
themes	All cause themes
goal	Fundraising goal (USD)
raised	Amount raised so far (USD)
donorsCount	Number of donors
active	Whether project is actively fundraising
imageUrl	Project image URL
projectUrl	GlobalGiving project page URL
currency	Currency code
status	Project status
startDate	Project start date
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of scrape

Example Input

{
  "mode": "searchByTheme",
  "theme": "education",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example Output

{
  "projectId": 12345,
  "title": "Education for Girls in Kenya",
  "organization": "Kenya Education Fund",
  "country": "Kenya",
  "theme": "Education",
  "goal": 50000,
  "raised": 32500,
  "donorsCount": 412,
  "active": true,
  "projectUrl": "https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/12345/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-02T10:00:00+00:00"
}

FAQs

Do I need an API key? No. The scraper uses GlobalGiving's public API endpoint which does not require authentication.

What countries are supported? GlobalGiving has projects in 170+ countries. Use ISO alpha-3 country codes (e.g., USA, KEN, IND, GTM, ETH).

How many projects can I scrape? Set maxItems up to 5000. GlobalGiving hosts thousands of active projects.

Are the funding figures real-time? Yes, the GlobalGiving API returns current funding totals as of the time of scraping.

What's the difference between goal and raised? goal is the total fundraising target; raised is the amount collected so far.