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PlanetBids Scraper – Government Bids & RFPs

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PlanetBids bid tracker: open bids, RFPs and RFQs from 272 city, county, school and water district portals (mostly California). Due dates, categories, estimated value, documents, addenda, awards and bid results. No login.

Pricing

from $2.40 / 1,000 bids

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Developer

Alexei Pannicov

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

7 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Lead generation

Business

Portals

portals

Optional

Portals that are not in the catalog list below: PlanetBids portal IDs (the number after /portal/ in the URL, e.g. 14319) or any portal URL such as https://vendors.planetbids.com/portal/14319/bo/bo-search. Combined with the catalog selections below.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Catalog: portals by agency name

catalogPortals

Optional

Pick agencies from the bundled PlanetBids portal catalog by name. Only portals with the bid module enabled are offered.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Catalog: portals in these states

catalogStates

Optional

Add every portal from the bundled PlanetBids portal catalog located in these states.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Catalog: all portals

allCatalogPortals

Optional

Add every portal from the bundled catalog. A full run takes long at the safe request rate (about 1 request per second).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Bid stages

stages

Optional

Bid stages to return. Empty = all stages. One stage is filtered by the API; several are filtered by the Actor after listing all bids (slower).

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "bidding"
]

Bid types

bidTypes

Optional

Solicitation types. Empty = all. One type is filtered by the API; several are filtered by the Actor.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Keyword

keyword

Optional

Full-text search sent to the PlanetBids API.

Type:string

Default:

Category codes

categoryCodes

Optional

Category (NIGP-like) codes, e.g. 91200. A bid matches if it has any of them.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Due date from

dueDateFrom

Optional

Only bids due on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Sent to the API.

Type:string

Due date to

dueDateTo

Optional

Only bids due on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Sent to the API.

Type:string

Posted after

postedAfter

Optional

Only bids issued on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD, portal local time). Filtered by the Actor; with sort by issue date, newest first, paging stops early.

Type:string

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

Order in which the API lists bids. Matters with Max items.

Type:string

Default:issueDate

Options:

issueDatetitleinvitationNumberdueDatestage

Sort order

sortOrder

Optional

Sort direction.

Type:string

Default:desc

Options:

descasc

Include bid details

includeDetails

Optional

Fetch the bid detail page data (scope, estimated value, location, department, pre-bid meeting, notices). One extra request per bid; charged as a detail item.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Extras

include

Optional

Extra data per bid, one request each. Needs Include bid details. Awards and bid results are fetched only when the agency publishes them.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Include contacts (personal data)

includeContacts

Optional

Output personal data: bid contact name, phone and email, bid result respondent names and phones, and the prospective bidders list. Off by default.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max items

maxItems

Optional

Stop after this many dataset items in total. 0 = unlimited.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Max requests per minute

maxRequestsPerMinute

Optional

PlanetBids blocks an IP (AWS WAF challenge) at roughly 5 requests per second. Keep at 60 or less unless a proxy rotates IPs.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:300

Default:50

Max consecutive WAF challenges

maxWafChallenges

Optional

Stop the run after this many WAF challenges in a row. Items pushed so far are kept.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:5

WAF backoff (seconds)

wafBackoffSecs

Optional

Pause after a WAF challenge before retrying. The block lifts about 1-2 minutes after traffic stops.

Type:integer

Minimum:60

Maximum:280

Default:150

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Optional proxy. Not needed at the default request rate; Apify Proxy is a paid feature.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": false
}

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