NIH Grant Award Scraper — Funded-Researcher & Institution Leads

📊 Example output (real run)

A real record from a live run — clean structured data, exported as CSV / JSON / Excel or via API.

Turn $47B/year of NIH research funding into a targeted B2B lead list. Every principal investigator, institution, department, award amount, and research focus — pulled live from the official NIH RePORTER, structured and export-ready.

No API key, no signup, no subscription. Pay only for the results you pull. Clean typed records for CSV, JSON, Excel, or direct API export into your CRM or pipeline.

What this scraper does

Search NIH-funded research projects by keyword, fiscal year, and activity code (grant mechanism), and get back a clean row per award: project title, principal investigator (PI) name, institution, department, city/state, award amount in USD, fiscal year, project dates, activity code, research terms, and an abstract summary.

A funded NIH grant is a buying signal: the lab just got budget. For CROs, lab-equipment and reagent vendors, biotech SaaS, recruiters, and research-services firms, this is a stream of institutions and named investigators with fresh money to spend.

Why this instead of the alternatives

	NIH Grant Award Scraper	Manual NIH RePORTER search	Generic "research funding" databases
Data source	Official NIH RePORTER (authoritative, live)	Same, but one page at a time	Often stale, re-sold snapshots
Output	Structured rows (PI, institution, $, terms)	Copy-paste from a web UI	Locked behind seat licenses
Bulk / automation	Yes — one run, thousands of awards	No	Enterprise contract required
Pricing	Pay-per-result, no subscription	Free but manual & slow	$$$/seat/year
Export	CSV, JSON, Excel, API	Manual	Vendor lock-in

If you've been paying for a research-intelligence seat license or scraping RePORTER by hand, this replaces both: authoritative data, structured, on demand.

Input

Field	Description
keywords	Research topic / disease / method terms to search (e.g. "CRISPR", "Alzheimer", "single-cell")
fiscalYears	Fiscal years to include (e.g. 2024, 2025)
activityCodes	NIH activity/mechanism codes to filter by (e.g. R01, R44 SBIR, U01)
maxResults	Cap the number of awards returned

Output

One structured record per award:

projectNumber · projectTitle · piName · institution · department · city · state · country · awardAmountUsd · fiscalYear · projectStartDate · projectEndDate · activityCode · researchTerms · abstractSummary

Export the full dataset as CSV, JSON, or Excel from the Apify console, or pull it via the Apify API.

Use cases

• Life-science sales — target labs and PIs that just won funding (reagents, instruments, CROs, sequencing)
• Biotech / research SaaS — reach funded investigators actively scaling projects
• SBIR/STTR intelligence — filter to R43/R44/R41/R42 to find funded small-business innovators
• Recruiting — find well-funded labs hiring postdocs and staff scientists
• Research & competitive intelligence — track funding momentum in a topic or institution

FAQ

Do I need an API key or NIH account? No. Provide your search terms and run it.

Is the data official? Yes — it comes from NIH RePORTER, the U.S. government's authoritative record of funded research.

Can I schedule it? Yes — use Apify Schedules to re-pull weekly and catch new awards as they post.

What formats can I export? CSV, JSON, Excel, or via the Apify API into your own tools.

Can I integrate it into my app? Yes — call it via the Apify API and pull results straight into your pipeline.