Grants.gov Scraper – US Federal Grant Opportunities & Forecasts

Find US federal funding opportunities from Grants.gov, the official source for every federal grant program, using its official public API. No API key, no login, no browser. Search by keyword, agency, funding category, eligible applicant type, Assistance Listing (ALN/CFDA) number, deadline and award size, and get clean JSON, CSV or Excel with funding amounts, eligibility, deadlines and attachment links.

Use it for grant alerts, grant writing pipelines, nonprofit and university research offices, small-business (SBIR/STTR-style) funding searches, GovTech lead generation and funding market research. It pairs well with SAM.gov Contract Opportunities and EU Tenders (TED).

What you get for each opportunity

• Opportunity ID and number, title, status (posted / forecasted / closed / archived)
• Agency and parent department (e.g. National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services)
• Posted date and application deadline, plus the deadline note (time zone, submission rules)
• Award ceiling, award floor, total estimated funding, expected number of awards, cost-sharing flag, fiscal year
• Eligible applicant types (small businesses, nonprofits, universities, states, tribes…) and eligibility details
• Funding instruments and categories, Assistance Listings (ALN/CFDA) with program titles
• Full description (HTML cleaned to text, length configurable)
• For forecasts: estimated post date, application date, award date and project start date
• Links to the Grants.gov page and to the full-announcement attachments

Personal contact details (names, emails, phone numbers of agency staff) are intentionally left out.

How to use

1. Enter keywords (or leave empty for everything) and pick statuses, categories or eligible applicant types.
2. Set Posted in the last N days or Closing within N days for alert-style runs.
3. Run. Results appear in the dataset; download as JSON, CSV, Excel or use the API.

Daily grant alert: schedule the Actor daily with onlyNewSinceLastRun: true and connect the dataset to email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make or Zapier via Apify integrations. You only get (and pay for) new opportunities.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "cybersecurity"],
  "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "eligibilities": ["23"],
  "fundingCategories": ["ST"],
  "closingWithinDays": 60,
  "minAwardCeiling": 100000,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example output (shortened)

{
  "opportunityId": "364192",
  "opportunityNumber": "G27AS00040",
  "title": "Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Great Lakes Northern Forrest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit",
  "status": "posted",
  "agencyName": "Geological Survey",
  "topAgencyName": "Department of the Interior",
  "openDate": "2026-11-02",
  "closeDate": "2026-12-02",
  "assistanceListings": [{ "number": "15.808", "programTitle": "U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection" }],
  "fundingInstruments": ["Cooperative Agreement"],
  "estimatedTotalFunding": 135000,
  "awardCeiling": 135000,
  "expectedNumberOfAwards": 1,
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364192"
}

Pricing

Pay per result: $3 per 1,000 opportunities (plus a tiny Apify start fee). A default run (50 opportunities) costs about $0.15. Set Max results to cap spend.

Tips

• Agency codes: top-level (HHS, NSF, DOE, USDA, DOD, ED) or sub-agency (HHS-NIH11, DOC-NOAA).
• Turn Include full details off for a very fast list of titles, dates and agencies only.
• Multiple keywords run as separate searches and are merged without duplicates.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. Grants.gov is a US government service and publishes this data through a public API intended for reuse. Federal government works are in the public domain.

Do I need an API key? No.

How fresh is the data? Every run queries Grants.gov live.

Something broke? Open an issue on the Actor page; I respond within 24 hours.