Bold.org Scholarship Database Scraper

Scrape Bold.org — one of the largest scholarship marketplaces — and export a structured database of scholarships with award amounts, application deadlines, eligibility, categories, and sponsor information.

What it does

The actor fetches Bold.org's sitemap (~3,400 scholarship detail pages), visits each page, and extracts the embedded scholarship JSON payload. Each record includes:

• scholarship_name — Full name of the scholarship
• slug — URL slug (unique identifier)
• detail_url — Direct link to the scholarship page
• award_amount — Award value (e.g. $1,000, $25,000)
• application_deadline — Application deadline date or Rolling
• education_level — Comma-separated list: high school, undergraduate, graduate
• eligibility_summary — Education levels + selection criteria
• field_of_study — Academic field (e.g. Nursing, Computer Science)
• sponsor_organization — Organization or individual funding the scholarship
• no_essay — true if the scholarship requires no essay
• description — Full scholarship description
• num_applicants — Number of applicants to date
• category — All category tags (semicolon-separated)

Use cases

• Build scholarship search tools or aggregators
• Track scholarship availability and deadlines
• Lead generation for student services, edtech, and college-advising platforms
• Research scholarship landscape by field, state, or education level

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of scholarships to scrape. Set to 0 for all (~3,400).

Output

Each record in the dataset represents one scholarship:

{
  "scholarship_name": "Community Health Ambassador Scholarship for Nursing Students",
  "slug": "community-health-ambassador-scholarship-for-nursing-students",
  "detail_url": "https://bold.org/scholarships/community-health-ambassador-scholarship-for-nursing-students/",
  "award_amount": "$3,000",
  "application_deadline": "Jun 1, 2026",
  "education_level": "high school, undergraduate, graduate",
  "eligibility_summary": "high school, undergraduate, graduate | Ambition, Drive, Impact",
  "field_of_study": "Nursing",
  "sponsor_organization": "Live it Up",
  "no_essay": false,
  "description": "This scholarship seeks to lower the financial burden of college...",
  "num_applicants": 5236,
  "category": "Scholarships for High School Seniors; Scholarships for Women; Scholarships for Nursing Students; ..."
}

Coverage

Bold.org publishes ~3,400 scholarship detail pages in their sitemap. The actor scrapes all of them in a full run. With maxItems, you can sample a subset for quick testing or targeted pulls.

Technical notes

• No proxy required — Bold.org's scholarship pages are server-rendered (SSR) and accessible without residential IPs
• Extraction reads the embedded Next.js RSC JSON payload directly from the page, so no fragile CSS selectors
• Concurrency: 5 parallel requests with automatic rate-limit handling
• Memory: 512 MB is sufficient for full runs