# Financial Aid Deadline Extractor (`junipr/financial-aid-deadline-extractor`) Actor

Extract public financial aid, FAFSA, scholarship, priority filing, and institutional aid deadlines from college financial aid pages into normalized deadline rows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/junipr/financial-aid-deadline-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [junipr](https://apify.com/junipr) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $6.50 / 1,000 record fetcheds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Financial Aid Deadline Extractor

### Store Positioning

**Store title:** Financial Aid Deadline Extractor

**Short description:** Extract public financial aid, FAFSA, scholarship, priority filing, and institutional aid deadlines from college financial aid pages into normalized deadline rows.

**SEO title:** Financial Aid Deadline Extractor — official public data extraction and monitoring

**SEO description:** Extract public financial aid, FAFSA, scholarship, priority filing, and institutional aid deadlines from college financial aid pages into normalized deadline rows. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

**Categories:** SEO\_TOOLS, DEVELOPER\_TOOLS, NEWS

**Keywords:** financial, aid, deadline, extractor, public data, official/public-data actor

### Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

- Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
- Primary event: `record-fetched` at $0.00908 base
- Default max charge: $15.00
- Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

- `actor-start`: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `record-fetched`: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when record fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `event-detected`: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `report-generated`: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts `actor-start` before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If `maxChargeUsd` or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

### Public Task Concepts

- Extract a FAFSA priority deadline
- Build a scholarship deadline calendar
- Normalize transfer institutional aid deadlines
- Flag an ambiguous aid deadline
- Extract a CSS Profile deadline

### Inputs

- `startUrls`
- `institutionNames`
- `allowedDomains`
- `targetAcademicYear`
- `deadlineTypes`
- `applicantTypes`
- `maxPages`
- `maxDepth`
- `includeScholarshipDeadlines`
- `includeEvidence`
- `timezone`
- `timeoutMs`

The exact default fetches Vanderbilt University's public financial-aid deadline calendar, verified at 2026-07-12T06:15:00Z.

### Outputs

- `institutionName`
- `sourceUrl`
- `deadlineType`
- `deadlineDate`
- `deadlineText`
- `academicYear`
- `priorityOrFinal`
- `applicantType`
- `formName`
- `appliesTo`
- `timezone`
- `confidence`
- `evidenceText`
- `warning`

Run locally with `npm test` and `npm run build`.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Public pages to fetch and analyze. Keep first runs small and use allowed domains to constrain crawling.

## `htmlInputs` (type: `array`):

Optional supplied HTML pages to analyze without fetching live URLs. Use this for saved pages or controlled QA.

## `institutionNames` (type: `array`):

Institution Names controls Financial Aid Deadline Extractor processing for the supplied inputs; keep values conservative for first runs.

## `allowedDomains` (type: `array`):

Optional domain allowlist that keeps fetched URLs constrained to approved hosts.

## `targetAcademicYear` (type: `string`):

Target Academic Year controls Financial Aid Deadline Extractor processing for the supplied inputs; keep values conservative for first runs.

## `deadlineTypes` (type: `array`):

Deadline Types controls Financial Aid Deadline Extractor processing for the supplied inputs; keep values conservative for first runs.

## `applicantTypes` (type: `array`):

Applicant Types controls Financial Aid Deadline Extractor processing for the supplied inputs; keep values conservative for first runs.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum pages to process in one run; keep defaults low for safe first runs.

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

Maximum depth to process in one run; keep defaults low for safe first runs.

## `includeScholarshipDeadlines` (type: `boolean`):

Include scholarship deadlines in output rows or reports when available.

## `includeEvidence` (type: `boolean`):

Include evidence in output rows or reports when available.

## `timezone` (type: `string`):

Timezone controls Financial Aid Deadline Extractor processing for the supplied inputs; keep values conservative for first runs.

## `timeoutMs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time in milliseconds allowed for the Financial Aid Deadline Extractor operation before it is treated as timed out.

## `maxChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Maximum pay-per-event charge allowed before the actor stops without emitting unpaid output.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.vanderbilt.edu/financialaid/deadlines/"
  ],
  "htmlInputs": [],
  "institutionNames": [
    "Vanderbilt University"
  ],
  "allowedDomains": [
    "vanderbilt.edu"
  ],
  "targetAcademicYear": "2026-2027",
  "deadlineTypes": [
    "FAFSA",
    "scholarship",
    "institutional aid"
  ],
  "applicantTypes": [
    "freshman",
    "transfer"
  ],
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxDepth": 0,
  "includeScholarshipDeadlines": true,
  "includeEvidence": true,
  "timezone": "America/Chicago",
  "timeoutMs": 10000,
  "maxChargeUsd": 1
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("junipr/financial-aid-deadline-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("junipr/financial-aid-deadline-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call junipr/financial-aid-deadline-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,junipr/financial-aid-deadline-extractor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zajc7DSRJRZ6PGTYq/builds/bsPH62fKSk8hkI0Qf/openapi.json