Grants.gov Scraper: Federal Grant Opportunities API (No Key)

Get US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Search by keyword, agency, funding category, eligible applicant type, Assistance Listing (ALN/CFDA) number, posted date, closing date and award size. Each grant includes the award ceiling and floor, total program funding, eligibility, agency contact, and links to the official documents. Turn on monitor mode, schedule it daily, and get only the grants that are new since your last run.

Data comes from the official public Grants.gov API (the same API that powers grants.gov search). No API key, no login, no scraping of protected pages.

For AI agents (MCP / API) quick reference

• Use when: you need current or forecasted US federal grant / funding opportunities (NIH, NSF, DOE, USDA, EPA, HHS and every other agency), filtered by topic, agency, eligibility, ALN or dates.
• Don't use for: federal contracts and RFPs (use SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper), state or foundation grants.
• Minimal input: {"keywords": ["climate"], "maxItems": 20}. All fields are optional.
• Output: one dataset item per grant: opportunityId, opportunityNumber, title, agency, status, postedDate, closeDate, awardCeiling, awardFloor, estimatedTotalFunding, eligibleApplicants, fundingCategories, fundingInstruments, aln, description, agencyContact, documents, url.
• Price: $0.001 per run + $0.004 per detailed grant ($0.002 without details). 20 grants cost about $0.08. Pay per event only, limited permissions, so agentic payments (x402, Skyfire, Apify AGI token) work.
• MCP: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities to your MCP client.

What can this Grants.gov scraper do?

• ✅ Search all federal grants: posted, forecasted, closed and archived opportunities
• ✅ Filters: keywords (any match), agency codes, funding categories, eligible applicant types, funding instruments, ALN/CFDA, posted in the last N days, closing within N days, minimum award ceiling
• ✅ Full details: synopsis text, award ceiling and floor, expected number of awards, cost sharing, eligibility notes, agency contact, ALN program titles, attachment and document links
• ✅ Monitor mode: remembers what it already returned and gives you only new grants, perfect for a daily email, Slack or Zapier alert
• ✅ Pay only for results: grants removed by your filters are never charged
• ✅ Retries with exponential backoff and polite concurrency

Who uses it?

Grant writers and consultants, nonprofit development teams, university research offices, small businesses looking for SBIR/STTR and other funding, municipal and tribal governments, and newsletters that cover federal funding.

How much does it cost?

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001
Grant opportunity (search fields)	$0.002
Detailed grant opportunity	$0.004

A daily monitor that finds 15 new grants costs about $0.06 a day. 1,000 detailed grants cost $4. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it gets there.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free. The example input (keyword "climate", posted and forecasted, 20 results) returns results right away.
2. Change the keywords, add agencies or eligibility codes, or set "Closing within N days".
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them with the API.
4. For alerts, tick Only new since last run, give the monitor a name, and add a daily Schedule. Connect Slack, email, Zapier, Make or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "machine learning"],
  "opportunityStatuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "agencies": ["NSF"],
  "eligibilities": ["06", "20"],
  "closingWithinDays": 60,
  "minAwardCeiling": 250000,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "nsf-ai-monitor"
}

Common eligibility codes: 00 State governments, 01 Counties, 02 Cities, 06 Public higher education, 07 Tribal governments, 12 Nonprofits with 501(c)(3), 20 Private higher education, 22 For profit organizations, 23 Small businesses, 99 Unrestricted. Funding category codes: AG Agriculture, ED Education, EN Energy, ENV Environment, HL Health, ST Science and Technology, CD Community Development, BC Business and Commerce.

Output example

{
  "opportunityId": "364083",
  "opportunityNumber": "G27AS00073",
  "title": "Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Hawaiʻi-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)",
  "agencyCode": "DOI-USGS1",
  "agency": "Geological Survey",
  "status": "posted",
  "docType": "synopsis",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-14",
  "closeDate": "2026-11-14",
  "alnNumbers": [
    "15.808"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364083",
  "category": "Discretionary",
  "description": "Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, biosecurity, ecosystem functioning, and human well-being in Hawaiʻi. Managers are increasingly...",
  "awardCeiling": 435000,
  "awardFloor": 1,
  "estimatedTotalFunding": 435000,
  "expectedNumberOfAwards": 1,
  "costSharing": false,
  "fundingInstruments": [
    "Cooperative Agreement"
  ],
  "fundingCategories": [
    "Science and Technology and other Research and Development"
  ],
  "eligibleApplicants": [
    "Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)"
  ],
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-14",
  "agencyContact": {
    "name": "Geological Survey",
    "email": "grants-officer@agency.gov",
    "phone": "555-0100",
    "description": "Grants officer"
  },
  "moreInfoUrl": null,
  "aln": [
    {
      "number": "15.808",
      "title": "U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection"
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    {
      "name": "Full Announcement.docx",
      "description": "Full Announcement.docx",
      "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/355268"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T23:31:47.767Z"
}

FAQ

Do I need a Grants.gov account or API key? No. The Actor uses the public Grants.gov search and opportunity APIs, which need no key.

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

Can I get forecasts before a grant opens? Yes. Include the forecasted status.

Is this legal? Grants.gov data is public US government information published for reuse. Agency contacts are official work contacts.

Related Actors: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper for federal contracts and RFPs.

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