USASpending Scraper — Federal Contracts, Grants & Awards Data (No API Key)

Pull the full firehose of US federal spending — contracts, grants, loans and direct payments — straight from the official USASpending.gov API. This federal-awards scraper returns clean, flat records of who is being paid by the US government, for what, when and where — with no login, no API key and no scraping fragility. A single run can return hundreds of thousands of records, and because it reads the official Treasury open-data API, the data is authoritative and won't break when usaspending.gov restyles its site.

🏆 Why this USASpending scraper?

Every award type in one tool (contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, other) · hundreds of thousands of records per run · authoritative official Treasury data · date + keyword + agency filtering · export to JSON / CSV / Excel. The unofficial USASpending.gov API alternative for GovCon business development, federal-contractor lead-gen and budget analytics — with no API key and no proxy.

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✨ What this Actor does / Key features

• 💵 All award types — federal contracts (IDIQ, BPA, task/delivery orders), grants (competitive, formula, block), loans & loan guarantees (SBA, USDA, DOE, HUD, FHA), direct payments (Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, ag subsidies) and other financial assistance.
• 🏛️ Agency detail — awarding department and sub-agency/bureau on every record.
• 🏢 Recipient data — the company, university, agency or individual receiving the award.
• 💰 Amounts & outlays — total obligated awardAmount and totalOutlays paid so far, in USD.
• 📍 Place of performance — state and country where the work is performed.
• 📅 Date & keyword filters — bound the award action date and filter by recipient / description / agency text.
• 🔗 Direct award links — a url to the award detail page on USASpending.gov per record.
• ⚡ Fully paginated — walks the entire USASpending search API for you; official, stable open-data source.
• 🟢 No API key, no login, no proxy — the USASpending.gov API is public and unauthenticated.

🚀 Quick start (3 steps)

1. Pick award types — any combination of contracts, grants, direct-payments, loans, other.
2. Set a date range and optional keyword — bound the award action date and filter on recipient / description / agency text.
3. Run & export — the Actor paginates the whole search API for you; download as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or schedule a rolling window for an always-fresh feed.

📥 Input

Only awardTypes is required. Empty dates default to the last 12 months through today.

Example — every cybersecurity contract + grant in 2026

{
  "awardTypes": ["contracts", "grants"],
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-12-31",
  "keyword": "cybersecurity",
  "maxAwards": 0
}

Example — all award types for a recipient, recent window

{
  "awardTypes": ["contracts", "grants", "direct-payments", "loans", "other"],
  "keyword": "Lockheed Martin",
  "maxAwards": 5000
}

Example — federal grants in a date range (sampled)

{
  "awardTypes": ["grants"],
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-30",
  "maxAwards": 2000
}

Field	Type	Required	Description	Default
awardTypes	array	Yes	contracts, grants, direct-payments, loans, other.	["contracts"]
startDate	string	No	Earliest award action date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = last 12 months.	""
endDate	string	No	Latest award action date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = today.	""
keyword	string	No	Free-text filter on recipient / description / agency.	""
maxAwards	integer	No	Cap on total awards saved. 0 = all matching (can be hundreds of thousands).	100

📤 Output

One flat dataset record per federal award. Here is a trimmed sample record:

{
  "awardId": "CONT_AWD_47QTCA20D003X_4732_0_-none-",
  "recipientName": "ACME DEFENSE SYSTEMS, INC.",
  "awardAmount": 12450000.00,
  "totalOutlays": 3800000.00,
  "awardType": "contract",
  "description": "CYBERSECURITY OPERATIONS AND INCIDENT RESPONSE SUPPORT SERVICES",
  "startDate": "2026-01-15",
  "endDate": "2028-01-14",
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency",
  "placeOfPerformanceState": "VA",
  "placeOfPerformanceCountry": "USA",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_47QTCA20D003X_4732_0_-none-",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

• Government-contractor research (GovCon BD) — see exactly who is winning federal contracts, with which agency, for how much; build account plans for the top awardees in your vertical.
• Federal budget analytics — track agency-level spending trends quarter over quarter and roll up by sub-agency or place of performance.
• Grant tracking — monitor new grants in your domain (cybersecurity, biotech, climate, AI, defense) the day they are announced.
• B2B sales & lead generation — federal awardees are pre-qualified prospects for cloud, staffing, GovTech, fintech and compliance vendors.
• Watchdog & investigative journalism — surface unusual awards, large outlays and contractor concentration at scale.
• Competitive intelligence — benchmark a competitor's federal footprint by agency, amount and geography.

👥 Who uses it

GovCon business-development teams · federal contractors and subcontractors · B2B sales teams targeting government awardees · budget and policy analysts · investigative journalists and watchdog NGOs · data teams building federal-spending datasets.

💰 Pricing

This Actor runs on a simple pay-per-result model — you pay for the awards you extract, with no separate Apify platform fees to calculate (the USASpending.gov API is free). Try it on the free tier first, then scale up. See the Pricing tab on this page for the current rate.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need an API key or login? No. The USASpending.gov API is public and unauthenticated — no API key, no login, no proxy required. Only an Apify account is needed.

Is this a USASpending.gov API alternative? Yes. It's an unofficial wrapper around the public USASpending.gov API, giving you a no-code USASpending data-extraction tool that handles pagination and flattens awards into ready-to-use records.

How much data can I get in one run? The Actor is fully paginated and can return hundreds of thousands of records per run. Set maxAwards: 0 for everything matching your filters, or cap it for a faster sample.

How does this compare to SAM.gov? SAM.gov shows active solicitations and opportunities (what's available to bid on). USASpending shows what has already been awarded and to whom. They're complementary — this Actor handles the awarded side at full historical scale.

How do I find who won federal contracts in a specific sector? Set awardTypes to contracts and add a keyword like cybersecurity to filter by recipient, description or agency, returning each awardee, amount, agency and place of performance.

Can I scrape all federal award types in a single run? Yes. List contracts, grants, direct-payments, loans and other together in awardTypes and the Actor paginates all matching awards across every category into one dataset.

How do I export federal grant awards for a date range? Choose the grants award type and set startDate and endDate in YYYY-MM-DD format to pull every grant obligated in that window, then export it to CSV or JSON.

Can I scrape federal awards without an API key or login? Yes. The USASpending.gov API is public and unauthenticated, so you can scrape federal contracts and grants without any API key, login or proxy.

How do I export USASpending.gov data to CSV or JSON? Run the Actor with your award types and date range, then download the dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel or XML, or pull it via the Apify API — the simplest way to bulk-export federal spending data without writing API code.

Is it legal to use this data? USASpending.gov is official open US government data published for public re-use. You are responsible for using it in compliance with the site's terms and applicable laws.

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⏰ Scheduling & integration

Schedule this Actor on Apify for an always-fresh federal-awards feed — set a rolling date window and run it daily or weekly. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel, sync to Google Sheets, or push to your CRM, database, BI tools and webhooks through the Apify API. Connect it to Make, n8n or Zapier to route new awards into GovCon dashboards and sales pipelines.

⭐ Support & feedback

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Issues tab — response is usually fast. If this Actor saves you time, a ★★★★★ review on the Store page genuinely helps and is hugely appreciated. 🙏

⚖️ Legal

This Actor reads only the official open USASpending.gov API, published by the US Treasury for public re-use, and is intended for legitimate research, business-development and analytics use. You are responsible for complying with USASpending.gov's terms and any applicable local laws.

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📝 Changelog

2026-07-06

• ✨ README overhaul: added shields badges, a green "why" callout, a richer output sample and full field reference, extra ready-to-run example scenarios, a B2B/registry cross-promo grid, removed stray formatting, and clarified the quick-start.

2026-07-01

• Maintenance pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data and confirmed successful runs within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
• Sharpened Store metadata (SEO title & description) and expanded the FAQ with high-intent, long-tail questions for easier discovery in Google and Apify Store search.
• Added ready-to-run example tasks that cover common real-world use cases.

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for USASpending.gov API alternative usage, exporting federal awards data to CSV/JSON, and scraping federal contracts & grants without an API key.

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

2026-06-04

• Verified live & refreshed build — reliability/maintenance pass.