USAspending Scraper — Federal Awards, Contracts & Grants

A USAspending scraper for federal awards: pull contract and grant awards from USAspending.gov by date, agency, state and award type.

Pull US federal awards from USAspending.gov. Built for suppliers, bid teams, analysts and AI agents.

⏰ Run this as a new-award alert (recommended)

This is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new awards as they land:

{
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-01-31",
  "awardTypes": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
  "maxAwards": 50
}

Weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on new-award alert.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per award (27 fields), straight from USAspending's spending_by_award endpoint:

• award_id, internal_id, generated_internal_id — award identifiers
• recipient_name, recipient_uei — who was awarded
• award_amount_usd, total_outlays_usd — money obligated and paid out
• description — award description as filed
• awarding_agency, awarding_sub_agency, funding_agency, funding_sub_agency, agency_slug
• place_of_performance_state_code, _city_code, _country_code, _zip5
• period_of_performance_start_date, period_of_performance_current_end_date
• contract_award_type (contracts) / award_type (assistance)
• naics, psc — {code, description} objects on contracts
• cfda_number — assistance listing number on grants
• spending_level, award_category, source

Pricing: $0.05 per award (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 awards per $1 — plus $0.00005 per Actor start (one event per GB of memory, minimum one). Runs that cannot reach USAspending fail and charge nothing; a date window with no awards returns 0 rows and charges nothing.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run US federal awards from USAspending on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Pull USAspending federal awards for a recipient with amounts and agencies.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related procurement actors

Monitor government contracts across the US, EU, UK and APAC: EU TED Tenders, UK Find a Tender, US Contracts Search, US Spending Intel, US Grants, Singapore GeBIZ

Procurement agent front door: Gov Contracts Procurement MCP

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Data from public government procurement sources.