UKRI Organisation Award Watch

New UKRI awards to the research organisations you name.

Source

UKRI Gateway to Research search API (public, logged-out)

• https://gtr.ukri.org/api/search/project

Public, logged-out only — no API key, login, cookie or CAPTCHA.

How the window is bounded, and why it is bounded client-side

The API advertises facet groups — Start Year, Region, Project Status — and none of them can be applied as a filter. Measured 2026-07-27 under the filter-proof law: pro.sy=2026, selectedFacets, start, fundingStartDate, region and status each return HTTP 200/202 with an identical result set. They are display counts. A cell built on one would report the whole 174,404-project corpus while appearing scoped.

What is proven to work — control-vs-test, not assumed — is selectedSortableField=pro.sd, selectedSortOrder, page and fetchSize. So this Actor pages newest-first and bounds the window itself.

Two consequences worth knowing before you buy:

• There is no recency field. created and updated are absent from this endpoint. Recency comes from the project start date and the sort, nothing else.
• The sort head is far-future. Pages 1–19 are entirely studentships starting 2028–2031. This Actor skips them and says how many it skipped; if that head ever grows past its measured shape the run says so rather than quietly watching the wrong set.

One delta type per Actor

This Actor watches organisation-award and nothing else. The other UKRI delta types are separate Actors, each with its own price and its own baseline — so you pay for the feed you want.

Unit nouns (Pay-Per-Event)

• apify-actor-start — reserved platform event, charged per GB of run memory. This Actor is pinned to 1024 MB, so it is one event per run.
• source-check — once per run after the source enumeration terminates, seed runs and evidenced-zero runs included. Not charged when the source refused the read.
• ukri-project-delta — the value event, charged per change emitted in watch mode. Billed deltas are capped at 500 per run; any overflow is reported as a withholding and is not charged.

Pricing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Source check (source-check)	$0.10	$0.09	$0.08	$0.067
UKRI Project Delta (ukri-project-delta)	$0.20	$0.18	$0.16	$0.134

Prices are the filed pay-per-event amounts per plan tier (PLATINUM/DIAMOND match GOLD). Blocked and refused runs do not intentionally charge value events.

Run it WEEKLY, not daily

Schedule this Actor once a week. That is a recommendation about your bill, not about coverage — a weekly run reads the same window and misses nothing.

Gateway to Research is republished in bursts, not continuously. Measured 2026-07-27:

what was measured	result
the search index's own lastRefreshDate	14 Apr 2026 — 104 days before measurement
projects with a 2024 start date	13,306
projects with a 2025 start date	5,034
projects with a 2026 start date	999

2024 does not hold thirteen times more research than 2026. It holds thirteen times more loaded research, because it has had two extra years to fill in. GtR backfills: a project awarded today appears here months to years later, in a burst when the corpus is reloaded.

So a daily schedule pays seven source-check events a week to look at a corpus that moves a few times a year. On a weekly schedule the check is a seventh of that and you see exactly the same changes. Override it if you have a reason — nothing stops you running hourly.

Honest limits

Gateway to Research publishes awarded projects, not funding opportunities — if you want open calls, that is a different source. Awards appear when UKRI loads them, which is not the day they were made, and the lag is measured in months to years — see the table above. Absence from a page is never read as a project being withdrawn. Public logged-out data only. Not investment, legal or research-funding advice.