Grants.gov Scraper — Open Federal Funding Opportunities

Search Grants.gov, the US government's listing of federal funding opportunities, by keyword, agency, funding category, applicant type or award size and get one clean row per opportunity: title, agency and department, posted and closing dates, award ceiling and floor, total funding, expected number of awards, eligible applicants, funding category and instrument, Assistance Listing numbers and a short synopsis, with a link to the opportunity on Grants.gov. $2.00 per 1,000 opportunities, no login, no API key.

This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Run it again, or put it on a daily schedule, and every row also tells you whether the opportunity is new since the last run (isNew). Set What to return to Only new and you pay only for the opportunities you have not seen before. Grants.gov lists 869 opportunities open for applications and 590 forecasts (16 Oct 2026), so the useful question is what appeared since yesterday; this keeps the list of what you have already seen.

What you get

Field	What it is
opportunityId, opportunityNumber, url	Grants.gov's internal ID, the number the agency gave the funding opportunity, and the link to its page on Grants.gov
status, docType	posted (open for applications), forecasted (announced in advance), closed or archived; synopsis (the opportunity itself) or forecast
isNew, previousRunAt	true / false whether you had not seen this opportunity in your previous run of the same search, and when that run was (null on the first run)
title, description	the title, and the synopsis cut at 500 characters (a trailing … marks a cut; empty without details)
agencyCode, agency, topAgencyCode, topAgency	the office that offers the funding (National Institutes of Health), its code (HHS-NIH11), and its department (Department of Health and Human Services)
postedOn, closesOn	the date it was posted and its application deadline (forecasts have none)
awardCeiling, awardFloor, estimatedTotalFunding, expectedNumberOfAwards	the largest and smallest single award, the total money available and how many awards are planned, as the agency states them
costSharingRequired, category, fundingInstruments, fundingCategories	whether the applicant must put in matching money, Discretionary, Earmark…, Grant / Cooperative Agreement…, and the subject area (Health, Education…)
eligibleApplicants, eligibilityNote	who may apply (Small businesses, State governments…) and the agency's note on eligibility, cut at 300 characters
assistanceListings, assistanceProgramTitles	the federal program numbers (for example 93.307, the old CFDA numbers) and their titles
archiveOn, lastUpdatedOn	when the opportunity will be archived and when it was last changed
forecastedSynopsisOn, forecastedAwardOn, fiscalYear	on forecasts: the planned posting date, the planned award date and the fiscal year
detailsFetched	true when the full details were read (see Input); the fields that need them are null or empty otherwise
observedAt	when the row was collected

Run it again and again

• On a schedule: save your input as a task and add a Schedule: the same search every morning. Send each run to Google Sheets, Slack or email with an integration on the task.
• Watch for changes: Set What to return to Only opportunities that are new since the last run.
• In bulk: Combine Keywords, Agencies, Who can apply and Funding categories in one run.

Use it for

• Grant monitoring: a daily schedule with your keywords and applicant type, posted and Only new, sent to Sheets, Slack or your CRM
• Lead lists for grant writers and consultants: which agencies fund your clients' fields, how much per award and when the deadline is
• Early warning: forecasted opportunities announce funding before it opens; the planned posting and award dates are in the row
• Research: closed opportunities by agency and category show what was funded in the past and at what size

Input

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cybersecurity"],
  "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "eligibilities": ["23"],
  "minAward": 50000,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "output": "new"
}

• All filters are combined with AND; the entries inside one list are combined with OR. Words on a single keyword line must all appear. Each keyword line (and each Assistance Listing line) is a separate search on Grants.gov, and the results are merged without duplicates.
• agencies: the name or code as Grants.gov lists it (Department of Energy, DOE, HHS-NIH11). A top-level agency includes its sub-agencies. A name the Actor cannot find stops the run before anything is charged.
• statuses: posted (default), forecasted, closed, archived.
• postedWithinDays: only opportunities first posted in the last N days; empty means all, newest first. closesWithinDays — only those whose deadline falls in the next N days.
• eligibilities, fundingCategories, fundingInstruments, assistanceListings — Grants.gov's own codes; the input form lists the common ones.
• minAward, maxAward — the range of single award sizes you care about. An opportunity is kept when its range from award floor to award ceiling overlaps yours. Opportunities that state no ceiling (or 0) are left out when either is set, because their size is unknown.
• includeDetails: on by default. Grants.gov's search lists only the title, agency, dates and listing numbers, so the Actor reads each opportunity's page for the synopsis, award sizes, applicants and category: one extra request per opportunity. Switch it off for a fast list. A size filter reads the details whatever this says.
• Results are sorted newest first, and maxResults (default 100, up to 2,000) cuts the list from the old end. With Only new it is the number of new opportunities to return: the Actor reads down the list, past the opportunities you have already seen (up to 2,000 deep), until it has found that many. Opportunities below the cut-off are not marked as seen, so they come back as new in your next run.
• Grants.gov's search has no place or state filter, so this Actor has none either.

"Is it new" is remembered per search — the same keywords, agencies, statuses, applicant types, categories, listings and award sizes — in a named key-value store in your Apify account, so the second run of the same search already shows isNew. Changing Posted within, Maximum opportunities or the details switch keeps the same history. An opportunity that the agency changes later keeps its ID and is not shown as new again.

Pricing

$2.00 per 1,000 opportunities, plus $0.01 per run. Error rows (a search Grants.gov rejects, Grants.gov not answering) are free. With Only new, opportunities you have already seen are skipped and not charged. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.

Notes

• Source: the public search API of Grants.gov (search2 and fetchOpportunity), run by the US Department of Health and Human Services. Grants.gov's API guide states that these two endpoints need no authentication, and nothing from behind a login is read. The API terms and conditions allow using the API to search, display, analyze and retrieve grants data, and I found no clause on commercial use or on automated access in them; they ask services that use the API to show the notice at the top of this page and not to modify or misrepresent the content, which is why dates are only converted to ISO form and long text is only cut and marked with …. They also say access may be limited or blocked if limits are exceeded; no numeric limit is published, so the Actor identifies itself in its requests and waits 0.6 to 0.7 seconds between them.
• No contact persons, email addresses or phone numbers are returned: the Actor never reads the contact fields of an opportunity, and emails or international phone numbers that appear inside a synopsis are removed. Free text can still mention a person, so check synopses before you republish them.
• In a live read of the 100 newest open opportunities on 16 Oct 2026 (posted 25 Sep to 16 Oct), all 100 had a synopsis, an applicant list and Assistance Listing numbers, and 99 had a deadline. awardCeiling was stated on 74, left blank by the agency on 23 and 0 on 3; awardFloor was above 0 on 30 and 0 on 39, so a floor of 0 usually means none is stated. estimatedTotalFunding was above 0 on 64 and expectedNumberOfAwards was filled on 74. 93 of the synopses were longer than 500 characters and were cut.
• Reading those 100 opportunities with details took 87 seconds; the same 100 without details took 2.5 seconds, and 600 opportunities (three pages of results) took 3.8 seconds.
• Grants.gov counted 869 posted, 590 forecasted, 8,704 closed and 73,413 archived opportunities on 16 Oct 2026. Forecasts have no deadline and no archive date, and some posted opportunities have no archive date either.
• If Grants.gov is rate limiting or unavailable, the Actor waits and retries twice. If it still gets no answer it adds a free error row, and the run is marked failed when nothing at all could be read. If a single opportunity's details cannot be read, its row comes out with detailsFetched false (and is left out when you use a size filter).

For awards that have already been made — who won which federal contract or grant and for how much — see USAspending Scraper. For public tenders in the EU, see EU Tenders Scraper (TED).

For AI agents

{"statuses": ["posted"], "postedWithinDays": 14, "maxResults": 5} returns up to 5 rows, newest first, each with agency, deadline, award ceiling and eligible applicants. Rows have type: opportunity or error. Fields that do not apply to an opportunity are null (or an empty list), never missing. Schedule the same input daily with "output": "new" to get only what was posted since the previous run. This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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