NIH RePORTER Scraper: research grants and awards by keyword, year or institute

$1 per 1,000 projects. Platform usage included. No rental, no minimum.

Three of the four most used NIH RePORTER actors on Apify Store charge $2.00 to $4.00 per 1,000 results (Store prices checked 20 October 2026). The fourth bills per source check and per change instead of per result, so it is left out of this comparison. This actor returns the same kind of grant data for $1.

Open it in Apify Console

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What it costs

Projects	This actor	Most used NIH RePORTER actors on the Store
1,000	$1.00	$2.00 to $4.00
10,000	$10.00	$20 to $40
100,000	$100.00	$200 to $400

Plus $0.001 per run. A weekly pull of 500 new awards costs about $0.50 a run, so roughly $2 a month.

Why people switch

• One flat price. Compute is included, so the bill follows the number of projects and nothing else. A 50 project test run measured about $0.0085 of platform cost per 1,000 rows.
• The full record. Each row has the abstract, direct and indirect costs, the administering institute, the study section, the grantee organization, every principal investigator with a profile ID, program officers, indexing terms and spending categories.
• Filters that match how grants are found. Keyword, fiscal year, institute, organization name, state, investigator, activity code (R01, R21, K99 and so on), award size and award notice dates.
• Polite to NIH. The actor waits between requests, as the RePORTER page asks, and never needs a key.

Quick start

1. Open the actor, type a search text, press Start.
2. Or paste this input:

{ "searchText": "CRISPR gene editing", "fiscalYears": ["2025"], "includeAbstract": true, "maxItems": 50 }

3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/one_dollar_store~nih-reporter-grants/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchText": "CRISPR gene editing", "fiscalYears": ["2025"], "maxItems": 50}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("one_dollar_store/nih-reporter-grants").call(
    run_input={"searchText": "CRISPR gene editing", "fiscalYears": ["2025"], "maxItems": 50}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["awardAmount"], item["organization"], item["title"])

Use it from an AI assistant

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants can call this actor through Apify's MCP server. Add it with this server address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=one_dollar_store/nih-reporter-grants

Then ask, for example: "List the 25 largest NCI grants awarded to Stanford in fiscal year 2025, with the principal investigators."

Switching from another NIH RePORTER actor

Most NIH RePORTER actors take a search text, a fiscal year and a result limit. Here they are searchText, fiscalYears (a list) and maxItems. The core fields are projectNumber, title, abstract, awardAmount, fiscalYear, organization and principalInvestigators.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchText	text	none	Words to find in titles, abstracts and indexing terms.
searchMode	text	and	and needs every word, or needs at least one.
searchIn	list	all three	Any of projecttitle, abstracttext, terms.
fiscalYears	list of text	all years	NIH fiscal years such as 2025.
institutes	list of text	none	Institute or center codes such as NCI, NIAID, NHLBI, NIMH.
organizations	list of text	none	Part of a grantee name such as Stanford or Mayo.
states	list of text	none	Two letter US state codes of the grantee.
principalInvestigators	list of text	none	Smith matches any name part; Jane Smith is read as first and last name.
activityCodes	list of text	none	Grant types such as R01, R21, K99, U01.
minAward, maxAward	number	none	Award size limits in US dollars for the fiscal year.
awardedFrom, awardedTo	text	none	Notice of grant award dates, YYYY-MM-DD.
sortBy	text	default	default, newest (project start) or largest (award amount).
includeAbstract	true or false	true	Turn off for smaller rows.
maxItems	number	100	Total projects for the run, 10 to 10,000.

All filters combine with AND. Example:

{
  "searchText": "immunotherapy",
  "fiscalYears": ["2025"],
  "institutes": ["NCI"],
  "states": ["CA"],
  "minAward": 300000,
  "sortBy": "largest",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output fields

Field	Meaning
projectNumber, coreProjectNumber, applicationId	Full project number with the year, the number without the year, and the RePORTER ID.
fiscalYear, title, abstract	Funding year, project title and abstract.
awardAmount, directCosts, indirectCosts	Funding for that fiscal year in US dollars.
administeringIc, administeringIcName, agencyCode, fundingIcs	Institute or center that runs the grant, the agency, and every institute that funds it.
activityCode, awardType, awardTypeName, fundingMechanism	Grant type and how the application was classed.
assistanceListing, opportunityNumber, studySection	Catalog number, funding opportunity and review group.
projectStartDate, projectEndDate, budgetStart, budgetEnd, awardNoticeDate	Dates, YYYY-MM-DD.
isActive	NIH's active flag, true while the latest budget end date is in the future.
organization, organizationCity, organizationState, organizationCountry, organizationType, department, congressionalDistrict	The grantee.
principalInvestigators, contactPi, principalInvestigatorIds, programOfficers	People.
terms, spendingCategories	NIH indexing terms and spending categories.
dateAdded, url	When RePORTER added the record and the project page link.

Sample results

Real rows from a test run on 20 October 2026. The abstract, the term lists and a few other fields are left out here to keep the page short; every row has them.

[
  {"projectNumber": "5R01MH125979-05", "applicationId": 11015029, "fiscalYear": 2025, "title": "Gene editing in the brain with CRISPR-PEG", "awardAmount": 667668, "directCosts": 510918, "indirectCosts": 156750, "administeringIc": "NIMH", "activityCode": "R01", "awardTypeName": "Non-competing continuation", "fundingMechanism": "Non-SBIR/STTR", "opportunityNumber": "PA-20-185", "projectStartDate": "2021-04-01", "projectEndDate": "2027-01-31", "awardNoticeDate": "2025-02-13", "isActive": true, "organization": "UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER", "organizationCity": "SAN ANTONIO", "organizationState": "TX", "department": "PHYSIOLOGY", "principalInvestigators": ["Hye Young Lee", "NIREN MURTHY"], "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11015029"},
  {"projectNumber": "1R43HG014420-01", "applicationId": 11182095, "fiscalYear": 2025, "title": "A Novel Epigenetic Editing Platform", "awardAmount": 306094, "directCosts": 225339, "indirectCosts": 61755, "administeringIc": "NHGRI", "activityCode": "R43", "awardTypeName": "New", "fundingMechanism": "SBIR/STTR", "opportunityNumber": "PA-24-245", "projectStartDate": "2025-09-20", "projectEndDate": "2026-08-31", "awardNoticeDate": "2025-09-20", "isActive": false, "organization": "ACTIVE MOTIF, INC.", "organizationCity": "CARLSBAD", "organizationState": "CA", "principalInvestigators": ["Brian Stanley Egan"], "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11182095"},
  {"projectNumber": "1ZIAHL002339-34", "applicationId": 11404455, "fiscalYear": 2025, "title": "Optimization of genetic modification of HSCs in the NHP model and creation of relevant preclinical models of human disease and therapies", "awardAmount": 1308839, "administeringIc": "NHLBI", "activityCode": "ZIA", "awardTypeName": "New", "fundingMechanism": "Intramural Research", "isActive": true, "organization": "NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE", "principalInvestigators": ["CYNTHIA E DUNBAR"], "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11404455"}
]

Limits

• One row per project per fiscal year. A grant that runs five years appears as five rows when you ask for every year. Group by coreProjectNumber to see one line per grant.
• RePORTER serves the first 15,000 matches of one search. Past that point it refuses to page. The actor says so in the log. Split bigger pulls by fiscal year or institute.
• Some fields are empty for some records. Direct and indirect costs are reported from fiscal year 2012 and not for SBIR or STTR awards. Intramural NIH projects have no grantee city, state or congressional district. subprojectId is set only for subprojects, and opportunityNumber only when the project answered an announcement.
• awardAmount is the funding for that fiscal year, not the total over the life of the grant. For a subproject it is the subproject's own cost.
• terms can run to more than 100 entries per row. Set includeAbstract to false and ignore terms if you want slim rows.
• Coverage. RePORTER holds NIH projects and some projects of other US health agencies such as CDC, FDA and AHRQ. It is not a list of every US research grant.
• Pace. NIH asks for no more than one request per second. The actor waits between requests, and each request returns up to 500 projects.
• Free plan. A run from a free Apify plan returns the first 10 results.

FAQ

What is the cheapest NIH RePORTER scraper on Apify? This actor costs $1 per 1,000 projects with platform usage included. Three of the four most used NIH RePORTER actors on the Store charged $2.00 to $4.00 per 1,000 when we checked on 20 October 2026.

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 NIH grants? $10, plus $0.001 for each run.

Do I pay for compute or proxy on top? No. Platform usage is included in the $1 per 1,000 price, and no proxy is needed.

Where does the data come from? From the official RePORTER API published by the US National Institutes of Health, at api.reporter.nih.gov. It needs no key. NIH updates the data on its own schedule; dateAdded shows when a record reached RePORTER.

Is it legal? The actor reads public data only, with no login. RePORTER is a public US government database of funded research. How you use the data is up to you: follow the terms on the NIH RePORTER site and the law where you live. Names of investigators are public record in RePORTER, so handle them as you would any personal data.

Is this an official NIH product? No. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Institutes of Health.

How do I follow new awards every week? Schedule a weekly run with awardedFrom set to a week ago and sortBy set to newest, and drop rows whose applicationId you already hold.

Can I find every grant of one investigator? Yes. Put the name in principalInvestigators and leave fiscalYears empty. Add the middle initial or institute if a common name returns too many projects.

Do I need an Apify account? Yes. Actors run from an Apify account, and a free account is enough to start: it includes $5 of platform usage every month. You can sign up here. This is a referral link and it costs you nothing.

Is there a limit on the free plan? Yes. A run started from a free plan account delivers the first 10 results, then ends with a message and a link to the plans. Any paid plan returns everything you ask for, up to your own limit. The price per result is the same on every plan.

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Changelog

• October 2026: first release.