🏛️ FPDS Federal Contracts Scraper

🚀 Export US federal contract awards in seconds. Pull procurement contracts from USAspending.gov (FPDS data) by agency, vendor, award type or date. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 17 fields per record · 30,000,000+ contract actions · United States

The FPDS Federal Contracts Scraper queries the USAspending.gov public Awards API, which republishes Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) records. Every result contains the award ID, recipient (vendor) name, award amount, awarding agency and sub-agency, description, contract award type, start and end dates, COVID-19 obligations and infrastructure obligations. Power supplier discovery, government-contract lead generation, vendor benchmarking and policy research.

Coverage: every federal procurement contract action exported through FPDS / USAspending.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
GovTech vendors	Lead generation on federal buyers
Defense contractors	Track competitors' awards
Lobbyists	Map agency spending
Researchers	Procurement and policy studies
Journalists	Investigate spending patterns
Consultants	Build agency-spend dashboards

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📋 What this scraper does

• Queries USAspending.gov contract awards API
• Filters by keyword, award type, action date range
• Returns award ID, recipient, amount, agency, dates
• Includes COVID-19 and infrastructure obligations
• Outputs JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

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💡 Why it matters: FPDS is the canonical procurement dataset for the US Government. USAspending offers a clean, real-time API on top of it.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
keyword	string	No		Vendor / description keyword.
awardTypeCode	select	No	All	A, B, C or D contract type.
timePeriodStart	string	No	2024-10-01	Action date start.
timePeriodEnd	string	No	today	Action date end.

Example 1 - Lockheed Martin awards FY 2025:

{ "keyword": "Lockheed Martin", "maxItems": 500 }

Example 2 - Definitive contracts in May 2026:

{ "awardTypeCode": "D", "timePeriodStart": "2026-05-01", "timePeriodEnd": "2026-05-31", "maxItems": 1000 }

⚠️ Good to Know: USAspending sorts by Award Amount descending. Records are aggregated to the prime-award level.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
    "title": "FOREST PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTORS, INC.",
    "awardId": "SPM8E611D0007",
    "recipientName": "FOREST PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTORS, INC.",
    "awardAmount": 8120.0,
    "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
    "awardingSubAgency": "Defense Logistics Agency",
    "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_ZZZZ_9700_SPM8E611D0007_9700"
}

Key fields: title, awardId, recipientName, awardAmount, totalOutlays, description, awardType, awardingAgency, awardingSubAgency, startDate, endDate, COVID-19 and Infrastructure obligations.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Backed by the official USAspending.gov API
• 🟢 No registration, no API key
• 🟢 Filter combinations supported
• 🟢 Up to 1,000,000 records per paid run

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
FPDS.gov	Yes	Limited	Yes
USAspending.gov	Yes	Yes	Yes
ParseForge FPDS Scraper	Yes	Yes	Live

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set filters, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

GovTech lead generation

Find agencies buying products like yours.

Competitor monitoring

Track every award won by a named vendor.

Pipeline forecasting

Spot which agencies issue recurring procurements.

Policy research

Quantify federal spending by program.

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🔌 Automating FPDS Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Procurement policy and pricing studies.

Personal

Investigate hometown federal spending.

Non-profit

Government accountability reporting.

Experimentation

Combine with SAM.gov solicitations for full lifecycle data.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Microsoft Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? USAspending.gov Awards API (FPDS data).

Q: API key? No.

Q: Real-time? Yes, queried live on every run.

Q: Update frequency? USAspending refreshes from FPDS regularly.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? Yes, 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Coverage? All federal contract actions filed in FPDS.

Q: Includes COVID-19 and Infrastructure obligations? Yes, when populated by the agency.

Q: Grants? This actor returns procurement contracts only. Grant scrapers are available separately.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with USAspending.gov or the US Government. Only publicly available data from api.usaspending.gov is collected.