🔬 NIH Reporter Grants Scraper

🚀 Export NIH research grant data including funding amounts, abstracts, and PI details in seconds. Search 500,000+ federally funded projects by keyword, fiscal year, or funding mechanism. No API key, no registration, no manual data wrangling.

The NIH Reporter Grants Scraper exports publicly funded biomedical and behavioral research grants from the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORTER) and returns 17 fields per record, including project title, principal investigator, institution, award amount, abstract, and project dates. The underlying dataset is the authoritative federal record of NIH-funded research, maintained by the National Institutes of Health.

The catalog covers every NIH institute and center, hundreds of funding mechanisms, and fiscal years going back to 1985. This Actor makes that data searchable and downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. All filters run against the official public NIH API, so you get authoritative, real-time grant data without any scraping workarounds.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Academic researchers, science journalists, policy analysts, biotech companies, grant consultants, university administrators	Funding trend analysis, competitive landscape research, PI discovery, institution benchmarking, literature mapping

📋 What the NIH Reporter Grants Scraper does

Four filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Keyword search. Search across project titles, abstracts, and full text for any biomedical topic.
• 📅 Fiscal year filter. Restrict to a specific NIH fiscal year from 1985 to 2026.
• 💰 Funding mechanism filter. Filter by mechanism code (R01, R21, T32, F31, K99, and hundreds more).
• 📊 Scale to any volume. From 10 preview records to 1,000,000 grants in a single run.

Each record includes project identification (title, number, URL), PI and institution details, award financials, project timeline, and the full abstract text.

💡 Why it matters: tracking NIH funding trends requires combining dozens of CSV exports or navigating the Reporter UI one page at a time. This Actor returns structured, machine-readable grant data from the official API in a single request, ready for analysis in Excel, Python, or any BI tool.

⚠️ Good to Know: Free accounts are capped at 10 items per run. Create a free account w/ $5 credit to get started, then upgrade for full access. The fiscalYear and fundingMechanism inputs are optional - omitting them returns grants across all years and mechanisms.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 free credit)
2. Open the NIH Reporter Grants Scraper Actor page
3. Enter your search query (e.g. "CRISPR gene editing")
4. Optionally set a fiscal year or funding mechanism filter
5. Set maxItems to the number of grants you need
6. Click Start and wait seconds for results
7. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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This Actor accesses publicly available data from the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORTER) via the official public API (api.reporter.nih.gov). All data is provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Institutes of Health. Use of this data is subject to NIH's public data use policies.

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