🔬 NSF Research Grants Scraper

🚀 Scrape National Science Foundation awards with titles, funding amounts, abstracts, PI contacts, institutions, and program details. Filter by keyword, state, program, and date range.

The National Science Foundation funds billions of dollars in research every year across science, engineering, and education. This Actor queries the NSF awards database and returns structured records with award IDs, titles, full abstracts, funding amounts, principal investigator names and emails, institution details, program names, and dates. You can filter by keyword, state, program name, and date range.

Universities tracking funding opportunities, researchers scouting who else is working in their field, policy analysts studying federal science spending, and grant writers looking for successful proposals all use this tool. Instead of clicking through individual award pages, you get a clean dataset in seconds.

Target	National Science Foundation Awards Database
Use Cases	Grant monitoring, research landscape analysis, federal spending tracking, collaboration discovery

📋 What it does

• 🎓 Award metadata. Titles, IDs, full abstracts, and transaction types for every NSF-funded grant.
• 💰 Funding amounts. Estimated totals and obligated funds for each award.
• 👨‍🔬 PI information. Principal investigator names, email addresses, and institutional affiliations.
• 🏛️ Institution details. Awardee names, addresses, cities, states, and ZIP codes.
• 🔍 Flexible filtering. Search by keyword, state code, NSF program name, and start date range.

Each record includes 60+ fields covering the award details, PI information, institution data, funding amounts, performance location, program details, directorate codes, and dates.

💡 Why it matters: Manually searching the NSF website and copying award data into spreadsheets takes hours for even a few dozen grants. This Actor collects thousands of records with full abstracts and PI contacts in a single run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abstractText, activeAwd, agency, awardAgencyCode, awardee, awardeeAddress, awardeeCity, awardeeCountryCode, awardeeDistrict, awardeeDistrictCode, awardeeName, awardeePhone, awardeeStateCode, awardeeZipCode, cfdaNumber, coPDPI, date, dirAbbr, divAbbr, estimatedTotalAmt, expDate, fundAgencyCode, fundProgramName, fundsObligated, fundsObligatedAmt, histAwd, id, initAmendmentDate, latestAmendmentDate, managingPec, orgCodeDir, orgCodeDiv, orgLongName, orgLongName2, orgUrl, parentUeiNumber, pdPIName, perfAddress, perfCity, perfCountryCode. All 40 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: The NSF awards API is public and does not require authentication. Dates must use MM/DD/YYYY format. The scraper processes about 25 awards per second.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NSF Research Grants Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a keyword, choose filters, and set your max items.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) or any government agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.

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