📊 USAspending Scraper

🚀 Collect federal spending and contract data from USAspending.gov in minutes. Filter by keyword, recipient, agency, NAICS code, award type, amount, and date range. Export award details, amounts, recipients, and agencies. No coding, no account required.

The USAspending Scraper collects federal spending data from USAspending.gov, returning 30+ fields per award: recipient name, award ID, awarding and funding agencies, award amount, period of performance, place of performance, NAICS and PSC codes, and award type. Runs support up to 1,000,000 awards on a paid plan.

The Actor mirrors the Advanced Search filters on USAspending.gov: keywords, recipients, award IDs, date ranges, amount ranges, locations, agencies, recipient types, award types, NAICS codes, PSC codes, and spending level (awards vs sub-awards). Sort by amount, date, or recipient.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
GovCon BD teams, federal contractors, procurement analysts, grant researchers, policy analysts, journalists	Contract intelligence, competitive analysis, pipeline tracking, grant research, federal spending analysis

📋 What the USAspending Scraper does

15+ search filters mirroring USAspending.gov Advanced Search:

• 🔍 Keyword search. Free-text search across awards.
• 🏢 Recipient filter. Company or organization names.
• 🆔 Award ID lookup. PIIDs, FAINs, URIs.
• 📅 Date range. Start and end dates for period of performance.
• 💰 Amount range. Min and max award amounts in USD.
• 📍 Location filters. Recipient location and place of performance (country, state, city).
• 🏛️ Agency filters. Awarding and funding agency names.
• 🏷️ Recipient type. Small business, large business, etc.
• 📋 Award type. Contracts, grants, loans, direct payments.
• 🏭 NAICS and PSC codes. Industry and product/service classifications.
• 📊 Spending level. Awards or sub-awards.
• 🔀 Sort order. Amount, date, or recipient, ascending or descending.

Each award record includes recipient name, award ID, description, amount, start/end dates, awarding agency, funding agency, place of performance, NAICS code, PSC code, and award type.

💡 Why it matters: searching USAspending.gov manually means clicking through paginated results and exporting limited CSVs. This Actor mirrors the full Advanced Search and exports structured federal spending data at scale, ready for your BD pipeline, competitive analysis, or policy research.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: accountObligationsByDefc, accountOutlaysByDefc, agencySlug, awardAmount, awardId, awardType, awardTypeDescription, awardUrl, awardingAgency, awardingAgencyId, awardingOfficeName, awardingSubAgency, baseAndAllOptions, baseExercisedOptions, category, contractAwardType, contractTransactionData, covid19Obligations, covid19Outlays, dateSigned, defCodes, description, endDate, executiveOfficers, fundingAgency, fundingOfficeName, infrastructureObligations, infrastructureOutlays, internalId, naicsCode, naicsDescription, naicsHierarchy, periodOfPerformance, primaryPlaceAddressLine, primaryPlaceCity, primaryPlaceCongressionalDistrict, primaryPlaceCountry, primaryPlaceCounty, primaryPlaceOfPerformance, primaryPlaceState. All 40 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: USAspending.gov is the official U.S. government portal for federal spending data. The Actor mirrors the Advanced Search filters exactly. Data comes from the USAspending API.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the USAspending Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter keywords, agencies, amount ranges, and date filters.
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 U.S. Department of the Treasury or USAspending.gov. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available federal spending data is collected.

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