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German Federal Grants Scraper (Förderkatalog)

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German Federal Grants Scraper (Förderkatalog)

German Federal Grants Scraper (Förderkatalog)

Extract German federal funding projects from the Förderkatalog: grant reference, ministry, recipient, executing body, topic, runtime, federal amount, funding type and classification.

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from $1.00 / 1,000 grants

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This Actor reads the German federal government's Förderkatalog — every project the federal ministries fund directly — and returns one record per project: grant reference, ministry, recipient and executing body, topic, runtime, federal amount, subject classification and funding type. Filters run on the Förderkatalog itself.

What it does

  • Returns one record per project, newest start date first: 302,282 projects when this was verified, 42,016 of them still running.
  • Filters at the source: topic keyword, ministry, recipient or executing body, grant reference, federal state, runtime, amount and running-only.
  • Reads each project's detail page for the subject classification (Leistungsplansystematik), funding type and profile, and the city and state of the recipient and executing body.
  • Keeps the search session the portal needs and walks every result page.
  • Needs no API key.

Use cases

You need toHow this Actor does it
See who gets federal money in a fieldSet a topic keyword (German) and group by recipient
Track an organisation's federal grantsSet Recipient and read amounts and runtimes
Map funding by stateFilter by federal state and sum federalAmount
Watch new projectsSet "Starts on or after" to a recent date and schedule the run
Feed a research agentCall the Actor over MCP and let the model set the filters

Input

FieldTypeDefaultWhat it controls
keywordstringemptyMatched anywhere in the project topic (German); % and _ are wildcards
ministrystringemptyCurrent ministry code, e.g. BMFTR, BMWE
recipient / executingBodystringemptyMatched anywhere in the organisation name
grantReferencestringemptyFörderkennzeichen, exact or with %
statestringemptyFederal state, e.g. Bayern
startFrom / endTodateemptyRuntime starts on or after / ends on or before
minAmount / maxAmountintegeremptyFederal amount in euro
onlyRunningbooleanfalseOnly projects still running
fetchDetailsbooleantrueReads the detail page; off is much faster
maxItemsinteger500Caps how many projects are returned, and so the cost; 0 for all matched
{
"keyword": "Wasserstoff",
"startFrom": "2024-01-01",
"maxItems": 200
}

Output

Field groupFields
IdentitygrantReference, projectUrl
Projecttopic, jointProject, planClassification, fundingType, fundingProfile
Funderministry, ministryUnit, administeringAgency
Recipientrecipient, recipientCity, recipientState
Executing bodyexecutingBody, executingBodyCity, executingBodyState
Money and timefederalAmount (euro), startDate, endDate
Rawdetail — every detail-page field as published
{
"grantReference": "BCT0022",
"topic": "Entwicklung Kompakter Gasgeneratoren zur Erzeugung von Brenngasen …",
"ministry": "BMWE",
"recipient": "Siemens Aktiengesellschaft",
"recipientCity": "Erlangen",
"recipientState": "Bayern, Deutschland",
"federalAmount": 1416705,
"startDate": "1973-08-01",
"endDate": "1974-11-30",
"planClassification": "Emissionsverringerung und Energiereinsparung im Straßenverkehr",
"fundingType": "Direkte Projektförderung"
}

Coverage and limits

As the Förderkatalog itself states (checked 2026-10-05):

  • It covers projects of six federal ministries: BMFTR, BMUKN, BMWE, BMLEH, BMV and BMJV. It is not a complete view of all federal funding, and projects of the Länder or other funders are not included.
  • Projects appear at the earliest 60 days after approval.
  • Closed projects are listed under the ministry that would be responsible today, so former names such as BMWK match nothing.

Also: topics and names are in German as published, some projects carry a federal amount of 0, and runs with fetchDetails on read one extra page per project (about 3 seconds each).

Pricing

Pay per event: one grant-scraper event per project written to the dataset. The optional schema.org block is charged once per run.