# AusTender Scraper — Australian Government Contracts & Suppliers (`rhymed_santolina/austender-contracts`) Actor

Track Australian Government contract notices from the official AusTender API: agency, supplier, value, UNSPSC and dates. Filter by agency, value and keyword for competitor tracking and sales leads; only new notices each run. No login. Part of the Arachne toolkit.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/austender-contracts.md
- **Developed by:** [Arachne Tools](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## AusTender Scraper: Australian Government Contracts & Suppliers

See **who the Australian Government is buying from, what it's buying and for how much**. Each row is a contract notice with agency, supplier, value, UNSPSC code and contract dates, taken from the **official AusTender OCDS API**. There's no login and no scraping.

**Use it to:**

- 🕵️ **Track your competitors.** Get an alert whenever a named supplier wins a federal contract (`keywords: ["Accenture"]`).
- 🎯 **Build a sales pipeline.** Find agencies that buy your category (UNSPSC prefix) and see what they spend.
- 📈 **Size a market.** Total contract value by agency or category over any date range.
- 🔔 **Get daily contract alerts** with a Schedule and `onlyNew`, sent on to Slack, email or Google Sheets with Apify integrations.

**Why this Actor:** it reads the official government data feed, links each notice to its AusTender page, and removes contact-person details.

### How much does it cost?

You pay per event: a small fee per run start plus a fee per result. A daily alert that returns 20 new items costs only cents per day. Use `maxResults` or the run's *Max total charge* to cap spend.

### Example inputs

Department of Defence contracts of at least AUD 100k published in the last 7 days:

```json
{ "lookbackDays": 7, "agencies": ["Defence"], "minValue": 100000 }
```

IT contracts (UNSPSC 43 and 81) modified in the last 2 days:

```json
{ "dateField": "contractLastModified", "unspscPrefixes": ["43", "81"] }
```

Contracts won by a competitor:

```json
{ "keywords": ["Accenture"], "lookbackDays": 30, "stateKey": "competitor" }
```

### Output (one row per contract notice release)

`contractNoticeId, title, description, status, buyerName, buyerId, classificationScheme (UNSPSC), cpvCodes (holds the UNSPSC codes), procurementMethod, valueAmount, valueCurrency, contractStart, contractEnd, contractSigned, awardedSuppliers, awardValue, url, ocid, releaseId, releaseDate, tags`

Contact-person details are removed.

### Notes

- An amended contract notice is a new release and comes back as a new row.
- Pricing: pay per event, a small fee per run start plus a fee per notice.

### More Arachne tools

- [SAM.gov Scraper — Federal Contract Opportunities & Bid Alerts](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/sam-gov-opportunities): New US federal contract opportunities from the official SAM.gov API, filtered by NAICS, set-aside or state.
- [UK Tenders Scraper — Contracts Finder & Find a Tender Alerts](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/uk-tenders): New UK public-sector tenders and awards from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender in one feed.
- [EU TED Tenders Scraper — Public Procurement Notices & Alerts](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/ted-eu-tenders): New EU public procurement notices from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), filtered by country, CPV and keyword.
- [CanadaBuys Scraper — Canada Government Tenders & Bid Alerts](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/canadabuys-tenders): New Government of Canada tenders from CanadaBuys open data, filtered by category, UNSPSC and region.
- [Grants.gov Scraper — Federal Grant Opportunities & Alerts](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/grants-gov-opportunities): New US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov with funding, eligibility and deadlines.
- [SEC Form D Scraper — Startup Funding & Private Placement Alerts](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/sec-form-d-funding-alerts): New SEC Form D filings (startup funding and private placements) from official EDGAR data.
- [Domain Expiry Checker — RDAP Domain Expiration & Status Monitor](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina/domain-rdap-expiry-monitor): Bulk domain expiry, registrar and status checks via official RDAP, with alerts for soon-to-expire domains.

***

🕸️ **Part of the Arachne toolkit:** official open-data feeds turned into clean, ready-to-use datasets. More Arachne Actors: [apify.com/rhymed_santolina](https://apify.com/rhymed_santolina).

# Actor input Schema

## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`):

How many days back to scan each run.

## `dateField` (type: `string`):

Which contract date the look-back window applies to.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only return items whose text contains any of these words (case-insensitive). Empty = all.

## `agencies` (type: `array`):

e.g. Defence, Home Affairs.

## `unspscPrefixes` (type: `array`):

e.g. 43 (IT), 80 (management services).

## `minValue` (type: `integer`):

Skip contracts below this value.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Safety limit on API pages per run.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Skip items already returned by a previous run with the same State key.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Name for the 'seen' memory. Use different keys for different saved searches.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many results (caps your cost).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "lookbackDays": 2,
  "dateField": "contractPublished",
  "maxPages": 50,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "default",
  "maxResults": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Items returned by this run (only new ones when onlyNew=true).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "lookbackDays": 2
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rhymed_santolina/austender-contracts").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "lookbackDays": 2 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rhymed_santolina/austender-contracts").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "lookbackDays": 2
}' |
apify call rhymed_santolina/austender-contracts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rhymed_santolina/austender-contracts"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/QdvonobrRfeKsAXya/builds/MEDW5azo6D6zGM1qI/openapi.json