CanadaBuys Scraper — Canada Government Tenders & Bid Alerts

CanadaBuys Scraper: Canada Government Tenders & Bid Alerts

Pricing: $0.005 per run start plus $0.005 per result

Find Government of Canada tenders for your trade or region before they close. For suppliers, contractors and IT/professional-services firms: filter CanadaBuys tenders by category, UNSPSC, region and keywords and get clean JSON, CSV or Excel from the official CanadaBuys open data (Open Government Licence – Canada). No login, no scraping.

Key features

• Read all currently open tenders (feed: "open", about 900 at a time) or only today's new notices (feed: "new")
• Filter by procurement category (e.g. SRV), UNSPSC prefix, region and keywords
• Bilingual output: English or French (language: "fr")
• Returns only notices/amendments not returned before (onlyNew, default) per stateKey; each amendment counts as a new item
• Closing date, trade agreements, buyer, delivery regions and full description in every row
• Named contact people, emails and phone numbers removed

Input example

No API key or login needed.

{
  "feed": "open",
  "categories": [
    "SRV"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "Ontario"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 3
}

Sample output

Real rows from a recent run (table shortened for readability; full fields are in the dataset and exportable as JSON, CSV or Excel).

Title	Type	Buyer	Province	UNSPSC	Closes
HIGH THROUGHPUT SIMULTANEOUS DYNAMIC VAPOR SORPTION (DVS) ANALYSIS SY…	—	National Research Council of Canada (NRC)	Quebec	Electrical measuring and testing equipment and accessories, Spectrosc…	2026-10-28
Home Heating Fuel	Request for Standing Offer	Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT)	NT	#2 Heating fuel oil	2026-11-09
ROBOTIC ARMS & LINEAR ACTUATOR	Request for Proposal	National Research Council of Canada (NRC)	Quebec	Robotics, Laboratory and scientific equipment	2026-11-04
Two (2) Front End Loaders	RFP against Supply Arrangement	Parks Canada Agency (PC)	Quebec	Lifting equipment and accessories	2026-11-03
One (1) S50 Electronics Agfa Module Assy Part # (IP+A004068S)	Request for Proposal	Department of National Defence (DND)	ONTARIO	Printer and photocopier and facsimile accessories	2026-10-28

One full row (long text fields truncated):

{
  "referenceNumber": "cb-965-52682645",
  "amendmentNumber": "003",
  "solicitationNumber": "26-58161",
  "title": "HIGH THROUGHPUT SIMULTANEOUS DYNAMIC VAPOR SORPTION (DVS) ANALYSIS SYSTEM",
  "noticeType": null,
  "status": "Open",
  "publicationDate": "2026-09-18",
  "amendmentDate": "2026-10-20",
  "closingDate": "2026-10-28T14:00:00",
  "expectedContractStart": null,
  "expectedContractEnd": null,
  "procurementCategory": [
    "GD"
  ],
  "procurementMethod": "Competitive - Open bidding",
  "gsin": [],
  "unspsc": [
    "41113600",
    "41115400"
  ],
  "unspscDescription": [
    "Electrical measuring and testing equipment and accessories",
    "Spectroscopic equipment"
  ],
  "tradeAgreements": [
    "Please refer to Tender Description or Tender Documents"
  ],
  "regionsOfOpportunity": [],
  "regionsOfDelivery": [
    "Mississauga"
  ],
  "buyerName": "National Research Council of Canada (NRC)",
  "buyerCity": "Montreal",
  "buyerProvince": "Quebec",
  "endUserEntities": [],
  "description": "Canada is seeking offers from Offerors to provide a high throughput simultaneous dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) analysis system to characterize and quantify the adsorption and desorption behavior of advanced materials, including CO2 capture sorbents exposed to CO2/N2/humidity gas mixtures, battery mat … [truncated]",
  "url": null
}

Use cases

• Daily bid alerts for your category
• Construction or services work in your province (categories + regions)
• IT and professional-services RFPs by UNSPSC prefix (e.g. 43, 8111)
• CRM, Slack or Google Sheets feeds via Apify integrations, Make or Zapier

How to schedule it

Create a daily Schedule with the same input and stateKey (with onlyNew on, the default) so each run returns only tenders you haven't seen. Add an email/Slack/Sheets integration.

You can cap spend per run with maxResults (where available) or the run's Max total charge setting.

FAQ

What's the difference between the open and new feeds? open reads all currently open tenders (about 900); new reads only today's new notices.

Why does a tender show up again? Each amendment is a new item, so you see changes.

Can I get French text? Yes, language: "fr".

Does it cover provincial portals like SEAO? No. It covers the federal CanadaBuys open-data feed only.

Are contact details included? No, named contacts, emails and phones are removed.

Do I need an account? No.

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