USAspending Federal Award Scraper

Extract US federal prime awards from USAspending.gov, covering every contract, grant, loan and direct payment back to October 2007

40+ fields per record

United States coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Updated 2026-06-22

What you get

Each record is one federal award with its recipient, money, awarding agency, classification codes and locations. Use it for government contract intelligence, competitor tracking, grant research and lead lists of federal recipients.

• awardId: the agency award identifier (PIID for contracts, FAIN for assistance)
• generatedAwardId: the unique USAspending award id used in the award URL
• recipientName: the company or organization that received the award
• recipientUei: the recipient Unique Entity Identifier
• awardAmount: total obligated amount in US dollars
• totalOutlays: total outlaid amount where reported
• loanValue: face value of the loan (loan awards only)
• subsidyCost: estimated long-term cost of a loan (loan awards only)
• awardType: assistance award type label (grants, direct payments, loans)
• contractAwardType: contract type label such as delivery order or BPA call
• awardingAgency: top-tier awarding agency
• awardingSubAgency: sub-tier awarding agency
• fundingAgency: top-tier funding agency
• fundingSubAgency: sub-tier funding agency
• startDate: award period of performance start
• endDate: award period of performance end
• issuedDate: assistance action date where reported
• lastModifiedDate: last time the award record was modified
• baseObligationDate: base obligation date
• cfdaNumber: Assistance Listing (CFDA) number for grants
• naicsCode: industry classification code
• naicsDescription: industry classification description
• pscCode: Product and Service Code
• pscDescription: Product and Service Code description
• recipientLocation: recipient country, state, city, county, ZIP and congressional district
• placeOfPerformance: where the work is performed
• description: free-text award description
• url: link to the award page on USAspending.gov
• category*: award category such as contract or grant
• typeDescription*: detailed award type description
• subawardCount*: number of sub-awards under this award
• totalSubawardAmount*: total dollars passed to sub-recipients
• baseAndAllOptions*: contract value including all options
• baseExercisedOptions*: contract value of exercised options
• dateSigned*: date the award was signed
• periodOfPerformanceStart*: detailed period of performance start
• periodOfPerformanceEnd*: detailed period of performance end
• parentRecipientName*: ultimate parent company of the recipient
• recipientParentUei*: Unique Entity Identifier of the recipient's parent company
• recipientDuns*: legacy DUNS number of the recipient (sparse since the 2022 switch to UEI)
• recipientAddress*: recipient street address, city, state, county, ZIP and congressional district
• executiveCompensation*: top five officer names and their reported pay for recipients that disclose it
• extentCompeted*: extent of competition for the award
• typeSetAside*: small business set-aside type
• numberOfOffersReceived*: number of bids received
• observedAt: when this award was last seen by the scraper

*These fields only appear when Fetch award details is enabled.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Track competitor contract wins by agency	Government contractors and BD teams
Build lead lists of federal grant recipients	B2B sales and partnership teams
Research grant funding in a topic or program	Nonprofits and researchers
Monitor agency spending on a keyword	Journalists and policy analysts
Feed federal spending into a data warehouse	Data engineers and analysts

Frequently Asked Questions

Which countries and time range does this cover? It covers United States federal spending reported to USAspending.gov. Award action dates go back to October 1, 2007, which is the earliest date the search API supports.

How many awards can I scrape in one run? You set the limit with Max Items. The scraper paginates through results 100 at a time, so you can pull anywhere from a handful to hundreds of thousands of awards in a single run.

How do I filter the awards I want? Use any combination of keyword, award types (contracts, grants, direct payments, loans), awarding agency, recipient name and a date range. Leave a filter blank to ignore it.

Why are some fields like loanValue or cfdaNumber empty? Those fields only apply to certain award types. Loan value and subsidy cost are populated for loans, and CFDA number and award type for grants, so they are null on contract records and vice versa.

What happens if an award has no detail record? The scraper still returns the core award fields and sets error on that single record, then continues. Enable Fetch award details to add competition, set-aside and sub-award totals from the award detail page.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with USAspending.gov or the US government. It only accesses data that is publicly available on the platform. USAspending.gov publishes federal spending data in the public domain.