SAM.gov Scraper - Federal Contract Opportunities & Contacts

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "SAM.gov" is referenced only to describe the public data source this Actor collects from.

Extract U.S. federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov - RFPs, solicitations, sources sought, and award notices - into clean JSON with full descriptions, contracting officer contacts (name, email, phone), NAICS and PSC codes with their titles, and direct attachment download links. No login and no cookies - no SAM.gov account and no API key required.

Why this SAM.gov scraper?

• No account, no API key - works out of the box
• One row per opportunity that combines the search result, the full notice record and its attachment list
• Full solicitation description text, set-aside, place of performance and the exact response deadline
• Contracting officer name, email and phone, as one-line columns ready for a CRM import
• NAICS and PSC codes with their official titles ("541511 Custom Computer Programming Services")
• Department, sub-tier agency, office and office address on every row, also when you scrape notices by ID
• Lists every attachment with a direct download URL - and can download the files for you
• Filter across all notice types, NAICS, PSC, set-asides, and date ranges; paste notice IDs or import them from a file

Use cases

• Government BD & capture teams - find RFPs matching your NAICS codes before competitors do, with the contracting officer's email in the same row.
• Proposal teams - pull full solicitation text and attachment files (SOWs, specs, amendments) straight into your pipeline tools.
• Market intelligence & consultants - track award notices by agency and awardee (UEI) to see who's winning contracts in your market.
• Subcontractors - monitor award notices to find primes who just won work in your niche.
• Daily opportunity feeds - schedule a run with a relative postedFrom like "1 day" to capture freshly posted opportunities.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify - the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the SAM.gov Scraper, fill in the inputs you need, and click Start.
3. Watch results arrive in the dataset table; the run's status line says how many opportunities were delivered and why the run ended.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS - or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

The simplest input - the 100 most recently updated active software opportunities, with contacts and attachments:

{
    "keywords": "software",
    "keywordMode": "ALL",
    "status": "active",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "fetchFullDetails": true,
    "includeAttachments": true
}

A daily-feed input for new small-business IT set-asides:

{
    "naicsCodes": ["541511", "541512"],
    "setAsideCodes": ["SBA", "8A"],
    "noticeTypes": ["o", "k", "p"],
    "postedFrom": "1 day",
    "sortBy": "-modifiedDate",
    "maxResults": 500
}

Or scrape specific opportunities directly by URL or notice ID (search filters are ignored when this is set):

{
    "noticeIds": ["https://sam.gov/opp/ecf37a7275fd4b0cb17b9e0cfd660654/view"]
}

Core fields:

• keywords - search text (e.g. "janitorial services"); leave empty to match all and rely on filters. keywordMode controls how words combine: ALL, ANY, or EXACT.
• noticeTypes - limit to notice types such as o (Solicitation), p (Presolicitation), k (Combined Synopsis/Solicitation), r (Sources Sought), s (Special Notice), a (Award Notice), u (J&A), g (Surplus Sale), i (Intent to Bundle).
• naicsCodes / pscCodes - filter by NAICS industry codes (e.g. 541511) and Product Service Codes (e.g. DA01, R425). A shorter prefix matches every code under it: 5415 covers 541511, 541512 and the rest of 5415; 7A covers every 7A IT software code. The old D3xx IT codes were retired in October 2020, so active notices no longer carry them.
• setAsideCodes - limit to small-business set-aside categories such as SBA, 8A, HZC, SDVOSBC, WOSB, EDWOSB, VSA, BICiv, and more.
• status - active (default), inactive (archived), or all.
• postedFrom / postedTo, modifiedFrom / modifiedTo, responseDueFrom / responseDueTo - date windows accepting ISO dates (2026-06-01) or relative values ("7 days", "2 weeks", "3 months"). SAM.gov applies them by whole day.
• maxResults - opportunities per run (up to 10,000). Left empty, a search delivers up to 100. A call with no search and no filter at all (for example {} from an API or AI-agent caller) returns a 25-row sample of the newest active opportunities, and its status line says so. sortBy - -modifiedDate (default) or -relevance.
• fetchFullDetails - read each notice's full record for the description, contracting officer contacts, NAICS / PSC with titles, set-aside, place of performance and exact deadline (default true); disable for a faster basic feed.
• includeAttachments - list attachments with download URLs (default true); downloadAttachments also saves the files to the key-value store (default false), with maxAttachmentSizeMb capping file size (default 25 MB).
• noticeIds - scrape specific notice IDs / sam.gov opportunity URLs directly. Repeated IDs are read once; an ID SAM.gov does not know is named in the run's status line and is never billed.
• urlsFromFile - paste many notice IDs or links at once (one per line, or a CSV with them in any column), or paste one link to a .txt / .csv file, a Google Sheet or a Drive file shared as "Anyone with the link".
• proxyConfiguration - proxy settings. With the default, the actor reads SAM.gov directly first (several times faster) and switches to the Apify proxy whenever SAM.gov refuses a direct request; pick a proxy group, a country or your own proxies to use them for every request.

Output

One dataset record per opportunity:

{
    "noticeId": "ecf37a7275fd4b0cb17b9e0cfd660654",
    "parentNoticeId": null,
    "title": "6515--NEW Seattle Patient Lift Replacement",
    "noticeType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
    "noticeTypeCode": "k",
    "solicitationNumber": "36C26026Q0576",
    "status": "Active",
    "isActive": true,
    "postedDate": "2026-06-09T23:08:15.561+00:00",
    "responseDeadline": "2026-07-16T10:00:00-07:00",
    "responseTimeZone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "archiveDate": "2026-07-21",
    "department": "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF",
    "subTier": "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF",
    "office": "NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 20 (36C260)",
    "naicsCodes": ["339113"],
    "pscCode": "6515",
    "setAside": "Total Small Business Set-Aside",
    "setAsideCode": "SBA",
    "placeOfPerformance": {
        "streetAddress": "Department of Veterans Affairs Seattle VA Medical Center, 1660 S Columbian Way",
        "city": "Seattle",
        "state": "WA",
        "zip": "98499",
        "country": "UNITED STATES"
    },
    "descriptionText": "The Seattle VA Medical Center requires replacement of facility-wide patient lifts...",
    "pointsOfContact": [
        {
            "type": "primary",
            "fullName": "Denise Patches",
            "title": "Contracting Officer",
            "email": "Denise.Patches@va.gov",
            "phone": "253-888-4922"
        }
    ],
    "attachments": [
        {
            "name": "SOW - Facility Wide Patient Lift Replacement_V1.docx",
            "type": "file",
            "url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/b74dff59617b459fbfc6462042b34523/download",
            "mimeType": ".docx",
            "sizeBytes": 44515,
            "accessLevel": "public",
            "resourceId": "b74dff59617b459fbfc6462042b34523",
            "exportControlled": false
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/ecf37a7275fd4b0cb17b9e0cfd660654/view",
    "primaryNaicsCode": "339113",
    "primaryNaicsTitle": "Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing",
    "naicsCodesText": "339113",
    "pscTitle": "MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES",
    "primaryContactName": "Denise Patches",
    "primaryContactTitle": "Contracting Officer",
    "primaryContactEmail": "Denise.Patches@va.gov",
    "primaryContactPhone": "253-888-4922",
    "pointsOfContactText": "Denise Patches (Contracting Officer), Denise.Patches@va.gov, 253-888-4922",
    "placeOfPerformanceText": "Department of Veterans Affairs Seattle VA Medical Center, 1660 S Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98499, UNITED STATES",
    "attachmentsCount": 1,
    "detailFetched": true
}

The dataset has four table views: Opportunities (the overview, with contact and description columns), Contacts (one line per contracting officer), Awards (awardee, UEI, amount and award date; use it with Notice types = Award Notice) and Attachments (file names and download links).

What each field holds, and when it is empty

Every field below comes from SAM.gov itself; an empty value means SAM.gov has no value for that notice, not that the run missed it.

Field	Holds	Empty when
status, isActive, isCanceled	Active / Inactive / Canceled, as in SAM.gov's own search	never
responseDeadline, responseTimeZone	the offer due date and its time zone	award notices and justifications (no response window); a deadline given as a date only has no time zone
setAside, setAsideCode	the set-aside SAM.gov records, None when the notice says no set-aside	the notice records no set-aside at all (about half of notices)
naicsCodes, primaryNaicsCode, primaryNaicsTitle, pscCode, pscTitle	industry and product codes with their official titles	the notice names none (some presolicitations and justifications carry a PSC code but no NAICS), or fetchFullDetails is off
placeOfPerformance, placeOfPerformanceText	where the work is done	the contracting officer left it blank (about half of notices)
pointsOfContact and the primaryContact... columns	name, email, phone and title of each contact	phone and title only when the notice gives them (titles are rare)
award	awardee name, UEI, CAGE code, amount, award date and number	notices that are not award notices or justifications
attachments, attachmentsCount, attachmentsText	every file and link with a download URL	the notice has no attachments (count 0), or includeAttachments is off (null)
parentNoticeId, relatedNoticeId	the original notice of an amendment, and a linked notice	original notices with no amendment or link
descriptionText, descriptionHtml	the full notice text	some award notices carry no description
farCases	FAR cases SAM.gov lists on the notice	SAM.gov sends this list empty on almost every notice

Notes:

• Detail fields like descriptionText, pointsOfContact, placeOfPerformance, codes with titles and exact deadlines are filled when fetchFullDetails is enabled (detailFetched: true); attachments is filled when includeAttachments is enabled. Download URLs are always included in the dataset, and you only download the files when downloadAttachments is true.
• SAM.gov serves at most 10,000 results per search. To pull more, split the search with posted date windows (postedFrom / postedTo).
• This data is published by the U.S. federal government for public dissemination; the actor only accesses publicly available opportunity data.

How much does it cost to scrape SAM.gov?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing: you are charged for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental. The events it can charge are:

• Opportunity (called "Opportunity Scraped" until 12 November 2026) - One federal contract opportunity record, including full description, contracting officer contacts, NAICS/PSC codes, deadlines, place of performance, and attachment links.
• Attachment File Download - One attachment file (SOW, specifications, amendments) downloaded into your run's key-value store. Only charged when "Download attachment files" is enabled - listing attachment URLs is always free.
• Actor start (from 12 November 2026) - Apify's standard run-start fee of $0.001 per GB of run memory, so $0.001 for a run at the default 1 GB. It covers the fixed cost of starting a run, including a search that finds nothing.

The current price of each event is shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches. When the cap is reached, the run stops and its status line says so; nothing beyond the cap is fetched or billed.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it on a cron to keep your data fresh.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/sam-gov-scraper').call({
    naicsCodes: ['541511', '541512'],
    setAsideCodes: ['SBA', '8A'],
    noticeTypes: ['o', 'k', 'p'],
    postedFrom: '1 day',
    maxResults: 500,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or sheet.
• Slack - get notified when a run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server - ask your assistant to "find active small-business IT solicitations posted in the last week and list each contracting officer's email" and let it run this scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready: AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402: an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server, with no account and no API key.
• Skyfire: agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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Tips

• Build a daily opportunity feed by setting postedFrom to "1 day", sorting by -modifiedDate, and running the actor on an Apify Schedule - then pipe new records to Slack, Make, or Google Sheets. SAM.gov's date filters work in whole days, so each daily run also re-reads the notices of the day before: keep noticeId as the key in your sheet or CRM to drop repeats.
• Get past the 10,000-result limit by splitting large pulls into postedFrom / postedTo date windows; SAM.gov serves at most 10,000 results per search.
• Run faster by disabling fetchFullDetails and includeAttachments when you only need basic listing fields - each adds one extra request per opportunity.
• Use responseDueFrom to exclude nearly-closed solicitations and focus on opportunities you can still respond to.
• Have a list of notices already? Paste the IDs or links into urlsFromFile, or paste one link to your Google Sheet.

FAQ

Do I need a SAM.gov account or API key? No. This actor reads SAM.gov's public opportunity data without any login, account, or API key.

Is this legal? SAM.gov contract opportunity data is published by the U.S. federal government for public dissemination and is in the public domain. This actor only accesses publicly available data - no login, no bypassing of access controls.

How fresh is the data? It is read live from SAM.gov at run time.

Can I download the attachment files, not just the links? Yes. Download URLs are always included in each record; set downloadAttachments to true to also save the files into the run's key-value store, capped by maxAttachmentSizeMb.

What if my filters match no opportunities? The run finishes successfully with an empty dataset, nothing is billed, and the status line says which filters to loosen.

Why is a field empty on some rows? See the field table above: SAM.gov leaves those fields blank on those notices.

Can I export the results? Yes - export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS, or pull them via the Apify API and official SDKs.

Data & lawful use

The source is an official public register, published so that anyone can consult it. Records can name individuals (points of contact named on notices and registrations), so the output may contain personal data even though it is public. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis, honour access and deletion requests, and respect the register's own reuse conditions, which can restrict marketing or commercial use.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"SAM.gov" is referenced only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the public data source this Actor collects from. This Actor is not an official product or service of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and is not authorised or certified by it. It collects only publicly available records; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the source's own terms of use or reuse conditions.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this actor is actively maintained.