NIH RePORTER Grants Scraper: 13 Fields, No API Key

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Search NIH RePORTER and get 13 fields per grant: project number, title, full abstract, fiscal year, award amount in USD, funding agency code, principal investigators, institution with its city and state, project terms, the RePORTER link and a capture timestamp. Filter by search terms, agency, fiscal year, institution state and a minimum award amount.

Pure HTTP against the official NIH RePORTER API v2. No API key, no login, no browser, up to 5,000 grants per run.

Why use this NIH RePORTER scraper

• Full abstract on every row. abstract is the whole project abstract, not a snippet, which is what makes this usable as a research corpus rather than just a funding table.
• Award amount as a number. award_amount_usd is numeric, so you can sum by institution, PI or agency without parsing currency strings.
• Institution geography. institution_city and institution_state come with every grant, which is what regional research-funding analysis needs.
• Principal investigators, flattened. PI names are joined into a clean array rather than left as a nested object.
• Five composable filters. Search terms, agency abbreviation, fiscal year, institution state and a minimum award all narrow the same query server-side.
• Paced for the API. Requests are spaced just over a second apart, which is what keeps a 5,000-grant run from being throttled.

Find grants funding a research topic

{
  "searchTerms": "mRNA vaccine",
  "maxResults": 200
}

The search runs across project title and project terms. With no fiscalYear, the Actor covers fiscal years 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Track one NIH institute's portfolio

{
  "searchTerms": "immunotherapy",
  "agency": "NCI",
  "fiscalYear": 2025,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Agency accepts NIH institute abbreviations such as NCI, NIAID, NIMH, NHLBI and NIGMS.

Map research funding by state

{
  "state": "MA",
  "fiscalYear": 2025,
  "minAward": 500000,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Institution state plus an award floor gives you the substantial grants landing in one state in one fiscal year, with institution names attached.

Find large awards on a topic

{
  "searchTerms": "artificial intelligence health",
  "minAward": 1000000,
  "maxResults": 300
}

minAward is applied by the API, so a million-dollar floor cuts the result set server-side rather than after download.

What data does the NIH RePORTER scraper return

{
  "project_number": "5R01AI123456-03",
  "title": "Structure-Guided Design of Broadly Protective Vaccines",
  "abstract": "PROJECT SUMMARY. Influenza remains a major cause of morbidity...",
  "fiscal_year": 2025,
  "award_amount_usd": 2145678,
  "funding_agency": "NIAID",
  "principal_investigators": ["Jane A Doe", "John B Smith"],
  "institution": "EXAMPLE UNIVERSITY",
  "institution_city": "BOSTON",
  "institution_state": "MA",
  "terms": "influenza; vaccine; immunogen design; structural biology",
  "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/5R01AI123456-03",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-01T19:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Description
project_number	NIH project number including activity code and support year
title, abstract	Project title and full abstract
fiscal_year, award_amount_usd	Funding year and award in USD
funding_agency	NIH institute or centre code
principal_investigators[]	PI names
institution, institution_city, institution_state	Awardee organisation and location
terms	NIH project terms
url, scraped_at	RePORTER link and capture timestamp

Some records, particularly older or administrative supplements, do not carry an abstract or a full PI list. Those fields come back empty rather than reconstructed.

How the scraper works without an API key

NIH RePORTER exposes a public JSON search API. This Actor posts your criteria with an explicit include_fields list, requests 100 projects per page, and pages by offset with a 1.1-second pause between requests to stay inside the API's pacing. No key, no login, no browser.

What can you build with NIH grant data

Research trend analysis. Award volume and dollars on a topic across fiscal years.

Competitive intelligence for biotech. Which academic groups are funded on a mechanism, and by how much.

Business development targeting. Well-funded PIs and institutions in your therapeutic area, with city and state.

Grant-writing research. Funded abstracts on your topic, as a corpus of what actually got money.

How much does it cost to scrape NIH RePORTER

Pay per grant delivered: $0.0025 on the Apify Free plan, $0.0015 on Gold and above. Searches that match nothing are never charged.

How do I use NIH grant data in Claude or ChatGPT

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/nih-reporter-grants

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

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

const run = await client.actor('themineworks/nih-reporter-grants').call({
  searchTerms: 'mRNA vaccine',
  fiscalYear: 2025,
  maxResults: 200,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

NIH RePORTER FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. NIH RePORTER's API is open.

Which fiscal years are searched by default? 2023, 2024 and 2025. Set fiscalYear to pin a single year.

Which agency codes work? NIH institute and centre abbreviations such as NCI, NIAID, NIMH, NHLBI, NIGMS and NINDS.

What does the search cover? Project title and project terms. It is a topical search, not a full-text abstract search.

Is award_amount_usd the total grant? It is the award amount for that fiscal year's record, not the lifetime total across all support years.

Complete your biomedical intelligence pipeline

• PubMed Scraper, the publications those grants produced.
• ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper, the trials they funded.
• Crossref Scraper, citation counts for the resulting literature.

Found a bug or want a field added? Open an issue on the Actor's Apify Console page.

Related guides

• NIH RePORTER API: Search Grant Funding, Award Amounts, and Principal Investigators

Last verified: 2026-08