NIH RePORTER Projects Scraper

Export structured NIH RePORTER funded-project records — titles, abstracts, award amounts, and funding organizations — for discovery, comparison, and ongoing monitoring.

What you get

Search the public NIH RePORTER catalog and save one deduplicated row per public funded-project record. Results include application and project IDs, titles, bounded abstracts, public-health relevance, award amounts, fiscal years, budget dates, mechanisms, agencies, funded organizations, study sections, and project links. Use discovery inputs for market maps and exact-name inputs, when available, for stable monitoring cohorts.

Output fields

Field	Description
applicationId, projectNumber, coreProjectNumber	Project identifiers
title, abstract, publicHealthRelevance	Project title, abstract, and relevance statement
fiscalYear, awardAmount, directCosts, indirectCosts	Funding amounts and the fiscal year they apply to
awardNoticeDate, projectStartDate, projectEndDate, budgetStartDate, budgetEndDate	Award and budget-period dates
activityCode, fundingMechanism, opportunityNumber, agencyCode, administeringAgency	Grant mechanism and administering NIH agency
organizationName, organizationDepartment, organizationType, organizationCity, organizationState, organizationCountry	Funded organization details
studySectionCode, studySectionName	NIH review group that evaluated the application
preferredTerms	NIH-assigned subject terms
searchQuery, source, sourceUrl	Search input that matched this row, and a link back to the project on NIH RePORTER

Example output

{"applicationId":11212776,"projectNumber":"5I01BX005918-04","title":"Biomarker based classification","fiscalYear":2026,"awardAmount":994636,"organizationName":"VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM","sourceUrl":"https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11212776"}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
queries	No	Up to five title, abstract, and term searches.
projectNumbers	No	Up to 25 exact project numbers.
organizationNames	No	Optional organization filters.
fiscalYearFrom	No	Inclusive first fiscal year.
fiscalYearTo	No	Inclusive last fiscal year.
maxResultsPerQuery	Yes	Maximum projects per query.
maxResults	Yes	Maximum unique projects saved.

At least one discovery or exact-name input is required. Result limits apply after cross-input deduplication, and only saved unique rows are charged.

Use cases

• Research-funding analysts: map which organizations and investigators are funded in a topic area, and by how much.
• University grants offices: monitor award activity across peer institutions or a fixed list of organizations.
• Policy researchers: track NIH spending trends by agency, mechanism, or fiscal year.
• Biomedical researchers: find related funded projects when scoping a new grant application.

Limitations

Search follows NIH indexing and award data can be amended. The Actor excludes investigator and program-officer details, exact coordinates, and postal identifiers; award records do not prove research outcomes.

Compared to alternatives

Current Apify Store alternatives include automation-lab/nih-reporter-scraper and dataforge/nih-grants-scraper. Thirdwatch saves a source link on every row and removes duplicates before you are charged, so you pay only for unique results. Compare current Store listings directly because competitor features and pricing can change.

FAQ

Do I need an NIH account or API key?

No. The Actor reads NIH RePORTER's public project API, which requires no login or credentials.

How should I monitor a fixed list of organizations or topics over time?

Use exact projectNumbers where you already know them for stable results, keep result limits explicit, save the input as an Apify Task, and retain dated datasets so you can track award changes between runs.

Does a funded project record prove a research outcome?

No. An award record shows that a project was funded, not what it produced. Treat it as funding evidence and pair it with publication or trial data for outcome claims.

Where can I find more workflows?

Visit Thirdwatch public-data scrapers for more Task recipes and workflow guides.

Last verified: 2026-07