USAspending Federal Awards Scraper

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Search USAspending federal awards — contracts, grants, recipients, amounts, and agencies from the official API.

What you get

Search USAspending federal awards — contracts, grants, recipients, amounts, and agencies from the official API.

Why use this USAspending Federal Awards scraper

• Official federal data — the authoritative US government spending record.
• Award fields — recipient, amount, agency, award type, dates, and award ID.
• Free public API — no key, no browser, stable JSON.

Scrape USAspending Federal Awards data in minutes

{
  "keywords": [
    "healthcare"
  ],
  "startDate": "2025-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-30",
  "maxResults": 10
}

{
  "keywords": [
    "defense"
  ],
  "startDate": "2025-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-30",
  "maxResults": 10
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
keywords	No	Terms to find in federal award records, such as cybersecurity, cloud migration, or solar energy. Default: ['cybersecurity'].
awardCategory	No	Limit results to contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, or search all award categories. One of: contracts, grants, loans, direct_payments, all. Default: contracts.
startDate	Yes	Beginning of the award activity period in YYYY-MM-DD format. Default: 2025-01-01.
endDate	Yes	End of the award activity period in YYYY-MM-DD format. Default: 2026-06-30.
sortBy	No	Choose how the official API orders matching awards. One of: Award Amount, Start Date, End Date, Recipient Name, Awarding Agency. Default: Award Amount.
sortOrder	No	Return the largest or newest values first with descending order, or reverse the order with ascending. One of: desc, asc. Default: desc.
maxResults	No	Stop after this many unique federal awards. Default: 10.

Output fields

• award_id
• recipient_name
• award_amount
• award_type
• awarding_agency
• awarding_sub_agency
• funding_agency
• funding_sub_agency
• start_date
• end_date
• description
• internal_id
• generated_internal_id
• usaspending_url
• source
• award_category

Example result

{
  "award_id": "FA862118F6251",
  "recipient_name": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION",
  "award_amount": 666310175.84,
  "award_type": "contract",
  "awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
  "awarding_sub_agency": "Department of the Air Force",
  "funding_agency": "Department of Defense",
  "funding_sub_agency": "Department of the Air Force",
  "start_date": "2018-02-08",
  "end_date": "2027-01-31",
  "description": "IGF::OT::IGF  AFSOC ACTS AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR CLS, ENGINEERING, INSTRUCTION, CYBERSECURITY, DMO",
  "internal_id": 298556830,
  "generated_internal_id": "CONT_AWD_FA862118F6251_9700_FA862115D6276_9700",
  "usaspending_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA862118F6251_9700_FA862115D6276_9700",
  "source": "USAspending.gov",
  "award_category": "contracts"
}

Common use cases

• Track federal contracting by agency or recipient
• Build government-spending datasets
• Research competitor awards
• Feed GovCon lead pipelines

Compared to alternatives

• vs other USAspending Federal Awards scrapers on the Store — pay-per-result billing means empty or failed searches cost nothing; you are not charged for a run that returns zero rows.
• vs building your own — no markup-change maintenance or infrastructure to run; paste inputs and consume the dataset.

Limitations

• Data is as reported by agencies — recent awards lag filing.
• Sub-award detail requires separate lookups.
• Very broad searches paginate deeply — bound with maxResults.

FAQ

Do I need an account or cookies?

No — the Actor reads public data only. There is no login to configure and no account to risk.

What happens when a search returns nothing?

The run completes with zero (or an explicit error) rows. Per-result billing means you are not charged for empty output.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes — attach an Apify schedule or use the saved tasks to re-run the same inputs daily or weekly.

Related guides and Actors

• Analyze Federal Contract Awards With Python
• Build Federal Award Lead List
• Find Government Contractors By Agency
• Federal Register Scraper
• Grants.gov Scraper

Last verified: 2026-09

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