EU Grants Scraper: export Horizon Europe & EU funding calls to CSV/JSON

Get every open and upcoming EU funding call in one clean table, filtered by programme and keywords, with real status, opening date, deadline, budget, expected grants and EU contribution per project. It reads the official EU Funding & Tenders Portal search API (no HTML scraping, no login) and covers Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, Erasmus+, CEF, Creative Europe, EU4Health, Innovation Fund, cascade funding and EuropeAid. $3 per 1,000 calls; calls filtered out or skipped as already seen are free.

What you get from the EU Grants Scraper

• Real status, not stale portal flags: the portal keeps hundreds of expired calls marked open or forthcoming. In our tests more than half of them had passed deadlines. You get status computed from the dates and daysToDeadline, with the portal's own flag kept as portalStatus.
• Budget data, flat: topic budget, budget years, expected number of grants, minimum and maximum EU contribution per project, type of action and a direct portal link, sorted by nearest deadline.
• Funding alerts out of the box: turn on Only new calls, schedule it weekly, and each run returns only calls you have not received before, including cascade funding calls (EUR 10k–500k for SMEs and startups).

Sample output (JSON)

{
  "identifier": "HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D2-03",
  "title": "Integrated Production and Product Development for Next-Generation Lithium-based Batteries for Mobility",
  "callIdentifier": "HORIZON-CL5-2026-10",
  "callTitle": "BATTERIES and MOBILITY",
  "programme": "Horizon Europe (HORIZON)",
  "programmeCode": "HORIZON",
  "status": "open",
  "portalStatus": "open",
  "openingDay": "2026-06-04",
  "deadlineDay": "2026-10-08",
  "daysToDeadline": 1,
  "deadlineModel": "single-stage",
  "typeOfAction": "HORIZON Innovation Actions",
  "budget": 100000000,
  "budgetCurrency": "EUR",
  "expectedGrants": 3,
  "minContribution": 33300000,
  "maxContribution": 33300000,
  "crossCuttingPriorities": ["DigitalAgenda", "RePowerEU", "AI"],
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D2-03",
  "description": "Expected Outcome: Proposals are expected to contribute to ..."
}

Download as CSV, Excel or JSON, or send it to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, webhooks or the Apify API. Run totals, filters used and warnings are saved to the SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store.

How to configure the EU Grants Scraper

1. Pick programmes (or leave empty for all) and add keywords, e.g. artificial intelligence, "green hydrogen", circular*. Default: all open and forthcoming calls, max 100.
2. Optional: a deadline window, call types (including cascade funding), and whether to include descriptions.
3. Set Max calls (0 = all, about 1,200 open + forthcoming records) and run, or schedule it weekly with Only new calls on.

Example input: open AI and robotics calls in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe

{
  "programmes": ["HORIZON", "DIGITAL"],
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "robotics"],
  "statuses": ["open", "forthcoming"],
  "deadlineTo": "2027-06-30",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Setting	Default	Notes
keywords	none	Matched in titles, identifiers, portal keywords and full descriptions (finds more than the portal search box)
programmes	all	e.g. HORIZON, DIGITAL, LIFE, ERASMUS, CEF, EU4H
statuses	open, forthcoming	Add closed for research on past calls
deadlineFrom / deadlineTo	none	Date window for the next deadline
callTypes	all	topics (programme topics), cascade (calls for SMEs/startups by EU-funded projects), external (EuropeAid)
maxResults	100	0 = every match
includeDescription / descriptionMaxLength	true / 3000	Expected outcome and scope text
onlyNew / stateKey	false / default	Incremental funding alerts; seen calls are free

Common use cases

• Grant consultants and proposal writers: a weekly list of new Horizon Europe or Digital Europe topics in your field, with budgets and deadlines.
• Startups and SMEs: cascade funding calls (EIC, EIT, Eurostars, accelerators) with light applications.
• Universities and research offices: all open calls in one shared sheet or intranet page.
• Funding newsletters and AI agents: clean JSON for matching calls to companies or researchers.

Pricing (pay per call, filtered and seen = free)

• Funding call (funding-call): $0.003 per call or topic saved to your dataset ($3 per 1,000), $0.0027 on Silver and $0.0024 on Gold.
• Free: calls removed by your filters, calls skipped as already seen in Only new calls mode, and duplicates. A run that finds nothing costs only the tiny start fee.

Pulling every open and forthcoming call (about 1,200 records) costs about $3.60. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops gracefully when it is reached.

Limitations

• Covers what the EU Funding & Tenders Portal publishes. National and regional funds (ERDF programmes run by member states, national grants) are not on the portal.
• Topic budgets are as published; some programmes publish one budget shared by several topics.
• Deadlines published without a time are treated as open until the end of that day (UTC). Always confirm the exact time on the portal before submitting.
• For searches that include closed calls, keywords use the portal's own full-text search, which mostly matches titles and summaries.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com. Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, n8n or any other MCP client to https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tinyrex/eu-grants-scraper and the agent can run it from a plain-language request, for example: "Find open Horizon Europe calls about AI in healthcare with a deadline before June". Results come back as clean, structured JSON at the same pay-per-result price.

📘 Step-by-step guide with Python, JavaScript, curl and MCP examples: How to export open EU funding calls (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, cascade funding) to CSV or JSON

FAQ

What is the EU Funding & Tenders Portal? It is the European Commission's single entry point for EU grants and procurement under centrally managed programmes such as Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE and Erasmus+. Every call for proposals and every topic is published there.

How do I find open Horizon Europe calls? Set Programmes to HORIZON, keep the default statuses (open + forthcoming) and run. Add keywords to narrow by field. Results are sorted by nearest deadline.

How do I get EU funding alerts by email or Slack? Turn on Only new calls, schedule the Actor weekly, and add an Apify integration or webhook to email, Slack or Google Sheets. Each run delivers only new calls.

Does the EU Funding & Tenders Portal have an API? Yes, the portal's search API, which the portal itself uses. This Actor wraps it with programme and keyword filters, real status computed from dates, flat budget fields, deduplication and incremental mode.

What is cascade funding? EU-funded projects (EIC, EIT, Eurostars, Horizon Europe partnerships) re-grant part of their budget through their own open calls, often EUR 10k–500k for SMEs and startups. These calls are listed on the portal and included here.

Is this legal? Yes. The portal is a public EU website and this Actor only reads public call information, no personal data, no login.

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