Grants.gov Scraper: Federal Grant Opportunities (No API Key)

$3 per 1,000 full records ($2 on the Gold tier), $1 per 1,000 summaries, no start fee, no API key.

Search every federal funding opportunity on Grants.gov and get back clean, normalized JSON or CSV: award ceiling and floor, expected number of awards, deadlines as ISO dates, eligibility text, funding categories, agency contact, and direct links to the NOFO attachments.

Built on the official public Grants.gov API. No API key, no login, no scraping of HTML pages. Works for people in the Apify Console and for AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

What you get

One record per opportunity. With Fetch full details on (the default), each record looks like this:

{
  "id": "362843",
  "number": "2026-NTIA-TBCP",
  "title": "Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program",
  "status": "posted",
  "agency": "DOC NIST ERA",
  "topAgency": "Department of Commerce",
  "postedDate": "2026-06-17",
  "closeDate": "2026-11-17",
  "archiveDate": "2026-12-17",
  "category": "Discretionary",
  "fundingInstruments": ["Grant"],
  "fundingCategories": ["Science and Technology and other Research and Development"],
  "applicantTypes": ["Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)"],
  "eligibilityText": "The following entities are eligible to receive grants under the TBCP: 1. a Tribal Government; ...",
  "description": "NTIA is soliciting applications for funds remaining under the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program ...",
  "costSharing": false,
  "expectedAwards": 150,
  "awardCeiling": null,
  "awardFloor": null,
  "assistanceListings": ["11.029"],
  "assistanceListingTitles": [{ "number": "11.029", "title": "Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program" }],
  "contact": { "name": "Misty L Roosa", "email": "darren.olson@nist.gov", "phone": "301-975-3007" },
  "attachments": [
    { "name": "NTIA_Amended_TBCP3_NOFO_2026.pdf", "folder": "Full Announcement", "bytes": 633383,
      "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/353116" }
  ],
  "forecast": null,
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-30",
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/362843"
}

Forecasted opportunities carry a forecast object with the agency's estimated posting date, application due date, award date, and project start date instead of firm deadlines.

With Fetch full details off you get the cheaper summary: id, number, title, status, agency, posted and close dates, assistance listings, and link.

Input

Field	What it does
Keyword	Free-text search, the same as the search box on Grants.gov. Leave empty to browse by filters only.
Opportunity status	Forecasted, Posted, Closed, Archived. Default: forecasted and posted.
Agencies	Grants.gov agency codes such as HHS, USDA, NSF, DOC-DOCNISTERA. A top-level code includes its sub-agencies.
Funding categories	Category codes such as HL (Health), ED (Education), EN (Energy). The full list is in the field's help text.
Applicant eligibility	Eligibility codes such as 12 (501(c)(3) nonprofits), 06 (public universities), 23 (small businesses).
Funding instruments	G Grant, CA Cooperative Agreement, PC Procurement Contract, O Other.
Assistance listing number	Filter to one CFDA / Assistance Listing number, e.g. 93.243.
Fetch full details	On by default. Off gives a fast, cheap list of titles and deadlines.
Max opportunities	Stop after this many. Default 100, up to 10,000.

Example: every open HHS opportunity that a 501(c)(3) can apply for:

{ "agencies": ["HHS"], "eligibilities": ["12"], "statuses": ["posted"], "maxItems": 500 }

Pricing

You pay per opportunity delivered, nothing else.

Event	Free and Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
Grant opportunity (full details)	$0.003	$0.0027	$0.0024
Grant opportunity summary	$0.001	$0.0009	$0.0008

A run that returns 500 fully detailed opportunities costs $1.50. A row whose details could not be fetched is billed as a summary. Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached and never delivers rows it could not bill.

Use cases

• Grant writers and nonprofits: a weekly scheduled run for your program areas, piped to Google Sheets, Airtable, or Slack via Apify integrations.
• Universities and research offices: monitor forecasted opportunities by agency so faculty get months of lead time.
• Consultants and govcon shops: pull the full NOFO attachments for each opportunity and hand them to a summarizer.
• AI agents: call this Actor as a tool through the Apify MCP server to answer "what federal funding is open for X" with structured data instead of web pages.

Data source and limits

• Data comes from the official Grants.gov search API and opportunity detail API, updated by agencies as they post.
• Contact details are the official grantor contacts published with each opportunity.
• Award amounts are returned as numbers when the agency published them and null when the posting says "none" or is blank.
• Attachment links point at Grants.gov's own download endpoint; files are not copied.
• At the end of each run the Actor reports run counts (rows delivered, events charged, duration, status) to its maintainer's dashboard. It never sends your input, your results, or anything about your account.
• Grants.gov's detail service occasionally answers with a stub. The Actor retries once and, if the detail is still unavailable, delivers the summary record with a detailError field so a run never silently drops an opportunity.

About

Built and maintained by Upward Enterprises · AI & API Services (Iowa, USA). Public-data tools for people and AI agents, with pay-per-record pricing and no keys to manage.

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-09-09): first release. Search with all Grants.gov filters, full detail enrichment, forecasts, attachments, pay-per-event pricing.