SAM.gov Scraper: Federal Contract Opportunities & Awards (No API Key)

$2 per 1,000 opportunities ($1.20 on the Gold tier), $1 per 1,000 awards, no start fee, no API key. On a schedule, only rows you have not received before are billed.

Federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov, matched to the work you actually do. Give it your NAICS codes, keywords, set-asides, states, or agencies, and get every matching notice from the last N days with its deadline, contracting officer contact, place of performance, and link. Turn on awards and it adds the largest contracts USAspending.gov recorded as signed in the look-back window for the same NAICS codes (and states, if you set any): who won, from which agency, for how much.

Built on SAM.gov's public daily extract of every active notice, so there is no API key to create and no 10-requests-a-day quota. The extract is newest first and the Actor stops reading as soon as it passes your date window, so a one-week radar reads about 20 MB and finishes in seconds.

What you get

Opportunity rows (kind: "opportunity"), one per matching notice, newest first:

{
  "kind": "opportunity",
  "noticeId": "24aa2d1a239f4cd7b9a767eccea783b5",
  "title": "Custom Software Development for Field Systems",
  "solicitationNumber": "W912-26-R-0001",
  "noticeType": "Solicitation",
  "baseType": "Presolicitation",
  "postedDate": "2026-09-09",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-09-24T14:00:00-04:00",
  "daysToDeadline": 14.3,
  "archiveDate": "2026-10-15",
  "archiveType": "auto15",
  "active": true,
  "department": "DEPT OF DEFENSE",
  "subTier": "DEPT OF THE ARMY",
  "office": "W6QM ACC-APG",
  "cgac": "097",
  "fpdsCode": "2100",
  "aacCode": "W912",
  "naicsCode": "541511",
  "pscCode": "D302",
  "setAside": "Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)",
  "setAsideCode": "SBA",
  "placeOfPerformance": { "street": null, "city": "Des Moines", "state": "IA", "zip": "50309", "country": "USA" },
  "popState": "IA",
  "contractingOffice": { "city": "ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND", "state": "MD", "zip": "21005", "country": "USA", "organizationType": "OFFICE" },
  "primaryContact": { "name": "Jane Doe", "title": "Contract Specialist", "email": "jane.doe@army.mil", "phone": "555-0100" },
  "secondaryContact": null,
  "award": null,
  "additionalInfoLink": null,
  "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/24aa2d1a239f4cd7b9a767eccea783b5/view",
  "description": "The Army requires custom software development and cloud migration services ...",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Award notices carry an award object with number, date, amount, and awardee. Contacts are the contracting officers SAM.gov publishes on the notice. description is the full text SAM.gov includes in the extract (SAM.gov itself caps it at roughly 32,000 characters).

Amendments. SAM.gov gives every amendment a new notice id and the daily extract keeps the old versions too. By default the Actor delivers one row per notice, the current version, confirmed against SAM.gov's notice history (with the newest posted date as the fallback). postedDate is therefore the date the current version was published, so an amended notice re-enters your window. Turn "Collapse amendments" off to get every version.

Award rows (kind: "award"), when USAspending awards are on, largest first per NAICS code:

{
  "kind": "award",
  "awardId": "W519TC25F0208",
  "recipient": "EXAMPLE FEDERAL SYSTEMS LLC",
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Department of the Army",
  "amount": 48250000,
  "startDate": "2026-03-14",
  "endDate": "2031-03-13",
  "description": "ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE MODERNIZATION SUPPORT",
  "naicsCode": "541511",
  "naicsDescription": "CUSTOM COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES",
  "pscCode": "D302",
  "pscDescription": "IT AND TELECOM- SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT",
  "popState": "VA",
  "naicsQuery": "541511",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W519TC25F0208_9700_W519TC23D0005_9700",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10"
}

Awards are contracts (types A to D) signed in the look-back window, restricted to your place-of-performance states when you set any, sorted by total award amount. An award is delivered once per run even when several of your codes match it. naicsQuery says which of your codes produced the row. USAspending filters NAICS at 2, 4, or 6 digits, so a 3- or 5-digit code fetches awards one level up (541 as 54, 54151 as 5415); the opportunity filter still uses your exact prefix.

One summary row (kind: "summary", free) reports how many rows were skipped as already delivered (alreadyDeliveredOpportunities, alreadyDeliveredAwards), how many notices were scanned and matched, how many megabytes were read, the date window, the extract's extractLastModified time, why the scan stopped (stopReason: date-window, max-items, end-of-file, or stopped at your spending cap), how many amendment groups were collapsed, and awardsErrors for any NAICS code whose USAspending request failed after retries, so an empty result explains itself.

Filter on kind to keep one row type; the Console views Opportunities and Awards pick the useful columns for each.

Input

Field	What it does
NAICS codes	2 to 6 digits each; a shorter code matches everything under it. Empty matches any NAICS. Awards for 3- or 5-digit codes are fetched one level up.
Keywords	Case-insensitive, matched in title and description; curly quotes and dashes are folded so plain typing matches. Any keyword matches unless "Require every keyword" is on.
Notice types	Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Presolicitation, Sources Sought, Special Notice, Award Notice, Justification, Consolidate/(Substantially) Bundle, Sale of Surplus Property. Empty means all types, including any new ones SAM.gov adds.
Set-asides	SAM.gov set-aside codes such as SBA, 8A, HZC, SDVOSBC, WOSB, EDWOSB, VSA. Empty means any, including unrestricted.
Place-of-performance states	Two-letter codes. Also restricts USAspending awards to these places of performance. Empty means anywhere.
Agencies	Text matched against department, sub-tier, and office names. Official names in either order work: "Department of Veterans Affairs" matches the extract's "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF".
PSC codes	Product/service code prefixes such as D302, 70, R4.
Posted within (days)	Default 7. The extract is newest first, so small windows are fast; a year reads the whole file.
Skip passed deadlines	Default on. Applies to notices that ask for a response; award notices and justifications keep the closing date they inherit.
Active notices only	Default on.
Max opportunities	Default 200, newest first.
Collapse amendments	Default on.
Only new since last run	Default on. Remembers what each snapshot name has delivered (90 days) and skips it next time. Turn off to re-deliver everything in the window.
Snapshot name	Which memory "only new" uses; kept on your account as a key-value store named sam-gov-contract-radar-<name>. Give each schedule its own name.
Include USAspending awards	Default on; needs at least one NAICS code.
Awards look-back (months)	Default 12.
Max awards per NAICS code	Default 25 unique awards.

Example: every open small-business solicitation for IT services in Iowa or Nebraska, posted this month, with the top 50 Iowa and Nebraska awards per code:

{ "naicsCodes": ["5415"], "setAsideCodes": ["SBA", "SBP"], "states": ["IA", "NE"], "noticeTypes": ["Solicitation", "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation"], "postedWithinDays": 30, "maxAwardsPerNaics": 50 }

Pricing

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
Opportunity	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0015	$0.0012
Award	$0.001	$0.0009	$0.00075	$0.0006

With "Only new since last run" on (the default), a daily schedule bills only the notices and awards that appeared since your last run: the first run for two NAICS codes might deliver 40 opportunities and 50 awards for $0.13, and each later day about 5 new notices for a cent. The summary row is free, and so is an empty run. 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

• Business development: a daily run for your NAICS codes and set-asides into Slack or a spreadsheet, replacing a five-figure subscription.
• Capture teams: pull the awards for a NAICS code to see which incumbents and agencies to target.
• Proposal shops and consultants: one run per client profile, scheduled, with contacts and deadlines ready to work.
• AI agents: ask "what federal IT solicitations opened this week in Iowa" through the Apify MCP server and get rows, not screenshots.

Data source and limits

• Opportunities come from SAM.gov's public "Contract Opportunities" daily extract, the same file published for data.gov. SAM.gov rebuilds it once a day, observed around 03:30 UTC (23:30 US Eastern), and each build contains notices posted through the previous Eastern calendar day. Schedule daily runs after that (05:00 UTC or later); a run before the rebuild reads the previous day's file, so postedWithinDays: 1 returns nothing and a longer window is a day behind. The summary row's extractLastModified tells you which build a run read.
• If the connection drops mid-download the Actor resumes from where it stopped and refuses to continue if the file was replaced meanwhile, so a run never mixes two builds.
• Awards come from the USAspending.gov API (contracts, types A to D), which has no key and no published quota; the Actor makes one request at a time and retries with backoff. A code whose request still fails is listed in the summary row's awardsErrors.
• Attachments are not downloaded. The url opens the notice on SAM.gov where attachments live; additionalInfoLink is included when the agency provided one.
• Contacts are the official contracting-office contacts published with each notice.
• 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.

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 (2026-09-10): first release.