USAspending Federal Awards Scraper

Extract US federal awards — contracts, IDVs, grants, loans, and direct payments — from USAspending.gov, one award per row, with recipient, amount, awarding agency, type, and dates.

Built for government-contracting (GovCon) business-development and capture teams, competitive-intelligence analysts, journalists, and anyone tracking federal spending.

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Why use this actor

• No account, no API key required.
• One award per row, with the source fields kept as-is — drops straight into a spend or BD model.
• Filter by award type, fiscal period, agency, and keyword so you pull exactly what you need.
• Stable JSON output ready for pipelines, CRMs, spreadsheets, or databases.

How it works

1. You pick an award type (contracts, grants, loans…) and a date window.
2. (Optional) Narrow by agency or keyword.
3. The actor collects every matching award — recipient, amount, agency, type, dates — and streams it into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You don't manage any scrapers, accounts, or infrastructure — just set the filters and press Run.

Use cases

Find who's winning contracts in your market Pull contracts for a fiscal year filtered to a specific agency, sorted by amount, to map the incumbents and the size of each award.

Build a GovCon prospect & teaming list Pull awards by keyword (your capability area) to surface prime recipients to target for teaming or subcontracting.

Track federal spending trends Pull grants or direct payments across periods to chart how an agency's spending shifts year over year.

Input

Field	Type	Description
awardGroup	dropdown	Contracts / IDVs / Grants / Direct payments / Loans / Other.
timePeriodStart / timePeriodEnd	string	Action-date window (YYYY-MM-DD).
keyword	string	Optional free-text filter.
awardingAgencyNames	list	Optional top-tier agency names, e.g. "Department of Defense".
maxItems	integer	0 = up to the per-query maximum.

awardGroup is a pick-list — it maps to the right award categories automatically.

Output — one record per award

{
  "_input": "contracts 2024-10-01..2025-09-30",
  "_source": "S1-usaspending",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-06-03T10:00:00Z",
  "recordType": "AWARD",
  "award_group": "contracts",
  "Award ID": "HT940216C0001",
  "Recipient Name": "HUMANA GOVERNMENT BUSINESS INC",
  "Award Amount": 51269205263.03,
  "Awarding Agency": "Department of Defense",
  "Award Type": "DEFINITIVE CONTRACT",
  "Start Date": "2025-01-15"
}

Field	Type	Description
Recipient Name	string	Who received the award.
Award Amount	number	Dollar value.
Awarding Agency	string	The federal agency.
Award Type	string	Contract/grant/loan subtype.

Tip for very large pulls

A single query returns up to ~10,000 awards. To pull more, narrow the query — a shorter date window, one agency, or a keyword — and run per slice. The run log tells you when you've hit the maximum.

Known limits

• Public government data — no account needed.
• Verified live: FY2025 contracts and grants returned in full with paging confirmed.