You can access the NIH RePORTER Award Watch programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

$echo '{
<  "searchKeywords": [
<    "source-backed signal",
<    "buyer fit"
<  ],
<  "taskIntent": "buyer-ready-product-run",
<  "sourceMode": "startUrls",
<  "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records",
<  "startUrls": [
<    {
<      "url": "https://api.reporter.nih.gov/v2/projects/search",
<      "sourceId": "NIH-REPORTER-API",
<      "userData": {
<        "sourceId": "NIH-REPORTER-API"
<      }
<    }
<  ],
<  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
<  "maxRequestRetries": 2,
<  "sinceLastRun": false,
<  "deltaMode": true,
<  "maxItems": 1
<}' |
<apify call zentrafoundry/nih-reporter-competitor-grant-win-alert --silent --output-dataset

NIH RePORTER v2 awards — public API API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use NIH RePORTER Award Watch locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

NIH RePORTER Award Watch API in Python

NIH RePORTER Award Watch API in JavaScript

NIH RePORTER Award Watch OpenAPI definition

NIH RePORTER Award Watch API

Nih Reporter Scraper

quarterly_jingo/nih-reporter-scraper

Petey Boy

NIH RePORTER Funded Projects Scraper

knotty_mistveil/nih-reporter-projects

NIH-funded research projects from the official NIH RePORTER Project API v2: award amount, dates, PIs, program officer, institution and NIH institute.

Jason

NIH RePORTER Grants Scraper

foo121/nih-reporter-scraper

Export NIH-funded research grants by topic, organization and fiscal year from the official NIH RePORTER API: PI, organization, award amount and project dates.

ziv shay

NIH Reporter Intelligence MCP — $45B Federal Research

andrew_avina/nih-reporter-mcp

Search, filter, and analyze NIH research grant awards from the NIH RePORTER v2 database via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Query $45B+ in annual NIH funding by disease area, PI, institution, agency, and award type. This Apify Actor exposes structured grant data to AI a...

Andrew Avina

NIH RePORTER Scraper - Grants & Funded Projects

thirdwatch/nih-reporter-projects-scraper

Search public NIH RePORTER awards and export project abstracts, funding, organizations, dates, mechanisms, study sections, and source links.

Thirdwatch

NIH RePORTER Scraper

parseforge/nih-reporter-scraper

Scrapes NIH RePORTER research projects by keyword, agency, or fiscal year. Returns each project as a flat row with title, abstract, PI, funding, and more.

ParseForge

NIH RePORTER Scraper

crawlerbros/nih-reporter-grants-scraper

Scrape NIH research projects, publications, and clinical studies from the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORTER). Search by keyword, PI, organization, fiscal year, activity code, and agency.

Crawler Bros

NIH RePORTER Scraper

crawlerbros/nih-reporter-scraper

Crawler Bros

NIH RePORTER Grants Scraper – Federal Research Funding

fetchsmith/nih-reporter-scraper

Search NIH grants via the official NIH RePORTER API: keyword, fiscal year, institute, activity code, org, state, PI, award-amount and award-date filters, plus an optional PubMed join. Auto-chunks past the API's 15,000-row wall. Watch mode returns only what's new since last run.