🏛️ Grants.gov Federal Grant Opportunities Scraper

🚀 Scrape federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov. Get titles, agencies, funding amounts, deadlines, eligibility, and descriptions. Filter by keyword, agency, status, category, and date range with optional detailed mode.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you're a nonprofit seeking funding, a university tracking research grants, or a government contractor monitoring new opportunities, this tool makes it easy to collect structured grant data from the federal government's official grant portal.

The Grants.gov Scraper collects federal grant opportunities with titles, agencies, funding amounts, deadlines, eligibility, descriptions, and document attachments. Filter by keyword, agency, status, category, and date range. Supports detailed mode with full descriptions, contacts, and attachments.

Target Audience	Nonprofits, universities, government contractors, grant writers, policy analysts
Primary Use Cases	Grant monitoring, funding research, competitive intelligence, deadline tracking

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📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects federal grant opportunity data from Grants.gov, supporting keyword search with multiple filter options. It delivers:

• 📋 Grant listings - opportunity titles, numbers, agencies, and statuses from hundreds of federal programs
• 💰 Funding details - estimated funding totals, award ceilings, and award floors for each opportunity
• 📅 Key dates - posting dates, application deadlines, and archive dates
• 🏛️ Agency data - agency names, codes, and parent department information
• 🔍 Powerful filters - search by keyword, agency, status, funding category, eligibility type, and date range
• 📄 Full descriptions - optionally fetch complete descriptions, eligibility details, contact info, and document attachments

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🎬 How to Use the Grants.gov Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon

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⚙️ Input

To start collecting federal grant data, simply fill in the input form. You can search Grants.gov based on:

Field	Type	Description
Keywords	String	Search for grants containing these keywords (e.g. "health", "education", "climate"). Supports AND/OR operators.
Max Items	Integer	Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000.
Opportunity Status	Select	Filter by grant status: Posted (Open), Forecasted, Closed, Archived, or All.
Agency	String	Filter by federal agency code (e.g. "HHS", "DOE", "EPA", "NSF", "USDA").
Funding Category	String	Filter by category code (e.g. HL for Health, ED for Education, EN for Energy).
Eligibility	String	Filter by applicant type code (e.g. 12 for Nonprofits, 00 for State govts).
Close Date From	String	Only include grants closing on or after this date (MM/DD/YYYY).
Close Date To	String	Only include grants closing on or before this date (MM/DD/YYYY).
Include Full Details	Boolean	Fetch full description, eligibility info, contact details, and attachments for each grant.

Example 1: Search open grants by keyword

{
    "keywords": "climate",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "oppStatuses": "posted",
    "agencies": "EPA",
    "includeDetails": true
}

Example 2: Browse all open health grants

{
    "keywords": "health",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "oppStatuses": "posted",
    "fundingCategories": "HL"
}

⚠️ Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Sign up for a paid plan to collect up to 1,000,000 items.

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📊 Output

After the Actor finishes its run, you'll get a dataset with the output. You can download results as Excel, HTML, XML, JSON, or CSV.

🧾 Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
url	String	Grant opportunity page on Grants.gov
opportunityId	Number	Unique opportunity identifier
opportunityNumber	String	Official opportunity number
title	String	Opportunity title
agencyCode	String	Issuing agency code
agency	String	Issuing federal agency name
topAgency	String	Parent department name
status	String	Current status (Posted, Forecasted, Closed)
category	String	Grant category type
estimatedFunding	String	Total estimated program funding
awardCeiling	String	Maximum award amount
awardFloor	String	Minimum award amount
costSharing	Boolean	Whether cost sharing is required
postDate	String	Date posted
closeDate	String	Application deadline
contactEmail	String	Agency contact email
applicantTypes	Array	Eligible applicant types
fundingInstruments	Array	Funding instrument types
scrapedAt	String	Timestamp of data collection

📦 Sample Output

Sample 1:

{
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357994",
    "opportunityId": 357994,
    "opportunityNumber": "P25AS00474",
    "title": "FY2025 NAGPRA Repatriation Grants",
    "agencyCode": "DOI-NPS",
    "agency": "National Park Service",
    "topAgency": "Department of the Interior",
    "status": "POSTED",
    "category": "Discretionary",
    "estimatedFunding": "3407000",
    "awardCeiling": "25000",
    "awardFloor": "1000",
    "costSharing": false,
    "postDate": "2025-01-03",
    "closeDate": "2026-05-08",
    "contactEmail": "nagpra_grants@nps.gov",
    "applicantTypes": ["Special district governments", "Native American tribal governments"],
    "fundingInstruments": ["Grant"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 2:

{
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358120",
    "opportunityId": 358120,
    "title": "Environmental Education Grants Program",
    "agencyCode": "EPA",
    "agency": "Environmental Protection Agency",
    "topAgency": "Environmental Protection Agency",
    "status": "POSTED",
    "estimatedFunding": "3500000",
    "awardCeiling": "100000",
    "postDate": "2025-02-15",
    "closeDate": "2026-06-30",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 3:

{
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358250",
    "opportunityId": 358250,
    "title": "Community Health Worker Training Program",
    "agencyCode": "HHS-HRSA",
    "agency": "Health Resources and Services Administration",
    "topAgency": "Department of Health and Human Services",
    "status": "POSTED",
    "estimatedFunding": "12000000",
    "awardCeiling": "500000",
    "awardFloor": "50000",
    "postDate": "2025-03-01",
    "closeDate": "2026-07-15",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose the Grants.gov Scraper?

Benefit	Description
⚡ Batch collection	Collect up to 1 million grants at once instead of browsing one at a time
🔍 Multiple filters	Search by keyword, agency, status, category, eligibility, and date range
📄 Full descriptions	Optionally fetch complete text, contacts, and attachments
📁 Structured output	Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel for immediate analysis
🔄 Automated scheduling	Set up daily or weekly monitoring for new opportunities
📞 Agency contacts	Email, phone, and contact name included when available
🎯 No coding required	Point-and-click interface that anyone can use

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📈 How Does It Compare?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Website Search
Batch collection	✅ Up to 1M grants	❌ Browse one at a time
Multiple filters	✅ Keyword, agency, status, category	⚠️ Limited search
Full descriptions	✅ Complete text + attachments	⚠️ Click each one
Structured output	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ HTML pages only
Automated scheduling	✅ Daily/weekly monitoring	❌ Manual visits

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Scraper - Search for "Grants.gov Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Enter your keywords, filters, and how many grants you want
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

Total Time: Basic mode: 100 grants in about 2 seconds. With details enabled, each grant adds 0.2-0.5 seconds. No Technical Skills Required: Everything is point-and-click

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💼 Business Use Cases

Nonprofits and Universities:

• Monitor new funding opportunities daily to catch deadlines early
• Track research grants from NSF, NIH, DOE, and other agencies
• Build a pipeline of upcoming opportunities with deadlines and funding amounts

Government Contractors:

• Identify new contract and grant opportunities as they are posted
• Analyze federal funding trends and agency priorities
• Compare award amounts across agencies and categories

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Grants.gov Federal Grant Opportunities Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Grants.gov Federal Grant Opportunities Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating Your Workflows

For advanced users who want to automate this process, you can control the scraper programmatically with the Apify API. This allows you to schedule regular data collection and integrate with your existing business tools.

• Node.js: Install the apify-client NPM package
• Python: Use the apify-client PyPI package
• See the Apify API reference for full details

🔌 Integrate Grants.gov Scraper with any app

Last but not least, Grants.gov Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform.

These include:

• Make - Automate grant monitoring workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts when new grants match your criteria
• Slack - Get notified in your team channel
• Airbyte - Build data pipelines
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Google Drive - Export grant data to spreadsheets

Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Grants.gov Scraper successfully finishes a run.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Grants.gov Federal Grant Opportunities Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Grants.gov, the U.S. government, or any federal agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.