NIH Grants Scraper — RePORTER Funding & PI Data

What this Actor scrapes

NIH RePORTER is the federal government's public record of every grant it funds — but its unfiltered corpus is 2.9 million project records, its search API caps how deep any single query can page, and it packs research topics into a single string like <code>&lt;Term A&gt;&lt;Term B&gt;</code> instead of a usable list. This Actor requires a real filter (fiscal year, text, institution, PI or agency), pages within the platform's own limits, and flattens every project — title, abstract, award amount, institution, PI and agency — into one clean row.

What we handle for you

• 🏛️ Required-filter guardrail — we block an unfiltered run before it starts so you never accidentally pay for a crawl of NIH's entire 2.9M-project history.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 429/5xx and transient network errors — up to 5 attempts per page.
• 📄 Pagination that respects NIH's own ceilings — page size and offset limits handled for you, with a clear status message if a search is too broad to page all the way through.
• 🧹 Terms and PI lists flattened — NIH's bracket-packed <Term A><Term B> strings become a real JSON array, and every principal investigator is a structured record.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for grant records that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• Track who got NIH funding in your therapeutic area before a partnership or licensing conversation.
• Build a competitive-intelligence feed of a rival institution's or PI's active grants.
• Size a research niche's funding trend across fiscal years for a market or investment thesis.
• Feed a grant-writing or business-development CRM with fresh award data instead of a stale export.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "fiscalYears": [
    2024
  ],
  "textSearch": "cancer immunotherapy",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

project_titleabstract_textfiscal_yearaward_amountorg_namecontact_pi_nameagency_nameproject_detail_url

{}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Returns NIH RePORTER's published record only — no reviewer scores, summary statements or non-NIH federal funders.
• A single search can page roughly 15,000 records deep; broader topics need multiple narrower runs (e.g. one per fiscal year).