# NIH RePORTER Grants Scraper (`foo121/nih-reporter-scraper`) Actor

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

- **URL**: https://apify.com/foo121/nih-reporter-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ziv shay](https://apify.com/foo121) (community)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 result items

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

## NIH RePORTER Grants Scraper

**NIH grants scraper** for **NIH RePORTER data** — pull structured **NIH research funding data** by keyword, fiscal year, and organization, with PI, award amount, and project dates.

Built for **biotech business development, research-intelligence, and grant-strategy teams** who need to see who is funded to work on what, at which institution, and for how much. This **NIH grants scraper** reads the **official NIH RePORTER API**, so every project comes straight from the authoritative federal funding database.

No API key required. Search by keyword (and optionally an organization), pick fiscal years, and get back project numbers, titles, PI names, organizations, and award amounts as clean **NIH RePORTER data**.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `projectNum` | NIH project / grant number |
| `title` | Project title |
| `pi` | Principal investigator name(s) |
| `organization` | Funded organization / institution |
| `awardAmount` | Total award amount in USD |
| `fiscalYear` | Fiscal year of the award |
| `startDate` | Project start date |
| `endDate` | Project end date |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `searchText` | string | `"alzheimer"` | Keyword / free-text to search project titles and abstracts |
| `fiscalYears` | array | `[2025]` | One or more fiscal years to include |
| `organization` | string | — | Optional organization / institution name filter |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Max projects to return |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchText": "alzheimer",
  "fiscalYears": [2024, 2025],
  "organization": "Stanford University",
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

### Example run output

```json
{
  "projectNum": "5R01AG076543-03",
  "title": "Tau Propagation Mechanisms in Early Alzheimer's Disease",
  "pi": "Chen, Wei",
  "organization": "Stanford University",
  "awardAmount": 642187,
  "fiscalYear": 2025,
  "startDate": "2023-09-01",
  "endDate": "2028-08-31"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Biotech business development teams** finding funded research programs and PIs to license or partner with.
- **Research-intelligence analysts** tracking NIH funding flows by topic, institution, and fiscal year.
- **Grant-strategy teams** benchmarking award sizes and funded approaches before writing a proposal.
- **Academic and tech-transfer offices** mapping funded investigators in a research area.

### Pricing

Pay per result — billed only for the projects this **NIH grants scraper** returns, no subscription.

### Keywords

NIH grants scraper, NIH RePORTER data, NIH research funding data, NIH grant scraper, NIH funding data, research grant data, PI funding lookup, NIH award data, RePORTER API scraper, NIH project data

# Actor input Schema

## `searchText` (type: `string`):

Optional free-text term to search across project titles, abstracts and terms (e.g. alzheimer, CRISPR, mRNA vaccine). Leave empty to list all grants for the chosen years/organization.

## `fiscalYears` (type: `array`):

Fiscal years to include, e.g. \[2025] or \[2024, 2025].

## `organization` (type: `string`):

Optional organization name filter (e.g. Stanford University, Broad Institute).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of grant records to output.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchText": "alzheimer",
  "fiscalYears": [
    2025
  ],
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchText": "alzheimer"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foo121/nih-reporter-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchText": "alzheimer" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foo121/nih-reporter-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchText": "alzheimer"
}' |
apify call foo121/nih-reporter-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,foo121/nih-reporter-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/1LhjdQPmJOb3G1JaB/builds/fTR0abbYM3eLl43hg/openapi.json