/grantsgov/opportunities/search

POST /api/grantsgov/opportunities/search

Price: 10 credits

Search US federal funding opportunities by keyword, lifecycle stage, funding instrument, applicant eligibility, funding-activity category, agency, posting and closing windows, and cost-sharing requirement. Returns a card per opportunity with its UUID.

How to use it

Leaving `statuses` empty gives the source's own default of forecasted plus open opportunities, so pass `closed` or `archived` explicitly to reach anything already past its deadline. `closing_within_days` only narrows opportunities that are still open. Take `opportunity_id` from a card and call grantsgov/opportunities for the description, eligibility detail and application documents. `agencies` takes the grants.gov agency code, not the readable agency name a result carries, and a code in the wrong case matches nothing rather than erroring, so prefer `query` when the code is unknown.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string nullable — Words matched against the opportunity title, number, agency and description (examples: "wildlife habitat", "rural broadband"; minLength: 1)
• statuses array — Lifecycle stages to include; the source shows forecasted and open opportunities when nothing is given (default: []; one of: "forecasted", "posted", "closed", "archived"; examples: ["posted"], ["posted","forecasted"])
• funding_instruments array — Kinds of funding agreement offered (default: []; one of: "cooperative_agreement", "grant", "procurement_contract", "other")
• eligibilities array — Applicant types the opportunity is open to (default: []; one of: "state_governments", "county_governments", "city_or_township_governments", "special_district_governments", "independent_school_districts", "public_and_state_institutions_of_higher_education", "private_institutions_of_higher_education", "federally_recognized_native_american_tribal_governments", "other_native_american_tribal_organizations", "public_and_indian_housing_authorities", "nonprofits_non_higher_education_with_501c3", "nonprofits_non_higher_education_without_501c3", "individuals", "for_profit_organizations_other_than_small_businesses", "small_businesses", "other", "unrestricted")
• categories array — Categories of funding activity (default: []; one of: "recovery_act", "agriculture", "arts", "business_and_commerce", "community_development", "consumer_protection", "disaster_prevention_and_relief", "education", "employment_labor_and_training", "energy", "energy_infrastructure_and_critical_mineral_and_materials", "environment", "food_and_nutrition", "health", "housing", "humanities", "infrastructure_investment_and_jobs_act", "information_and_statistics", "income_security_and_social_services", "law_justice_and_legal_services", "natural_resources", "opportunity_zone_benefits", "recreation_and_tourism", "regional_development", "science_technology_and_other_research_and_development", "transportation", "affordable_care_act", "other")
• agencies array — Grants.gov agency codes, uppercase, such as DOI-FWS for the Fish and Wildlife Service (default: []; examples: ["DOI-FWS"], ["DOD-ONR","DOE-ARPAE"])
• posted_within_days string nullable — Keep only opportunities posted within this many days (one of: "3", "7", "14", "30", "60")
• closing_within_days string nullable — Keep only opportunities whose application deadline falls within this many days (one of: "7", "30", "90", "120")
• has_cost_sharing boolean nullable — Whether the opportunity requires cost sharing or matching funds
• sort string — Order of the results (default: "relevancy"; one of: "relevancy", "closeDateDesc", "closeDateAsc", "postedDateDesc", "postedDateAsc", "opportunityTitleAsc", "opportunityTitleDesc", "awardFloorAsc", "awardFloorDesc", "awardCeilingAsc", "awardCeilingDesc")
• count integer required — Max number of opportunities to return (min: 1; max: 5000)

Response

• @type string (default: "GrantsgovOpportunityCard")
• opportunity_id string required
• opportunity_title string required
• url string required
• funding_opportunity_number string nullable
• agency string nullable
• status string nullable
• close_date string nullable
• posted_date string nullable
• expected_award_count integer nullable
• award_minimum number nullable
• award_maximum number nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.