USAspending Federal Contracts & Grants Scraper

Finance & Company Data

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A scraper for USAspending.gov that extracts federal contract and grant awards by recipient, awarding agency, or NAICS industry code; it returns award identifiers and links, recipient names and locations, award amounts, awarding agency and sub-agency, award start/end dates, short award descriptions, NAICS codes and descriptions, and other award metadata. The connector supports searching across contracts, grants, or both, filtering by recipient/agency/industry and by date range (historical coverage back to 2007-10-01), and it paginates to retrieve large result sets.

Verified Sep 28, 3:55 AM

$0.01

per result

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Procurement and lead-generation intelligence — find companies winning contracts or grants from a specific agency
Competitive research — identify federal work held by competitors and the contract/grant values
Market sizing — aggregate federal spend within a NAICS industry code
Grant research — locate organizations receiving federal grant funding in a given field
Due diligence — review a company’s federal contracting and grant history before partnerships or investments

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
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Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"usaspending-federal-contracts-scraper","params":{"recipientName":"Boeing","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`recipientName`	string	optional	Company or organization name to search for (partial match), e.g. 'Boeing'. Leave blank to browse all recipients matching the other filters.
`naicsCode`	string	optional	Optional. Filter to a specific 6-digit NAICS industry code, e.g. '336411' for Aircraft Manufacturing.
`agencyName`	string	optional	Optional. Filter to a top-tier federal agency by exact name, e.g. 'Department of Defense'.
`awardType`	string	optional	Search federal contracts, grants, or both. Contracts and grants use different USAspending record types, so 'Both' runs two passes.
`startDate`	string	optional	Earliest award start date to include, in YYYY-MM-DD format. USAspending's search API only covers data back to 2007-10-01; earlier dates are clamped to that floor. Leave blank for the earliest available date.
`endDate`	string	optional	Latest award start date to include, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Defaults to today.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum number of award records to push. Set 0 for unlimited (the run paginates until every match is fetched or the run times out). Capped at 100 per call.
`pageId`	string	optional	Optional. Paste NEXT_PAGE_ID from the previous run's Key-value store to continue where that run stopped.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`awardType`	string	Award Type
`awardId`	string	Award Id
`recipientName`	string	Recipient Name
`awardAmount`	number	Award Amount
`awardingAgency`	string	Awarding Agency
`awardingSubAgency`	string	Awarding Sub Agency
`startDate`	string	Start Date
`endDate`	string	End Date
`description`	string	Description
`naicsCode`	string	Naics Code
`naicsDescription`	string	Naics Description
`recipientState`	string	Recipient State
`recipientCity`	string	—
`recipientAddress`	string	—
`recipientZip`	string	—
`usaspendingUrl`	string	—

Use USAspending Federal Contracts & Grants Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Which AI companies filed a Form D in the last two weeks, and how much did they raise?”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://usesourcelane.com/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"usaspending-federal-contracts-scraper","params":{"recipientName":"Boeing","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "usaspending-federal-contracts-scraper",
        "params": {"recipientName":"Boeing","maxItems":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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