Search federal awards by keyword API

Search federal spending awards (contracts, grants, loans, direct payments) by keyword from the keyless USAspending.gov API, normalized into a flat schema (award ID, recipient, amount, awarding agency, type, dates, usaspending.gov link) ranked by amount and filterable by award group. Answers 'who got federal contracts for X?','which recipients received the largest awards mentioning Y?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/gov/spending-awards

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

govusaspendingawardscontractsgrantsprocurementspendingus

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/gov/spending-awards

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "keyword": "cybersecurity",
  "awardGroup": "contracts",
  "limit": 1
}

Example response

{
  "keywords": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ],
  "count": 1,
  "hasNextPage": true,
  "awards": [
    {
      "awardId": "W91ZRU25FA002",
      "recipient": "MICROTECHNOLOGIES LLC",
      "amount": 30127.4,
      "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
      "awardType": null,
      "startDate": "2025-11-19",
      "endDate": null,
      "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91ZRU25FA002_9700_W52P1J20D0060_9700"
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "keyword"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "keyword": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "cybersecurity",
        "solar"
      ]
    },
    "awardGroup": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "contracts",
        "grants",
        "loans",
        "direct_payments",
        "other"
      ],
      "default": "contracts"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100,
      "default": 10
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}