Economy Government Contracts API
Returns individual US federal contract awards with recipient, amount, awarding agency, NAICS and PSC codes, dates and place of performance, one page at a time.
GET /v1/economy/government-contractsLast updated November 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
When to use the Economy Government Contracts API
Use it to find purchase orders and contracts for a company, keyword, industry or product code; use government-spend for totals by place.
From the API reference
Searches individual US federal contract awards (purchase orders, delivery orders, definitive contracts and blanket purchase agreement calls) from USAspending.gov, the official US government source for federal spending. Send at least one of recipient (a company name, matched as text), keyword (matched against the award description), naics or psc. The window defaults to the most recent US federal fiscal year that ended at least 90 days ago, and it matches awards with activity in that window, so start_date can be earlier and amount is the total value obligated to the award so far, not spend inside the window. Results come back under data.items[], each { award_id, generated_id, type, recipient_name, recipient_uei, amount, awarding_agency, awarding_sub_agency, naics, psc, description, start_date, end_date, place_of_performance: { state, city, country }, url }. type is purchase_order, delivery_order, definitive_contract or bpa_call. A foreign award has a null place_of_performance.state. Sorted by amount, largest first, unless you set sort and order. Paginate with page (1 based) or the universal cursor; the response's pagination block carries has_more and next_cursor. data.total is the full number of matching contracts. A search can be paged to 50,000 results (page x limit); a deeper page is a refunded 400, so narrow the filters to reach the rest. No match is a 200 with an empty items and is not billed.
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What can you do with the Government Contracts API?
The Government Contracts endpoint gives you structured Economy data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
# GET /v1/economy/government-contracts: 1 credit per page. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
# --max-time 60: the API's own time limit for this endpoint.
# --retry 3: retries timeouts, 429 and 5xx, honoring Retry-After.
# -o response.json keeps only the final attempt's body.
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
# Next page: send pagination.next_cursor back as cursor until pagination.has_more is false.
IDEMPOTENCY_KEY=$(od -An -N16 -tx1 /dev/urandom | tr -d ' \n')
curl -sS --max-time 60 --retry 3 -o response.json \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/government-contracts?naics=4811&type=purchase_order&limit=10" && cat response.json# GET /v1/economy/government-contracts: 1 credit per page. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
import os
import random
import time
import uuid
import requests
API_KEY = os.environ.get("SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_KEY")
TIMEOUT_S = 60 # the API's own time limit for this endpoint.
MAX_RETRIES = 3
URL = "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/government-contracts"
def backoff(attempt):
# Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
return 2 ** attempt * (0.5 + random.random() / 2)
def socialcrawl(params):
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
idempotency_key = str(uuid.uuid4())
for attempt in range(MAX_RETRIES + 1):
try:
res = requests.get(
URL,
params=params,
headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY, "Idempotency-Key": idempotency_key},
timeout=TIMEOUT_S,
)
body = res.json()
except (requests.RequestException, ValueError):
# A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise
time.sleep(backoff(attempt))
continue
if body["success"]:
return body
error = body["error"]
# Branch on error["type"], never on the message text.
if error["type"] == "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND":
return None # refunded: nothing to read
retry_after = res.headers.get("Retry-After")
# SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
permanent = error["type"] == "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" and retry_after is None
if not error.get("retryable") or permanent or attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise RuntimeError(f"{error['type']}: {error['message']} (request_id {body['request_id']})")
# Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
time.sleep(float(retry_after) if retry_after else backoff(attempt))
params = {
"naics": "4811",
"type": "purchase_order",
"limit": "10",
}
# Walk the list: send pagination.next_cursor back as cursor until has_more is false.
MAX_PAGES = 10 # each page is one call
items = []
for _ in range(MAX_PAGES):
body = socialcrawl(params)
if body is None:
break
items.extend(body["data"]["items"])
page = body.get("pagination") or {}
if not page.get("has_more") or not page.get("next_cursor"):
break
params["cursor"] = page["next_cursor"]
print(f"{len(items)} items")// GET /v1/economy/government-contracts: 1 credit per page. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
// Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
const API_KEY = process.env.SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY ?? "YOUR_API_KEY";
const TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000; // the API's own time limit for this endpoint.
const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
type Page = { next_cursor: string | null; has_more: boolean };
type SocialCrawlResponse =
| { success: true; data: any; pagination?: Page; credits_used: number; request_id: string }
| { success: false; error: { type: string; message: string; retryable: boolean }; request_id: string };
const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
// Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
const backoffMs = (attempt: number) => 2 ** attempt * 1000 * (0.5 + Math.random() / 2);
async function socialcrawl(url: URL) {
// One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
const idempotencyKey = crypto.randomUUID();
for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) {
let res: Response;
let body: SocialCrawlResponse;
try {
res = await fetch(url, {
headers: {
"x-api-key": API_KEY,
"Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey,
},
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(TIMEOUT_MS),
});
body = (await res.json()) as SocialCrawlResponse;
} catch (error) {
// A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if (attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) throw error;
await sleep(backoffMs(attempt));
continue;
}
if (body.success) return body;
// Branch on error.type, never on the message text.
if (body.error.type === "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND") return null; // refunded: nothing to read
const retryAfter = res.headers.get("Retry-After");
// SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
const permanent = body.error.type === "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" && retryAfter === null;
if (!body.error.retryable || permanent || attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) {
throw new Error(`${body.error.type}: ${body.error.message} (request_id ${body.request_id})`);
}
// Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
await sleep(retryAfter ? Number(retryAfter) * 1000 : backoffMs(attempt));
}
}
const url = new URL("https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/government-contracts");
url.searchParams.set("naics", "4811");
url.searchParams.set("type", "purchase_order");
url.searchParams.set("limit", "10");
// Walk the list: send pagination.next_cursor back as cursor until has_more is false.
const MAX_PAGES = 10; // each page is one call
const items: unknown[] = [];
for (let page = 0; page < MAX_PAGES; page++) {
const body = await socialcrawl(url);
if (!body) break;
items.push(...body.data.items);
const next = body.pagination?.next_cursor;
if (!body.pagination?.has_more || !next) break;
url.searchParams.set("cursor", next);
}
console.log(`${items.length} items`);Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| recipient | No | Company or organisation name to match, up to 120 characters, for example `Lockheed Martin`. Matched as text against the recipient name, so a short name also finds related entities. |
| keyword | No | Free-text match against award descriptions, 3 to 120 characters. Use it for a topic such as `travel` that no single industry code captures. |
| naics | No | Industry filter: one or more NAICS codes, comma-separated (up to 20). Each code must be 2, 4 or 6 digits, and a shorter code matches the whole family, so `4811` covers scheduled air transportation and `48` covers all transportation. |
| psc | No | Product or service code filter: one or more codes, comma-separated (up to 20), 1 to 4 characters each. A shorter code matches the family, so `V` is all transportation, travel and relocation services and `V301` is travel agent services. |
| from_date | No | Start of the window, `YYYY-MM-DD`, no earlier than 2007-10-01. Defaults to the first day of the most recent US federal fiscal year (1 October to 30 September) that ended at least 90 days ago, because agencies report with a lag and a year that just ended is only partly reported. Send only this and the window runs to today. |
| to_date | No | End of the window, `YYYY-MM-DD`. Defaults to the last day of the most recent US federal fiscal year that ended at least 90 days ago (30 September). Send only this and the window starts one year earlier. |
| type | No | Limit to one award type: `purchase_order`, `delivery_order`, `definitive_contract` or `bpa_call`. `all` (default) returns all four. (purchase_order | delivery_order | definitive_contract | bpa_call | all) |
| sort | No | Sort field: `amount` (default), `start_date`, `end_date` or `recipient`. (amount | start_date | end_date | recipient) |
| order | No | `desc` (default) or `asc`. (asc | desc) |
| limit | No | Awards per page, 1 to 100. Defaults to 25. |
| page | No | Page number, starting at 1. `page` x `limit` cannot exceed 50,000, so with `limit` 100 the last page is 500 and a deeper page is a refunded 400. The universal `cursor` returned in `pagination.next_cursor` is the simpler way to continue. |
| max_pages | No | 1 to 50 (default 1, or 50 when `max_items` or `max_credits` is sent). Walk up to this many pages in one call and return the rows from all of them. Each page walked is billed exactly as one call to this endpoint (a cached page is free) and counts against your rate limit; its charge and any refund are recorded under the page's own request id, listed in `data.walk.request_ids`. The walk stops early at the last page, or when the request's time budget runs low; `data.walk.stopped` says why (`end`, `max_pages`, `max_items`, `max_credits`, `time_budget`, `page_error`) and `pagination.next_cursor` continues from where it stopped. |
| max_items | No | 1 to 5000. Get more in one call: keep walking pages until the response holds at least this many rows, then stop with `data.walk.stopped: "max_items"`. The last page is returned whole (it was billed), so `data.items` can hold up to one page more than this, and `pagination.next_cursor` resumes right after it without skipping a row. Walks up to 50 pages unless `max_pages` says fewer; each page is billed as one call (a cached page is free). Add `max_credits` to cap the spend. A long walk can stop on the time budget first (`"time_budget"`): send the returned cursor with the same params to continue. |
| max_credits | No | 1 to 100000. The most this call may spend, across every page it walks. A page starts only while the credits already spent plus that page's price (or, when higher, the most any page of this walk has cost) still fit, so the call never goes past it; the walk then stops with `data.walk.stopped: "max_credits"` and the cursor to resume. Sent alone, it walks as far as the budget goes (up to 50 pages). A value below the price of one page is a free 400 whose `error.details.page_credits` names that price. Credits a row join (`include=`) adds are known only once a page has run, so page 1 is checked against its own price. |
What does the Economy Government Contracts API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "economy",
"endpoint": "/v1/economy/government-contracts",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"award_id": "HT942525P0037",
"generated_id": "CONT_AWD_HT942525P0037_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-",
"type": "purchase_order",
"recipient_name": "ENVIGO GLOBAL SERVICES INC",
"recipient_uei": "QW88E71LU7M4",
"amount": 568510.04,
"awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
"awarding_sub_agency": "Defense Health Agency",
"naics": {
"code": "481112",
"description": "SCHEDULED FREIGHT AIR TRANSPORTATION"
},
"psc": {
"code": "V111",
"description": "TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL/RELOCATION- TRANSPORTATION: AIR FREIGHT"
},
"description": "NON-PERSONAL SERVICES FOR THE TESTING AND TRANSPORTATION OF 18 NON-HUMAN PRIMATES",
"start_date": "2025-02-26",
"end_date": "2026-08-25",
"place_of_performance": {
"state": "MD",
"city": "SILVER SPRING",
"country": "USA"
},
"url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HT942525P0037_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-"
},
{
"award_id": "693JK423P800006",
"generated_id": "CONT_AWD_693JK423P800006_6901_-NONE-_-NONE-",
"type": "purchase_order",
"recipient_name": "OAG AVIATION WORLDWIDE LLC",
"recipient_uei": "G4TJMJRKJ339",
"amount": 325831.5,
"awarding_agency": "Department of Transportation",
"awarding_sub_agency": "Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation",
"naics": {
"code": "481111",
"description": "SCHEDULED PASSENGER AIR TRANSPORTATION"
},
"psc": {
"code": "7A21",
"description": "IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARE (PERPETUAL LICENSE SOFTWARE)"
},
"description": "THE PURPOSE OF THIS ACQUISITION IS TO OBTAIN AIRLINES SCHEDULE DATA AND SUPPORT (ASDS) FOR THE OFFICE OF AIRLINE INFORMATION (OAI) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S (DOT'S) AVIATION STATISTICS PROGRAM, AS PROVIDED",
"start_date": "2023-04-26",
"end_date": "2027-04-30",
"place_of_performance": {
"state": "DC",
"city": "WASHINGTON",
"country": "USA"
},
"url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_693JK423P800006_6901_-NONE-_-NONE-"
}
],
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsImUiOiJlY29ub215L2dvdmVybm1lbnQtY29udHJhY3RzIiwicCI6InBhZ2UifQ",
"has_more": true,
"page_size": 25
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-03T18:35:26.895Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the Economy Government Contracts API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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