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Agency Search
Description: This Method outputs Awards (from SBIR.gov database) from an Agency matching the Agency name entered.
Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?agency=DOE
Valid values for the agency field:
- DOW = Department of War
- HHS = Department of Health and Human Services
- NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NSF = National Science Foundation
- DOE = Department of Energy
- USDA = United States Dept. of Agriculture
- EPA = Environmental Protection Agency
- DOC = Department of Commerce
- ED = Department of Education
- DOT = Department of Transportation
- DHS =Department of Homeland Security
Return Types: XML, JSON
Fields returned from the API = firm, award_title, agency, branch, phase, program, agency_tracking_number, contract, proposal_award_date, contract_end_date, solicitation_number, solicitation_year, topic_code, award_year, award_amount, duns, uei, hubzone_owned, socially_economically_disadvantaged, women_owned, number_employees, company_url, address1, address2, city, state, zip, poc_name, poc_title, poc_phone, poc_email, pi_name, pi_phone, pi_email, ri_name, ri_poc_name, ri_poc_phone, research_area_keywords, abstract, award_link
Company Search
Description: This Method outputs Awards (from SBIR.gov database) matching the Company name entered.
Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?firm=luna
Return Types: XML, JSON
Fields returned from the API = firm, award_title, agency, branch, phase, program, agency_tracking_number, contract, proposal_award_date, contract_end_date, solicitation_number, solicitation_year, topic_code, award_year, award_amount, duns, uei, hubzone_owned, socially_economically_disadvantaged, women_owned, number_employees, company_url, address1, address2, city, state, zip, poc_name, poc_title, poc_phone, poc_email, pi_name, pi_phone, pi_email, ri_name, ri_poc_name, ri_poc_phone, research_area_keywords, abstract, award_link
Year Search
Description: This Method outputs Awards (from SBIR.gov database) from an Agency matching the year entered.
Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?agency=DOE&year=2010
Return Types: XML, JSON
Fields returned from the API = firm, award_title, agency, branch, phase, program, agency_tracking_number, contract, proposal_award_date, contract_end_date, solicitation_number, solicitation_year, topic_code, award_year, award_amount, duns, uei, hubzone_owned, socially_economically_disadvantaged, women_owned, number_employees, company_url, address1, address2, city, state, zip, poc_name, poc_title, poc_phone, poc_email, pi_name, pi_phone, pi_email, ri_name, ri_poc_name, ri_poc_phone, research_area_keywords, abstract, award_link
Research Institution Search
Description: This Method outputs Awards (from SBIR.gov database) matching the Research Institution name entered.
Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?ri=CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology
Return Types: XML, JSON
Fields returned from the API = firm, award_title, agency, branch, phase, program, agency_tracking_number, contract, proposal_award_date, contract_end_date, solicitation_number, solicitation_year, topic_code, award_year, award_amount, duns, uei, hubzone_owned, socially_economically_disadvantaged, women_owned, number_employees, company_url, address1, address2, city, state, zip, poc_name, poc_title, poc_phone, poc_email, pi_name, pi_phone, pi_email, ri_name, ri_poc_name, ri_poc_phone, research_area_keywords, abstract, award_link
Additional Information
Rows per request:
The pages for this API have set limits for number of returns per request. The limits are by default set to serve 100 rows per request. Below is an example of how the pagination is set for this API.
Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?rows=400
Pagination and Maneuvering through Pages:
To continue to receive the remaining portions of your search results you must enable the starting offset parameter also known as Offset-based Pagination. The pages for this API have set limits for number of records per request as mentioned above. Using the assumption that the limitation is set to 100 records below is an example of how the pagination is set for this API.
For Page 2 Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?start=100
For Page 3 Example: https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?start=200
Return Types:
The API default return type is JSON. To change the return type from the API you will need to modify the document type in the URL request.
Example: Return Type=XML
https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards?format=xml
Example: Return Type= JSON
https://api.www.sbir.gov/public/api/awards
Sorting:
Default sorting is Awarded Date in descending order. Changing the sorting is currently not supported on this endpoint.