
Building a Grant and Funding Opportunity Tracker with Python
Building a Grant and Funding Opportunity Tracker with Python Billions in grants go unclaimed yearly because organizations miss deadlines. A Python scraper can aggregate opportunities from Grants.gov, state agencies, and foundations into one searchable feed. Core Grant Scraper import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from dataclasses import dataclass from datetime import datetime import sqlite3 , json , re , time @dataclass class Grant : source : str title : str agency : str amount_min : float amount_max : float deadline : str url : str description : str category : str class GrantTracker : def __init__ ( self , db_path = ' grants.db ' , api_key = None ): self . db = sqlite3 . connect ( db_path ) self . api_key = api_key self . session = requests . Session () self . session . headers . update ({ ' User-Agent ' : ' GrantTracker/1.0 ' }) self . _init_db () def _init_db ( self ): self . db . execute ( ''' CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS grants ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, source
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