Top Recipients

GEThttps://api-federal-contracts.dataandapis.com/v1/awards/recipients

Top Recipients is an endpoint of the Federal Contracts API. 86,500 active SAM.gov opportunities and 48,000 awards over $1M, searchable and refreshed daily.

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Request

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl

curl "https://api-federal-contracts.dataandapis.com/v1/awards/recipients" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api-federal-contracts.dataandapis.com/v1/awards/recipients", {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.DATAANDAPIS_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api-federal-contracts.dataandapis.com/v1/awards/recipients",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["DATAANDAPIS_KEY"]},
)
data = r.json()

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 5,
  "recipients": [
    {
      "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION",
      "awards": 1104,
      "total_value": 414859624511.27997,
      "earliest": "1997-09-15",
      "latest_end": "2100-12-31"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "THE BOEING COMPANY",
      "awards": 765,
      "total_value": 270215097991.74,
      "earliest": "1993-11-15",
      "latest_end": "2039-09-27"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "RAYTHEON COMPANY",
      "awards": 798,
      "total_value": 161652389711.69,
      "earliest": "2001-09-27",
      "latest_end": "2034-02-28"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP",
      "awards": 157,
…

Show full response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 5,
  "recipients": [
    {
      "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION",
      "awards": 1104,
      "total_value": 414859624511.27997,
      "earliest": "1997-09-15",
      "latest_end": "2100-12-31"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "THE BOEING COMPANY",
      "awards": 765,
      "total_value": 270215097991.74,
      "earliest": "1993-11-15",
      "latest_end": "2039-09-27"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "RAYTHEON COMPANY",
      "awards": 798,
      "total_value": 161652389711.69,
      "earliest": "2001-09-27",
      "latest_end": "2034-02-28"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP",
      "awards": 157,
      "total_value": 146699052796.02,
      "earliest": "1993-10-15",
      "latest_end": "2049-10-09"
    },
    {
      "recipient": "ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION",
      "awards": 33,
      "total_value": 129128462864.95,
      "earliest": "2008-12-22",
      "latest_end": "2036-06-02"
    }
  ]
}

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