Open Scholarships

Openly-licensed directory of US scholarships and student aid

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Open Scholarships is a machine-readable, CC BY 4.0 directory of US scholarships sourced from official pages. Filter by state, availability, or keyword to get structured records with sponsor, award amounts, deadlines, and eligibility. Responses ship with the required attribution string built in.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 89 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
472P50 · ms
1716P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 259 ms, slowest 1007 ms, most recent 510 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://scholarships.grudged.io/api/scholarships?state=NV&availability=open

{
  "total": 17,
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 0,
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "us-aiaa-foundation-undergraduate-scholarships",
      "name": "AIAA Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships",
      "sponsor": "American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics",
      "award": {
        "amount_max": 10000,
        "currency": "USD"
      }
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://scholarships.grudged.io/api/scholarships?state=NV&availability=open"
const res = await fetch("https://scholarships.grudged.io/api/scholarships?state=NV&availability=open");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://scholarships.grudged.io/api/scholarships?state=NV&availability=open")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /scholarships?state=NV&availability=open472 mschecked 12h ago
GET/scholarships?state=NV&availability=openPROBED

Openly-licensed directory of US scholarships and student aid

GET/scholarships?limit=5

Scholarships — documented GET route.

GET/scholarships?page=1

Scholarships — documented GET route.

GET/scholarships.json

Scholarships Json — documented GET route.

GET/api/scholarships?state=NV&level=high-school-senior

Scholarships — documented GET route.

GET/api/scholarships?q=nursing&amount_min=5000

Search results filtered by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Open Scholarships: common questions

Is Open Scholarships free to use?

Yes — Open Scholarships is a free open data API. Free tier: Free — no key (CC BY 4.0; attribution required). Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Open Scholarships need an API key?

No — Open Scholarships needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Open Scholarships from the browser?

Yes — Open Scholarships returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Open Scholarships up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Open Scholarships is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 472 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.