Keyword search parameters ?

[nniiicc]

Hi @rdemgenski - we were trying to replicate some of your results using the NSF API - and we're getting different numbers (a lot more results). Besides limiting your search by date (2018 forward) - were there other limiters?

[rdemgenski]

It looks like when a search is first executed "active awards" is set by default, but running a new search from the search results page includes expired awards as well. I did not take that into account. This may explain discrepancies not only between the spreadsheet and the NSF API results, but also within the spreadsheet as well (i.e. I would need to go through and check that all are active or unrestricted before a meaningful comparison could be made with the NSF API)

[nniiicc]

Ok thanks.

[rdemgenski]

Spreadsheet actually turned out to be consistent, SBE and EHR show active and expired awards, SBE and EHR over the last two years include active awards only. I added a column to show total results from all directorates (i.e. not limited to SBE and EHR), but interestingly even there the results do not match the bot. E.g., it shows a total of 13 awards for "interview participants" whereas the bot seems to have found 25.

[nniiicc]

Thanks Robert... The API vs the manual search may have different parameters... I'll try to read the documentaiton a bit closer tonight