innovation.ised-isde.canada.ca APIinnovation.ised-isde.canada.ca ↗
Access Canadian government grants, loans, and business support programs. Filter by province, industry, goal, and category across 5 endpoints.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/55f10065-8db5-43c9-b5fe-becee0ca67c1/get_total_count' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get the total number of programs available in the Business Benefits Finder.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer total number of programs"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 1538
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the innovation.ised-isde.canada.ca API
This API exposes 5 endpoints covering the Innovation Canada Business Benefits Finder catalog of government grants, loans, and business support programs. The get_program_details endpoint returns structured fields including scopeHtml, organizationUrl, applicationStatus, and longDescription for any valid program record. Other endpoints support paginated browsing, keyword-style filtering, and a convenience endpoint that retrieves all grants-and-funding programs in one call.
Browsing and Filtering Programs
The list_programs endpoint returns paginated program summaries, each containing id, title, shortDescription, programStatus, and categories. You can narrow results by passing a category parameter — accepted values are grants and funding, advice and expertise, and loans and capital investments. The response also includes a storyWrapper object that carries available filter options such as provinces, industries, and goals, giving you the vocabulary needed to build more targeted queries.
Advanced Search
The search_programs endpoint accepts the same pagination parameters as list_programs but adds a filters field expecting a JSON-encoded object. Province filters use Salesforce-style keys such as Province_Alberta__c: true, combined with a Province_With key to control inclusion logic. The response shape mirrors list_programs — dovResults, totalNumberOfResults, isFromCache, and storyWrapper — so both endpoints can be consumed with the same parsing logic.
Program Details and Counts
get_program_details accepts a 15- or 18-character Salesforce record ID (typically starting with a00) and returns the full program record: longDescription, scopeHtml as HTML content, organization, organizationUrl, applicationStatus, and programStatus. Passing an industry or sub-industry ID instead of a program record ID returns an error. To check overall catalog size before paginating, get_total_count returns a single total integer with no inputs required.
Bulk Grant Retrieval
get_all_grants paginates through the entire catalog automatically and returns up to 2,000 programs categorized as grants and funding. Because it aggregates multiple calls, response time is longer than single-page requests. The returned grants array contains the same summary fields found in list_programs results, and a count integer confirms how many records were collected.
- Build a grant discovery tool that filters Canadian government programs by province using
search_programsprovince filters - Populate a business resource directory with program titles, short descriptions, and official URLs from
get_program_details - Display real-time program availability by checking
applicationStatusandprogramStatusfields on individual records - Track catalog size changes over time by polling
get_total_countand comparing against stored values - Export a full grants database using
get_all_grantsto analyze funding categories and administering organizations - Present contextual funding recommendations by combining industry and goal filters in
search_programs - Aggregate loan and capital investment programs separately by passing the
loans and capital investmentscategory tolist_programs
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Innovation Canada provide an official developer API for the Business Benefits Finder?+
What does `get_program_details` return, and how specific is the eligibility information?+
get_program_details returns scopeHtml (HTML-formatted eligibility and scope text), longDescription, organization, organizationUrl, applicationStatus, and programStatus. Eligibility details are whatever the administering organization has published — depth varies by program. The endpoint requires a valid Salesforce-style program record ID starting with a00; passing an industry ID returns an error.Does `get_all_grants` return every program in the catalog?+
grants and funding category. If the catalog exceeds that limit, some records will not be included. For advice and expertise or loans and capital investments categories, use list_programs or search_programs with the appropriate category parameter and paginate manually.Does the API expose funding amounts or dollar values for individual programs?+
longDescription, scopeHtml, shortDescription), status (programStatus, applicationStatus), and organizational metadata (organization, organizationUrl). Structured funding amounts are not returned as discrete fields. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to extract and surface any dollar-value data present within the HTML content fields.Are there any quirks with pagination or caching to be aware of?+
list_programs and search_programs return an isFromCache boolean in the response, indicating whether the result set was served from a cached state. When isFromCache is true, results may not reflect the most recent program additions or status changes. Pagination uses limit and offset parameters; there is no cursor-based pagination.