How to scrape grant opportunities from NC.gov

The NC.gov grant opportunities page lists every active state grant program in one place, organized by category. Getting that data into a spreadsheet manually means copying row by row across dozens of programs. With the Minexa.ai Chrome extension, the whole page becomes a structured dataset in a few minutes.

Here is exactly what the process looks like, step by step.

What data you get

Each row on the NC.gov grant opportunities page contains four fields Minexa extracts cleanly:

• Agency grant program — the official program name

• Description — a short summary of what the program funds

• Program category — the sector it belongs to (Agriculture, Education, Economic Development, etc.)

• Website link — the direct URL to the program page

Sample output from a real extraction run:

[
  {
    "agency_grant_program": "Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund",
    "description": "This program supports the farming, forestry, and horticulture communities.",
    "program_category": "Agriculture",
    "website_link": "https://www.ncadfp.org/"
  },
  {
    "agency_grant_program": "NC Arts Council Grants",
    "description": "The NC Arts Council provides grants to artists and organizations across the state.",
    "program_category": "Art & Culture",
    "website_link": "https://www.ncarts.org/opportunities/grants"
  }
]

Video walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-bRn-scSE

Step-by-step: how the scraper is trained

Step 1 — Open Minexa.ai and navigate to the target page

Step 2 — Open the extension and confirm the page

Step 3 — Minexa detects pagination automatically

Step 4 — Choose to scrape the list or follow detail links

Step 5 — Minexa detects the data container and highlights it

Step 6 — All columns are extracted and ready to review

Install the Minexa.ai extension to train your first scraper in under five minutes.

Step 7 — View the completed job with export and scheduling options

Step 8 — Export the final dataset

Once the scraper is trained, it can be reused on any page that shares the same structure. Export to Excel, JSON, or connect directly to Google Sheets. The Minexa.ai dashboard keeps all your jobs in one place so you can re-run them whenever the source data updates.