PSC Autocomplete

POST/api/v2/autocomplete/program_activity/

Powers Search filter pickers on usaspending.gov How Advanced Search works

This endpoint is used by the Advanced Search page.

This route sends a request to the backend to retrieve program activities and their names based on a search string. This may be the 4-character program activity code or a name string.

Request

curl -X POST 'https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/autocomplete/program_activity/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "search_text": "Meat"
}'

Request body

limitnumber
Number of results to return (min: 1, max: 500)
Default 10
search_textstringRequired

Try it

Runs against the live API. Responses are real data.

POST/api/v2/autocomplete/program_activity/

Request body

Response · 200

resultsarray of ProgramActivityMatchRequired2 fields
- program_activity_codestringRequired
- program_activity_namestringRequired

Example response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "program_activity_code": "",
      "program_activity_name": ""
    }
  ]
}

Recent changes

July 21, 2026DEV-15418: Update API contracts for dredd failures
July 20, 2026DEV-15418: Set max value of 'limit' to 500
September 18, 2024Mentioned in the September 18, 2024 release notes
August 7, 2024Mentioned in the August 07, 2024 release notes

Generated from contracts/v2/autocomplete/program_activity.md in the USAspending API repo.