Where can I find all the data elements in the atom feed?

Here are the URLs that show the data elements in the data feed for different versions.

https://www.fpds.gov/wiki/index.php/Atom_Feed_Specifications_V_1.4

https://www.fpds.gov/wiki/index.php/Atom_Feed_Specifications_V_1.4.1

https://www.fpds.gov/wiki/index.php/Atom_Feed_Specifications_V_1.4.2

How do we fetch deleted contracts?

The URL below will fetch the deleted contracts.

https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=DELETED&q=

Would pulling thousands of records at a time be a problem for the atom feed?

Pulling 10K records per search in the limit for Atom Feed would not be feasible. 1 atom feed thread is limited to pull only 10 records per search, however, you can run 10 threads per search, so technically you would be able to pull 100 records per search

What time of day is good to schedule atom feed downloads?

Any time after 9:00 AM eastern time.

Do I need an FPDS account to use atom feed?

The atom feed is for public use so no account is required. If you are a DOD user please contact fpdssupport@gcefederal.com

Atom feed is updated on a daily basis. What data element should I use to extract the contracts?

Use the last modified date, different search criteria is available in the URL below with examples

http://www.fpds.gov/wiki/index.php/Atom_Feed_Usage

How do I traverse and fetch all the records?

Here is an example

First pass the URL below to fetch the records by last modified date

1. https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&AUTHENTICATION=&q=LAST_MOD_DATE:[2012/02/09,]

Response will contain ( 0 to 9 ) records along with the URL for the next 10 records. You can see the link in the header section as “next”

<<link rel="next" type="text/html" href="https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?s=FPDS&FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q=LAST_MOD_DATE%3A%5B2012%2F02%2F09%2C%5D&start=10" />

Then pass the URL below for the next request , you will get ( 10 to 19) records . Response will contain the URL for next 10 records.

https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?s=FPDS&FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q=LAST_MOD_DATE%3A%5B2012%2F02%2F09%2C%5D&start=10