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Above the Law Scraper

Extract legal industry news, firm rankings, salary data, and career advice from Above the Law. Built on spider-browser .

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target
abovethelaw.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

above-the-law-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://abovethelaw.com/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article.post").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".entry-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector(".author a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
    const excerpt = el.querySelector(".entry-summary p")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) articles.push({ title, author, date, excerpt: excerpt?.slice(0, 200) });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
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Fetch API

One endpoint for abovethelaw.com.

Structured JSON from abovethelaw.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/abovethelaw.com/
Article titleAuthorPublished dateCategoryExcerptComment count
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/abovethelaw.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
Python
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/abovethelaw.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())
Node.js
const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/abovethelaw.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Article titleAuthorPublished dateCategoryExcerptComment countTagsURL
Data

Public records

Extract filings, regulations, and public data from abovethelaw.com.

Parsing

Document extraction

Clean extraction of legal documents, PDFs, and structured public records.

Scale

Bulk processing

Process thousands of filings and regulatory documents concurrently.

Related

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Start

Start scraping abovethelaw.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.