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Avvo Scraper

Extract attorney profiles, practice areas, client reviews, and rating data from Avvo legal directory. Built on spider-browser .

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

Extract data in minutes.

avvo-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.avvo.com/all-lawyers/ca/san-francisco.html");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const attorneys = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".lawyer-search-result").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector(".lawyer-name")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rating = el.querySelector(".avvo-rating-number")?.textContent?.trim();
    const practice = el.querySelector(".practice-area")?.textContent?.trim();
    const reviews = el.querySelector(".review-count")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) attorneys.push({ name, rating, practice, reviews });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: attorneys.length, attorneys: attorneys.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

One endpoint for avvo.com.

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

POST /fetch/avvo.com/
Attorney nameRatingPractice areaLocationExperienceReview count
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/avvo.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/avvo.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/avvo.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.

Attorney nameRatingPractice areaLocationExperienceReview countPhoneEducation
Data

Public records

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

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