Government & Legal

Ballotpedia Scraper

Extract election data, candidate profiles, ballot measures, and political office info from Ballotpedia. Powered by spider-browser .

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ballotpedia.org target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

ballotpedia-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://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections,_2026");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const races = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("table.wikitable tbody tr").forEach(el => {
    const state = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const incumbent = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const party = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3)")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (state && incumbent) races.push({ state, incumbent, party });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: races.length, races: races.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from ballotpedia.org with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/ballotpedia.org/

Candidate nameOfficePartyElection dateDistrictIncumbent

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ballotpedia.org/ \
  -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/ballotpedia.org/",
    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/ballotpedia.org/", {
  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