Ballotpedia Scraper
Extract election data, candidate profiles, ballot measures, and political office info from Ballotpedia.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://ballotpedia.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'This exact call produced the response beside it. Get a key →
- Content
- 44 lines 2.0 KB markdown
- Render
- No browser plain request is enough
- Fetch time
- 107 ms one measured fetch
- This fetch cost
- $0.000022 bandwidth plus compute
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That was one page. A key runs the same call across every URL on ballotpedia.org, with browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Sign up and a free balance lands on your account. No card required to test.
- Free balance on signup, no card
- Failed requests cost $0
- robots.txt respected by default
The same call, in code.
The keyless call above returns markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on ballotpedia.org.
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");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What ballotpedia.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000022 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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