CDC Scraper

Extract disease surveillance data, vaccination schedules, outbreak alerts, and public health guidelines from the CDC. Built on spider-browser .

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target
cdc.gov: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/cdc.gov/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/cdc.gov/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://cdc.gov/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "topic": "string",
    "key_facts": "string",
    "prevention": "string",
    "symptoms": "string",
    "statistics": "string",
    "guidelines": "string",
    "last_reviewed": "string"
  }
}

# CDC Scraper

**Topic**: string
**Key facts**: string
**Prevention**: string
**Symptoms**: string
**Statistics**: string
**Guidelines**: string
**Last reviewed**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

cdc-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://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/index.html");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: "h1",
  keyFacts: ".card-body ul",
  prevention: "[data-defined='prevention'] .content",
  symptoms: "[data-defined='symptoms'] .content",
  statistics: ".data-visualization-container",
  lastReviewed: ".last-reviewed",
});

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/cdc.gov/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/cdc.gov/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/cdc.gov/", {
  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);