Census Bureau Scraper

Extract population statistics, demographic data, economic surveys, and geographic info from the US Census Bureau. Built on spider-browser .

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

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

census-bureau-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.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045223");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const facts = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("table tbody tr").forEach(el => {
    const label = el.querySelector("th")?.textContent?.trim();
    const value = el.querySelector("td")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (label && value) facts.push({ label, value });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: facts.length, facts: facts.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);

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

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Fetch API

One endpoint for census.gov.

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

POST /fetch/census.gov/

GeographyPopulationMedian incomePoverty rateYearRace/ethnicity

Try it Fetch docs

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/census.gov/ \
  -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/census.gov/",
    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/census.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);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

GeographyPopulationMedian incomePoverty rateYearRace/ethnicityAge groupHousing units

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Start

Start scraping census.gov.

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

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