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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
POST /fetch/census.gov/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/census.gov/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://census.gov/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "geography": "string",
    "population": "string",
    "median_income": "string",
    "poverty_rate": "string",
    "year": "string",
    "race_ethnicity": "string",
    "age_group": "string",
    "housing_units": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

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();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

GeographyPopulationMedian incomePoverty rateYearRace/ethnicityAge groupHousing units
Data

Public records

Extract filings, regulations, and public data from census.gov.

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 census.gov.

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