Government & Legal

Data.gov Scraper

Extract open government datasets, metadata, agency publishers, and download links from Data.gov catalog. Powered by spider-browser .

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data.gov target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

data-gov-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://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=climate&sort=score+desc%2C+name+asc");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const datasets = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".dataset-item").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".dataset-heading a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const org = el.querySelector(".dataset-organization")?.textContent?.trim();
    const description = el.querySelector(".dataset-notes")?.textContent?.trim();
    const formats = [];
    el.querySelectorAll(".dataset-resources .label").forEach(f => formats.push(f.textContent?.trim()));
    if (title) datasets.push({ title, org, description: description?.slice(0, 200), formats });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: datasets.length, datasets: datasets.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

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

POST /fetch/data.gov/

Dataset titleAgencyDescriptionFormatLast updatedTags

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/data.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/data.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/data.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