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FEC Scraper

Extract campaign finance reports, candidate filings, PAC contributions, and disbursements from the FEC. Built on spider-browser .

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target
fec.gov
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/fec.gov/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/fec.gov/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://fec.gov/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "candidate_name": "string",
    "party": "string",
    "total_receipts": "string",
    "total_disbursements": "string",
    "cash_on_hand": "string",
    "debts": "string",
    "filing_date": "string",
    "committee_id": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

fec-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.fec.gov/data/candidates/senate/?is_active_candidate=true");
await page.content();

const data = await page.extractFields({
  name: "table tbody tr td:first-child a",
  party: "table tbody tr td:nth-child(2)",
  state: "table tbody tr td:nth-child(3)",
  receipts: "table tbody tr td:nth-child(5)",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Candidate namePartyTotal receiptsTotal disbursementsCash on handDebtsFiling dateCommittee ID
Data

Public records

Extract filings, regulations, and public data from fec.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.

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Start

Start scraping fec.gov.

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