LexisNexis Scraper

Extract legal research results, case citations, statutory references, and news articles from LexisNexis. Built on spider-browser .

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target
lexisnexis.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/lexisnexis.com/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://lexisnexis.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "document_title": "string",
    "source": "string",
    "citation": "string",
    "date": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "practice_area": "string",
    "jurisdiction": "string",
    "summary": "string"
  }
}

# LexisNexis Scraper

**Document title**: string
**Source**: string
**Citation**: string
**Date**: string
**Author**: string
**Practice area**: string
**Jurisdiction**: string
**Summary**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

lexisnexis-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
  captcha: "solve",
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/practice-areas.page");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const areas = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".practice-area-card").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector(".card-title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const description = el.querySelector(".card-description")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("a")?.getAttribute("href");
    if (name) areas.push({ name, description: description?.slice(0, 200), link });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: areas.length, areas: areas.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/lexisnexis.com/ \
  -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/lexisnexis.com/",
    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/lexisnexis.com/", {
  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);