NIH Scraper

Extract research publications, health topics, clinical guidelines, and funding data from the National Institutes of Health. Built on spider-browser .

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

POST /fetch/nih.gov/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://nih.gov/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "topic_title": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "related_conditions": "string",
    "research_links": "string",
    "institute": "string",
    "last_reviewed": "string"
  }
}

# NIH Scraper

**Topic title**: string
**Description**: string
**Related conditions**: string
**Research links**: string
**Institute**: string
**Last reviewed**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

nih-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.nih.gov/health-information");

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const topics = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".health-topic-card, .teaser").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h2, h3, a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const summary = el.querySelector("p")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("a")?.href;
    if (title) topics.push({ title, summary, link });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: topics.length, topics: topics.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

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