National Weather Service Scraper

Extract zone forecasts, hazardous weather outlooks, watch and warning bulletins, and observation station data from the NWS. Built on spider-browser .

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target
weather.gov/nws: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/weather.gov/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://weather.gov/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "zone_forecast": "string",
    "hazard_outlook": "string",
    "watches": "string",
    "warnings": "string",
    "observations": "string",
    "discussion": "string",
    "updated_time": "string"
  }
}

# National Weather Service Scraper

**Zone forecast**: string
**Hazard outlook**: string
**Watches**: string
**Warnings**: string
**Observations**: string
**Discussion**: string
**Updated time**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

nws-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.weather.gov/okx/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const alerts = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".alert-item, .warning-item").forEach(el => {
    const type = el.querySelector(".alert-type, h3")?.textContent?.trim();
    const summary = el.querySelector(".alert-summary, p")?.textContent?.trim();
    const expires = el.querySelector(".alert-expires, .expiration")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (type) alerts.push({ type, summary, expires });
  });
  const forecast = document.querySelector("#detailed-forecast, .forecast-discussion")?.textContent?.trim();
  return JSON.stringify({ alerts, forecast: forecast?.substring(0, 500) });
})()`);

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/weather.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/weather.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/weather.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);