OpenSecrets Scraper
Spider read opensecrets.org in 135 ms without a browser and returned 439 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Counting Cash to Make Change".
## Counting Cash to Make ChangeDonate to OpenSecrets to help strengthen our democracyMembers of Congress See which industries and organizations are supporting your elected representatives in the House and Senate.Congressional Committees See connections between committee members, industries, and interests that they regulate.Presidential Administrations Explore data connected to appointees and other administrators.Personal Finances Searchable database of officials' personal financial reports.Governors Search donors to governors and discover which industries and special interest groups are supporting state leaders.State Legislatures Follow the money to state legislators in all 50 states.Judicial Officeholders Discover the industries and organizations that donated to judicial officeholders in the 38 states that elect judges.Other Statewide Officeholders See who else industries and special interests have supported with political dollars, from attorneys general to public utility commissioners.Search for a state or federal candidate to see the donors and industries that support them.Election Overview Explore the big picture and see statistics at a glance.Get Local! Tool Discover donors in your state.Presidential Elections Learn about the hundreds of millions of dollars raised and spent by presidential candidates.Congressional Elections Follow the big donors and spenders seeking to influence U.S. House and Senate races.Ballot Measures Ballot measures allow voters to vote directly on a law or policy change. Explore the ballot measures attracting the most spending and their donors.Outside Spending Dig into data on outside spending by party committees, super PACs and "dark money" groups.Campaign Expenditures Search campaign expenditures to explore how candidates and political groups are spending donor money.Political Ads Follow the money behind the political ads that flood your social media feed.The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on opensecrets.org.
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.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-races");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-races");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const races = [];
document.querySelectorAll("table tbody tr").forEach(el => {
const race = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1) a")?.textContent?.trim();
const raised = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
const spent = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3)")?.textContent?.trim();
if (race) races.push({ race, raised, spent });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: races.length, races: races.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What opensecrets.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001707 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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