ProPublica Scraper

Extract investigative journalism, data-driven reports, and public accountability stories from ProPublica newsroom. Built on spider-browser .

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target
propublica.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/propublica.org/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://propublica.org/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "headline": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "published_date": "string",
    "series": "string",
    "article_body": "string",
    "data_tables": "string",
    "image_url": "string",
    "tags": "string"
  }
}

# ProPublica Scraper

**Headline**: string
**Author**: string
**Published date**: string
**Series**: string
**Article body**: string
**Data tables**: string
**Image URL**: string
**Tags**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

propublica-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

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

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.propublica.org/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article, .river-item").forEach(el => {
    const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .hed a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .hed a")?.href;
    const dek = el.querySelector(".dek")?.textContent?.trim();
    const series = el.querySelector(".series-label")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, dek, series });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

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