SSA Scraper

Extract Social Security benefit info, COLA adjustments, policy data, and program statistics from SSA.gov. Built on spider-browser .

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

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

ssa-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.ssa.gov/oact/cola/colasummary.html");
await page.content();

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: "h1",
  content: "#content table",
  source: ".footer-note",
  lastUpdated: ".date-modified",
});

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

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Fetch API

One endpoint for ssa.gov.

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

POST /fetch/ssa.gov/

Benefit typeAmountCOLA adjustmentEligibility ageMaximum benefitYear

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cURL

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

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ssa.gov/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ssa.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);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Benefit typeAmountCOLA adjustmentEligibility ageMaximum benefitYearProgramCategory

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Start

Start scraping ssa.gov.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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