SSRN Scraper

Extract social science research papers, download counts, author rankings, and abstract data from SSRN working paper repository. Built on spider-browser .

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target
ssrn.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/ssrn.com/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://ssrn.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "paper_title": "string",
    "authors": "string",
    "abstract": "string",
    "downloads": "string",
    "citations": "string",
    "posted_date": "string",
    "keywords": "string",
    "subject_area": "string"
  }
}

# SSRN Scraper

**Paper title**: string
**Authors**: string
**Abstract**: string
**Downloads**: string
**Citations**: string
**Posted date**: string
**Keywords**: string
**Subject area**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

ssrn-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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/results.cfm?RequestTimeout=50000000&txtKey_Words=fintech");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const papers = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".result-item, .paper-result").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".title a, .result-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const authors = el.querySelector(".authors, .result-authors")?.textContent?.trim();
    const downloads = el.querySelector(".download-count, .result-downloads")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector(".date, .result-date")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) papers.push({ title, authors, downloads, date });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: papers.length, papers: papers.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

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