Scrape justice.gov

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 97.2%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 57.6% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 9.8s.

Among the 11 public data sites in the Cookbook, justice.gov sits at 6 of 11 by success rate; the category median is 97.2%. Its median answer of 9.8s is slower than the category median of 2.3s. 5 of the 11 accept the plain token; this one does on some pages only.

The call

The most common shape of URL the accounts fetch, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real one from the site.

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2F"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.justice.gov/')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.justice.gov/');

Parameters that matter

Fields you get

Fields depend on the page type. Product pages usually carry an ld+json block with name, price, currency and availability, and article pages a headline and body; check the first response you get.

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

Run it on a schedule

The median answer on this site is 9.8s. Push a URL list to the Crawler with a callback for anything larger than a few thousand pages a day; it paces the calls and retries what the site refuses.

Questions