Scrape data pages on stlouisfed.org

About stlouisfed.org

stlouisfed.org describes itself as “The St. Louis Fed is among 12 regional Reserve banks in the Fed System, the nation’s central bank. The Fed sets monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates; promotes financial system stability; supervises and regulates financial institutions; f…”.

Its sitemaps list 4,901 URLs across 1 file. 114 of the 4,901 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 4 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt names 1 sitemap and disallows 3 paths.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 96.5%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.0% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 2.1s.

Among the 13 finance sites in the Cookbook, stlouisfed.org ranks 11 of 13 by success rate; the category median is 99.1%. Its median answer of 2.1s sits at the category median of 2.1s. 9 of the 13 accept the plain token, this one among them.

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.stlouisfed.org%2Fdata%2Fexample-page"

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

r = api.get('https://www.stlouisfed.org/data/example-page')
html = r['body']

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

const r = await api.get('https://www.stlouisfed.org/data/example-page');

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on stlouisfed.org, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

• Home: GovernmentOrganization
• Detail page: NewsArticle
• Other: BlogPosting

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 2.1s. 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

Other pages on stlouisfed.org

Pages stlouisfed.org lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.