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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "data-gov-au",
    capability: "open-data/get_dataset",
    options: {
      id: "au-govt-abs-abs-regional-population-age-sex-lga-2020-lga2020",
    },
  },
});

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  "author": null,
  "extras": [
    {
      "key": "harvest_object_id",
      "value": "dcf73307-09d9-4c67-a3d1-75c7c9debab6"
    },
    {
      "key": "harvest_source_id",
      "value": "3b753826-54f7-43e3-8246-4b09aaee723f"
    },
    {
      "key": "harvest_source_title",
      "value": "Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network"
    }
  ],
  "formats": [
    "HTML"
  ],
  "groups": [],
  "harvest_source": {
    "href": "https://data.aurin.org.au/dataset/au-govt-abs-abs-regional-population-age-sex-lga-2020-lga2020",
    "site_url": "https://data.aurin.org.au/",
    "title": "Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network"
  },
  "id": "f9d4eef3-3b27-487c-a6f3-997587140fc2",
  "isopen": false,
  "jsonld_url": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f9d4eef3-3b27-487c-a6f3-997587140fc2.jsonld",
  "language": null,
  "license_id": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "license_title": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "license_url": null,
  "metadata_created": "2025-07-31T20:43:52.193117",
  "metadata_modified": "2025-07-31T20:43:56.257205",
  "name": "au-govt-abs-abs-regional-population-age-sex-lga-2020-lga2020",
  "notes": "This dataset presents the preliminary estimates of the resident population by age and sex as at 30 June 2020. The data is aggregated to the 2020 edition of the Local Government Areas (LGA).\nThis data is ABS data available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.\nFor more information please refer to the Methodology.\nEstimated resident population (ERP) is the official estimate of the Australian population, which links people to a place of usual residence within Australia. Usual residence within Australia refers to that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for six months or more in a given reference year. For the 30 June reference date, this refers to the calendar year around it. Estimates of the resident population are based on Census counts by place of usual residence (excluding short-term overseas visitors in Australia), with an allowance for Census net undercount, to which are added the estimated number of Australian residents temporarily overseas at the time of the Census. A person is regarded as a usual resident if they have been (or expected to be) residing in Australia for a period of 12 months or more over a 16-month period.",
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  "organization": {
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    "name": "government-of-the-commonwealth-of-australia-australian-bureau-of-statistics-australian-urban-researc",
    "title": "Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Bureau of Statistics"
  },
  "original_name": "au-govt-abs-abs-regional-population-age-sex-lga-2020-lga2020",
  "private": false,
  "publisher_url": "https://adp.aurin.org.au/geoserver/wfs",
  "resources": [
    {
      "created": "2025-03-06T03:00:35.756564",
      "datastore_active": false,
      "description": "Download this dataset via the AURIN Download Manager",
      "format": "HTML",
      "id": "b10dc8bf-140e-4d0e-a2e0-42b979521078",
      "last_modified": null,
      "metadata_modified": "2025-07-31T20:43:56.284847",
      "mimetype": null,
      "name": "AURIN Download Manager",
      "package_id": "f9d4eef3-3b27-487c-a6f3-997587140fc2",
      "page_url": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f9d4eef3-3b27-487c-a6f3-997587140fc2/resource/b10dc8bf-140e-4d0e-a2e0-42b979521078",
      "position": 0,
      "size": null,
      "url": "https://adp-access.aurin.org.au/public/download/?uri=https://adp-gatekeeper.prod.aurin-prod.cloud.edu.au/geoserver/wfs?request=GetFeature&typename=datasource-AU_Govt_ABS-UoM_AURIN_DB_3:abs_regional_population_age_sex_lga_2020",
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    }
  ],
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  "state": "active",
  "tags": [
    "HUMAN SOCIETY",
    "Human geography",
    "Population geography"
  ],
  "temporal_coverage_from": "2025-03-06 03:00:35.066507",
  "temporal_coverage_to": null,
  "title": "ABS - Regional Population - Population Estimates by Age and Sex (LGA) 2020",
  "type": "dataset",
  "url": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/au-govt-abs-abs-regional-population-age-sex-lga-2020-lga2020",
  "version": null
}

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