The USDA Rural Development lender directory at rd.usda.gov/resources/lenders lists hundreds of approved mortgage lenders across the United States, each with a company name and a direct website link. For developers building fintech tools, mortgage research pipelines, or lender qualification workflows, that data is genuinely useful. The problem is that it sits in an HTML table with no public API and no bulk export option. This guide walks through how to extract that lender data