Acorn Scraper
Spider read acorn.tv in 1.9 s without a browser and returned 74 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Watch world-class TV from Britain and beyond", "Always available, always commercial free" and "Cast".
### Watch world-class TV from Britain and beyond#### Always available, always commercial freeThe Lost Boys: Cormack investigates the link between Ezekiel's missing cousins-#### Cast#### More Episodes###### Series 1: Episode 1](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series1/unfinished-business/)###### Series 1: Episode 2](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series1/predators/)###### Series 1: Episode 3](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series1/ezekiel/)###### Series 1: Episode 4](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series1/the-lost-boys/)###### Series 1: Episode 5](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series1/sugar-sugar/)###### Series 1: Episode 6](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series1/spirits-speak/)###### Series 2: Episode 1](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series2/running/)###### Series 2: Episode 2](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series2/hope/)###### Series 2: Episode 3](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series2/ghost/)###### Series 2: Episode 4](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series2/control/)###### Series 2: Episode 5](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series2/money/)###### Series 2: Episode 6](https://acorn.tv/blacksnow/series2/sapphire/)The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on acorn.tv.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://acorn.tv");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.acorn.tv", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What acorn.tv costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000201 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping acorn.tv.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.