Al Jazeera Scraper
Spider read aljazeera.com in 279 ms without a browser and returned 167 lines of clean markdown.
A single mother from Bandar Abbas reflects on the fear and resilience of living through repeated attacks.### Demolition complicates the search for bodies after Venezuela’s earthquakesVenezuela has begun tearing down unstable buildings after its deadly earthquakes. But what is the cost to survivors?### As Spain grieves, recurrent heatwaves stir fears of further wildfiresAfter more than a dozen people died in recent forest fires, residents and experts try to prevent further tragedies.### ‘I wanted to hug whatever remained’: Gaza families’ 3-year wait for funeralThousands gather for mass funeral of 112 members of Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families killed in 2023 Israeli attack.### Reform UK plan to return asylum seekers using navy ‘dangerous in practice’Nigel Farage’s party says ‘Operation Fortress’ would stop migrants ‘invading’, but experts slam proposal as unrealistic.A family visits the Meroe pyramids at the Meroe archaeological site in Bejrawiya, Sudan. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]Pyramids at Meroe rise from the desert about 200km (125 miles) north of Khartoum in Sudan’s River Nile state. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]Archaeologists say salt crystallisation and halted maintenance threaten to erase centuries-old artwork at Meroe, like this carved relief inside a funerary temple. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]A guide, left, speaks with a visitor at the Meroe archaeological site. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]The Meroe necropolis contains more than 200 pyramids, built as tombs for the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]Meroe’s pyramids were constructed from about 800 BC to 350 AD, centuries after the great pyramids of Egypt. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]Unlike the broad-based Egyptian pyramids, the pyramids of Meroe are smaller, steeper and more numerous. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo] 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 aljazeera.com.
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://www.aljazeera.com/news/");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close(); import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.aljazeera.com/news/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article.gc").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h3.gc__title a, .gc__title span")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("a.u-clickable-card__link")?.href;
const excerpt = el.querySelector(".gc__excerpt p")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector(".date-simple")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, excerpt, date });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close(); 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 aljazeera.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000717 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.
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