Altmetric Scraper
Spider read altmetric.com in 228 ms without a browser and returned 112 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Altmetric Update: A Year of New Features", "Using Altmetric for Impact Analysis at VU Amsterdam" and "Altmetric & Dimensions Academic User Day 2025".
Exploring the data behind research performance, visibility and academic reputation University rankings attract strong opinions…### The Online Life of Retracted Science: the news cycle, social media and journalistic responsibilitiesRetracted research doesn’t simply disappear once it is withdrawn from the scientific record. In many…### Building institutional impact: Supporting researchers and strengthening the universityWho is this webinar for? Research administrators, knowledge exchange and impact professionals, deans, department chairs,…### Unreliable Science: Unravelling the Impact of Mainstream Media MisrepresentationThis session dives into a project by the University of Turku, funded by the European…### Altmetric Update: A Year of New FeaturesIn this webinar, we highlight major updates introduced over the past year, including new attention…### 12 Months That Changed a Year: New Ways Altmetric Is Helping You Capture the Dissemination of Research OnlineThe Altmetric doughnut has long been a recognisable staple in the research landscape – helping…### Business School Accreditation With Altmetric: BI Norwegian Business SchoolIn this session from our Academic User Day, we were joined by Craig Aaen-Stockdale. Craig…### Using Altmetric for Impact Analysis at VU AmsterdamIn this session from our Academic User Day, we were joined by Matthijs de Zwaan,…### The Research Radar: How Altmetrics Shape Academic StrategyThe final webinar in our Research Impact User Stories series. Altmetrics offer more than just…### Altmetric & Dimensions Academic User Day 2025An exciting, content-rich virtual event where our team highlighted what sets Altmetric and Dimensions apart.…### On Impact and Career Trajectories of Scientists: Using Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, and Administrative Data in ResearchThe 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 altmetric.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://altmetric.com");
// 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.altmetric.com", {
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 altmetric.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000306 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
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Start scraping altmetric.com.
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.