Amherst Scraper
Spider read amherst.edu in 189 ms without a browser and returned 88 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Development Economics" and "Celebrating 50 Years of Coeducation".
Link to textual description of videoScience & Math course in Economics### Development EconomicsStudents will examine economic issues pertinent to developing countries, such as economic growth, structural change, education, health, migration, gender, institutions, aid, and industrial policy.You’re curious about people, places, and everything else.Our students lead with an inquisitive nature, exploring and embracing the unknown.You pull things apart to find your own answers.Amherst students start by knowing something. Then they brainstorm, make new connections, and put everything back together in surprising ways.You care about the world and about each other.Mammoths are a supportive bunch, whether forging a path or working together toward the greater good.Katharine Sims, Environmental Studies and EconomicsKatharine Sims, James T. Bartlett '59 Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, published a paper in *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*.Nicholas Horton, Statistics and Data ScienceNicholas J. Horton, Beitzel Professor of Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science), has been elected president of the American Statistical Association.Sean Foster, Physics and AstronomySean Foster, visiting assistant professor of physics, is a co-recipient of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.Edmund Phelps ’55: He Wanted to Make Capitalism Work BetterClosing the Loop: How Amherst College Is Reducing Waste Through Move-Out & Move-In Reuse and Bicycle Repair## Celebrating 50 Years of CoeducationBeginning in 2026 and extending through 2027, we are celebrating one of our most meaningful milestones: the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Amherst. We’re marking five decades of the contributions of women students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We will honor the trailblazers who pushed coeducation forward, and the subsequent generations of women who added new chapters to the story of Amherst.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 amherst.edu.
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://amherst.edu");
// 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.amherst.edu", {
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 amherst.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000139 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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