Archive Scraper
Spider read archive.org in 1.1 s without a browser and returned 136 lines of clean markdown.
WebVTT (Web Video Text Tracks) is a (W3C standard for displaying timed text in connection with the HTML5 <track> element. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebVTTWebM is an audiovisual media file format. It is primarily intended to offer a royalty-free alternative to use in the HTML5 video and the HTML5 audio elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMTheora is a free lossy video compression format. It is is most commonly used in conjunction with the Ogg container format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheoraThe MD5 message-digest algorithm is a cryptographically broken but still widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5The Matroska Multimedia Container is a free and open container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MatroskaThe M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may optionally be protected by DRM copy protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4VQuickTime is a video format that is particularly suited for editing, as it is capable of importing and editing in place (without data copying). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_File_FormatMPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of visual (AV) digital data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4MPEG-2 is a standard for “the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2Low resolution MPEG4 video fileImages of video captured approximated every 30 seconds. They are used in the player scrubberDerived h.264 file intended to create web-friendly version of uploaded source mp4 that does not meet the minimum criteria for optimal use in the online media player.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 archive.org.
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://archive.org");
// 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.archive.org", {
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 archive.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000137 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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