Archive Scraper
Spider read archive.ph in 1.1 s without a browser and returned 22 lines of clean markdown.
archive.today webpage captureMy url is alive and I want to archive its content**Archive.today** is a time capsule for web pages!It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracyand provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web pageincluding those from Web 2.0 sites:* https://archive.ph/2020.04.21/rt.live/* https://archive.ph/2014.06.26/google.com/maps/…This can be useful if you want to take a 'snapshot' of a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post, ...Saved pages will have no active elements and no scripts, so they keep you safe as they cannot have any popups or malware!I want to search the archive for saved snapshots* microsoft.comfor snapshots from the host microsoft.com* *.microsoft.comfor snapshots from microsoft.com and all its subdomains (e.g. www.microsoft.com)* http://twitter.com/burgerkingfor snapshots from exact url (search is case-sensitive)* http://twitter.com/burg*for snapshots from urls starting with http://twitter.com/burgThe 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.ph.
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.ph");
// 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.ph", {
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.ph costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000041 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 archive.ph.
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.