Archiveofourown Scraper
Spider read archiveofourown.org in 413 ms without a browser and returned 35 lines of clean markdown, including the section "With an AO3 account, you can".
## A non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative fanworks; created by and for fans of books, music, art, games, shows, movies, real-person fiction (RPF), and other fandoms.The Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works.#### With an AO3 account, you can:* Get notified when your favorite works, series, or users update* Keep track of works you've visited and works you want to check out laterYou can join by getting an invitation from our automated invite queue. All fans and fanworks are welcome!> In late July, Policy & Abuse (PAC) coordinated with Accessibility, Design & Technology and Systems to increase AO3 account security measures against logins with insecure passwords in response to an active phishing comment scam targeting thousands of users. PAC also worked with Communications and Support to publish several social media posts to help users secure their accounts and keep them informed.> Are you detail-oriented and passionate about supporting meaningful work behind the scenes? Do you have an interest in preserving fannish history, wiki editing, or writing help documentation? Do you know your way around the platforms where fan studies conversations happen? Are you a senior PhD student (ABD) or an early career scholar? Would you like to help your fellow fans use AO3? Are you fluent in Spanish? Do you have experience with mediation, arbitration, or conflict resolution? Are you good at administrative tasks and working with people? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting!> The election season is in full swing! As part of the election season, we have a chat with our candidates coming up soon. You can also find links to the candidates' answers to your questions at the bottom of this post.### Follow usFollow AO3 on Bluesky or Tumblr for status updates, and don't forget to check out the Organization for Transformative Works' news outlets for updates on our other projects!* @status.archiveofourown.org on BlueskyThe 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 archiveofourown.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://archiveofourown.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.archiveofourown.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 archiveofourown.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000051 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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