Ars Technica Scraper
Spider read arstechnica.com in 158 ms without a browser and returned 507 lines of clean markdown.
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on arstechnica.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://arstechnica.com/ai/");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://arstechnica.com/ai/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, .article").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.href;
const excerpt = el.querySelector(".excerpt")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = el.querySelector("[itemprop='name'], .byline a")?.textContent?.trim();
const comments = el.querySelector(".comment-count")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, excerpt, author, comments });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 arstechnica.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000557 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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