Atlas Obscura Scraper
Extract unusual travel destinations, hidden gems, and curated experiences from Atlas Obscura discovery platform.
- target
- atlasobscura.com
- success rate
- 99.9%
- latency
- ~4ms
/fetch/atlasobscura.com/ curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/atlasobscura.com/ \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{}'
{
"url": "https://atlasobscura.com/",
"status": 200,
"data": {
"place_name": "string",
"location": "string",
"description": "string",
"category": "string",
"coordinates": "string",
"added_by": "string",
"visit_count": "string"
}
} # Atlas Obscura Scraper
**Place name**: string
**Location**: string
**Description**: string
**Category**: string
**Coordinates**: string
**Added by**: string
**Visit count**: string Extract data in minutes.
Structured JSON from atlasobscura.com with a single POST. Call it with no selectors and the model names the fields, or pass your own CSS to skip the AI.
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://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/japan");
// 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://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/japan");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const places = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".index-card").forEach(el => {
const name = el.querySelector(".index-card-title")?.textContent?.trim();
const location = el.querySelector(".index-card-location")?.textContent?.trim();
const description = el.querySelector(".index-card-description")?.textContent?.trim();
const category = el.querySelector(".index-card-category")?.textContent?.trim();
if (name) places.push({ name, location, description, category });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: places.length, places: places.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close(); curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/atlasobscura.com/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}' import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/atlasobscura.com/",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={},
)
print(resp.json()) const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/atlasobscura.com/", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data); Fields you can pull.
Dynamic rate capture
Session-aware scraping captures pricing on atlasobscura.com that changes per visitor.
Complex SPA handling
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Start scraping atlasobscura.com.
Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.