Baseball Reference Scraper

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://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-standard-batting.shtml");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const players = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("#players_standard_batting tbody tr:not(.thead)").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='player'] a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const team = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='team_ID'] a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const avg = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='batting_avg']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const hr = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='HR']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rbi = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='RBI']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const war = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='WAR']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) players.push({ name, team, avg, hr, rbi, war });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: players.length, players: players.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/baseball-reference.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/baseball-reference.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/baseball-reference.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);