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behindthename.com · HTTP 200

Behindthename Scraper

Spider read behindthename.com in 218 ms without a browser and returned 79 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Name of the Day", "Popular Names" and "Popular Features".

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Response behindthename.com/index.md markdown · 79 lines
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# Name of the DayEnglish form of Latin *Lucas*, from the Greek name *Λουκᾶς (Loukas)*, probably a shortened form of *Λουκανός (Loukanos)* meaning "from Lucania", Lucania being a region in southern Italy. Alternatively, it could be derived from the Latin name Lucius.# Popular Names## Popular FeaturesMessage Boards](https://behindthename.com/bb/)Random Namer](https://behindthename.com/random/)Popularity](https://behindthename.com/top/)Surnames](https://surnames.behindthename.com/)
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The 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 behindthename.com.

behindthename-com-scraper.ts
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://behindthename.com");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

Business NameAddressPhoneCategory

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 behindthename.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000042 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://behindthename.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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