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".
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/) 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.
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(); import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.behindthename.com", {
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 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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