bioRxiv Scraper

Extract biology preprints, abstracts, author data, and submission metadata from bioRxiv open-access preprint server. Built on spider-browser .

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target
biorxiv.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/biorxiv.org/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/biorxiv.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://biorxiv.org/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "paper_title": "string",
    "authors": "string",
    "abstract": "string",
    "subject_area": "string",
    "posted_date": "string",
    "doi": "string",
    "pdf_link": "string",
    "altmetric_score": "string"
  }
}

# bioRxiv Scraper

**Paper title**: string
**Authors**: string
**Abstract**: string
**Subject area**: string
**Posted date**: string
**DOI**: string
**PDF link**: string
**Altmetric score**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from biorxiv.org with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

biorxiv-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://www.biorxiv.org/search/genomics");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const papers = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".search-result, .highwire-cite").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".highwire-cite-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const authors = el.querySelector(".highwire-cite-authors")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector(".highwire-cite-metadata-date")?.textContent?.trim();
    const doi = el.querySelector(".highwire-cite-metadata-doi")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) papers.push({ title, authors, date, doi });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: papers.length, papers: papers.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/biorxiv.org/ \
  -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/biorxiv.org/",
    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/biorxiv.org/", {
  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);