Blackboard Scraper
Spider read blackboard.com in 127 ms without a browser and returned 101 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Where great teaching finds its platform" and "Questions, answered".
# Where great teaching finds its platform.Blackboard has always been about one thing: helping educators do what they do best. Since 1997, that has meant building the infrastructure that makes teaching and learning possible, online and in person, at scale. Today, we are sharing what that evolution looks like next.Protecting Your Institution and Students: Privacy, Security & Compliance in Higher EdThe landscape has shifted. States are passing AI legislation. Data sovereignty debates are intensifying. Cyber threats to educational institutions are top of mind. Your students, faculty, and community expect their data to be protected no matter what.A conversation with Jo Packer, VP of DesignUsability starts with U: How your feedback directly informs Blackboard LMS developmentUsability in learning technology is often presented with a wide range of synonymous terms, acronyms, and metrics. With so many different measures and expressions of data, it can be difficult to cut through the noise and identify what really matters for users’ daily learning experience.## Questions, answered.Blackboard is an education technology company. It builds Blackboard LMS and connected products for accessibility (Ally), course evaluation (Evaluate), and institutional effectiveness — the digital environment for transformational teaching and learning.What products does Blackboard offer?Blackboard LMS is the core platform, with add-ons including AVA, Video Studio, Adopt, Milestone, and Catalog. This is complemented by Blackboard Ally for accessibility, Blackboard Evaluate for course feedback, Blackboard Illuminate for analytics, and the Institutional Effectiveness suite for accreditation, planning, and program review.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 blackboard.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://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/learning-management");
// 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!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/learning-management");
const data = await page.extractFields({
title: "h1.page-title",
subtitle: ".page-subtitle",
features: ".feature-card h3",
descriptions: ".feature-card p",
stats: ".stat-value",
links: ".resource-link a",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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 blackboard.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001031 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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