Boston Scraper
Spider read boston.com in 190 ms without a browser and returned 547 lines of clean markdown.
Things to Do Events ## 10 free things to do in Boston in August Saturday, Aug. 1 – Monday, Aug. 31FROG POND ## Boston Common Frog Pond opens for 2026 season Wednesday, July 1 – Monday, Sept. 7Events ## 2026 Fenway Park concerts: All the artists playing shows this summer Monday, June 22 – Saturday, Aug. 15Events ## Tanglewood adds Hugh Jackman, Brandi Carlile, John Fogerty, Steve Winwood to summer lineup Sunday, June 21 – Sunday, Sept. 6CONCERTS ## 12 must-see concerts at Boston’s smaller venues for summer 2026 Thursday, June 4 – Monday, Aug. 31CONCERTS ## 15 must-see concerts at Boston’s top venues for summer 2026 Monday, June 1 – Monday, Aug. 31Neighborhoods ### Skeletal remains found in South Boston home turn out to be animal bones, police say* Local News #### Phish brought near-record crowds to this Fenway dispensary — but not a product shortage* Animals #### Myrtle the sea turtle weighs nearly 500 pounds. What does it take to keep her healthy?* Bars #### Hennessy’s in downtown Boston has closed, plans to transfer liquor license to new Seaport restaurant5 takeaways as Red Sox overcome 5 deficits to outlast White SoxLindsay Clancy murder trial livestream video: Thursday, August 6A beloved Cape Cod restaurant is closing after 21 yearsPatriots Stock Watch 1.0: Who is rising, falling on depth chart?Cape Cod homeowner sues, says bank should not have given him mortgage for $5.5 million mansion at risk of collapseDan Shaughnessy: Watching the 2026 Red Sox has been quite the trip ](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/07/sports/dan-shaughnessy-red-sox/?s_campaign=bdc:globewell:trending)Relentless Red Sox continue to make this season special ](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/07/sports/red-sox-white-sox-analysis/?s_campaign=bdc:globewell:trending)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 boston.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://boston.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.boston.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 boston.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000576 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping boston.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.