Brainpickings Scraper
Spider read brainpickings.org in 136 ms without a browser and returned 276 lines of clean markdown.
> Where your thoughts never think to wander,> This beginning has been quietly forming,> Waiting until you were ready to emerge.> For a long time it has watched your desire,> Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,> Noticing how you willed yourself on,> Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.> It watched you play with the seduction of safety> And the gray promises that sameness whispered,> Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,> Wondered would you always live like this.> Then the delight, when your courage kindled,> And out you stepped onto new ground,> Your eyes young again with energy and dream,> A path of plenitude opening before you.> Though your destination is not yet clear> You can trust the promise of this opening;> Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning> That is at one with your life’s desire.> Awaken your spirit to adventure;> Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;> Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,> For your soul senses the world that awaits you.Art by Sophie Blackall from *Things to Look Forward to* — an illustrated celebration of living with presence in uncertain times.Sometimes — in fact, often — beginnings are tucked into endings. In consonance with his philosopher-poet friend David Whyte’s poignant reflection on ending love and beginning love, O’Donohue writes:> Often when something is ending we discover within it the spore of new beginning, and a whole new train of possibility is in motion before we even realize it. When the heart is ready for a fresh beginning, unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this is exactly what a beginning does. It is an opening for surprises. Surrounding the intention and the act of beginning, there are always exciting possibilities.Paying attention to those portals of possibility is both an act of self-respect and a reverence of life: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 brainpickings.org.
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://brainpickings.org");
// 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.brainpickings.org", {
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 brainpickings.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000257 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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