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Spider read brisbanetimes.com.au in 172 ms without a browser and returned 559 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Coles to move several hundred jobs to India" and "GenAI war continues as Alexa+ upgrades Amazon’s smart home".
##### China relations### China is dominating the EV market. Now it wants to do the same with robotsChina is making a big bet that humanoid robotics will lead a tech revolution. But there are signs of a bubble and growing unease at what the push for AI-powered automation will mean for jobs.##### Pauline Hanson### Like her soulmate Trump, Hanson hasn’t flamed out. We need to understand whyBoth share a teflon coating and staying power that has defied the pundits. Both keep saying the unsayable – and that’s what works.##### Nick Bryant##### Middle East at war### Trouble in ‘Trumpland’ with Hegseth confronted over US missile shortagesTrump is reported to have clashed with his defence secretary over why he had apparently been misled about the extreme depletion of key US missiles.##### AFLW### Among the league’s pioneers, Shannon says her mum’s memory pushes her forwardAs the AFLW enters its 10th year, we break down the inaugural players still active, and what must happen over the next decade to take the game further.##### Healthcare### ‘Snatched’ in Turkey: Gory social media trend fuels surge in cosmetic tourismDoctors are scrambling to build a national database to measure the strain botched overseas surgeries are placing on healthcare.##### BT Quiz### Which suburb has the most bird swooping attacks? Take the Brisbane Times QuizCatch up on local, national and international news with the weekly current affairs tester.##### AI### Mike Cannon-Brookes’ fortune jumps $2.6 billion in just hours“AI is the best thing that has happened to Atlassian,” Cannon-Brookes said after a quarter that eased fears artificial intelligence would eat its business.##### Jobs### Coles to move several hundred jobs to IndiaThe company is outsourcing the jobs to global outsourcing and consulting giant Accenture.##### Analysis### GenAI war continues as Alexa+ upgrades Amazon’s smart homeThe 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 brisbanetimes.com.au.
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://brisbanetimes.com.au");
// 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.brisbanetimes.com.au", {
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 brisbanetimes.com.au costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001715 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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