BU Homepage Article Scraper
Spider read bu.edu in 177 ms without a browser and returned 46 lines of clean markdown.
### NSF Awards Boston University $20 Million to Help Create National “Cloud Lab” NetworkAutomated, AI-driven labs can remotely run experiments for researchers across the countryBU Alum Julian Shapiro-Barnum Takes Late-Night Outdoors ](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/alum-julian-shapiro-barnum-brings-late-night-outdoors/)Student Creates AI-Powered Tool to Analyze Classroom Space Usage on Charles River Campus ](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/student-ai-powered-tool-help-analyze-classroom-space-usage/)New financial aid program covers tuition for families earning less than $200,000 ](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/new-financial-aid-program-covers-tuition-for-certain-families/)Check out our BU Today Featured EventsGallery: Peri Schwartz (CFA’73) ](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/gallery-peri-schwartz/)BU PhD Student Highlights Overlooked Revolutionary War Voices Through Internship at the Boston Athenaeum ](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/internship-boston-athenaeum-marykate-smolenski-revolutionary-war/)Can AI Make Classrooms More Joyful? BU Computer Scientist Michael Chang Says Yes. ](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/can-ai-make-classrooms-more-joyful/)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 bu.edu.
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.bu.edu");
// 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.bu.edu");
const data = await page.extractFields({
loading_icon: "div#loadingIcon div.lds-css div.lds-eclipse",
search_button: "button[type="submit"]",
search_form: "form#quicksearch",
search_input: "input#q",
search_overlay: "div.r-editorial-component-search-overlay",
});
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 bu.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000232 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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Start scraping bu.edu.
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.