Calmatters Scraper
Spider read calmatters.org in 518 ms without a browser and returned 244 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Why California backed off again from ambitious AI regulation", "INSIDE THE NEWSROOM" and "Nonpartisan, independent California news for all".
### Internal documents reveal the story behind California’s unemployment crash##### Tech Spotlight#### Why California backed off again from ambitious AI regulationFor the third year, the state delayed AI regulations for disclosing and appealing many automated decisions.### INSIDE THE NEWSROOMWhat goes into our reporting on California’s biggest issues – how investigative stories come together, what challenges journalists face, CalMatters’ latest plans and more.## Watch: CalMatters’ 2nd Ideas Festival gathers elected leaders, community members, students, educators and more## CalMatters journalism honored as ‘impeccable,’ ‘beautifully-written’ and ‘the definition of public service’ in Golden State Journalism Awards## **Nonpartisan, independent California news for all**We’re CalMatters, your nonprofit and nonpartisan news guide.Our journalists are here to empower you and our mission continues to be essential.* **We are independent and nonpartisan.** Our trustworthy journalism is free from partisan politics, free from corporate influence and actually free for all Californians.* **We are focused on California issues.** From the environment to homelessness, economy and more, we publish the unfettered truth to keep you informed.* **We hold people in power accountable.** We probe and reveal the actions and inactions of powerful people and institutions, and the consequences that follow.But we can’t keep doing this without support from readers like you. Please give what you can today.### POLITICS## Tech billionaires hire Democratic dealmakers in renewed push to build a Bay Area cityby Kate Wolffe and Yue Stella Yu## California Republicans tried to cut him off. Then he beat them from the right## California Democrats defy Newsom, back billionaire taxby Maya C. Miller and Jeanne Kuang## Controversial swan hunt appears to work: California’s mute swan population dropsThe 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 calmatters.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://calmatters.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.calmatters.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 calmatters.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000486 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
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Start scraping calmatters.org.
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.