Caltech Social Media Highlights Scraper
Spider read caltech.edu in 130 ms without a browser and returned 447 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Caltech Homepage" and "Life at Caltech".
# Caltech HomepageBig Questions and Breakthrough Science: Top Takeaways from the 2025–26 Watson Lecture Season at CaltechThe 2025–26 season drew thousands of guests to Beckman Auditorium to hear directly from the scientists and engineers whose bold questions will become tomorrow's world-changing discoveries and innovations.Seeking Water in the Central ValleyThis spring, students in the Visual Culture and the California Environment course took a field trip to immerse themselves in the landscapes they had been studying.## Research ImpactNobel laureate David Baltimore developed a system for classifying viruses based on their genetic materialWearable sensing technologies could transform the practice of medicineCaltech is the preeminent source for earthquake information around the worldMany local startups have Caltech tiesmore discoveries, advances, and technologiesFrom Earth to the Cosmos: A Musical Voyage Through Space and SoundMoveable Feast: Gronk in Conversation with Paul HoldengräberAIM Public Lecture Series: Terence Tao## Life at CaltechNASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars HelicoptersThe hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of planetary rotorcraft to use ground-penetrating radar to study the Martian subsurface.August 6, 2026 New Quantum Microscopy Trick Quadruples Microscope ResolutionAugust 6, 2026 Building Better Prediction Models for Consumer ChoicesJuly 30, 2026 Knowledge Gatherer: Portrait of a Scientist's Wife in Victorian EnglandJuly 29, 2026 Ancient Stardust Were Seeds for the Earliest Solids in the Solar SystemRichard N. Merkin Institute for Translational ResearchTianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at CaltechResnick Sustainability InstituteThe Kavli Nanoscience InstituteDonna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering CenterCenter for Autonomous Systems and TechnologiesLaser Interferometer Gravitational-wave ObservatoryInstitute for Quantum Information and MatterThe 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 caltech.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.caltech.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.caltech.edu");
const data = await page.extractFields({
commitment_text: "div.airspace-rich-text",
commitment_text_center: "center",
commitment_text_data_block_key: "center",
main_content: "main",
});
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 caltech.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00065 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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