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cancer.gov · HTTP 200

Cancer Scraper

Spider read cancer.gov in 205 ms without a browser and returned 89 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "NCI Welcomes Dr. Anthony Letai as NCI Director", "NCI FY27 Annual Plan & Professional Judgment Budget" and "Get Answers".

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Response cancer.gov/index.md markdown · 89 lines
## Featured News and ResearchFunctional Precision Medicine: Cancer’s Next FrontierNCI’s Director looks at the future of testing drugs directly on tumors.](https://cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2026/director-letai-functional-precision-medicine-workshop)The Director’s Take on Animal Models in GrantsGet the key details for applications proposing research with animal models.](https://cancer.gov/grants-training/nci-bottom-line-blog/2026/guidance-animal-models)Decades of NCI Support Behind Checkpoint InhibitorsDecades of NCI-funded research paved the way for checkpoint inhibitor drugs that have transformed cancer treatment for many patients.](https://cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2026/nci-role-checkpoint-inhibitors)## NCI Welcomes Dr. Anthony Letai as NCI DirectorLearn more about Anthony Letai, M.D., Ph.D., the 18th director of the National Cancer Institute. A physician-scientist and pioneer in precision oncology, he brings a vision of progress, collaboration, and hope for all touched by cancer.## NCI FY27 Annual Plan & Professional Judgment BudgetEach year, NCI prepares a plan for advancing cancer research and proposes the budget required to fund a broad research portfolio.## Get AnswersConnect with a cancer information specialist at 1-800-4-CANCER, through live chat, or by email.## Our OrganizationInformation about NCI senior leadership.](https://cancer.gov/about-nci/leadership)NCI Divisions, Offices, and CentersNCI has 30 divisions, offices, and centers who work together to build, maintain, and enhance a cohesive and comprehensive cancer research agenda.](https://cancer.gov/about-nci/organization)Advisory Boards and Review GroupsNCI relies on advisory committees to provide advice on the National Cancer Program, NCI scientific priorities, and more.](https://cancer.gov/about-nci/advisory-boards)The Power of Improved Data Sharing - Childhood Cancer Data Initiative
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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 cancer.gov.

cancer-gov-scraper.ts
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://cancer.gov");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

TitleDepartmentDateDescriptionDocument URL

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 cancer.gov costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000083 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://cancer.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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