Carleton Scraper
Spider read carleton.edu in 780 ms without a browser and returned 140 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Liberal Arts Requirements" and "Other Course Tags".
## Search for CoursesAsian Languages & Literatures (ASLN)Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS)Cross-Cultural Studies (CCST)Digital Arts and Humanities (DGAH)Environmental Studies (ENTS)French and Francophone Studies (FREN)Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS)Interdisciplinary Studies (IDSC)Latin American Studies (LTAM)Middle Eastern Languages (MELA)Physical Education, Athletics/Recreation (PE)Sociology/Anthropology (SOAN)* Search Titles & Descriptions:Begin typing to look up faculty/instructor### Liberal Arts RequirementsYou must take 6 credits of each of these.Argument & Inquiry Seminar / Writing Rich1Formal or Statistical ReasoningLiterary / Artistic AnalysisIntercultural Domestic Studies### Other Course TagsAcademic Civic Engagement: AppliedAcademic Civic Engagement: TheoreticalOptions](https://www.carleton.edu/catalog/search/)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 carleton.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://carleton.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 { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.carleton.edu", {
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 carleton.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000024 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 carleton.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.