Catbox Scraper
Spider read catbox.moe in 1.3 s without a browser and returned 22 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Anyway, rant over! Here’s some cool statistics for you guys".
You know, at this point I should just make the “birthday” of Catbox April 14th.* Low resolution AI generated porn* Tiktok Videos from the Middle East and SEA* Clearly scraped LinkedIn/publicly available photos* blob files containing junk dataClearly this is not the “organic” traffic I mentioned earlier, and since the IP addresses are so varied, it’s clear something is happening here. I was alerted by someone that Claude will use Catbox in its coding projects as a “dumping ground” of sorts for when it needs to redirect content. This is clearly an abuse of the service, and stops today. **Effective immediately, anonymous uploads from datacenter and public proxy IP addresses has been restricted.** It’s unfortunate that I had to do this, but its clear that, from a “public service” perspective, I need to have some sense of self preservation. I don’t want to kill third party tools that use the API, but the changing landscape of the internet is forcing my hand.# **Anyway, rant over! Here’s some cool statistics for you guys:*** Storage used on Catbox Prime: 217 TB* Storage offloaded to Lain: 55 TB* Average bandwidth utilization: 5.9 Gbps* Total bandwidth used last year (approx.): 19 PB (petabytes)And here’s a wonderful art piece by **Pettankon**!Thank you all again for your continued support, especially all of you that came to support me after Patreon kicked me in the face. I’m sure there were a lot of you that weren’t even aware of Catbox, but the public rally behind Catbox was huge! Thank you all again, and here’s to another year!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 catbox.moe.
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://catbox.moe");
// 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.catbox.moe", {
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 catbox.moe costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000106 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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- Balance never expires
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Start scraping catbox.moe.
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.