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chess.com · HTTP 200

Chess Scraper

Spider read chess.com in 109 ms without a browser and returned 60 lines of clean markdown.

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Response chess.com/index.md markdown · 60 lines
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Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

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 chess.com.

chess-com-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://chess.com");

// 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.

Business NameAddressPhoneCategoryRating

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 chess.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000199 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://chess.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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