Chicagobusiness Scraper
Spider read chicagobusiness.com in 275 ms without a browser and returned 56 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Real Estate", "Politics & Policy" and "Banking & Finance".
Why McDonald’s value strategy still isn’t paying offMcDonald's helped popularize the Dollar Menu decades ago — and that legacy may now be working against it.Outcome Health founders’ fraud convictions upheldLandmark Loop office building takes step toward data center conversionSimpson Thacher opens Chicago office with five Kirkland partners## Real EstateCME chief Terry Duffy asking almost $12 million for Florida homeThis Indiana Dunes house is filled with light — and some Marshall Field’s remnantsShops at North Bridge plans $40 million revamp for Mag Mile mallEvanston house sold for just the second time in 143 yearsAdams Street Partners moving HQ to West Loop riverfront building## Politics & PolicyPritzker pens letter to Trump, seeking tariff refunds for Illinois familiesGreg Hinz: Chris Welch wasn’t the only one who failed the Harry Benton testChris Welch apologizes for interactions with former staffer## Banking & FinanceFederal probe of Guggenheim CEO Mark Walter reaches ChicagoCME venture with FanDuel falters as prediction startups race ahead## Health CareCovista builds momentum for ambitious expansion amid healthcare worker shortageTroubled Waukegan hospital names new CEO after sudden leadership exitsXeris raises outlook despite posting $31.1 million loss## RestaurantsThe Dining Table recommends: PostBoyPortillo’s is cutting HQ staff by 18%## This Month's ForumRising electricity demand set to collide with state’s commitment to retire fossil-fuel plantsPoll: Illinois can power the AI boom without sticking families with the billCommentary: How do we power the next century of growth? Not with more but with better infrastructure.Commentary: To meet growing power demand, policymakers, regulators and customers can share part of the loadListen to the latest episode below, or wherever you get your podcasts.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 chicagobusiness.com.
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://chicagobusiness.com");
// 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.chicagobusiness.com", {
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 chicagobusiness.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001847 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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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.