Chronicle Scraper
Spider read chronicle.com in 338 ms without a browser and returned 236 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Latest Opinion", "Trackers: Keep Up With the Latest" and "Latest Issue".
94% of Division I Athletics Programs Lost MoneyHoward U. Offers Buyouts to 600 EmployeesHigher Ed Has Entered the Age of ‘Alignment’Howard U. Disenrolled Hundreds of Students. Was It for Their Own Good?To Catch AI Cheating, Turnitin Wants to Monitor Students’ KeystrokesThe Neurodiversity Playbook: How One Tiny College Is Teaching Others to Adapt## Latest OpinionScholarship’s Hidden HelpersOttessa Moshfegh, a Fired Professor, and a Prudish College PresidentThe University Was Made for the Age of AIMy Students Weren’t Human. They Were Bots.Trump’s Proposed Rules for Funding Would Destroy American ScienceColleges Teach Gender and Race. They Ignore Class.## Trackers: Keep Up With the Latest*The Chronicle* is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. Here’s the latest.We’ve documented actions taken to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.Legislators want to get rid of DEI offices, end diversity trainings, banish diversity statements, and censor how professors talk about race, gender, and sexuality in mandatory courses.## Latest Issue## Latest NewslettersHow Alternative Grading Improved Gateway Math CoursesAn instructor discusses her conversion to alternative grading and why some professors will always oppose it.OPT Could Come at a Steep PriceThe Trump administration is considering a $100,000 fee for the popular work program. We have questions.Plus: Trump regulations; social class; science funding.The MIT Philosopher Who Grabbed a Third RailPlus, a conservative crack-up in Florida.## College Matters PodcastSixty Years On, ‘Stoner’ Remains a Vital Portrait of AcademeThe SAT Feels So Back. Skeptics Are Groaning.Higher Ed Is as American as Apple PieThe 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 chronicle.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://chronicle.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.chronicle.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 chronicle.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000816 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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