Citynews Scraper
Spider read citynews.ca in 3.6 s without a browser and returned 168 lines of clean markdown.
These cookies may track data across websites for marketing and interest-based advertising to provide personalized content, offers, and advertisements.# ‘A calm and steady presence’: What to know about Lloyd RobertsonLloyd Robertson, a trusted voice who guided Canadians through some of the biggest moments in modern history, has died at the age of 92.Last Updated August 5, 2026 10:20 am.A quick look at CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson, **who died Tuesday at the age of 92**.Early days: Robertson wrote in his memoir about growing up in an unhappy home with very little money. He started working at a radio station as a teen, which he attributed to his desire to break free.Family: Robertson married his high school sweetheart Nancy in 1956, and they had four daughters, including a set of twins.Career highlights: Robertson was a broadcast journalist for 41 years, and covered nearly every major event of the day, including the moon landing, the Quebec Referendum, the 9/11 attacks, several state funerals, numerous papal visits, 14 Canadian elections and nine Olympic Games.For the record: “Conferred upon you is this mantle of objectivity and fairness, and you have to take that seriously. And you’re also aware in this business that as easily as you win it, you can just as easily lose it.”Reaction to his death: Prime Minister Mark Carney wrote on social media, “For millions of us, he was a familiar face in our living rooms. A reassuring voice in moments of uncertainty. A calm and steady presence through the moments that shaped our nation.”Broadcaster Lisa Laflamme recalled the moment she took over for him as anchor of CTV National News: “It was overwhelming and yet calming — because he was there.”CTV news anchor Lloyd Robertson rehearses his news cast before going live on air at CTV headquarters in Scarborough, Ont., on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette.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 citynews.ca.
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://citynews.ca");
// 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.citynews.ca", {
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 citynews.ca costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000037 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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