Class Central Scraper
Spider read classcentral.com in 225 ms without a browser and returned 295 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Featured", "Coursera Lays Off ~150 Staff After Udemy Merger" and "Best Korean Learning Apps for 2026: Free and Paid".
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on classcentral.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://www.classcentral.com/subject/cs");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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://www.classcentral.com/subject/cs");
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const courses = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".course-list-course").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector(".course-name")?.textContent?.trim();
const provider = el.querySelector(".course-provider")?.textContent?.trim();
const institution = el.querySelector(".course-institution")?.textContent?.trim();
const rating = el.querySelector(".rating-value")?.textContent?.trim();
const reviews = el.querySelector(".review-count")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) courses.push({ title, provider, institution, rating, reviews });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: courses.length, courses: courses.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 classcentral.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000931 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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Start scraping classcentral.com.
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.