Cliffsnotes Scraper
Spider read cliffsnotes.com in 150 ms without a browser and returned 85 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Explore, Study, Review", "The original (and the most widely imitated) study guide" and "Literature Notes".
Book Summaries, Test Preparation & Homework HelpLit NotesStudy GuidesDocumentsQ&AAsk AILog InSign UpLiterature NotesStudy GuidesDocumentsHomework QuestionsLog InSign Up# Explore, Study, Review## The original (and the most widely imitated) study guide## Literature NotesGeorge Orwell](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/n/1984/1984-at-a-glance)[William Faulkner](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/absalom-absalom/about-absalom-absalom)[The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianSherman Alexie](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-parttime-indian)[George Eliot](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/adam-bede/book-summary)[The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-at-a-glance)[The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/book-summary)[Virgil](https://cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/aeneid/poem-summary)All notes## Subjects## Tutor-answered questionsThe 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 cliffsnotes.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://cliffsnotes.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.cliffsnotes.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 cliffsnotes.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000592 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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- Balance never expires
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