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cnn.com · HTTP 200

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Spider read cnn.com in 169 ms without a browser and returned 706 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Fauci", "Health" and "CNN Underscored".

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Response cnn.com/index.md markdown · 706 lines
Three people charged with threatening judge, witness and officials tied to Nolan Wells investigation* Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/ReutersUS-backed democracy talks start in Venezuela without Nobel laureate Machado* Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesPowerball jackpot soars to $856 million, next drawing Saturday night* • Video 1:05 Video 1:05 Marjorie Taylor Greene / CameoVideo Marjorie Taylor Greene joins fellow former officials on Cameo 1:05## Fauci* Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesWhat happens now that a Senate panel voted to hold Fauci in contempt* • Video 0:53 Video 0:53 PoolVideo See who voted ‘yes’ and who voted ‘no’ to hold Fauci in contempt 0:53## Health* Tony Hertz/Universal Images Group/Getty Images/FileLettuce is back on the menu in Michigan as cyclospora cases decline, state health department says* • CNN Investigates for Subscribers David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesCNN Investigates for Subscribers Cyclospora outbreak follows yearslong pattern of Taylor Farms deflecting blame* AnaDeePhotography/iStockphoto/Getty ImagesWhat eggs, jalapeños, chickens and chameleons have in common this summer: salmonella## CNN Underscored* Maxwell Shukuya/CNN UnderscoredCar sun shades are the best way to keep your vehicle cool. Here are 8 that work Jun 23, 2026* Michelle Rae Uy/CNN UnderscoredI walk 10,000 steps a day. Here’s the gear I use to stay motivated and pain-free Aug 3, 2026* Rikka Altland/CNN UnderscoredColumbia’s annual summer sale is packed with discounted rain jackets at up to 50% off Aug 5, 2026## Check these outIce age toad, skydiver’s delivery, lull in teen hiring: Catch up on the day’s storiesJohn Galliano made shocking statements about Jews and Asians. Now he’s getting one of fashion’s highest honorsYoungest Black professor at Cambridge resigns as university investigates allegations of plagiarism
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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 cnn.com.

cnn-scraper.ts
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.cnn.com/business/tech");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

HeadlineSummaryCategoryAuthorPublished dateArticle URLVideoRelated

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 cnn.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.008457 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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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://cnn.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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