Codinghorror Scraper
Spider read codinghorror.com in 858 ms without a browser and returned 74 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Google-fu" and "Recent Posts".
# Google-fu11. **spell:**will spell check your query and search for it.12. **stocks:**will lookup the search query in a stock index.13. **filetype:**will restrict searches to that filetype. “-filetype:doc” to remove Microsoft word files.14. **daterange:**is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.15. **maps:**If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.16. **phone:**enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)17. **site:www.somesite.net “+www.somesite.+net”**(tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)18. **allintext:**searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title19. **allinlinks:**searches only within links, not text or titleI’ve always wanted to query Google for web pages created or modified earlier than a certain date, but*Julian*dates? Ugh! Well, at least someone already built aspecial Google search pageto get around this limitation.## Recent PostsEvery Choice Changes Everything: The ShowAbout 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One withIt's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (GuaranteedLaunching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income InitiativeIt's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications of time orThe 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 codinghorror.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://codinghorror.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.codinghorror.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 codinghorror.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000076 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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