Columbia Scraper

Extract course listings, institutional data, and educational content from Columbia.

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target
columbia.edu: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/columbia.edu/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/columbia.edu/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://columbia.edu/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "course_name": "string",
    "institution": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "duration": "string"
  }
}

# Columbia Scraper

**Course Name**: string
**Institution**: string
**Description**: string
**Duration**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from columbia.edu with a single POST. Call it with no selectors and the model names the fields, or pass your own CSS to skip the AI.

columbia-edu-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://columbia.edu");

// 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.columbia.edu", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});

console.log(result);

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/columbia.edu/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/columbia.edu/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/columbia.edu/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);