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core.ac.uk · HTTP 200

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Spider read core.ac.uk in 154 ms without a browser and returned 118 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "CORE’s Distinctive Characteristics", "Our services" and "Guidance for Open Access compliance monitoring in REF 2029".

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Response core.ac.uk/index.md markdown · 118 lines
### CORE’s Distinctive CharacteristicsCORE is an open scholarly infrastructure service aligned with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Beyond this shared foundation, CORE is defined by a set of distinctive characteristics that shape how it is built, governed, and operated.### Our servicesCreate new and innovative solutions.](https://core.ac.uk/services#access-to-raw-data)[#### Content discoveryFind relevant research and make your research more visible.](https://core.ac.uk/services#content-discovery)[#### Managing contentManage how your research content is exposed to the world.](https://core.ac.uk/services#managing-content)### Guidance for Open Access compliance monitoring in REF 2029This document provides UK Higher Education Institutions with best practice technical guidelines for exposing repository metadata to support open access compliance monitoring with respect to the UK REF 2029 OA policy.CORE Recommendations for REF2029#### Gareth MalcolmContent Partner Manager at Turnitin*> Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and fulltexts that we can utilise in our plagiarism detection software.Academic institution using CORE#### Kathleen ShearerExecutive Director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)*> CORE has significantly assisted the academic institutions participating in our global network with their key mission, which is their scientific content exposure. In addition, CORE has helped our content administrators to showcase the real benefits of repositories via its added value services.#### Burton DavisVice President and Deputy General Counsel, at Microsoft
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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 core.ac.uk.

core-ac-uk-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://core.ac.uk");

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

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
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Fields you can pull.

TitleContentDateSourceCategoryLanguage

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 core.ac.uk costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000152 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://core.ac.uk/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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