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cpan.org · HTTP 200

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Spider read cpan.org in 278 ms without a browser and returned 42 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Recent Uploads".

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Response cpan.org/index.md markdown · 42 lines
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currentlyPerl modules](modules/index.html) in 47,573 distributions,The archive has been online since October 1995 and is constantly growing.## Search CPAN via## Recent Uploads* Catalyst-View-ChromePDF-v0.1.0* Math-Prime-Util-GMP-0.54-TRIAL3* Visit https://pause.perl.org/## Perl Resources* The Perl Programming language
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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 cpan.org.

cpan-org-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://cpan.org");

// 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.

Business NameAddressPhoneCategory

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 cpan.org costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.00003 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://cpan.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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