Ctan Scraper
Spider read ctan.org in 149 ms without a browser and returned 119 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Background of CTAN", "Did you know?" and "Download a TeX System".
CTAN lives from the contributions of software and package contributors.Thus you are strongly encouraged to submit your contribution to theTeX world to CTAN. You can use a Web form to upload your## Background of CTANIf you are interested in the background of the ComprehensiveTeX Archive Network you can read more on## Did you know?for perform calculations within TeX.## TeXTeX is a typesetting program designed for high-quality composition ofmaterial that contains a lot of mathematical and technical expressions.It has been adopted by many authors and publishers who generatetechnical books and papers. It was created byE.Knuth](http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/) of Stanford University, originally for preparationArt of Computer Programming](http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html)”. TeX has been made freelyFrom these origins a whole eco-system of distributions, macro packages,and supporting programs has arisen.## Download a TeX SystemCTAN provides complete ready-to run TeX systems for variouscross-platform TeX system. It includes support for mostUnix-like systems, including GNU/Linux, Mac OSX,install TeX system for Mac OSX, based on TeX Live.It also includes a native Mac installer, the TeXShopfront-end, and additional Mac-specific tools.## User GroupsMany users of TeX and friends have formed user groups. The followingones are mentioned because they support CTAN.not-for-profit organization by, for, and of its members, alsorepresenting the interests of TeX users worldwide.The [Deutschsprachige AnwendervereinigungTeX e.V. (DANTE)](http://www.dante.de/) is the TeX users group for German speakingThe 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 ctan.org.
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://ctan.org");
// 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.ctan.org", {
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 ctan.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000041 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
More Directories scrapers.
Spotify Main Page Scraper
Extract structured data from Spotify Main Page with automated CSS selectors.
Roblox Landing Page Scraper
Roblox landing page metadata and cookie banner information.
Mozilla Homepage Data Scraper
A scraper for extracting all useful data from the Mozilla homepage, including site metadata, navigation, and content.
Start scraping ctan.org.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.