Curl Scraper
Spider read curl.se in 168 ms without a browser and returned 75 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "What is curl used for?" and "curl supports".
**command line tool and library** for transferring data with URLs## What is curl used for?curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. curl isalso **libcurl**, used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audioequipment, mobile phones, tablets, medical devices, settop boxes, computergames, media players and is the Internet transfer engine for countlesssoftware applications in over *twenty billion installations*.curl is used daily by virtually every Internet-using human on the globe.## curl supportsDICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS,IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP,SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS, WSS |SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS (HTTP/1 and HTTP/2), tunneling,via unix domain sockets, haproxy, SOCKS+HTTP proxy chain|GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, multipart formpost, HTTP/0.9,HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 (h2c, h2, prior knowledge), HTTP/3 (dual connecth1/h2 + h3 or h3-only), HSTS, Alt-Svc, cookies, PSL, etags, transfercompression, ranges, custom headers, custom method, follow redirects|IPv6 (EPRT, EPSV), STLS, upload/download, append, range,passive/active, kerberos, directory listing, custom commands|known hosts, md5/sha256 fingerprint, compression,upload/download, directory listing|1.0 - 1.3, mutual authentication, STARTTLS, OCSP stapling,ECH, False Start, key pinning, PQC ready, session resumption, early data,Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, SCRAM-SHA, NTLM, Negotiate,Kerberos, Bearer tokens, AWS Sigv4, SASL, .netrc|DNS-over-HTTPS, custom address for host, name+port redirect,custom DNS servers, DNS caching, HTTPS RR|connection reuse, Interface binding, Happy Eyeballs,IPv4/IPv6-only, unix domain sockets, TCP keepalive, TCP Fast Open, TCPNodelay, MPTCP, VLAN priority, IP Type Of Service|transfer rate limiting, request rate limiting, stallThe 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 curl.se.
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://curl.se");
// 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.curl.se", {
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 curl.se costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000035 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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