Cygwin Scraper
Spider read cygwin.com in 119 ms without a browser and returned 54 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Cygwin", "...isn't it?" and "Cygwin version".
# Cygwin## ...isn't it?* a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You mustrebuild your application *from source* if you want it to run on Windows.* a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX®functionality like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps *from source*if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality.## Cygwin versionThe most recent version of the Cygwin DLL isThe Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially releasedx86_64 versions of Windows, starting with Windows 8.1. For more## Note to users of older Windows versionsCygwin 3.4.10 was the last Cygwin version supporting Windows 7,Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. If youneed Cygwin on these or even older systems, consider using the## Installing Cygwin**Install Cygwin by running theUse the setup program to perform a fresh installor to update an existing installation.Keep in mind that individual packages in the distribution are updated separatelyfrom the DLL so the Cygwin DLL version is not useful as a general Cygwindistribution release number.## Support for CygwinFor **all** Cygwin-related questions, observations, suggestions and bugreports, please check the resources available at this site, such as themailing list archives. If you've exhaustedthese resources then please send email to thePlease send notification of technical problems (bad html, brokenlinks) concerning these web pages toPlease **do not** send personal email with "quick questions" toindividual Cygwin contributors. The Cygwin mailing lists are the placesfor all questions. Really. I mean it.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 cygwin.com.
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://cygwin.com");
// 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.cygwin.com", {
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 cygwin.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00002 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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- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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