The Daily Beast Scraper
Spider read thedailybeast.com in 260 ms without a browser and returned 264 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus", "Politician Finally Dares to Ask If Missing Mitch Is Dead" and "This Is Why King Charles Is Now at Harry’s Mercy".
Netflix Comic Fights Back Tears Over ‘Extremely Sad’ DivorceThis Baffling New Movie Is Like a Rom-Com for IncelsJordan Klepper Predicts What Happens to MAGA After TrumpA-Lister Slammed for Teaming Up With Jeff Bezos[](https://thedailybeast.com/obsessed/a-lister-leonardo-dicaprio-slammed-for-teaming-up-with-jeff-bezos/)Trump Voter Regrets His Decision as ICE Arrests His FiancéeAlec Baldwin’s Daughter Posts Vicious Take on Celeb BloggerMissing Mitch’s Aides Give Major Health Update After 53 Days## Trump Crowd Boos Fallen Cop With Ethnic NameFOREIGN INFLUENCE## How Congress Should Prepare For McConnell’s Grand ReturnWHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN?## Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating ExodusPeople have left the president’s personal social media site in droves.## New Details of A-Listers’ Secret Wedding RevealedSHHH## Sidelined Trump Goon Gets Another Shot Amid Midterm PanicLATE START## This Cooling Wand Is My Ultimate Antidote to PuffinessCOOL DOWN## I Tried the Buzzy Trampoline Workout Taking Over FitnessBOUNCE WITH METhis Plastic Surgeon-Owned Brand Streamlined My Skin RoutineTRIPLE THREATHere’s How to Make Your Bed Feel Like the Ritz-CarltonSUITE DREAMSThis Compact Sauna Is the Best Wellness Investment I’ve MadeSWEAT EQUITYHypochlorous Acid Is Skincare’s Rising Star—Derms Weigh InACID SPRITZ?## Video Shows Trump’s Latest Golf Win Doesn’t Quite Add UpSCRATCH SKEPTIC## Politician Finally Dares to Ask If Missing Mitch Is Dead## This Is Why Jeanine Pirro Defied Trump: WolffEVEN SHE'S HAD ENOUGH## This Is Why King Charles Is Now at Harry’s MercyErkki Forster, The Royalist PodcastThe 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 thedailybeast.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://www.thedailybeast.com/category/politics");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.thedailybeast.com/category/politics");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, .story-card, .StoryCard").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .headline a")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .headline a")?.getAttribute("href");
const author = el.querySelector(".byline a, .author")?.textContent?.trim();
const excerpt = el.querySelector(".dek, .excerpt")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, author, excerpt });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 thedailybeast.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001786 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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