Daily Mail Scraper
Spider read dailymail.co.uk in 120 ms without a browser and returned 2,681 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Home".
# HomeWhen Chris Sylvester was just 12 years old, he was introduced to heroin in a toilet cubicle at school. The next 26 years saw him in active drug addiction, in and out of prison, hospitals and homelessness .* share Former heroin-addict convict reveals how he became a soap tycoon## The Morning Poll: Should we scrap social housing for foreign nationals?The Tories have said they will slam the door on foreign nationals being given our social housing.* share Should we scrap social housing for foreign nationals?Moment Japanese surgeons cling to patient in operating theatre as 7.1-magnitude earthquake hitsSurgeons were forced to battle a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that sent their operating theatre rocking with a patient under anesthetic. Extraordinary CCTV footage shows medics grabbing hold of the operating table and shielding the patient as the room shakes violently around them at a hospital in Kumamoto, Japan. The team can be seen struggling to keep their footing as the theatre lurches from side to side, with equipment rattling across the room and lights flickering overhead.* share Moment Japanese surgeons cling to patient in theatre as quake hits## How AI could ruin your life: From exposing affairs to leaking your private chats and medical records - why everyone should be concerned amid string of incidents where artificial intelligence goes rogueExperts now warn that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to expose everyone's darkest secrets.* share All the ways artificial intelligence could be used against you## 'Ukrainian intelligence is coming for every one of you': Moment Putin's defence officials panic when virtual meeting is hackedThe session was about budget for supplies to the warring Russian army, with around 50 attendees.* share Moment Putin's defence officials panic when virtual meeting is hackedThe 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 dailymail.co.uk.
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.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12345/celebrity-story.html");
// 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.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12345/celebrity-story.html");
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h2#js-article-text, h1.article-text",
author: ".author-section a, [itemprop='author'] a",
date: "time[datetime], .article-timestamp",
body: "[itemprop='articleBody'], .article-text",
comments: ".article-reader-comments .comment-count",
shares: ".share-count",
image: { selector: ".mol-img img, [itemprop='image']", attribute: "src" },
});
console.log(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 dailymail.co.uk costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001973 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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