Daringfireball Scraper
Spider read daringfireball.net in 123 ms without a browser and returned 705 lines of clean markdown.
WorkOS — MCP vs. REST: the right way to connect agents to your API.> “I could have a bowel movement behind a > sheet at a dinner party inthe corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”My first thought upon reading this was, *What a load of shit.* Then I realized, well, yes, literally.Then I thought about it some more and realized this is the Platonic ideal of a bullshit claim. If I told you that, say, I can eat an entire meal while doing a headstand, you could say, “I don’t believe you, show me.” But who in their right mind would challenge this quack O’Mara on this one? Certainly not the hosts of the dinner party, that’s for sure.Sam Altman, Definitely Not a Weirdo★> cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:> connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests.> every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that> talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’supcoming birthday, some news, etc.Katie Notopoulos, at Business Insider:> Talking to your kids about their upcoming soccer game or birthday> is one of the enjoyable, pleasurable experiences of parenting.> Those nice moments of positive connection, chatting in the car,> are something I suspect most parents aren’t looking to give up oroutsource.> This is one of the overall challenges with where we are with AI> right now: AI might be capable of doing some of the tasks we> find pleasurable and enjoyable (like creative writing or> drawing), but what many people want is for it to take on theones we don’t want to do.I’m starting to think maybe Sam Altman isn’t hooked up right.David Pogue: ‘Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment’★> Amazon’s “50+ things to try” list mentions that Alexa can “find ahome maintenance professional.” So I tried it.> > ME: I need a septic-system repair.> > ALEXA: That service isn’t currently supported. I can help withplumbing services instead.> > ME: Okay, fine. Plumbing services.> > ALEXA: What’s your plumbing issue?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 daringfireball.net.
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://daringfireball.net");
// 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.daringfireball.net", {
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 daringfireball.net costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000207 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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- Balance never expires
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