Weather & Environment

Dark Sky Scraper

Extract hyperlocal weather predictions, minute-by-minute precipitation timelines, and historical climate data from Dark Sky archives. Powered by spider-browser .

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darksky.net target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

dark-sky-scraper.ts

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://darksky.net/forecast/40.7128,-74.006/us12/en");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const weather = {};
  weather.temperature = document.querySelector(".summary-high-temp .val")?.textContent?.trim();
  weather.summary = document.querySelector("#title span.summary")?.textContent?.trim();
  weather.wind = document.querySelector(".wind .val")?.textContent?.trim();
  weather.humidity = document.querySelector(".humidity .val")?.textContent?.trim();
  weather.uvIndex = document.querySelector(".uv__index__value")?.textContent?.trim();
  weather.precipitation = document.querySelector(".precip__probability .val")?.textContent?.trim();
  return JSON.stringify(weather);
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from darksky.net with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/darksky.net/

TemperaturePrecipitation probabilityWind speedHumidityUV indexSummary

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/darksky.net/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/darksky.net/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/darksky.net/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction