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Weather & Environment
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Dark Sky Scraper

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

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target
darksky.net
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/darksky.net/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/darksky.net/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://darksky.net/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "temperature": "string",
    "precipitation_probability": "string",
    "wind_speed": "string",
    "humidity": "string",
    "uv_index": "string",
    "summary": "string",
    "daily_high_low": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from darksky.net with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

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("[aria-label*='uv' i], [data-testid*='uv']")?.textContent?.trim();
  weather.precipitation = document.querySelector("[aria-label*='precip' i], [data-testid*='precip']")?.textContent?.trim();
  return JSON.stringify(weather);
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

TemperaturePrecipitation probabilityWind speedHumidityUV indexSummaryDaily high/low
Data

Weather data capture

Extract forecasts, conditions, and historical weather from darksky.net.

Rendering

Map & chart handling

Full rendering for interactive weather maps and data visualizations.

Freshness

Real-time updates

Capture frequently updated weather data and environmental readings.

Related

More Weather & Environment scrapers.

Start

Start scraping darksky.net.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.