Dark Sky Scraper
Spider read darksky.net in 129 ms without a browser and returned 52 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "How Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather app", "Get down-to-the-minute precipitation forecasts" and "View the hourly forecast for the next 10 days".
# How Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather appDark Sky’s features have been integrated into Apple Weather. Apple Weather offers hyperlocal forecasts for your current location, including next-hour precipitation, hourly forecasts for the next 10 days, high-resolution radar, and notifications.Support for the Dark Sky API ended on March 31, 2023, and has been replaced by Apple’s WeatherKit API. Developers can use WeatherKit in apps with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 or higher with a platform-specific Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API.Learn more about WeatherKitApple Weather is available on devices running iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 Ventura. To download Apple Weather, go to the App Store and search for the app by name.## Get down-to-the-minute precipitation forecastsApple Weather forecasts precipitation at your location for the next hour down to the minute. This is available as a chart, a high-resolution map overlay, and notifications in some countries and regions.## View the hourly forecast for the next 10 daysForecasted weather conditions include temperature, precipitation amounts, humidity, dew point, wind speed, barometric pressure, Feels Like temperature, and visibility. To view hourly forecasts, tap a condition in the location view or tap a day and select the condition you want to view.* Check the weather on your iPhone* Check the weather on your iPad* Check weather conditions on your Mac## Use full screen, high-resolution weather mapsApple Weather provides a variety of overlays, including precipitation, air quality, and temperature. While precipitation and temperature overlays are available globally, high-resolution next-hour precipitation and air quality are limited to certain countries and regions. In the location view, tap the map to expand it.* View weather maps on your iPhone* View weather maps on your iPadThe 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 darksky.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://darksky.net/forecast/40.7128,-74.006/us12/en");
// 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!,
});
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 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 darksky.net costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001751 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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