Devpost Scraper
Spider read devpost.com in 2.9 s without a browser and returned 65 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Dylan's take on what wins hackathons".
Before every hackathon, Dylan made himself a promise: he'd learn at least one new technology during the event. First hackathon, APIs. Second, databases. Each weekend added a layer, and the knowledge stacked up.> "You're committed to sitting there to build something, and why not just use that same weekend to learn something new?"He didn't wait until he felt ready for a new tool. The hackathon was the forcing function. By his 20th event, he had exposure to tools and frameworks that would've taken years to pick up through coursework alone.## Dylan's take on what wins hackathonsDylan's advice on pitching is simple. Convince the judge that a problem exists, show what people currently do about it, then explain why your solution is better."The first step of my ‘three-step plan’ is to convince the judge that there is a problem. The second one is to say what people are doing right now. And the third one is to talk about how you come in and how you are better than the existing status quo."He also thinks the best projects tend to mix technologies. Hardware plus web plus AI plus mobile—the more elements you combine, the more the project grabs attention. But the pitch is what seals it.*Dylan Vu is a software engineer at Amazon. He graduated in 2024 and has been part of nearly 60 hackathons as a hacker, mentor, and judge.*Feeling inspired to build something amazing? Check out our hackathons happening now!## Related posts Participant resources ### User Story: How Iron Man Inspired a Win at the Gemini Live Agents Challenge Here's how Bryen Param built a drone you can talk to — and why he almost didn't believe he'd won Best of Live Agents in Google's Gemini Live Agent Challenge.Participant resources ### Build AI agents for real-world challenges in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon Build a Gemini-powered AI agent using MCP integrations from six technology partners and compete for prizes in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon.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 devpost.com.
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://devpost.com");
// 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.devpost.com", {
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 devpost.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00008 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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