Dev.to Scraper
Spider read dev.to in 123 ms without a browser and returned 639 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Posts" and "Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲".
# PostsJoin our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲## Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲#devchallenge #frontendchallenge #css #javascriptWhen Your VPS Never Had the Resources It Was Sold WithDebugging invisible hypervisor provisioning gapsStop Calling Everything Impostor Syndrome: The Myth of "Just Push Harder"Applies an engineering mindset to personal growthGeneral Challenge Updates Moving ForwardI Recreated Management With AI: 9 Things I Do DifferentlyReplaced safety prompts with 134 standing rulesHow would you decide, whether the content is good or bad?Debates AI use and content quality standards🥁 Mâm Cơm Landing Page: I built a Vietnamese dinner tray on a 3,000-year-old bronze drumFrontend Challenge Perfect Landing Submission 🍲🥧How I Smashed a Bug in a Shared Authentication LibrarySummer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹I Spent a Day With Kiro Crew. Here's What It Actually Does.I Replaced kube-proxy with eBPF in Production (And Why My Monitoring Went Blind for 6 Hours)My Scanner Missed 93% of the Bugs — and That Was the Right First ResultThe 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 dev.to.
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://dev.to/top/week");
// 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://dev.to/top/week");
const data = await page.extractFields({
title: "article h2 a, h2 a",
author: "a[href*='/@'], [class*='profile'] a",
reactions: "[class*='reactions'] span, button[class*='reaction'] span",
comments: "a[href*='#comments'] span, [class*='comments'] span",
tags: "a[href*='/t/']",
readingTime: "small, [class*='reading-time']",
});
console.log(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 dev.to costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000453 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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