Dev.to Social Scraper
Spider read dev.to in 173 ms without a browser and returned 635 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Posts", "Build something that tastes like home" and "Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲".
# Posts#### Build something that tastes like home.A ramen bowl in pure CSS? A landing page for the diner in your head? We're hungry for your wild creations.Join 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 Crash JavaScript Couldn't Catch: Fixing Android Native Crashes in a React Native AppThe AI That Broke Out of Its Box, and What Happens NextDeploying Apache Kafka as a Self-Hosted Amazon Data Firehose Alternative[This is a submission for [Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing] 😊](https://dev.to/edmundsparrow/this-is-a-submission-for-frontend-challenge-comfort-food-edition-perfect-landing-1p8c)Sidewalk to Summit: reviving my founder-year idea by building it in publicTeaching an Audio Model More About BarbadosWe're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.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 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!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://dev.to/top/week");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, [class*='story']").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = el.querySelector("a[href*='/@']")?.textContent?.trim();
const reactions = el.querySelector("[class*='reactions'] span, [class*='counter']")?.textContent?.trim();
const comments = el.querySelector("a[href*='#comments'], [class*='comments'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
const tags = [];
el.querySelectorAll("a[href*='/t/']").forEach(tag => tags.push(tag.textContent?.trim()));
if (title) articles.push({ title, author, reactions, comments, tags });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
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 dev.to costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000452 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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