Die Scraper
Spider read die.net in 218 ms without a browser and returned 34 lines of clean markdown.
Online since 1996, **die.net** hosts the collective**Mar 28** Removed obsolete Google Translate widget**Mar 22** Site template is now more responsive and accessible**Nov 19** Moved hosting to newer hardware**Nov 18** Trace Explorer shut down**May 20** Added a CDN to improve page load time**Oct 12** Switched to responsive CSS to improve mobile experience**Apr 13** Dictionary.die.net shut down**Nov 17** Added Reducing Junk Mail,my short guide on freeing my home's mailbox from unwanted piles of paper**Apr 05** Added Trace Explorer, an Internet routing visualization tool**Jan 27** The World Sunlight Map and Moon Phase images now look a bit better**Oct 28** Optimizing page load time addedand was quickly featured on Slashdot,**Jan 13** The New York Times ran a short blurb about the World Sunlight Map**Jul 14** Google ads added to dictionary.die.net and Linux man pages**Jun 17** Linux man pages reformatted nicely**Feb 27** Dictionary.die.net online dictionary added**Jan 08** United States National Debt analysis added**Dec 05** TCP tarpit module accepted by maintainers of Linux iptablesThe 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 die.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://die.net");
// 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.die.net", {
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 die.net costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000018 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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