Econlib Scraper
Spider read econlib.org in 133 ms without a browser and returned 194 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Videos & Conversations", "A Conversation with Ronald H. Coase" and "A Conversation with James M. Buchanan, Parts I and II".
On the topic of international trade, the views of economists tend to differ from those of the general public. There are three principal differences. First, many noneconomists believe that it is more advantageous to trade with other members of one’s nation or ethnic group than with outsiders. Economists see all forms of trade as equally…MORE## EconTalkPodcast ### The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin)Podcast ### John Nye on Wine, War and Trade## EconLogEconLog ### A Brief History of Strategic Tariffs in the U.S.EconLog ### Don’t Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You’ll Get Both## Videos & Conversations### A Conversation with Ronald H. CoaseNobel laureate Ronald H. Coase (1910-2013) was recorded in 2001 in an extended video now available to the public. Coase’s articles, “The Problem of Social Cost” and “The Nature of the Firm” are among the most important and most often cited works in the whole of economic literature. Coase recounts how he tried to encourage…MORE### A Conversation with James M. Buchanan, Parts I and IINobel laureate James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was recorded in 2001 in an extended video now available to the public. Universally respected as one of the founders of the economics of public choice, he is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles in the areas of public finance, public choice, constitutional economics, and economic…MORE### A Conversation with Israel KirznerIsrael Kirzner, Professor Emeritus at NYU, is among the foremost scholars in the continuing development of the Austrian school of economic theory. He has extended our understanding of the workings of a free society, illuminated the role of entrepreneurs in the process of economic discovery, and shed new light on the dynamics of market forces.…MORE"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”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 econlib.org.
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://econlib.org");
// 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.econlib.org", {
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 econlib.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000325 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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