EPFL Website Scraper
Spider read epfl.ch in 163 ms without a browser and returned 133 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Profiles", "Consciousness is the solution to a problem we don't yet know" and "The real power of science comes from bridging the gaps".
🌐 **Support for our community** Current initiatives### A lipid switch that blocks anthrax 28.07.26NewsResearch A study led by EPFL researchers reveals how a reversible fat-based modification controls a key protein involved in tissue health, a rare genetic disease, and anthrax toxin entry into cells.## Profiles### “Representing PhD students helps me contribute in the here and now”Shardul Chiplunkar is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences who is deeply involved in representing his peers at EPFL. In this interview for the “Mind to Mind” series, he offers an inspiring perspective on managing stress and engaging with big questions.](https://actu.epfl.ch/news/representing-phd-students-helps-me-contribute-in-t)### “Consciousness is the solution to a problem we don't yet know”EPFL professor Michael Herzog, head of the Psychophysics Laboratory, discusses why consciousness remains such an elusive subject and what its study means for neuroscience, medicine and artificial intelligence.](https://actu.epfl.ch/news/consciousness-is-the-solution-to-a-problem-we-don)### “The real power of science comes from bridging the gaps”Inspired by a personal connection to neuroscience and trained across biology, chemistry and engineering, EPFL professor Yoon Seok Kim develops tools to study the brain while bringing together scientists from very different disciplines.](https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-real-power-of-science-comes-from-bridging-the)It’s why Earth is called the Blue Planet. Water is everywhere. This edition of Dimensions explores some key issues related to water, from the nanoscopic scale to the cosmic scale.## Highlights## AboutLocated in Switzerland, EPFL is one of Europe’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan science and technology institutions.Through five schools and one college, EPFL community tackles the biggest challenges of our time through education, research and innovation.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 epfl.ch.
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://www.epfl.ch");
// 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://www.epfl.ch");
const data = await page.extractFields({
footer: "footer",
main_content: "main",
nav: "nav",
});
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 epfl.ch costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000153 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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