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europeana.eu · HTTP 200

Europeana Scraper

Spider read europeana.eu in 1.6 s without a browser and returned 22 lines of clean markdown.

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Response europeana.eu/en/stories/text-announcement-in-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books.md markdown · 22 lines
*The end of the prologue (explicit) and the beginning (incipit) of Paschasius Radbertus's ‘On the Lamentations of Jeremiah’ (1143-1178), e-codices, CC BY-NC*The earliest examples of separate title pages were either blank or contained a simple and abbreviated label-title, which was sometimes joined by woodcut illustrations or the printer’s device.*The label-title of Albumasaris’s 'Introduction to Astronomy'(1489), Fondazione Barbanera 1762, CC BY-NC**The label-title and illustration from Petrus de Crescentiis’s 'On Agriculture'(1505), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only*By the end of the 15th century and in the first half of the 16th century, elaborate woodengraved title pages, or title pages with intricate decorative borders were made.*Title page from Ulrich von Hutten’s poem on the war with Venice, dedicated to Emperor Maximilian (1519), Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, CC BY-SA*From the late 15th century onwards, the amount of information given on the title page was increasing constantly. Author and title statements were joined by information about the edition, secondary authors such as commentators or translators, as well the place of publication, the name of the printer and publisher, the printer’s device, and the publication date. All of these elements have gradually moved to the title page from the colophon.*Title page from Poliziano’s ‘Poems’ (1577), containing information about the author, the title and the edition, as well as the dedication, the imprint, and the printer’s device, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library, No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only*
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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 europeana.eu.

europeana-eu-scraper.ts
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://europeana.eu");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
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Fields you can pull.

TitleContentDateSource

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 europeana.eu costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000198 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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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/text-announcement-in-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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