Fangraphs Scraper
Spider read fangraphs.com in 467 ms without a browser and returned 660 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Community", "Waiting for MLB’s First Billion-Dollar Player" and "Effectively Wild's Preseason Predictions Update: Meg Rowley".
## CommunityHOF### BOOG and the Hall of Fame, Part 1 (Introduction)Presenting a different metric for evaluating Hall of Fame candidacies.### Shape+ v2.0: Isolating Pitch Quality With Relative Physics and Additive ModelingThe updated framework establishes baselines for movement and approach angles, yielding an objective tool to analyze which pitch shapes are harder to hit.### Waiting for MLB’s First Billion-Dollar PlayerWould you rather have a guaranteed $140 million today or a chance at $1 billion six years from now?### Effectively Wild's Preseason Predictions Update: Meg RowleyA breakdown of Meg Rowley’s ballot for Effectively Wild’s 2025 Preseason Predictions Game.## Job PostingsJob Posting### Job Posting: Miami Marlins - Director of Baseball ApplicationsThe Miami Marlins are hiring.Job Posting### Job Posting: Los Angeles Dodgers - Multiple OpeningsThe Los Angeles Dodgers are hiring.Job Posting### Job Posting: Boston Red Sox - Multiple OpeningsThe Boston Red Sox are hiring.Job Posting### Job Posting: San Diego Padres - Software Engineer, Baseball SystemsThe San Diego Padres are hiring.Job Posting### Job Posting: Chicago Cubs - Data Scientist, Innovation - Baseball Analytics## Essential ArticlesProspects### The Details of Our New Prospect Valuation MethodologyLet's get into the nitty gritty of our new approach to prospect valuation.Prospects### Introducing an Updated Method for Prospect ValuationOur new method for prospect valuation updates previous studies for today's environment.Prospects### 2026 Top 100 ProspectsThe prospect team presents their 2026 Top 100 Prospects list, with reports for each player.2/16 - Eric Longenhagen, Brendan Gawlowski and James Fegan86### 2026 Top 50 MLB Free AgentsThe most significant players to hit the open market this offseason, as compiled by Ben Clemens and the FanGraphs staff.Prospects### 2025 Top 100 ProspectsThe 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 fangraphs.com.
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://fangraphs.com");
// 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.fangraphs.com", {
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 fangraphs.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001025 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.