Financial Times Scraper
Spider read ft.com in 166 ms without a browser and returned 320 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Most read".
Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to footerArgentine company accuses US of meddling in Huawei projectIncident underscores duelling pressures on rightwing president Javier Milei from Washington and BeijingTrump allowed to delay release of financial details in $10bn BBC defamation caseUS court agrees with emergency stay requested by lawyers acting for president’s investment trust## Most read‘Every dollar is mobile’: California’s rich snap up New Zealand ‘golden visas’opinion content. Who needs consultants in the age of AI?Biggest US law firms explore selling stakes to private equityHoneywell Aerospace shares plunge on failure to overcome supply snarlsGroup slashes outlook as bottlenecks limit ability to convert strong demand for advanced parts into salesRheinmetall cuts sales outlook after Germany scraps warship projectUS public pension funds and business groups clash on SEC climate risk disclosure shiftVanguard and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund strike cautious response to regulatorDiageo boss Dave Lewis stakes revival on canned cocktails and GuinnessNew chief unveils plans to restore growth along with suite of cost cutsRussia targets Maga influencers ahead of German state voteThe ‘Matryoshka’ campaign is seeking to amplify inflammatory English-language posts, officials sayApplications for indefinite right to work, live and study in the country have risen after rules were easedEasyJet agrees to £5.7bn Apollo takeover as Castlelake backs awayTwo US private capital groups had vied to buy low-cost carrier in months-long battleParamount agrees safeguards for UK approval of $110bn WBD dealCalifornia sues DuPont over alleged effort to avoid ‘forever chemicals’ liabilitiesState’s attorney-general says lawsuit involves ‘first-of-its-kind’ litigationConocoPhillips chief Ryan Lance to step down after 14 yearsColombian narcos head to Ukraine for drone expertiseThe 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 ft.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://www.ft.com/markets");
// 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!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.ft.com/markets");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, a[href*='/content/']").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, h2, h3")?.textContent?.trim();
const summary = el.querySelector("p:first-of-type, [class*='standfirst']")?.textContent?.trim();
const tag = el.querySelector("a[href*='/stream/'], [class*='tag']")?.textContent?.trim();
const time = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
if (title) articles.push({ title, summary, tag, time });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(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 ft.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00054 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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