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follow.it · HTTP 200

Follow Scraper

Spider read follow.it in 471 ms without a browser and returned 91 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Follow your favorite blogs and news sites", "Get alerted about (almost) everything" and "Filter your news".

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Response follow.it/index.md markdown · 91 lines
Turn your news into money and traffic### **Follow** your favorite blogs and news sitesQuickly find feeds that match your interestsEnter any website to get alerted about future updatesFollow websites while you browse the net, either via our bookmarklet tool or browser extensionFollow & unfollow with one click — your email stays confidential, so there's **no risk of spam**### **Get alerted** about (almost) everythingUse follow.it as alert platform to get notified about:Severe weather conditions in your areaNew YouTube videos matching your criteriaDevelopments in exchange rates, commodity prices etc.### **Filter** your newsprevent information overload by filtering feeds by:Story's popularity (**coming soon**)### Decide how you want to **receive the news**Pick from a wide range of delivery channels:Read your news directly on follow.itGet them delivered by email – either immediately, or a daily digest (“Newspaper”), or a weekly digest (“Magazine”)Receive your news via email, RSS, Telegram, browser push, mobile app, and several other delivery channelsto stay on top of the news like never before## Get **more traffic** for your websiteAllow visitors to follow you via a subscription form, buttons, popups, banners, side-widgets etc. (MyPopUps is free for all follow.it users)Our processes are optimized so that most people follow you, receive updates in their inbox, and come back to your siteWhenever you post new content, we send out a notification automatically – no effort for youThe basic plan (unlimited emails & followers) is free## **Monetize** your newsOffer a feed on follow.it where we take messages from your website (automatically), or you enter them manually on follow.it, or via your APIEarn revenues from ads in emailsTurn your feed into a premium feed to earn credits on follow.itMonetizing your feed and earning credits is free for youto turn your news into money & traffic
Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

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 follow.it.

follow-it-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://follow.it");

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

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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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 follow.it costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000301 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://follow.it/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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