Fourmilab Scraper
Spider read fourmilab.ch in 698 ms without a browser and returned 34 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Job Titles".
# Job TitlesI'm growing increasingly concerned about the title escalation going onaround here. It seems like every time we hire somebody we have tocreate a new job title to wedge them in the hierarchy without woundingThis is hardly in the spirit of solidarity we shared when we marchedin the Programmer's Strike For Parity twenty years ago.Therefore, I suggest that we establish the following job titles forthe technical staff, banishing ``Software Engineer'' to the darkness> Intergalactic Exalted Cosmic Hyper ProgrammerTitles shall be unrelated to pay, and shall be chosen by the employee. 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 fourmilab.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://fourmilab.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 { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.fourmilab.ch", {
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 fourmilab.ch costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000015 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.