Freakonomics Scraper
Spider read freakonomics.com in 188 ms without a browser and returned 124 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Harlan Coben", "Better in Person: Highlights" and "What If Being a Stranger Is Actually Your Superpower?".
### Harlan CobenThe mega-best-selling author talks suburbia, impostor syndrome, and what he learned from his college friend David Foster Wallace.## Better in Person: Highlights### What If Being a Stranger Is Actually Your Superpower?### How Harlan Coben Keeps Readers Up Until 4 A.M.## More Episodes### Travis Tygart Is Coming for Cheaters — Just Ask Lance ArmstrongHe’s the C.E.O. of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which, under his charge, exposed the most celebrated American cyclist as a cheater. And Steve’s been studying cheaters for the last 25 years, so he’s also excited to talk to Travis about the incentives to cheat and the advances in testing technology — and offers his services as an anti-doping data detective for the sport of horse racing.### BotoxWhy do millions of people pay to have one of the world’s deadliest toxins injected into their faces? Zachary Crockett looks surprised.### Should We All Be Taking More Long Shots?What’s the difference between dispositional optimism and agentic hope? Are there benefits to taking a long shot, even if it turns out to be an air ball? And how is Angela like an N.F.L. quarterback?### Does it Take a Twisted Mind to Write Twisted Stories? | Better In PersonHarlan Coben doesn’t think so. The mega-best-selling author talks suburbia, impostor syndrome, and what he learned from his college friend David Foster Wallace. If you’d like to see the video version of Better in Person, you can watch it on YouTube or Apple Podcasts.## Freakonomics Radio Network NewsletterStay up-to-date on all our shows. We promise no spam.## The Freakonomics Radio Network## How to Listen**You want to listen to Freakonomics Radio? That’s great!** Most people use a podcast app on their smartphone. It’s free (with the purchase of a phone, of course). Looking for more guidance? We’ve got you covered.Learn more about how to listen## The BooksThe 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 freakonomics.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://freakonomics.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.freakonomics.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 freakonomics.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000115 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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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.