Freecycle Scraper
Spider read freecycle.org in 1.1 s without a browser and returned 32 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Unsupported Browser", "NEARBY TOWNS" and "changing the world one gift at a time&trade".
### Unsupported BrowserHello! We’ve noticed that you are using Internet Explorer to access our site. This browser is no longer supported. Please switch to another browser and try again.Click here for more information.**Welcome to The Freecycle Network**™! We are a grassroots & entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own Towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Membership is free. And now you can *also* set up your own, smaller personal Friends Circle for gifting *and* lending of items with just your friends!### NEARBY TOWNS...#### changing the world one gift at a time™Our mission is to build a worldwide sharing movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.#### 12,213,768#### 5,333#### 0Operation is grassroots and 100% nonprofitLocal Towns are moderated by volunteersZero tolerance of Scams, Spam and Adult Content#### Become a memberThe 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 freecycle.org.
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://freecycle.org");
// 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.freecycle.org", {
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 freecycle.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000075 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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Start scraping freecycle.org.
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.