FreightWaves Scraper
Spider read freightwaves.com in 155 ms without a browser and returned 867 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Calling devs: SONAR launches Driver App Shortage Hackathon" and "Why do tender lead times keep climbing".
## They Watched the Family Business Get Rolled Up. Then They Built the Version They Wanted to Work For.## DOT Says Freedom Haulers Opens an Express Lane for Veterans. Much of That Lane Was Already Built.Upcoming FreightWaves EventsBrokerage Compliance SymposiumThe Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo • Chattanooga, TNOctober 27, 2026 – October 28, 2026F3: Future of Freight Festival## SONAR and Retlia Announce a Strategic Integration of Retail IntelligenceIntegration of ‘The Register’ indicator provides SONAR users with critical foresight into retail demand, market confidence and inventory volatility SONAR and Retlia have announced a partnership to deliver advanced retail data analytics directly into the SONAR UI, the freight industry’s leading market intelligence platform. This collaboration addresses a gap in the logistics landscape by bridging […]## SONAR Launches Accepted Truckload Volume Index to Close the Gap Between Tendered and Moving Freight## SONAR Launches Carrier Safety Dashboard — Right on Time for International Roadcheck WeekWATCH MORE FROM SONAR ### More from SONAR ## SONAR Upgrades Batch Rate Intelligence Into a Full RFP Pricing EngineSONAR this week released a significant upgrade to Batch Rate Intelligence, expanding the feature from a bulk lane analysis tool into what the company describes as a complete RFP pricing workflow.## USDOT signs on as a customer of SONAR’s high frequency freight market dataThe US Department of Transportation has signed a deal to receive high-frequency freight market data from SONAR.## Calling devs: SONAR launches Driver App Shortage HackathonFreightWaves SONAR will launch its first virtual Driver App Shortage Hackathon on June 15-22 to address the lack of software built primarily for truck drivers.## Why do tender lead times keep climbingThe 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 freightwaves.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.freightwaves.com/news");
// 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!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.freightwaves.com/news");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".post-card, article.entry").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, .entry-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = el.querySelector(".author-name, .entry-author")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector(".post-date, .entry-date")?.textContent?.trim();
const summary = el.querySelector("p, .excerpt")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, .entry-title a")?.href;
if (title) articles.push({ title, author, date, summary, link });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
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 freightwaves.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000461 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
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Start scraping freightwaves.com.
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.