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Logistics & Shipping
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FreightWaves Scraper

Extract freight market analytics, trucking spot rates, supply chain news, and carrier performance benchmarks from FreightWaves. Built on spider-browser .

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target
freightwaves.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/freightwaves.com/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/freightwaves.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://freightwaves.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "article_title": "string",
    "spot_rate": "string",
    "lane": "string",
    "market_trend": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "published_date": "string",
    "index_value": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from freightwaves.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

freightwaves-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://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 to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Article titleSpot rateLaneMarket trendAuthorCategoryPublished dateIndex value
Data

Tracking extraction

Extract shipment status, delivery estimates, and tracking details from freightwaves.com.

Rendering

Dynamic tracking

Handle real-time tracking maps and status update interfaces.

Scale

Bulk tracking

Process thousands of tracking numbers and shipment records concurrently.

Related

More Logistics & Shipping scrapers.

Start

Start scraping freightwaves.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.