Funet Scraper
Spider read funet.fi in 1.1 s without a browser and returned 3,008 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Should clanup unused maps, if redo-all from root".
# Find out the path to the top level. Currnently top level is detected# Should clanup unused maps, if redo-all from root!print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>$title</TITLE>\n";print "\n\t<!-- Generated by index.pl -->\n\n";print "</HEAD><BODY $BACKGROUND>\n";print "<H1>$heading</H1>\n" if ($heading);print "<HR><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>If you have corrections, comments or\n";print " information to add into these pages, just send mail to\n";print ".\nKeep in mind that the taxononic information is copied from various sources, ";print " and may include many inaccuracies. Expert help is welcome.</EM>.\n";local ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = gmtime($stat[9]);local($group, $author, $rest, $next, $prev) = @_;local(%lits, %refs, %determinavit, $root);# ..unfortunately "life" root is part of path -- need to fix this, for now need [1 .. construct! :-(local($URL_BASE, $URL_FRACTION) = join('/', @path[1 .. $#path]) . "/${group}/index.html";$tibiale_25 = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/tibiale-25.gif", "(Introduction)");$fiflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/fi.gif","Finnish: ");$fichck = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/fi-check.gif","fi");$gbflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/gb.gif","English: ");$usflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/us.gif","USA: ");$seflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/se.gif","Swedish: ");$deflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/de.gif","German: ");$frflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/fr.gif","French: ");$esflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/es.gif","Spanish: ");$dkflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/dk.gif","Danish: ");$plflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/pl.gif","Polish: ");$eeflag = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/ee.gif","Estonian: ");$filler = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/filler.gif",'');$left_icon = do img_attributes("${topdir}${ICONS}/left.gif","<");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 funet.fi.
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://funet.fi");
// 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.funet.fi", {
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 funet.fi costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000122 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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- Balance never expires
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