Gbif Scraper
Spider read gbif.org in 107 ms without a browser and returned 111 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "What is GBIF?", "News" and "Data use".
GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information FacilityLittle leaf sheep (*Costasiella kuroshimae*) observed in Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia by3,000,000,000Occurrence records100,000Datasets2,400Publishing institutions12,000Peer-reviewed papers using data## What is GBIF?GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.## News##### Data Use Club practical session: New and improved GBIF.org##### New and improved GBIF.org website##### New BID-funded projects strengthen biodiversity data capacity across Africa##### Global initiative expands access to unique disease vector information through data papers## Data use*Senna reticulata* (Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby observed in Manaus, Brazil by crax (CC BY-NC 4.0)#### Climate changePeer-reviewed papers using dataBiodiversity loss and climate change interact in many ways, reflecting two sides of the same problem: humanity’s unsustainable relationship with the natural world. Explore the research relying on data from the GBIF network to understand and assess the growing impact that changing temperatures, precipitation and other climate-related phenomena are having on biodiversity.*Sphagneticola trilobata* (L.) Pruski observed in Macao by Jeremy J Busfield (CC BY-NC 4.0)#### Invasive alien speciesInformation is the single most important variable necessary to support research, monitoring and management of alien and invasive species. From identifying and predicting potential invasions to improving management applications, detection strategies, and risk assessments, GBIF plays a pivotal role in fulfilling data needs about these costly and disruptive forces of change.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 gbif.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://gbif.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.gbif.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 gbif.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000215 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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