Ghost Scraper
Spider read ghost.org in 111 ms without a browser and returned 251 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Easy site design", "Advanced creator tools" and "Rich media & dynamic cards".
Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.Try Ghost completely free for 14 days →## Easy site designComplete control over *your* website and branding.Launch a custom website and tweak the design settings to perfectly match your brand and style.Go even further with hundreds of custom themes in our marketplace, or build your own completely custom design from scratch.Your unique brand sits front and center, while Ghost runs things in the background.## Advanced creator toolsPublish by web & email newsletter.An editor built from the ground-up for professionals. Calm by design, with advanced workflows by default. No more suffering through clumsy toolbars or drag & oops. Immerse yourself in the story with an interface that's invisible until you need it, and powerful when you do.### Rich media & dynamic cards.Modern publishing requires more than just words. Expand your story with image galleries, gifs, video, audio, products, info boxes, accordion toggles, downloadable files, bookmarks, and so much more.### Newsletters built-in.Deliver posts by email newsletter to your audience, so they'll be in the loop whenever something new goes live. Segment your audience and send multiple different newsletters based on preference.## Grow your audiencesTransform those clicks into contacts.Until now, building an indie publication with memberships and subscriptions has been difficult and complicated.Ghost makes it easy, with native signup forms that turn anonymous views into logged-in members.Allow people to sign up for free, or purchase a paid subscription to support your work across monthly and yearly premium tiers.## Run your businessThe 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 ghost.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://ghost.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.ghost.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 ghost.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000198 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
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping ghost.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.