Git-scm Scraper
Spider read git-scm.com in 753 ms without a browser and returned 1,419 lines of clean markdown.
6. otherwise, *refs/remotes/<refname>/HEAD* if it exists.`HEAD` names the commit on which you based the changes in the working tree.`FETCH_HEAD` records the branch which you fetched from a remote repositorywith your last `git` `fetch` invocation.`ORIG_HEAD` is created by commands that move your `HEAD` in a drasticway, to record the position of the `HEAD` before their operation, so thatyou can easily change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran`MERGE_HEAD` records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch`CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` records the commit which you are cherry-pickingNote that any of the *refs/** cases above may come either fromthe `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred assome output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.*[<refname>]@{<date>}*, e.g. *master@{yesterday}*, *HEAD@{5 minutes ago}*A ref followed by the suffix *@* with a date specificationpair (e.g. *{yesterday}*, *{1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour 1second ago}* or *{1979-02-26 18:30:00}*) specifies the valueof the ref at a prior point in time. This suffix may only beused immediately following a ref name and the ref must have anexisting log (*$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>*). Note that this looks up the stateof your **local** ref at a given time; e.g., what was in your local*master* branch last week. If you want to look at commits made duringcertain times, see `--since` and `--until`.A ref followed by the suffix *@* with an ordinal specificationenclosed in a brace pair (e.g. *{1}*, *{15}*) specifiesthe n-th prior value of that ref. For example *master@{1}*is the immediate prior value of *master* while *master@{5}*is the 5th prior value of *master*. This suffix may only be usedimmediately following a ref name and the ref must have an existingYou can use the *@* construct with an empty ref part to get at aThe 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 git-scm.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://git-scm.com");
// 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.git-scm.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
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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 git-scm.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000181 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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