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Spider read greenend.org.uk in 855 ms without a browser and returned 900 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "2. The Viewer" and "2.1. Views".

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Response chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/tig/manual.md markdown · 900 lines
This is the manual for Tig, the ncurses-based text-mode interface for git.All Git command options specified on the command line will be passed to thegiven command and all will be shell quoted before they are passed to the|If you specify options for the main view, you should not use the`--pretty` option as this option will be set automatically to the formatExample on how to view a commit and show both author and committerSee the section on specifying revisions for an introduction torevision options supported by the Git commands. For details on specific Gitcommand options, refer to the man page of the command in question.## 2. The ViewerThe display consists of a status window on the last line of the screen and oneor more views. The default is to only show one view at a time but it ispossible to split both the main and log view to also show the commit diff.If you are in the log view and press *Enter* when the current line is a commit`commit 4d55caff4cc89335192f3e566004b4ceef572521`You will split the view so that the log view is displayed in the top windowand the diff view in the bottom window. You can switch between the two viewsby pressing *Tab*. To maximize the log view again, simply press *l*.### 2.1. ViewsVarious *views* of a repository are presented. Each view is based on outputfrom an external command, most often *git log*, *git diff*, or *git show*.Is the default view, and it shows a one line summary of each commitin the chosen list of revisions. The summary includes author date,author, and the first line of the log message. Additionally, anyrepository references, such as tags, will be shown.Presents a more rich view of the revision log showing the whole logPresents a view of the reflog allowing to navigate the repoShows either the diff of the current working tree, that is, whathas changed since the last commit, or the commit diff completewith log message, diffstat and diff.
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on greenend.org.uk.

greenend-org-uk-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://greenend.org.uk");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
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Fields you can pull.

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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 greenend.org.uk costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000108 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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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/tig/manual.html", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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