gzip Documentation Scraper
Spider read gzip.org in 124 ms without a browser and returned 37 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Intro", "Links" and "A Brief History".
### Intro### Linkswhere you can find the latest gzip source code, documentation, and development information* gzip documentation (from that home page),if you came here with questions about how to use gzip, *this is the link for you*where pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip, able to take advantage of multiple processors, cores, and threadswhich is the specification of the gzip wrapper formatwhich is the specification of the deflate compressed data format, contained within the gzip wrappera free software library written in C, which you can use to read and write gzip files and memory streams* How are zlib, gzip and zip related?,to answer your most pressing questions (*summary:* gzip is not zip, zip is not gzip)### A Brief Historywoolly mammoths](http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/woolly-mammoths-walk/) roamed the Earth,the *gzip* utility to replace the Unix *compress* utility. Atthe time the continued use of *compress* was threatened by giantcorporations holding patents on the LZW algorithm used by*compress*. In addition to avoiding patent infringement,*gzip* provided superior compression. The *gzip* utility andThe 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 gzip.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://www.gzip.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 { 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://www.gzip.org");
const data = await page.extractFields({
history_links: "a[href^="http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/woolly-mammoths-walk/"], a[href^="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-loup_Gailly"], a[href^="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler"]",
link_url: "a[href^="https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/"], a[href^="https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html"], a[href^="https://zlib.net/pigz"], a[href^="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952"], a[href^="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951"], a[href^="https://zlib.net"], a[href^="https://stackoverflow.com/a/20765054/1180620"]",
});
console.log(data);
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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 gzip.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000017 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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