Hacker News Scraper
Spider read news.ycombinator.com in 150 ms without a browser and returned 98 lines of clean markdown.
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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 news.ycombinator.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://news.ycombinator.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 { 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://news.ycombinator.com/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const stories = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".athing").forEach(el => {
const rank = el.querySelector(".rank")?.textContent?.trim();
const title = el.querySelector(".titleline a")?.textContent?.trim();
const url = el.querySelector(".titleline a")?.getAttribute("href");
const subtext = el.nextElementSibling;
const score = subtext?.querySelector(".score")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = subtext?.querySelector(".hnuser")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) stories.push({ rank, title, url, score, author });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: stories.length, stories: stories.slice(0, 30) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 news.ycombinator.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000067 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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