Hal Scraper
Spider read hal.science in 1.3 s without a browser and returned 75 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "5. Other informations", "Validation" and "1. Check the information in the citation".
* **ANR project(s)**: enter the project’s decision code, the acronym or the project’s title;* **European project(s)**: enter the project(s) linked to the article;* **Contract, financing**: if necessary, enter the other sources of funding for the article (free text field).### 5. Other informationsThis section allows you to enter other information such as classification, JEL or MeSH keywords, Research infrastructure, etc.## ValidationIn order to finalise the application, the various validation stages must be followed.### 1. Check the information in the citationThe bibliographic citation is based on the information entered in the form. Check the citation and correct the metadata in the form if necessary.Reminder: the type of document must be “Preprints, Working Papers, …” to the exclusion of all others. Only this type of document can activate the document transfer function on Episciences.Check the metadata carefully:* Author: first names and surnames of all authors;### 2. Transferring your depositIf the article has an abstract in English and is related to a discipline on arXiv, it can be transferred to the open repository (conditions for transfer to arXiv). To do this, check “I transfer to arXiv”.### 3. Submitting your preprint to a publishing or a peer-review serviceTo submit your preprint directly to an Episciences journal or a peer-review service, select the desired journal from the drop-down list.After validation of the submission form (next stage), the preprint is subjected to a human technical check. Once validated, the preprint will be available online on HAL and automatically sent to the chosen journal.### 4. Accept the HAL terms and conditionsTo validate the deposit, check “I accept these conditions” and click on “Upload”.#### Gestion des cookiesThe 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 hal.science.
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://hal.science");
// 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.hal.science", {
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 hal.science costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000021 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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