Haproxy Scraper
Spider read haproxy.com in 2.4 s without a browser and returned 197 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Slide Deck".
## Slide DeckHere you can view the slides used in this presentation if you’d like a quick overview of what was shown during the talk.My name is Kalai. I'm a Senior Staff Network Engineer at PayPal. Today, we're going to talk about building bridges across the public cloud. It's the PayPal way: how we solved the business challenge we ran into by using HAProxy.I'm partnering with Sid, who will give us some background about PayPal's global infrastructure and the challenges we face today. Then, I'll discuss the solution, and we'll discuss the results and the closing thoughts further. Over to you, Sid.Thanks, Kalai. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Sid.This is the agenda that we'll talk through. We'll talk about PayPal's global footprint, the challenges that we ran into, and the solution we came up with, some results, and then the closing thoughts.Before we go into the technical details, I want to give you a quick overview of who we are and the scale we operate at. PayPal was founded in 1999. We started as a simple online payment platform, but then we evolved into one of the most trusted financial institutions in the world.We have a number of business units. You might know all these already.* Venmo is a social peer-to-peer payment platform.* Xoom provides international remittances.* Zettle provides a POS solution for small businesses and supports in-store payment options.* Honey provides digital rewards and shopping tools.* Braintree provides payment processing for businesses.* HyperWallet provides a mass payout option for businesses.* And finally, PayPal Credit provides financial options for consumers.We currently have 436 million active accounts or users on the platform, operate in 200+ countries, and processed $1.6 trillion in total payments last year. To support all this, we need a global presence and a global, scalable infrastructure to serve our customers.The 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 haproxy.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://haproxy.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.haproxy.com", {
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 haproxy.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000949 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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- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping haproxy.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.