Heroku Scraper
Spider read heroku.com in 147 ms without a browser and returned 142 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Extensibility", "Security and Compliance" and "An ecosystem built to scale your stack".
Every pull request can spin up a disposable Review App for testing, and manually or automatically deploy a particular branch on every GitHub push.### ExtensibilityCustomize your stack with a Heroku innovation: Buildpacks. Build your own, or choose one from the hundreds built by the community.### Security and ComplianceHeroku regularly performs audits and maintains PCI, HIPAA, ISO, and SOC compliance – We are the simplest path to delivering engaging apps that meet high compliance requirements.## An ecosystem built to scale your stackDon’t reinvent the wheel. Heroku’s 150+ third-party add-ons and 380+ open source buildpacks provide a rich ecosystem of preintegrated extensions and services.### Officially supported languagesIn addition to our officially supported languages, you can use any language that runs on Linux with Heroku via a third-party buildpack.## Scalable app hosting for building AI applications and agentsHeroku makes it easy to build with AI, without the complexity of managing your own AI services. Access leading AI models and build faster with Managed Inference and Agents, and extend your AI with Model Context Protocol (MCP).### Heroku Managed Inference and AgentsAccess leading models with minimal setup – `heroku ai:models:create` is all you need. Heroku Managed Inference and Agents helps you quickly build and deploy AI applications and agents, providing a unified platform that connects your application, AI, data, and tools.### Model Context Protocol (MCP) on HerokuExtend your AI agents with tools and APIs using the open Model Context Protocol. Easily host and scale MCP servers on Heroku to enhance your agents with a broad ecosystem of tools, or your own custom logic.### pgvector for Heroku PostgresThe 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 heroku.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://elements.heroku.com/addons");
// 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://elements.heroku.com/addons");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const addons = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".addon-list-item, [class*='addon-card']").forEach(el => {
const name = el.querySelector("h3, [class*='name']")?.textContent?.trim();
const desc = el.querySelector("p, [class*='description']")?.textContent?.trim();
const category = el.querySelector("[class*='category']")?.textContent?.trim();
const price = el.querySelector("[class*='price']")?.textContent?.trim();
if (name) addons.push({ name, desc, category, price });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: addons.length, addons: addons.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
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 heroku.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000661 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping heroku.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.