History Scraper
Spider read history.com in 116 ms without a browser and returned 196 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Major historical anniversaries in August", "World War II With Tom Hanks" and "Latest Shows".
### Major historical anniversaries in August### Emily Davison: The woman who gave her life for the suffragette movement### Queen Victoria trusted one man above all others. Her family tried to erase him## World War II With Tom Hanks##### World War II with Tom Hanks World War II with Tom Hanks is a premium retelling of the Second World War, drawing on rarely seen archival material and insights from leading historians worldwide World War II##### Tessa Dunlop on Ruth Bourne, an unsung hero of Bletchley Park Dr Tessa Dunlop remembers Ruth Bourne, a Bletchley Park veteran whose wartime service offered a profound view of conflict, commemoration and freedom.##### 'It was a global war that changed global history': Interview with Sir Antony Beevor ahead of World War II with Tom Hanks Ahead of World War II with Tom Hanks airing on Sky HISTORY, Sir Antony Beevor reflects on why now is the ideal time for a new documentary.## Latest Shows### History's Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren### World War II with Tom Hanks### Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny### Knut: The Viking Emperor## Editor's Picks### 4 little-known facts about the Bayeux Tapestry### 8 facts about Andy Burnham### Erwin Rommel: The ‘Desert Fox’ who defied Hitler### From myth to IMAX: The history behind Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey## Guest Articles### James Rampton on Roger Cook and the reporters who changed history### The 5 Victoria Crosses awarded at the Battle of Arnhem### Sodomy and persecution in William III’s England### Operations Hardy and Wallace: The most successful SAS operations of WWII?## UNMISSABLE AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARIES AND FACTUAL SERIES ALL IN ONE PLACE## World Cup### The history of the World Cup### Pickles the Dog: How an unlikely hero saved the World Cup### 1934 World Cup: How Mussolini turned football into fascist propaganda### When women’s football was bigger than men’s## PropheciesThe 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 history.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://history.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.history.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 history.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000183 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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