Historytoday Scraper
Spider read historytoday.com in 162 ms without a browser and returned 138 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Promise of Peace", "Today’s featured articles" and "How Iraq Became a Military State".
## Promise of PeaceIn August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed a realistic promise.## Today’s featured articles### How Iraq Became a Military StateWhen Iraq gained independence in 1932, its sovereignty remained constrained by Britain. The monarchy responded by building a powerful military that soon turned its guns on the country’s own people.### Charles Darwin’s Sexual RevolutionThe potential implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection did not sit well with Victorian gender mores – or with Darwin himself.### How Windrush Changed the CaribbeanThe Windrush generation witnessed the Caribbean colonies from which they had emigrated achieve independence. Despite being an ocean away, they were not passive observers.## Most recentKing of Games: Politics, Polo, and the Raj‘The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed’ reviewIn *The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed* Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi regime’s self-regard.‘The Cheese and the Worms’ by Carlo Ginzburg reviewA new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory *The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller*.Often dismissed as a myth, was there a real man behind the legend of King Arthur?‘Charismatic Nations’ by Joep Leerssen review*Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present* by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the birth of the nation.Portrait of the Author as a HistorianThe Absurdity of Albert CamusFor Albert Camus understanding the past and predicting the future may hinge on one fact: history is absurd.‘This Dark Night’ by Deborah Lutz reviewThe 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 historytoday.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://historytoday.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.historytoday.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 historytoday.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000121 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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