Hockey-reference Scraper
Spider read hockey-reference.com in 115 ms without a browser and returned 565 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Stathead Hockey Powered By Hockey Reference", "Stathead Resources" and "NHL Scores".
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on hockey-reference.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://hockey-reference.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.hockey-reference.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 hockey-reference.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000322 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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