Homebrew Scraper
Spider read formulae.brew.sh in 1.2 s without a browser and returned 1,798 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "JSON API Documentation" and "Metadata".
# JSON API Documentation## Metadata### List metadata for all Homebrew/core formulae or Homebrew/cask casksList the `brew info --json` output for all current Homebrew/homebrew-core formulae or Homebrew/homebrew-cask casks.`curl https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jsoncurl https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.json"desc": "Internet file retriever","homepage": "https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/","url": "https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.25.0.tar.gz","checksum": "766e48423e79359ea31e41db9e5c289675947a7fcf2efdcedb726ac9d0da3784""url": "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git","root_url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core","url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:27e15ca14afaaa7c2016bba7a098452cf66d1d8a74330ed6195a0b6ae7a4dada","sha256": "27e15ca14afaaa7c2016bba7a098452cf66d1d8a74330ed6195a0b6ae7a4dada""url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:aa19cf5de262d5b67631af8288cce233a075c251c68050a1e73699314a911e7b","sha256": "aa19cf5de262d5b67631af8288cce233a075c251c68050a1e73699314a911e7b""url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:ebac9bd5e93603af8d3dcf3cfed9924f773e0fa5f8a827c12c69ad07cc80a6de","sha256": "ebac9bd5e93603af8d3dcf3cfed9924f773e0fa5f8a827c12c69ad07cc80a6de""url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:32e76ca0ef4b26d7022dd1cad7621e8cd9bccca7677b7d4646d30d2fa009f413","sha256": "32e76ca0ef4b26d7022dd1cad7621e8cd9bccca7677b7d4646d30d2fa009f413""cellar": "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar","url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:f6e698ad339b9d9398f9769ad46ffa999809e9e07ab0e6d9a1537ec136dbaf01","sha256": "f6e698ad339b9d9398f9769ad46ffa999809e9e07ab0e6d9a1537ec136dbaf01""url": "https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:8f58b44e7482ee12e910df582cf43a4dadb808e4db70bfc760aaf258942652a5","sha256": "8f58b44e7482ee12e910df582cf43a4dadb808e4db70bfc760aaf258942652a5""deprecation_replacement_formula": null,"deprecation_replacement_cask": null,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 formulae.brew.sh.
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://formulae.brew.sh/formula/");
// 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://formulae.brew.sh/formula/");
const data = await page.extractFields({
name: ".formula-list a",
link: ".formula-list a",
description: ".formula-list .desc",
version: ".formula-list .version",
license: ".formula-list .license",
installs: ".formula-list .installs",
});
console.log(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 formulae.brew.sh costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000047 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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