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Homebrew Scraper

Extract formula details, cask metadata, install counts, and version histories from the Homebrew package index. Built on spider-browser .

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target
formulae.brew.sh
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/formulae.brew.sh/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/formulae.brew.sh/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://formulae.brew.sh/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "formula_name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "version": "string",
    "license": "string",
    "dependencies": "string",
    "installs_30d": "string",
    "homepage": "string",
    "cask_token": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from formulae.brew.sh with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

homebrew-scraper.ts
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 to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Formula nameDescriptionVersionLicenseDependenciesInstalls (30d)HomepageCask token
Rendering

React SPA handling

Full browser rendering for streaming content and dynamic React UI.

Content

Structured parsing

Extract code blocks, documentation, repository data, and metadata.

Waiting

Load completion

Smart network idle detection waits for dynamically loaded content to finish.

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Start

Start scraping formulae.brew.sh.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.