Hypothes Scraper
Spider read hypothes.is in 140 ms without a browser and returned 165 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "How Does Hypothesis Social Annotation Work?", "Comment and highlight directly over content" and "Turn Annotations into Discussions".
Students aren’t reading. Discussion boards are dead zones. AI shortcuts are everywhere. Hypothesis — the market-leading social annotation platform — transforms passive assignments into active, collaborative learning. Built for higher education. Integrated directly into your LMS.## How Does Hypothesis Social Annotation Work?## Comment and highlight directly over content.Students, faculty, and colleagues can highlight and comment directly on online articles, websites, videos, and more without switching platforms.## Turn Annotations into Discussions.Students, faculty, and teams can share ideas, ask questions, provide insights and respond directly to annotations. Creating a dialogue directly over content.## Tag Other Users for Increased Collaboration.Faculty, students, and teams can engage more deeply by tagging peers directly in annotations, triggering notifications and encouraging students to revisit course materials and participate in ongoing discussions.## **Why 300+ Institutions Choose Hypothesis**### **Human Centered Learning in the Age of AI**Hypothesis is built on a simple belief: real learning happens when students engage directly with ideas — not when they summarize them for an AI.Students are turning to AI to shortcut the reading and thinking that higher education depends on. Hypothesis restores what matters: real engagement with course materials, deeper critical reading, and authentic dialogue between students and instructors. Instead of policing AI, faculty can create learning environments where students actually read, think, and contribute.**Explore how Hypothesis supports AI literacy:*** Case Study: Generative AI and Social Annotation →* Blog: Why Social Annotation Is an Essential Tool for AI-Era Literacy →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 hypothes.is.
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://hypothes.is");
// 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.hypothes.is", {
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 hypothes.is costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000512 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
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping hypothes.is.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.