The Independent Scraper
Spider read independent.co.uk in 160 ms without a browser and returned 596 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "No 10 enters Soho licensing row after Sadiq Khan criticism", "Wetherspoon bans filming on Meta glasses inside pubs" and "Bring back men who don’t spend all day admiring themselves".
Today's headlines and latest breaking news## More disruption expected after Manchester power failure causes delays## Police officer ‘seriously bitten’ in second night of anti-migrant violence in Norfolk## Trump says Strait of Hormuz ‘sort of open’ as he denies munitions shortage in war with Tehran## Uefa stick with Fifa boycott but hold greater weapon to oust Infantino## Putin ‘considering false flag strike on Baltics’ after bomb drone found at Leipzig airport## Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘chased by balaclava-wearing stalker’ on Sandringham estate## Volunteers angry at delay in joining plastic nurdles clean-up## Scientists uncover new windows of opportunity to attack brain cancer## The allure of Le Morne: Discover Mauritius’ most scenic shore## No 10 enters Soho licensing row after Sadiq Khan criticism## EasyJet to be sold to US private-equity firm## This is why I’m backing London’s bid to host WorldPride* London launches bid to host WorldPride in 2032## ‘Heatwaves opened up cracks in my £500k home – now it’s worthless’* Sean O’Grady: Where on this dying beige planet has the Green Party gone?## Wetherspoon bans filming on Meta glasses inside pubs## AI used to create new viruses but experts warn of biosafety risk## Meet the 70-year-old who went from self-published author to bestseller## Bring back men who don’t spend all day admiring themselves## Stephen Bear jailed for harassing ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison## E-scooters pose higher risk of severe injury than motorcycles or bikes## Amanda Knox defends Edinburgh Fringe festival show amid criticism## Rupert Lowe refuses to say whether King Charles is a white Briton in car-crash interview## Strange romcom starring Bond contender Callum Turner gets zero-star review## ‘I’ll die a blissful failure’: Sadhguru’s mission to reach three billion young people## Reform pledges to create ‘Turkish barber tip line’ in bid to crack down on illegal workersThe 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 independent.co.uk.
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://www.independent.co.uk/news/world");
// 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!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world");
const data = await page.extractFields({
headline: "h1#articleHeader, article h1, [data-testid='headline']",
author: "article [rel='author'], a[href*='/author/'], .author-name a",
date: "time[datetime], amp-timeago",
summary: "#article-summary, article header p, [data-testid='summary']",
body: "#main, article [itemprop='articleBody'], article > div",
image: { selector: "#main-image img, .hero-image img", attribute: "src" },
});
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 independent.co.uk costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000566 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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