Weather & Environment

IQAir Scraper

Extract worldwide air quality rankings, city pollution comparisons, PM2.5 measurements, and health recommendations from IQAir. Powered by spider-browser .

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iqair.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

iqair-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://www.iqair.com/world-most-polluted-cities");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const cities = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("table tbody tr, .city-row").forEach(el => {
    const rank = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1), .rank")?.textContent?.trim();
    const city = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2) a, .city-name")?.textContent?.trim();
    const aqi = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3), .aqi-value")?.textContent?.trim();
    const country = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4), .country-name")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (city) cities.push({ rank, city, aqi, country });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: cities.length, cities: cities.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from iqair.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/iqair.com/

City nameAQI valuePM2.5TemperatureHumidityWind

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/iqair.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/iqair.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/iqair.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction