Itch Scraper
Spider read itch.io in 129 ms without a browser and returned 440 lines of clean markdown.
Issue #77 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.Build the recording studio of your dreams!To quench a thirst for coffee!Strategy meets physics, in this roguelike word game, where you combine spelling with cool upgrades to score high#Turn-based Strategy, #StrategyThe Mainframe is lost, corps rule the Net. But the Hacker is back.A beautiful throwback to the simulation games of the 90s/00s, designed with modern-day featuresHarvest body parts. Create brutal combos.Tavern Talk Stories: DreamwalkerLove at The Milky Way Diner - DemoA LGBT-friendly cozy sci-fi cooking/dating sim about making friends, finding love, and running a diner in deep spacea story-driven watercolour puzzle gameThe sequel to one of the most famous C64 games of all time is here![Bloodbane: The Crimson Nocturne [Post-Ludum ver.]](https://hvdr02.itch.io/bloodbane-the-crimson-nocturne-post-ludum-ver)Command your servant, harvest blood and resources, unlock new lands with cards—and slay an ancient vampireUncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster#Pixel Art, #Female ProtagonistUncle Lee has done it again. And again. And again. And again. And again.An extraction fishing experience with inventory management and upgradesJack reaches new heights in this turn-based puzzle-platformer sequel![DAWN CHORUS [DEMO]](https://haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-demo)#Interactive Fiction, #Post-apocalyptic[ALTEREDBLOOD+ [DEMO]](https://trueworldstudios.itch.io/alteredblood)An FPS about standing in the blood of your enemiesA card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed.Moss the world and find secrets (PICO-8).A wholesome slice of life yuri story about maids and (maybe) vampires?An incremental game where you manage a tavern with a deadly secret beneath it.Bass cannot break the law of conservation of massBlack Omens: House of Crimson SilkThe 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 itch.io.
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://itch.io");
// 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.itch.io", {
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 itch.io costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000188 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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