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Jalopnik Scraper

Extract Jalopnik automotive news articles, car reviews, opinion pieces, and community deal-of-the-day posts. Built on spider-browser .

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target
jalopnik.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

jalopnik-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://jalopnik.com/what-car-should-you-buy");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: "h1",
  author: '[data-vars-type="author"] a, article header a[rel="author"]',
  date: { selector: "time", attribute: "datetime" },
  body: ".js_post-content",
  comments: ".js_reply-count",
  image: { selector: ".js_lazy-image img", attribute: "data-src" },
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
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Fetch API

One endpoint for jalopnik.com.

Structured JSON from jalopnik.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/jalopnik.com/
Article titleAuthorPublish dateCategoryComment countLead image
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/jalopnik.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/jalopnik.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/jalopnik.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

Fields you can pull.

Article titleAuthorPublish dateCategoryComment countLead imageBody textTags
Listings

Vehicle inventory

Extract make, model, year, price, and mileage from jalopnik.com listings.

Rendering

Dynamic search

Handle interactive search filters, map views, and lazy-loaded inventory pages.

Scale

Market coverage

Process thousands of vehicle listings across dealers and private sellers.

Related

More Automotive scrapers.

Start

Start scraping jalopnik.com.

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