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

POST /fetch/jalopnik.com/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://jalopnik.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "article_title": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "publish_date": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "comment_count": "string",
    "lead_image": "string",
    "body_text": "string",
    "tags": "string"
  }
}

# Jalopnik Scraper

**Article title**: string
**Author**: string
**Publish date**: string
**Category**: string
**Comment count**: string
**Lead image**: string
**Body text**: string
**Tags**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

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();

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"}'

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())

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);