Joelonsoftware Scraper
Spider read joelonsoftware.com in 146 ms without a browser and returned 197 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "What’s new?", "Reading lists" and "Top 10".
## What’s new?Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more “Progress on the Block Protocol”You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more “Making the web better. With blocks!”The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more “Kinda a big announcement”Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more “HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world”## Reading listsOver the last 16 years I’ve written 1114 articles on this site about software development, management, business, and the Internet. To make it easy to find the best ones, here are some reading lists, sorted by topic.### Top 10* Things You Should Never Do, Part I* Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon* The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code* The Iceberg Secret, Revealed* The Law of Leaky Abstractions* The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)* How Microsoft Lost the API War* The Development Abstraction Layer### Stack Overflow* Server Fault now in public beta* Raising money for StackOverflow* Facebook / LinkedIn importers* Web Applications Stack Exchange now in beta* A new WordPress Stack Exchange* New, PNG-based Stack Overflow flair* Stack Exchange for Jewish Life and Learning* The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions* Careers 2.0 (by Stack Overflow)* Stack Overflow (the company) is now Stack Exchange* Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams* The next CEO of Stack Overflow### New developer* NDAs and Contracts That You Should Never Sign* Getting Things Done When You’re Only a GruntThe 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 joelonsoftware.com.
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://joelonsoftware.com");
// 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.joelonsoftware.com", {
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 joelonsoftware.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000143 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.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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