JSTOR Scraper
Spider read jstor.org in 164 ms without a browser and returned 57 lines of clean markdown.
Explore the world’s knowledge, cultures, and ideasIndian, A Brahmin gives Krishna the Message or Invitation for the Competition to Rukmini’s Svayamvara, from a Bhagavata Purana, c.1650-60, Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0).Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art.Enrich your research with primary sourcesExplore millions of high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more.Take an interdisciplinary approach to **American Foreign Policy in the Middle East**Explore American Foreign Policy in the Middle East through a variety of media typesPart of Arab Studies QuarterlyPart of Uluslararası İlişkiler / International RelationsPart of Visual Arts Legacy CollectionPart of Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in EgyptPart of Staying in the Fight: How War on Terror Veterans in Congress Are Shaping US Defense PolicyPart of Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian GulfPart of Middle East InstitutePart of Arab Center for Research & Policy StudiesPart of International Crisis GroupBroaden your research with images and primary sourcesHarness the power of visual materials—explore more than 3 million images now on JSTOR.Enhance your scholarly research with underground newspapers, magazines, and journals.Explore collections in the arts, sciences, and literature from the world’s leading museums, archives, and scholars.Search Artstor collectionsThe 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 jstor.org.
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.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=artificial+intelligence");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=artificial+intelligence");
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".search-result-item").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector(".title a")?.textContent?.trim();
const authors = el.querySelector(".author")?.textContent?.trim();
const journal = el.querySelector(".journal-title")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector(".pub-date")?.textContent?.trim();
const abstract = el.querySelector(".description")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) articles.push({ title, authors, journal, date, abstract });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();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 jstor.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000081 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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