Kotaku Scraper
Spider read kotaku.com in 122 ms without a browser and returned 441 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Ubisoft Entertainment", "Pragmata Capcom" and "Entertainment • View all".
### Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Ubisoft Entertainment### Pragmata Capcom## Entertainment • View all### *Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s* Biggest Question May Have Been Answered By This Small Scene In *No Way Home* Kenneth Shepard### Deadpool’s *Marvel Tōkon* Kit Is Packed With Fighting Game References From *Street Fighter* And More Kenneth Shepard### *Borderlands* Movie Director Says The $33 Million Box Office Flop Ended Up Being ‘Something That Belonged To Nobody’ Ethan Gach### You May Have Missed A Big *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* Reveal If You Didn’t See The Movie With Captions Kenneth Shepard## Deals • View all### Amazon Goes Big on CPU Deals as AMD Ryzen 7 Drops Below Prime Day Pricing (8-Core, 16-Thread Desktop Processor)### AirPods Max 2 Just Restocked at Below Apple Store Pricing as Amazon Goes All-In on Back-to-School### Amazon Offloads Anker Laptop Docking Station at a Record Low, With Dual 4K HDMI PortsAug 6 ### Logitech Clears Out Its Wireless Keyboard for PC-to-TV Setups at Near Black Friday Pricing on AmazonAug 6 ### Amazon Drops Govee 100ft RGBIC LED Strip Lights Back to Near Prime Day Pricing, Works With Alexa and Google AssistantAug 6 ### Samsung 27-Inch Odyssey G5 Gaming Monitor Hits Its Lowest Price in Amazon’s Final Back-to-School Clearance PushAug 6 ### AirPods Pro 3 Quietly Hits a New 30-Day Low on Amazon After Dropping Below Its Previous Best PriceJul 28 ### As Apple Pushes iPad Prices Higher, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10+ With S Pen Included Falls to a Record LowJul 28 ### This Premium Marshall Speaker Fills Every Corner of a Room With Bold Sound, Now at an All-Time LowJul 28 ### This Portable Monitor Turns Any Laptop Into a Dual-Screen Workstation, Now 50% Off and 4x Cheaper Than a Basic MonitorJul 28 ### This Tiny 10-Gram DJI Mic Reaches 400 Meters and Records Two People at Once, Now Selling at an All-Time LowThe 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 kotaku.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://kotaku.com/culture/reviews");
// 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://kotaku.com/culture/reviews");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, [data-testid='post']").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = el.querySelector("[rel='author'], a[href*='/author/']")?.textContent?.trim();
const date = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
const excerpt = el.querySelector("p")?.textContent?.trim();
const category = el.querySelector("a[href*='/culture/'], a[href*='/news/']")?.textContent?.trim();
const tags = [...el.querySelectorAll("a[href*='/tag/']")].map(a => a.textContent?.trim());
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a")?.getAttribute("href");
if (title) articles.push({ title, author, date, excerpt, category, tags, link });
});
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 kotaku.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000265 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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Start scraping kotaku.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.