Los Angeles Times Homepage Scraper

A scraper for extracting all useful data from the main content area of the Los Angeles Times homepage, excluding navigation, ads, and other non-content elements. Built on spider-browser .

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target
latimes.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

latimes-com-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://www.latimes.com");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  image: "img.image",
  main_content: "main",
  text: "p, span, div, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, ul, ol, li, a, img, table, th, td",
});

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

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Fetch API

One endpoint for latimes.com.

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

POST /fetch/latimes.com/

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/latimes.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/latimes.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/latimes.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