Los Angeles Times Homepage Scraper
Spider read latimes.com in 114 ms without a browser and returned 629 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Top Stories".
## Top Stories# ‘Absolute betrayal’: Lifeguards speak out against California parks official accused of secretly filming themA former California state park officer made his first court appearance Thursday morning after being accused of secretly recording nearly two dozen men inside an employee locker room.## Mystery surrounds ex-Marine’s possible motives, movements at Trump golf course## From mice to ‘gym rats’: Unregulated use of peptides raises alarm among researchers## L.A. homeless provider has paid CEO who lives in Hawaii $1.6 million in salary, vacation over two years## Head Start overhaul could scale back education for the most vulnerable young children## ‘Calculated act of violence’: Man gets life sentence in racially motivated L.A. Metro stabbing## Catalina Island’s only hospital fights for its future amid dire financial outlook## Another offshore wind developer exits California in $1.22-billion deal with Trump administration## KTLA-TV owner Nexstar violated court order, a federal judge finds## Bonta accuses DuPont of ‘corporate shell game’ to dodge PFAS cleanup in California## California’s cyclosporiasis cases are ‘higher than expected,’ but officials aren’t sure why## Mexico assigns troops to improve security as U.S. halts avocado imports over ‘threat’# Great neighbors still exist in L.A. You told us about 10 of the absolute bestThe percentage of Americans who frequently interact with their neighbors is declining. But we discovered those rare heroes on the block, the ones who make the city feel more like home.Share via Close extra sharing options* [Email ](<mailto:?body=Great neighbors still exist. Meet Linda and Bill: L.A. Times’ most neighborly neighborshttps://www.latimes.com/0000019f-d54e-d22a-a79f-ff4f27bc0000-123>)The 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 latimes.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://www.latimes.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 { 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();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 latimes.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.002133 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 latimes.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.