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Spider read legislation.gov.au in 170 ms without a browser and returned 46 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Your recently viewed items", "What's new" and "My Account".
# Federal Register of Legislation# Explore the Federal Register of LegislationAt least one of the wordsContains all the wordsContains phraseThe Federal Register of Legislation (the Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them.The Register is managed by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel in accordance with the *Legislation Act 2003*.## Your recently viewed itemsYou have not viewed any items## What's newNew and amended titles recently published on the Federal Register of Legislation within the last 7 days.Acts/collection(act)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Legislative Instruments/collection(LegislativeInstrument)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Notifiable Instruments/collection(NotifiableInstrument)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Gazettes/collection(Gazette)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Administrative Arrangements Orders/collection(AdministrativeArrangementsOrder)/sort(registeredat desc)>)Prerogative Instruments/collection(PrerogativeInstrument)/sort(registeredat desc)>)## My AccountThe new register provides a more personalised experience when you are using your account.Receive email notification updates or changes to Commonwealth law based on your preferences, create custom searches and easily save items to your profile to quickly reference when needed.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 legislation.gov.au.
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://legislation.gov.au");
// 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.legislation.gov.au", {
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 legislation.gov.au costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00011 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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