Libguides Scraper
Spider read libguides.com in 487 ms without a browser and returned 25 lines of clean markdown.
# Genealogy at the State Library of Pennsylvania: City DirectoriesA guide to resources available to genealogy and family history researchers through the State Library of Pennsylvania.City Directories containaddress by address listings in a town orcity. Researchers use city directories to gather information about individuals and the towns where they lived. Directories include names, addresses, and occupations of individuals as well as information about local government, churches, businesses, schools and other organizations.The State Library's collection includes directories for many different Pennsylvania cities and townsfromthe 1800's to the presenton microfim and in print. Search the State Library catalog for more information.Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Fold3 have digitized city, church,business and professional directories available. State Library patrons may use Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Fold3 onsite at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees may search HeritageQuest and Fold3 remotely using our A-Z databases page.Other places to search for digitized city directories:Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window Digital resources from across the United States. * HathiTrust This link opens in a new window * Internet Archive This link opens in a new window ;)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 libguides.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://libguides.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 { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.libguides.com", {
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 libguides.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00006 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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