Lichess Scraper
Spider read lichess.org in 229 ms without a browser and returned 50 lines of clean markdown.
You can now customize the shape of buttons and other elements on Lichess! Open your account menu, go to *Theme* settings, and adjust the *Roundness* to make corners rounded or square.Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2026 until 2026-08-12! The winner will be announced on 2026-08-24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.Congrats @Fritzi_2003 on winning our 2026 Summer Marathon with a 74% win rate in 875 games, finishing 720 points ahead of runner-up @speedrunchessgames! Thanks to all 20,350 registered players who played a total of 429,085 games and 30,608,664 moves. Our 2026 Autumn Marathon will start on 2026-10-24 at 00:00 UTC.More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.Our 2026 Summer Marathon starts on 2026-08-01 00:00 UTC! Join us for 24 hours of 1+0 Bullet and take part in one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.Congrats @Bengal_Tiger_2011 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!Congratulations to IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher for winning our Bullet Titled Arena July 2026, ahead of FM @BrightFalcon, GM Pranav Venkatesh, GM Sergei Zhigalko, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!More »](https://lichess.org/tournament)More »](https://lichess.org/simul)About LichessFAQContactMobile AppTerms of ServicePrivacySource CodeAdsMastodonGitHubDiscordBlueskyYouTubeTwitchThe 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 lichess.org.
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://lichess.org");
// 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.lichess.org", {
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 lichess.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000065 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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- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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