Lifehacker Scraper
Spider read lifehacker.com in 369 ms without a browser and returned 923 lines of clean markdown.
Experience Meredith is a marathon runner and stand-up comedian. As Lifehacker’s Senior Staff Writer, she covers personal fitness tech, home gym equipment, and more. Areas of Expertise Health Fitness Training Diaries Read Full BioThe Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming DataStephen Johnson is a senior staff writer at Lifehacker covering pop culture and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.”Joel Cunningham is Lifehacker’s Deputy Editor. He has 15 years of experience as a writer and editor. Previously, he was managing editor of content marketing for Barnes & Noble, where he founded the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.How to Count Calories Accurately (and Why You Might Want To)Is It Good or Bad to Stretch Before a Workout?Experience Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Areas of Expertise Fitness Hardware Read Full Bio ## Featured: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid CultureThe Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'Quiet on the Creek' Mean?The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Why Ditto AI Might Be the New TinderThe Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'TLPUR' Mean?The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'Dah Bih Gah' Mean?The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Are 'Lucky Scoops'?Lifehacker has been the world’s leading guide to tech and life tips, tricks and hacks since 2005. Our job is to figure out how tech, gadgets, software and other things work, so you don’t have to. Our team of experts spend over 5,000hours per month researching and hands-on testing into the very best answers to your biggest questions and problems.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 lifehacker.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://lifehacker.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.lifehacker.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 lifehacker.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000784 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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- Balance never expires
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Start scraping lifehacker.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.