Livejournal Scraper
Spider read livejournal.net in 1.8 s without a browser and returned 25 lines of clean markdown.
Chapter 2. The Story Behind LiveJournalPart I. Introduction to LiveJournal## Chapter 2. The Story Behind LiveJournal`LiveJournal.com`, a website and online community built aroundpersonal journals, was started by Brad Fitzpatrick in March of1999 for himself and some of his friends. Friends told friendsand it became a huge success, soon growing bigger than a singleAs a result, LiveJournal soon hired its first paid employee. This meantit was worked on on a full-time basis, for the first time.A team of volunteers working with LiveJournal's original developer,and the rest of the development team, transformed `LiveJournal.com` into aWebby Awards twice-winning site used by people worldwide.The site is now an open-source software development project, funded byits members, assisted by numerous volunteers and developers, andoverseen by a small paid staff. It has been expanded to allow easycreation of journals, weblogs, and even interest-based onlineSix Apart bought LiveJournal's parent company, [Danga Interactive![[o]](https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/link.png)](http://www.danga.com/),in early 2005. Danga Interactive's founder, Brad Fitzpatrick, maintainedlinks with the project, working as a staff-member at Six Apartinto 2007. In December 2007 [SUP![[o]](https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/link.png)](http://www.sup.com/en/) bought LiveJournal, andestablished LiveJournal, Inc. to run it. Today, LiveJournal still relies heavily onvolunteer efforts but also has a growing number of staff members.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 livejournal.net.
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://livejournal.net");
// 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.livejournal.net", {
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 livejournal.net costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000019 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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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.