M-w Scraper
Spider read m-w.com in 334 ms without a browser and returned 286 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Games & Quizzes", "Word of the Day" and "Grammar & Usage".
### Games & Quizzes### Word of the Dayinvidious Definition, examples, & podcastGet Word of the Day in your inbox!## Grammar & Usage### More Commonly Misspelled Words### 8 Grammar Terms You Used to Know, But Forgot If someone has to grammar-splain to you, it may as well be your dictionary### Did we change the definition of 'literally'? Literally every modern dictionary includes this definition### 'Gray' vs. 'Grey': What is the difference? When it comes to spelling, it’s not all black and whiteSee All Advertisement ## Games & Quizzes See AllCan you solve 4 words at once? PlayAll you need is seven letters PlayThe party starts at eight Play### Ten Words Ending with a Silent ‘T’ Spoiler alert: they all come from French### 9 Other Words for Beautiful### Putting Adjectives in the Right Order You do this without even thinking### Why Jaywalking is Called Jaywalking The origin of the word has nothing to do with the shape of the letter JSee All Advertisement ## Time TravelerFind words from the year you were born … and beyond!## Videos* ### Video: Why is there a 'c' in 'indict'? And who put it there, anyway?* ### 'Nip it in the butt' or 'Nip it in the bud'? We're gonna stop you right there* ### How to Remember the Spelling of 'Definitely' A definitive answer.### Word Choices: A New Video Series from Merriam-Webster Celebrated writers share their quest to find the right words### AppsTake America's most trusted dictionary wherever you go### PodcastFrom the fun and familiar to the strange and obscure, learn something new every day with Merriam-Webster### Shop#### Books[Books for Kids ](< https://shop.merriam-webster.com/collections/elementary?utm_source=mwsite&utm_medium=hp&utm_content=booksforkids>) Support SchoolsThe 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 m-w.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://m-w.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.m-w.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 m-w.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000353 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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