Mastodon Scraper
Extract toots, user profiles, instance info, and federated timeline data from Mastodon servers. Built on spider-browser .
- target
- mastodon.social
- success rate
- 99.9%
- latency
- ~4ms
Extract data in minutes.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://mastodon.social/explore");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const toots = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".status__wrapper").forEach(el => {
const author = el.querySelector(".display-name__account")?.textContent?.trim();
const text = el.querySelector(".status__content")?.textContent?.trim();
const time = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
const boosts = el.querySelector(".status__action-bar__counter:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
if (text) toots.push({ author, text: text.slice(0, 500), time, boosts });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: toots.length, toots: toots.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();One endpoint for mastodon.social.
Structured JSON from mastodon.social with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/mastodon.social/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"return_format": "json"}'import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/mastodon.social/",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/mastodon.social/", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);Fields you can pull.
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Start scraping mastodon.social.
Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.