MDPI Scraper

Extract open-access journal articles, special issue data, editorial listings, and citation metrics from MDPI publishing platform. Built on spider-browser .

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target
mdpi.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/mdpi.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/mdpi.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://mdpi.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "article_title": "string",
    "authors": "string",
    "abstract": "string",
    "journal": "string",
    "doi": "string",
    "published_date": "string",
    "views": "string",
    "citations": "string"
  }
}

# MDPI Scraper

**Article title**: string
**Authors**: string
**Abstract**: string
**Journal**: string
**DOI**: string
**Published date**: string
**Views**: string
**Citations**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from mdpi.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

mdpi-scraper.ts

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://www.mdpi.com/search?q=renewable+energy");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".article-content h2 a",
  authors: ".article-content .authors",
  journal: ".article-content .journal-name",
  date: ".article-content .pubdate",
  abstract: ".article-content .abstract",
  citations: ".article-content .citation-count",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/mdpi.com/ \
  -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/mdpi.com/",
    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/mdpi.com/", {
  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);