Mediawiki Scraper
Spider read mediawiki.org in 215 ms without a browser and returned 48 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Develop and extend code", "Get help and contribute" and "News".
# MediaWiki is a collaboration and documentation platform brought to you by a vibrant community.The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organisations.It powers Wikipedia and also this website.MediaWiki helps you collect and organise knowledge and make it available to people.It's powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customisable, reliable, and free of charge.Find out more and if MediaWiki is right for you.### Set up and run MediaWiki* **Download**, install and configure MediaWiki* Add functionality by installing extensions* Problems? See errors and symptoms and FAQ* Don't own a server? Find hosting services* Get professional development and consulting* Join MediaWiki Stakeholders user group### Edit and use MediaWiki* Learn more about reading, editing, and personal customisation### Develop and extend code* Read the MediaWiki developer documentation* Visit the Wikimedia Developer Portal### Get help and contribute* Cannot find the answer to a problem with MediaWiki? Ask the support desk!* Get involved as a translator, designer, documentation writer, tester, tech ambassador, or developer* Report wrong software behaviour or a feature proposal### NewsMediaWiki 1.46.0 is now available.Security and maintenance release: 1.43.9 / 1.44.6 / 1.45.4 are now available.Team Challenges at Wikimania 2026: Registration for the Team Challenges closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.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 mediawiki.org.
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://mediawiki.org");
// 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.mediawiki.org", {
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 mediawiki.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000149 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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Start scraping mediawiki.org.
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.