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Medical News Today Scraper

Extract health news articles, expert reviews, condition overviews, and clinical study summaries from Medical News Today. Built on spider-browser .

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target
medicalnewstoday.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

medical-news-today-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.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/diabetes");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: "h1",
  author: "[class*='author-name']",
  reviewer: "[class*='reviewer']",
  summary: ".article-body > p:first-of-type",
  keyTakeaways: ".key-takeaways li",
  lastUpdated: "[class*='date']",
});

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

One endpoint for medicalnewstoday.com.

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

POST /fetch/medicalnewstoday.com/
Article titleAuthorReviewerCategorySummaryKey takeaways
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/medicalnewstoday.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
Python
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/medicalnewstoday.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())
Node.js
const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/medicalnewstoday.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);
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Article titleAuthorReviewerCategorySummaryKey takeawaysSourcesPublished date
Content

Medical data extraction

Extract drug info, conditions, and health articles from medicalnewstoday.com.

Parsing

Structured health data

Clean extraction of dosage, interactions, and clinical information.

Scale

Bulk research

Process thousands of medical pages for research and comparison datasets.

Related

More Health scrapers.

Start

Start scraping medicalnewstoday.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.