Medical News Today Scraper
Spider read medicalnewstoday.com in 149 ms without a browser and returned 168 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Spotlight", "In Conversation" and "Through My Eyes".
How do different exercises target blood pressure, blood sugar, and…Vitamin D may aid late-stage colorectal cancer treatment but which…Avoiding 3 risk factors in midlife could add 13 dementia-free yearsCutting added sugar before age 2 linked to lower dementia, depression…FDA approves second blood test to help close colorectal cancer…Can speaking more than one language fluently help keep the brain young?Daily multivitamin may support healthy aging, suggests preliminary…Plant-based Planetary Health Diet could help protect heart health## Spotlight## In ConversationIs sleep the missing piece in mental health?Artificial sweeteners and brain aging: What we know so farDoes the Mediterranean diet hold the key to longevity?## Through My EyesThrough My Eyes: Stem cell donationCaring for a parent who has bipolar disorder: How I learned to…Through My Eyes: ADHD and avoidant restrictive eatingThrough My Eyes: My friend, MigraineThrough My Eyes: Empowering my son to negotiate the 'autism cliff,'…Through My Eyes: Why endometriosis almost killed me## PAST HEADLINESGLP-1 drugs linked to temporary hair loss: Here's whyExperimental KRAS vaccine may help prevent pancreatic cancerTime-restricted eating linked to better cognitive function in pilot…Is your cholesterol too high per the new ACC/AHA guideline? 5 things…Can GLP-1s increase the risk of a rare eye condition?5 modifiable risk factors may fuel high-risk plaques linked to heart…Is it time to double your protein intake? Experts weigh in on…How coffee may help slow down aging, according to a new studyHumans could survive up to 194 years without major diseases, study…Cyclospora explained: 7 medical experts on how it spreads and how to…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 medicalnewstoday.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://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/diabetes");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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();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 medicalnewstoday.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00048 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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