Medical News Today Scraper

Extract health news articles, expert reviews, condition overviews, and clinical study summaries from Medical News Today.

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

POST /fetch/medicalnewstoday.com/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://medicalnewstoday.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "article_title": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "reviewer": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "summary": "string",
    "key_takeaways": "string",
    "sources": "string",
    "published_date": "string"
  }
}

# Medical News Today Scraper

**Article title**: string
**Author**: string
**Reviewer**: string
**Category**: string
**Summary**: string
**Key takeaways**: string
**Sources**: string
**Published date**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from medicalnewstoday.com with a single POST. Call it with no selectors and the model names the fields, or pass your own CSS to skip the AI.

medical-news-today-scraper.ts

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://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();

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

import requests

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

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({}),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);