Medium Tech Scraper
Spider read medium.com in 4.3 s without a browser and returned 133 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Written by Robert Lawrence".
MediumAdvice for Drafting a Publication TitleNjire Braticevic M, Babic I, Abramovic I, Jokic A, Horvat M. Title does matter: a cross-sectional study of 30 journals in the Medical Laboratory Technology category. Biochem Med (Zagreb). 2020 Feb 15;30(1):010708. PMID: 32063731Di Girolamo N, Reynders RM. Health care articles with simple and declarative titles were more likely to be in the Altmetric Top 100. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 May;85:32–36. PMID: 28039032Habibzadeh F, Yadollahie M. Are shorter article titles more attractive for citations? Cross-sectional study of 22 scientific journals. Croat Med J. 2010 Apr;51(2):165–70. PMID: 20401960Hartley J. Academic writing and publishing — A practical handbook. 2008. ISBN 9780203927984. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203927984Jacques TS, Sebire NJ. The impact of article titles on citation hits: an analysis of general and specialist medical journals. JRSM Short Rep. 2010 Jun 30;1(1):2. PMID: 21103094Jamali H, Nikzad M. Article title type and its relation with the number of downloads and citations. *S*cientometrics. 2011; 88, 653–661. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0412-zKumar A. Uneasy is the journey of publication that wears an inappropriate title. J Indian Soc Periodontol. 2021 Nov-Dec;25(6):459–460. PMID: 34898909Letchford A, Moat HS, Preis T. The advantage of short paper titles. R Soc Open Sci. 2015 Aug 26;2(8):150266. PMID: 26361556Paiva CE, Lima JP, Paiva BS. Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often. Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2012;67(5):509–13. PMID: 22666797Savage V, Yeh P. Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper. Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7778):441–442. PMID: 31611681*Robert Lawrence is a science editor at Baylor College of Medicine. You can find his published work at **www.robertlawrencephd.com*## Published in MetaScientific## Written by Robert LawrenceThe 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 medium.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://medium.com/tag/programming/recommended");
// 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!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://medium.com/tag/programming/recommended");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector("h2")?.textContent?.trim();
const author = el.querySelector("[data-testid='authorName']")?.textContent?.trim();
const readTime = el.querySelector("[class*='readingTime']")?.textContent?.trim();
const claps = el.querySelector("[data-testid='clapCount']")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("a[data-testid='postPreview']")?.getAttribute("href");
if (title) articles.push({ title, author, readTime, claps, link });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
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