Medscape Scraper
Spider read medscape.com in 253 ms without a browser and returned 250 lines of clean markdown.
* Ultra-Processed Foods: What Are They and Why Do We Eat Them* Private Philanthropy: We Need Ethics to Match It — Ethicist* Don’t Let the Textbook Case Be a Heuristic Trap</img> George Lundberg: At Large at Medscape George D. Lundberg, MD </img> Ethics: Today's Hot Topics Arthur L. Caplan, PhD </img> CDC Expert Commentary </img> Mandrola on Medscape John M. Mandrola, MD </img> Impact Factor with F. Perry Wilson F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE </img> Digital Health Pulse Nelly Abulata, MD, PhD, MBA, PgDipTQMH ## Medscape Essentials </img> Medscape App Access what you need, when you need it. Download the app. </img> Medscape Salary Explorer See how your salary compares by specialty, location, experience, and more. [ </img> Medscape Insights Reports Critical workplace topics for physicians and other medical professionals. ](<https://www.medscape.com/index/list_12363_0?src=ban_insights_strip_mscpmrk >) ## Business of Medicine View All * Private Philanthropy: We Need Ethics to Match It — EthicistMedscape Business of MedicineEthicist Art Caplan discusses how to go forward in the world of private philanthropy for medicine and biomedical research.* Friendly Physician Arrangements: How to Protect Yourself* Next Step for Australian UCCs: Ensuring Quality and Safety* Fast Five Quiz: Sickle Cell Disease Management* Tuberculous Meningitis Missed After a Language Gap* Fast Five Quiz: Herpes Zoster* Physician Mental Health & Well-Being Report* Medscape Patient Relationships Index Report 2026* Canada: Physicians & Relationships Report 2026* UK Physicians & Relationships Report 2026* Medscape Cardiologist Compensation Report 2026Medscape Insights Infographics* Infographic: How Prepared Are Doctors for Financial Futures?* Infographic: Doctors Rate the Future of Their Own Specialty* Infographic: How Much a Doctor’s Average Pay in the US Rose* Infographic: Primary Care on Mental Health’s Front LinesThe 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 medscape.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://reference.medscape.com/drug/advil-ibuprofen-343289");
// 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://reference.medscape.com/drug/advil-ibuprofen-343289");
await page.content();
const data = await page.extractFields({
drugName: "h1#drugTitle",
brandNames: ".drug-brandnames",
drugClass: ".drug-class",
dosing: "#dosing .refsection-content",
interactions: "#interactions .refsection-content",
adverseEffects: "#adverse-effects .refsection-content",
});
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 medscape.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000424 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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