Mentalfloss Scraper
Spider read mentalfloss.com in 257 ms without a browser and returned 146 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Latest Articles", "Quiz Around the World Geography Competition" and "Language".
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and MoreSkip to main content## Latest ArticlesIf you grew up in the '90s, these classic road trip noises are guaranteed to stir up nostalgia.# Quiz Around the World Geography CompetitionJoin Mental Floss’s geography competition to test your knowledge on all things countries, states, landmarks, and more.## Language## Quizzes## Weekly Spotlight## History## Entertainment# The Mental Floss NewsletterA little smarter, a little weirder, and way more fun than the average email.## Geography## Reader Favorites## More StoriesI’ve visited six out of seven of these places. It’s not hard to see why these were some of Anthony Bourdain's favorite places to travel, eat, and seek out stories.From Joan Didion to Hunter S. Thompson, Anthony Bourdain's favorite books are windows into the late icon's world and influences.During one of the hardest summers of his life, the 'Great Gatsby' novelist penned a list of book recommendations for his nurse.Pets always capture our hearts. How fast can you name the movie from the ‘90s just based on the name of one pet?Looking for the best true or false trivia questions for game night? Test your friends with 100 mind-bending, counterintuitive facts across nine fun categories!From humble porridge to fresh fish, discover what was actually on the family table during the Middle Ages.The animal that dominated the Oregon Trail wasn't the one most people expect.Thousands of years before robots became reality, Greek mythology introduced Talos, a bronze giant whose story explored artificial life and humanity.All five answers to the questions have something in common. Can you figure it out?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 mentalfloss.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://mentalfloss.com");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.mentalfloss.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);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 mentalfloss.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001615 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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