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mercurynews.com · HTTP 200

Mercury News Articles Scraper

Spider read mercurynews.com in 109 ms without a browser and returned 534 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Dublin: Three-bedroom house sells for $1.1 million", "San Jose: Single-family home goes for $1.8 million" and "Condominium sells in Milpitas for $1.2 million".

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Response mercurynews.com/index.md markdown · 534 lines
### Letters: Randy’s Donuts location is an example of corporate greedKellogg says it’s removing artificial dyes from cereals by the end of this yearKellogg has already removed artificial ingredients from its cereals in other countries like Canada.### In a post-pandemic world, job candidates are caught between suits and hoodies### Shannon Miranda’s Las Vegas home hits market, Miranda’s Rescue items appear to be sold off### Meta apologizes for removal of India Prime Minister Modi’s Facebook post‘Cookie Queens’ follows Girl Scouts on their cookie-selling journeyThe new documentary looks at cookie-selling season and asks some questions about the lessons being...### Feds question whether Ronn Owens’ GoFundMe donors got what they were promised### Ex-husband of social media influencer Sara Gilson seeks to protect her estate after she was killed in murder-suicide### ‘Exorcist’ actress Linda Blair addresses police raid on her California dog rescueFour-bedroom home sells in Danville for $2.6 millionThe single-family home located in the 600 block of Terry Lane in Danville was sold...### Dublin: Three-bedroom house sells for $1.1 million### San Jose: Single-family home goes for $1.8 million### Condominium sells in Milpitas for $1.2 millionPhotos: National Night Out celebrated in San JoseThe National Night Out event in San Jose, hosted by nonprofits ConXión to Community and...### Local leaders push Bay Area wide policies to stop detention centers### Recology opens North San Jose transfer station to the public### As San Jose weighs rate increases, city confirms parking meters mistakenly displayed double ratesMan arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure in Redwood CityMultiple victims, including children, were identified during the investigation.### Fight over housing towers could bring big penalties against Menlo Park
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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 mercurynews.com.

mercurynews-com-scraper.ts
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.mercurynews.com");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

ArticleImageMain Content

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 mercurynews.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000414 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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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://mercurynews.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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