Metafilter Scraper
Spider read metafilter.com in 108 ms without a browser and returned 185 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Workin' On A World (Iris DeMent)", "I've embraced professional hater status" and "Better than the usual stuff I get when Meta spies on me".
## Workin' On A World (Iris DeMent)3:45 song by Iris DeMent with an important message for our times. I just love this song and its message, and I thought I'd share it with you, my MF friends <3posted by mpark at 11:36 AM - 10 comments## You can already hear his roar in your head before you click play"As long as nuclear weapons or nuclear power exists, Godzilla will never not be relevant."* [more inside]posted by Kitteh at 11:05 AM - 42 comments## [The ultimate sin of any [platform] is contempt for the audience.](https://metafilter.com/214060/The-ultimate-sin-of-any-platform-is-contempt-for-the-audience)Jacob Daneman broke the news last night that *BrooklynVegan* fired their entire staff yesterday. Today it was confirmed, in addition to similar mass firings at *Alternative Press, Goldmine* and *Revolver*. [more inside]posted by 99_ at 10:42 AM - 38 comments## I've embraced professional hater status> "I work for a company that produces luxury items", one worker tells me. "Any time I get prompted that my 'token spend' is too low (0), I go in and ask ChatGPT random gardening questions. So far it has failed to adequately build a rain garden, but I’ve gotten it to describe a sweet potato once."Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandatesposted by postcommunism at 8:30 AM - 150 comments## Better than the usual stuff I get when Meta spies on me...A couple of days ago, I made a post about the Heritage Crafts list of endangered crafts and noted that I hoped to make some additional posts about some of the crafts. Then today, I got a suggested post on IG from Welby & Wright, maker of encaustic tiles, a craft on the critically endangered list. [more inside]posted by jacquilynne at 7:55 AM - 7 comments## The Yacht That Lost Everything but Its FameM/Y Nabila 86m was launched 1980.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 metafilter.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://metafilter.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.metafilter.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 metafilter.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000119 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.
- Free balance on signup
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- Balance never expires
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Start scraping metafilter.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.