Metal-archives Scraper
Spider read metal-archives.com in 257 ms without a browser and returned 188 lines of clean markdown.
Phantom Corporation / CatbreathSo how does this poll work? Select your top ten metal albums of the year. Make sure those albums are listed on MA, that they consist of new, original material, and were released in 2025. Put your list in order, with #1 being the album you liked the most. You get one ballot, and your account on MA must've been registered before December 2nd, 2025 in order to participate.Once you're certain you have your list, send it to Voidsel by private message (pm) on the forum. You have until **12:00AM EST on January 1st, 2026** to submit your list to him - once the year changes, the polls are closed!The results of the poll will hopefully be announced in early January. In the meantime, feel free to discuss the poll in the thread located here.16th Diamhea Memorial Review Challenge / 2025-11-19 12:29Our classic reviews challenge will soon be upon us yet again.This challenge is a time-honored tradition among our reviewers here. Every spring and autumn, reviewers are encouraged to spend a week writing and submitting as many **quality** reviews as possible. The challenge is focused on **virgin albums: those with no reviews so far**.Every day, the reviews submitted and accepted are tallied, so that participants can see how they compare with one another and whether or not, altogether, we've been able to surpass previous challenges' totals. There's no prizes or rewards except knowing that you've given a review to an album that didn't previously have one. There's also bragging rights for the most reviews, if that matters to you. Please read this thread for the rules and to discuss the challenge!The challenge is named in memory of our friend Diamhea, a long-time contributor to the challenge and staff member here at Metal Archives, who sadly passed away on May 21st, 2018. He was the first person to have ever written 100 reviews for a single challenge!The challenge will run from **12:00AM EST on Monday December 1st** until **11:59PM EST on Sunday December 7th**.Everyone is welcome to participate - all you have to do is submit reviews as usual during that week.Looking forward to your participation! \m/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 metal-archives.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://metal-archives.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.metal-archives.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 metal-archives.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000085 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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