Metrotimes Scraper
Spider read metrotimes.com in 112 ms without a browser and returned 90 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "EVENTS", "Thunderstruck" and "Arts & Culture".
## EVENTS### ThunderstruckJake’s Landing, 6026 Lawrenceburg Road, Harrisonon Community Site](https://community.citybeat.com/event/thunderstruck-20057514)## SEARCH### Michigan progressives showed establishment Democrats the door### This section of Detroit could soon have one of America’s most progressive delegations### This Democratic Detroit Senate primary has attracted utilities, developers, Republican backers, Zionists, and plenty of dark money### So much for ‘anti-cop:’ Sheriff’s deputies line up behind El-Sayed## Arts & Culture## Comedian Jim Gaffigan adds second Fox Theatre show after strong ticket demand## Detroit Hot Sauce Festival brings the heat to the Masonic Templeby Metro Times editorial staff## 2026 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issueby Nandi Comer and Drew Philp### Flo Rida joins Michigan-based Beyond Juicery in multimillion-dollar partnership### Acclaimed Detroit chef opens global rotisserie concept in Midtown### Brome Modern Eatery to open another restaurant in Sterling Heights### Aurora Italiana opening inside historic downtown Detroit theater## Music## Detroit rapper Lelo closes out 15-city tour with hometown show## Photos: Ne-Yo and Akon turn Pine Knob into a 2000s hit parade## ‘Beautifully ugly insanity’: Gathering of the Juggalos returns for 26th year with 70-plus performers### Michigan’s cannabis industry was already struggling. Then came a 24% tax### Michigan Supreme Court sides with Royal Oak in marijuana licensing dispute### The best disposable rosin vapes for summer in Michigan### Dab Day: Why Michigan live rosin is cannabis at its best### Photos: Melanie Martinez descends on Detroit with ‘Hades: The Sacrifice’ tour### Photos: Doughboyz Cashout celebrates its Detroit legacy at El Club### Scenes from Movement Music Festival 2026### All the fans we saw at Motor City Comic Con’s spring 2026 editionThe 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 metrotimes.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://metrotimes.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.metrotimes.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 metrotimes.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000469 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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