Micro Scraper
Spider read micro.blog in 2.2 s without a browser and returned 442 lines of clean markdown.
@Ron We absolutely want it to expand beyond tech folks. As it becomes easier to use and more people discover it, that's really important. (@mikehaynes is also thinking about an Android app… I'd love to have better Android support.)> @Ron> We absolutely want it to expand beyond tech folks. As it becomes easier to use and more people discover it, that's really important. (@mikehaynes is also thinking about an Android app… I'd love to have better Android support.)@tonybloggs Cool, hopefully we're making progress. 🙂> @tonybloggs> Cool, hopefully we're making progress. 🙂@manton Great, making it work for all would be a really good thing. I'd especially like to be able to post pctures one day, like the Apple folks. Keep up the good work.> @manton> Great, making it work for all would be a really good thing. I'd especially like to be able to post pctures one day, like the Apple folks. Keep up the good work.@manton @hungry That’s good news*. Thanks.*that you’ll soon be adding micro.blog-hosted profile pictures> @hungry> That’s good news*. Thanks.> *that you’ll soon be adding micro.blog-hosted profile pictures@manton An article on how to use Pinboard with Microblog would be very helpful, as I use Pinboard everyday on both my PC and Chromebook. Do you think you will write one?> @manton> An article on how to use Pinboard with Microblog would be very helpful, as I use Pinboard everyday on both my PC and Chromebook. Do you think you will write one?@Ron I think @ovanrijswijk can help you with this! He's an avid Pinboard user.> @Ron> I think @ovanrijswijk can help you with this! He's an avid Pinboard user.@Ron I'd like to, but we're still figuring things out... The integration with Pinboard isn't perfect yet because of how Pinboard generates its feeds. Need to look into this more.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 micro.blog.
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://micro.blog");
// 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.micro.blog", {
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 micro.blog costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000187 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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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.