MIT OpenCourseWare Scraper
Spider read ocw.mit.edu in 155 ms without a browser and returned 1,733 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Your Donation Makes a Difference", "OCW News" and "Call for Proposals: OEGlobal 2026 March 24, 2026".
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Computational Tutorial: Optimizing the Full Stack for Generative Image and Video ModelsSocial Problems of Nuclear EnergyEnergy,Nuclear Energy,EngineeringDiscrete-Time Signals and Systems: An Operator ApproachSanjoy Mahajan,Prof. Dennis FreemanEngineering,Electrical Engineering,Digital SystemsDr. Rea Lavi,Dr. Cong Cong,Dr. Greg LongEmerging Technology and International SecuritySocial Science,Political Science,International RelationsFluid Motions, Sediment Transport, and Current-Generated Sedimentary StructuresScience,Earth Science,GeologyScaling Entrepreneurial VenturesBrian Halligan,Jenny Larios BerlinBusiness,Entrepreneurship,InnovationEconomic Applications of Game TheorySocial Science,Economics,Game Theory## Your Donation Makes a DifferenceLearn more about how you can help MIT OpenCourseWare share knowledge with the world.## OCW NewsJune 29, 2026 ### Gaining Confidence and Skill with MIT Open LearningJune 22, 2026 ### MIT Open Learning Reaches All the Way to the South PoleMarch 24, 2026 ### Call for Proposals: OEGlobal 2026March 11, 2026 ### 20 Years of OCW in JapanFebruary 18, 2026 ### Voices from the Field: Key Learnings from Collaborations### MIT Open Learning Reaches All the Way to the South Pole June 22, 2026### Call for Proposals: OEGlobal 2026 March 24, 2026### 20 Years of OCW in Japan March 11, 2026### Voices from the Field: Key Learnings from Collaborations February 18, 2026## OpenCourseWare StoriesStories from the OpenCourseWare community reflect the profoundimpact of sharing knowledge and the transformative power of open education.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 ocw.mit.edu.
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://ocw.mit.edu/search/?t=Computer%20Science");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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://ocw.mit.edu/search/?t=Computer%20Science");
const data = await page.extractFields({
title: ".course-title",
courseNumber: ".course-number",
department: ".department-name",
instructor: ".course-instructor",
semester: ".course-semester",
level: ".course-level",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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 ocw.mit.edu costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001368 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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