Mother Jones Scraper
Spider read motherjones.com in 181 ms without a browser and returned 2,141 lines of clean markdown.
<html lang="en-US" class="no-js mj-www">A Photographer’s View of ICE’s Relentless Courthouse Arrests </a><p class="byline"><span class="byline-override">Text and Photographs by Victor J. Blue</span></p> </div><section id="Homepage_BTF_970x250_Wrapper" class="ad hidden-sm hidden-xs hidden-xxs"><!-- Tag ID: motherjones_homepage_leaderboard_btf_4 -->placementName: "motherjones_homepage_leaderboard_btf_4",slotId: "Homepage_BTF_970x250"<section class="ad footer-ad mobile_ad"><!-- Tag ID: motherjones_homepage_mobile_4 --><div id="Mobile_Footer_300x250_Homepage">placementName: "motherjones_homepage_mobile_4",slotId: "Mobile_Footer_300x250_Homepage"<div id="site-footer-promos" class="grid"><section id="custom_html-11" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><h2 class="widget-title">Mag Promo</h2><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><div id="footer-promo-mag" class="grid"><h3>Independent. In print. In your mailbox.</h3><p>Inexpensive, too! Subscribe today and get a full year of <em>Mother Jones</em> for just $19.95.</p><a href="https://secure.motherjones.com/flex/MOJ/SUBS/?p=SEGHGP&c=SEGHGC&d=SEGHGD&f=SEGHGF" title="Subscribe" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeClick" data-ga-category="BottomPromo"><button class="btn-primary">Subscribe</button></a><div class="col-sm-8 col-xs-12 grid"><div class="mag-promo col-xs-4 col-xxs-12"><a href="/mag/2026/07/toc/" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_1|imageClick"><a href="/mag/2026/07/toc" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_1|textClick">August 2026</a><div class="mag-promo col-xs-4 hidden-xxs-12"><a href="/mag/2026/05/toc/" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_2|imageClick"><a href="/mag/2026/05/toc" data-ga-category="BottomPromo" data-ga-label="MagazineSubscribeMagCover_2|textClick">June 2026</a>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 motherjones.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://www.motherjones.com/politics/");
// 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!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.motherjones.com/politics/");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const articles = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article, .card, .entry").forEach(el => {
const headline = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .hed a")?.textContent?.trim();
const link = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, .hed a")?.getAttribute("href");
const author = el.querySelector(".byline a")?.textContent?.trim();
const dek = el.querySelector(".dek, .excerpt")?.textContent?.trim();
if (headline) articles.push({ headline, link, author, dek });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(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 motherjones.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000429 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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Start scraping motherjones.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.